Matthew Diebel | USA TODAY

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A Pittsburgh pastor has been charged with lewdness and indecent exposure after police say he was found in a car with a young man who was naked and bound with a rope.

According to a criminal complaint seen by local TV station KDKA, George Gregory, leader of the Waterfront Christian Community Church in West Homestead, Pa., told officers they “were just playing” and he and the other man “meet up from time to time to play with each other.”

The man who reported the suspicious vehicle, which was parked on a street in neighboring Homestead, told police he saw the second man get out of the vehicle without any clothes on and was concerned because the car was parked outside his daughter’s window.

When police arrived, according to local TV station WPXI, they say Gregory was in the back seat adjusting his clothing while another man was in the front passenger seat naked and bound with rope.

Gregory later told KDKA that he has “nothing to hide.”

“I was counseling a young man with a drug problem,” he added about Friday's incident. “It did turn strange, but it wasn’t my doing, OK? And I was adamant that I’m not participating in that way. And so that’s when the police pulled up, and they assume things, but I’m standing by my story. It’s not true.”

According to the station, Gregory said he has been working with the man for a few years.

“I won’t deny that he began to take his clothes off and propositioned me, but I will deny, on a stack of Bibles with God as my witness, that I did nothing,” he said.

Gregory was back in his pulpit on Sunday, WPXI reported. A video posted on his church’s website of his sermon the prior Sunday, begins with a quote from Romans 8:5, which reads: “Those who live according to the flesh have their minds set on what the flesh desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.”

He then followed up with his own interpretation.