I Was A Pastor Secretly Addicted To Sex & Affairs While Preaching Every Sunday

Rise Above with Kevin Lanning · Jul 1, 2026 · 58m

Jason Lyles was adopted at 14 days old and raised in a strict Southern Baptist home. He read the Bible cover to cover by age eight and felt called to ministry. He also found pornography at ten or eleven, and from that moment he was chasing something he couldn't name — convinced each time that the next thing would finally fix him. Marriage at 19 would fix it. Giving his life to God would fix it. But as his early sponsor told him, you never leave your addictions in the driveway.

Jason planted a church in rural Georgia, preaching to construction workers and cowboys on Tuesday nights, while…