Benny Hinn's Younger Brother Pastor Sam Hinn Steps Down, Accused Having an Affair
It was long ago that Benny Hinn hit the news about his alleged affair with Pastor Paula White and he was divorced by his wife. Though he and his wife have since reconciled, they called off their remarriage until another date. Now, it seems the apple doesn't fall far from the tree while his younger brother is in the public eye with a sex scandal of his own. Why do many of these pastors find themselves in so much trouble and in many cases its a church sex scandal that seems to be the culprit?
Read more below about this new church scandal with young bro, Sam Hinn.
News reports say popular televangelist and healer Benny Hinn's brother had to step down from being pastor due to accusations of having an affair.
Benny Hinn's brother, Pastor Sam Hinn of The Gathering Place Worship Center in Sanford, Florida, is accused of engaging in a four-year affair with a member of his church. Reports say his wife and church officials confronted him which prompted his stepping down from the pulpit, says the woman's family.
Chantel
Wonder is the daughter of the woman who has allegedly had an affair
with Hinn's younger brother. She says the pastor initiated the affair
with her mother by telling her they were "soul mates" and that God
approved of the relationship.
"He put her in a position that this is OK because it's what God wants. He was using God to justify it," said Wonder.
Pastor Hinn, 51, founded The Gathering Place Worship Center in 1996, about five years before Wonder's family joined.
Wonder
said her father became aware of the affair in December 2008 after he
found text and voice messages from Hinn on his wife's phone. At the
time, his wife denied the affair. The couple, who were married June 20,
1980, divorced on Feb. 14, 2012.
The Orlando Sentinel reported:
Wonder said Hinn, who is married and has four children, continued the affair after her parents divorced. She said church officials confronted Hinn with evidence of the affair in December 2012, but he refused to admit he was involved with the woman.On Jan. 14, Hinn denied the allegations of an affair to his wife, but promised not to talk to the woman again, Wonder said. Later the same day, she said, Hinn's car was photographed parked outside her mother's apartment.On Wednesday, church officials read a letter to the congregation from Hinn that said he had ended a relationship and was temporarily stepping down from the ministry to devote more time to his marriage. Officials said an outside pastor would be ministering to Sam Hinn during his "restoration process."
"He'll be back in a couple of months as senior pastor, and that's just not right," said Chantel Wonder, who fears the church will shift all the blame on her mother.
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