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He created a pretty awesome template of how to love people and how to be gracious and kind. Not be Jesus – I could never – I don’t want that to come across weird. It was at this point in the interview that he started preaching: ‘I just wanna honestly live like Jesus. Just like, overly pushy with the subject, overly churchy and religious. I think that with Christians, they’ve left such a bad taste in people’s mouths. My faith has brought me to a whole other level. I think it was by the grace of God.’ Later in the interview Bieber said: ‘My faith has gotten me to where I am. Reflecting on the last few years, Bieber recently told Complex: ‘I shouldn’t be on the planet still. ‘Sorry’ sees him address this clearly, with the lyrics: ‘I know that I let you down, is it too late to say I’m sorry now?’ Purpose sees him asking the same questions about life and faith as many of us, as well as facing up to his headline-grabbing mistakes. His latest album Purpose was released last year and was not only his most honest, personal work to date, but also his best. Work in progress is an apt description of Bieber in 2016. He was listed three times by Forbes magazine among the top ten MOST POWERFUL celebrities in the world in 2011, 20 He gains an average of 207,788 fans on Facebook a week His My World album went platinum only 3 months after its release He is worth $200m and earns $60-80m per year, according to He has never been anybody but who he has professed to be, which is a work in progress.’Īs of 2015, Justin Bieber had sold 46.5 million records in the United States, including 10.7 million albums He is trying to do his best to figure this out. Here’s what Carl Lentz recently said about Bieber: ‘This boy is 21. And that’s how Justin Bieber ended up in Tyson Chandler’s bathtub. So Smith and Bieber strike up this pastoral friendship and a little later, when Bieber is really struggling, Smith calls up Carl Lentz in Bieber’s hometown, NYC, and says he needs some help. When we first met several years ago, he said, “You used to put me to sleep with your preaching.” I said, “Justin, that’s not what preachers want to hear.”’ She got a couple of my cassette tapes, and would play them for him while he fell asleep at night.
How did this happen? Here’s what Smith told Premier Youthwork a couple of years ago: ‘His mom came to a conference and heard me speak. Somewhere in the interconnect between those two orbits, Bieber befriended the hipsters’ mega-pastor of choice, Seattle’s Judah Smith. So let’s take the two extremes of Bieber and join the dots: the teenage kid who everyone realised was a wrong’un, and the 20-something crying in Tyson Chandler’s bath. So they shoot over to New York’s Upper West Side only to find there’s no access to the pool.
So Lentz calls one of his friends, this particular friend being one of the best basketball players in the world, Tyson Chandler. (Of course it does.) When they turn up at the hotel, the press and hundreds of fans are already there – word has got out.
Hillsong NYC has a swimming pool in a Manhattan hotel that it regularly uses for baptisms. If this is some biblical analogy, Lentz has become Philip and Justin Bieber is the Ethiopian eunuch (we might need to leave that particular piece of imagery there). ‘I want to do it now.’ That’s baptism, right? Bieber realises he can’t continue to live the way he’s been living and realises that right now, in that very instant, he needs a fresh start. Lentz starts to search for a date and time for this to happen, but Bieber isn’t having it. And when they’ve finished praying, Biebs says two words: ‘Baptise me.’ Justin Bieber and the pastor of Hillsong NYC – praying Bieber’s way into the kingdom.