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CHARLOTTE – Disgraced evangelist Ted Haggard spoke to a Charlotte congregation Sunday morning.

Haggard was the pastor of the 12,000-member New Life Church in Colorado Springs and the Head of the National Association of Evangelicals until a gay sex scandal in November 2006 led to his downfall.

He spoke Sunday morning to the Elevation Church as part of a series entitled "Healer." Haggard apologized to the audience and shared details about the conflict and confusion he struggles.

"I am so sorry that I caused pain in your family," Haggard said. "I am so ashamed that I misrepresented the body of Christ."

In November 2006, a male prostitute claimed Haggard paid him for sex for three years and that Haggard used crystal meth. Haggard denies the drug allegations.

Both he and his wife addressed his deceptions and denial and her own confusion and anger, as well as her struggle to keep her family together.

"As a believer I had to determine, 'How can I handle this?" Gayle Haggard said.

Elevation pastors say the controversy is not just a story about the preacher's downfall, but about forgiveness.

"That we weren't reinstating Ted into the ministry, that we weren't condemning him, but we weren't also doing anything, we just wanted to hear his story," member Russell Goettig said.