Justin Bieber Attending Bible Study With Selena Gomez
BY JESSICA MARTINEZ , CP REPORTER
August 16, 2014|10:05 am
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Justin Bieber
Justin Bieber has embraced his on and off again Christian faith recently as he was seen attending Pastor Judah Smith’s Bible study at the City Church in Los Angeles with former girlfriend Selena Gomez on Wednesday night.
The 20-year-old pop star has also taken to his social media accounts lately to post faith-inspired tweets and Bible verses on Instagram. According to U.K.-based The Mirror, Bieber is reportedly slowing down his party lifestyle after being involved in an altercation with actor Orlando Bloom following a night of partying in Ibiza, Spain last month.
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“Every day we wake God blesses us with new opportunities. Be better. Be great,” tweeted Bieber on August 12. Two days later he wrote, “God is good” and “Who is your anchor? God is good @judahsmith.”
Over the last year, Bieber has surrounded himself with spiritual mentors including Pastor Carl Lentz of Hillsong New York City, where the singer was baptized.
Earlier this year, Lentz noted that he has been helping Bieber get through his behavior, which he is known to constantly struggle with.
“I love Justin, he’s a good kid. He’s trying to figure this out,” Lentz told CBN. “His behavior … you know, he’s figuring it out. What should we do? … People who are like, ‘Is he even a Christian?’ With Justin, I tell people grace and acceptance does not mean approval. I can accept you as a human being and not approve of your actions. That’s how we’ve been loved. We love because we were first loved.”
He added, “With Justin, it’s not my job to be his police officer. It’s my job to be a friend to him, and that’s all I am.”
Smith has also defended Bieber’s character in the past. At one point, the Seattle-based megachurch pastor made it clear that he was counseling the singer after allegations surfaced that Bieber had allegedly slept with a Brazilian prostitute, disrespected the Argentine flag, and illegally tagged a hotel wall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“I don’t envy the scrutiny that he carries,” Smith said. “He lives a very blessed life, but with those blessings comes a lot of responsibility and expectations from people. Justin is digging deep and discovering. … But he’s an extraordinarily compassionate, considerate, loving person who’s very loyal and committed to the people in his world. I wish more people saw that side of him.”
Smith’s Los Angeles Bible studies also attract Hollywood notables like actress Vanessa Hudgens, E! News anchor Jason Kennedy and Bieber’s mother, Pattie Mallette.
Blog Editor Comments:
There is a lot of terrible happenings in the world at present, particularly in the Middle East, and of course Ferguson Missouri, since the weekend, but these sort of comments by these two pastors frustrate and anger me.
Carl Lentz — “With Justin, it’s not my job to be his police officer. It’s my job to be a friend to him, and that’s all I am.”
Judah Smith — ‘Justin is digging deep and discovering. … But he’s an extraordinarily compassionate, considerate, loving person…”
Yes Justin is a dear boy, but where is the gospel?
Where in the scripture does it say a Pastor is to be just a friend, and that’s all I am? A Police Officer ‘Serves and Protects’ (well used to) , and part of serving is declaring the Gospel. But Lentz only knows how to confess ‘God is Love’, and ‘God is Accepting’, God winks his eye at sin, and loves everyone. But God is no respecter of persons.
Lentz is to be a Pastor which means;
1 Peter 5 (KJV)
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being examples to the flock.
Does either men know these verses?
Rom 1:18 “For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;”
Rom 1:5 By whom (Lord Jesus) we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:’, not studying the bible on a Wednesday night.
Christianity is not reform, or revamp or even repentance unless there is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that produces obedience. God is the author and finisher of our faith. Justin might be digging deep, but God’s grace is not some false and self imposed morality, that appeals to the flesh, but it is the power of God. Justin’s faith declaration is probably sincere, but right now it is worthless, and is no better than if he had gone to a mid week Catholic Mass, and ate the Eucharist..
Rom 1:5 By whom (Lord Jesus) we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations, for his name:’, not studying the bible on a Wednesday night.
Christianity is not reform, or revamp or even repentance unless there is faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, that produces obedience. God is the author and finisher of our faith. Justin might be digging deep, but God’s grace is not some false and self imposed morality, that appeals to the flesh, but it is the power of God. Justin’s faith declaration is probably sincere, but right now it is worthless, and is no better than if he had gone to a mid week Catholic Mass, and ate the Eucharist..
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was he ever a christian in the first place is more to the point. Going to church does not make one a christian, though so many think it does. Wow I had pastors who were most like police officers as Lentz puts it. In fact they were more police offcers than friends. And these pastors were from the AOG too. How times have changed in that church, if they no longer see themselves as a shepherd ,in every sense of what the bible calls a shepherd to be.The bible says you will know them by their fruit. What fruit do these pastors and celebs have that shows its the fruit of the Lord.