I was in small groups and I never could find just complete freedom," Crenshaw said. "In the past, I had confessed this to pastors.
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Roberts suggested that the Crenshaws take part in separate small group sessions - one for men and the other for women.Ĭrenshaw told Roberts that he had tried other small men's groups in the past for those struggling with pornography addiction that didn't produce the desired liberation they were looking for.īut Roberts informed Crenshaw that the key to success is "having someone who knows how to walk you into freedom." When the Crenshaws got back to Texas after meeting with Roberts and his wife, Dianne, they were told that they would be prefect candidates for the Pure Desire program.įor the next year-and-a-half, the Crenshaws met online every other week with Ted and Dianne Roberts. The beautiful thing was that I had a wife that said, 'If it is your pain, it's my pain too.'" Roberts' office, I was shame ridden," he added. She needed to learn how to trust me again and learn to deal with the wounds that were inflicted on her."
I stole from our marriage," Crenshaw said. The Crenshaws flew out to Portland, Oregon, to meet with Roberts, a former megachurch pastor who founded Pure Desire Ministries along with his wife to provide "hope and freedom from sexual addiction" with a biblically-based and clinically informed approach to recovery. They pointed us to a ministry called Pure Desire and they pointed us to a man named Dr. "One of my overseers was on staff at a megachurch in Dallas. These were the men that were there for me in case of emergency," Crenshaw explained.
"When all this came down, I had three overseers. "Technology was my downfall but now technology is helping my restoration process," Crenshaw told The Christian Post in an interview on Monday.Ī little over two years removed from his fall from grace, Crenshaw is now serving full-time as an interim pastor at Lake Country Church in Fort Worth, Texas, a role he began about six weeks ago.Ĭrenshaw's return to full-time ministry follows the nearly two-year journey that he and his wife, Renee, have been on in their quest to liberate Crenshaw from the grips of sexual addiction and heal the emotional harm that Crenshaw's addiction has caused to his wife of 31 years. It was then that Crenshaw and his family were forced to seriously address a problem affecting their family that data show a majority of Christian men have some sort of struggle with - an addiction to pornography. Pastor Scott Crenshaw said he felt like a rock star when he was senior pastor of the multicampus New River Fellowship Church based in Weatherford, Texas.Īfter helping Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Houston grow its young adults worship ministry, Crenshaw went onto become New River's senior pastor and helped expand the congregation from one campus to three and from about 500 members to over 2,500.īut that all came to a crashing halt in 2016 when his departure from the church for "viewing inappropriate images" on his church computer made national headlines. However, he and a division of church members are now worshiping at another location under the same church name while Thomas continues to pastor at the Lake County Church building in Fort Worth. The member who contacted CP said that Thomas was let go by church elders, not by a vote of the church body as indicated in the church’s bylines.Ĭrenshaw still says he's an interim pastor of Lake Country Church. 2, 2019: A member of Lake Country Church contacted The Christian Post to object to Scott Crenshaw being labeled as the church’s interim pastor.Ĭrenshaw says he was brought on by the church’s founding pastor in October after the church’s pastor, Randy Thomas, was fried. Pastor Scott Crenshaw preaches at the Tabernacle of Praise in Fort Worth, Texas, in this photo from Dec.
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