Video still of Senior Pastor Claude Gilliland III giving a sermon at the New Heart Family Worship Center in Cleburne, Texas (©WFAA, http://aka.ms/PastorPorn)

Porn again: Pastor apologizes to congregation for past XXX acts

1/7/2013

You don't expect to hear the word "porn" in church, not unless Ron Jeremy was secretly ordained. But Pastor Claude Gilliland III had a serious confession for his congregation. "Me and my ex-wife were in porn, we were in the booze and the drugs," Gilliland recently told his flock, proving that his grammar might be as questionable as his decision-making. The 54-year-old Texas man was recently outed as a convicted sex offender — one who served four years in prison — so he used his sermon to offer his apologies. His past has brought him both criticism and support. "If we believe in the redemptive work of Christ, then this man is a miracle," one woman said. [Source]

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