Megachurch pastor committed adultery, viewed porn

FLORIDA
Sun Sentinel

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By Robert Nolin, Sun Sentinel
7:54 p.m. EDT, April 29, 2014

Sexual adventurism and a penchant for porn is what toppled charismatic Pastor Bob Coy from the leadership of Calvary Chapel, the Fort Lauderdale megachurch he founded nearly 30 years ago, according to another pastor.

“Our former pastor was caught in sin,” Outreach Pastor Chet Lowe told a congregation in a 78-minute service earlier this month. “Our pastor, he committed adultery with more than one woman. Our pastor, he committed sexual immorality, habitually, through pornography.

“Rest assured, God will not be mocked.”

Fort Lauderdale Megachurch Pastor Resigns Over `Moral Failing’

Coy, 58, resigned April 3 from the 20,000-member church he and his wife Diane founded in 1985. In announcing his departure, the church would only say Coy was guilty of a “moral failing.”

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