Robert Morris has resigned as senior pastor at Gateway Church in Southlake, Texas, three days after confessing to engaging in "sexual behavior" with a child in the 1980s. The board of elders at Gateway made the announcement in a statement to NBC News.

Morris, a former member of President Donald Trump’s spiritual advisory committee, had long told a story to his congregation and church leaders about a "moral failure" involving sexual sins when he was a minister in his 20s. Cindy Clemishire, now 54, said the alleged abuse happened to her when she was 12 and continued for more than four years.