Transformation Church, founded in 1999 in the historically Black Greenwood District of Tulsa, home to the city’s 1921 race massacre, now meets in the nearby suburb of Bixby, at the 4,500-seat SpiritBank Event Center, which the church owns. “We are called to be a safe environment for people to evolve and transform,” she added. The two go “hand-in-hand,” she said, pointing to Scripture from the Book of Galatians that includes a message to “restore one another” after sin, mistakes and repentance. McQuarters said the church’s vision to “re-present God to the lost and found for transformation in Christ” includes restoration. We believe in Carl, his marriage, his skill set, and his restoration,” McQuarters said. “After two years of Carl being in his own discovery and healing process, he has shown readiness to use his God-given gifts towards the local church again. (That silence will end May 19, with the release of an FX docuseries covering the Hillsong scandals and, it was announced Tuesday, featuring the first interviews from Carl Lentz and his wife, Laura, since his firing.)

Lentz, 44, once labeled a “hypepriest” by GQ Magazine for his fashionable attire and ministry to NBA players and celebrities such as Justin Bieber, has been mostly silent since his firing, even as rumors and ongoing accusations have dogged him and his former church.

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