It’s 2014 and Justin Bieber is staying with Carl Lentz, pastor of Hillsong Church, New York. The world is at the peak of Biebermadness and stories about all kinds of antics are appearing in the tabloids.
One night, it seems, everything that’s happened over the past decade catches up with him: the stories, the drugs, the women...Bieber has hit rock bottom. And there, in Lentz’ apartment, the biggest pop star on the planet drops to his knees and, while sobbing, says he needs Jesus.
So Pastor Lentz and Justin pray. Justin Bieber and the pastor of Hillsong NYC – praying Bieber’s way into the kingdom. And when they’ve finished praying, Biebs says two words: ‘Baptise me.’
Lentz starts to search for a date and time for this to happen, but Bieber isn’t having it. ‘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. 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).
Hillsong NYC has a swimming pool in a Manhattan hotel that it regularly uses for baptisms. (Of course it does.) When they turn up at the hotel, the press and hundreds of fans are already there – word has got out. So Lentz calls one of his friends, this particular friend being one of the best basketball players in the world, Tyson Chandler. Chandler’s building has a pool. So they shoot over to New York’s Upper West Side only to find there’s no access to the pool. Bieber is getting itchy baptism feet.
But there’s another thing about Tyson Chandler. He’s absolutely massive. 7ft1in. So Chandler is one of the handful of people on the planet whose bathtub is big enough to baptise Justin Bieber. Off they head to Chandler’s apartment. Chandler’s wife prepares food and lays down towels and Bieber, soaked through, is on his knees in an NBA player’s bathtub, sobbing into a Hillsong pastor’s chest, reborn.
Quiet a difference from that WAP trash the left is pushing.
Surprised that came from bieber
I found this story to be very profound, and shows that though a person may walk in sin they can keep their eyes off there feet and stare the light of God directly in the face and ask to be lifted up. Whether you are a multimillionaire or your head rests on the street at night the grace of God, can make a man whole. Excerpt taken from https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2016/March-2016/Belieber-How-Justin-Bieber-s-Christian-Faith-got-Reborn
It’s 2014 and Justin Bieber is staying with Carl Lentz, pastor of Hillsong Church, New York. The world is at the peak of Biebermadness and stories about all kinds of antics are appearing in the tabloids.
One night, it seems, everything that’s happened over the past decade catches up with him: the stories, the drugs, the women...Bieber has hit rock bottom. And there, in Lentz’ apartment, the biggest pop star on the planet drops to his knees and, while sobbing, says he needs Jesus.
So Pastor Lentz and Justin pray. Justin Bieber and the pastor of Hillsong NYC – praying Bieber’s way into the kingdom. And when they’ve finished praying, Biebs says two words: ‘Baptise me.’
Lentz starts to search for a date and time for this to happen, but Bieber isn’t having it. ‘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. 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).
Hillsong NYC has a swimming pool in a Manhattan hotel that it regularly uses for baptisms. (Of course it does.) When they turn up at the hotel, the press and hundreds of fans are already there – word has got out. So Lentz calls one of his friends, this particular friend being one of the best basketball players in the world, Tyson Chandler. Chandler’s building has a pool. So they shoot over to New York’s Upper West Side only to find there’s no access to the pool. Bieber is getting itchy baptism feet.
But there’s another thing about Tyson Chandler. He’s absolutely massive. 7ft1in. So Chandler is one of the handful of people on the planet whose bathtub is big enough to baptise Justin Bieber. Off they head to Chandler’s apartment. Chandler’s wife prepares food and lays down towels and Bieber, soaked through, is on his knees in an NBA player’s bathtub, sobbing into a Hillsong pastor’s chest, reborn.