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Justin Bieber Comes Out With Shocking Announcement About Jesus That’ll Get Him Attacked
In an interview with Complex, Canadian pop star Justin Bieber talked at length about his Christian faith. Bieber, 21, has been in the news in recent years for arrests and various bad boy scandals (night club urination, public intoxication, police confrontations), but spoke of wanting to put aside childish things.
Bieber is currently riding high on the music charts, including multiple hit singles this year. “‘What Do You Mean‘ is officially a smash hit, as the song debuted in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week. This is the first No. 1,” according to Complex.
The singer reflected that with his rise to stardom at an early age came increased opportunities to make poor choices–and increased scrutiny when he did so. “I was doing anything. I was doing so many things that I shouldn’t even be on the planet still,” he said. “I think that it was by the grace of God.”
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The young man identified his goal now: “I just wanna honestly live like Jesus” [emphasis added]. “He created a pretty awesome template of how to love people and how to be gracious and kind,” said Bieber.
“At this point, my faith has gotten me to where I am. My faith has brought me to a whole other level. I love talking about my faith. I think that with Christians, they’ve left such a bad taste in people’s mouths,” he stated. “Just like, overly pushy with the subject, overly churchy and religious.”
He explained the difference between being religious and being in a relationship with God.
It’s like a girlfriend. If I have an awesome, bomb girlfriend, I’m gonna wanna show her off and go around and tell people my girl is the s–t. I’m not gonna cheat on her because she’s the best. It’s like with God: The whole thing with religion is you present yourself holy and bring your offerings so that God can bless you, when the whole point of the relationship [should be], “No, I’m gonna do this because he loves me. I’m gonna do this because he’s amazing and not because [I] have to, [but] because [I] want to.” That’s the whole thing with religion that’s been throwing off the people. It’s not a “have to.” It should be just like a personal relationship. Like, “Hey, I love you because you first loved me.”
He said God is now the true source of his confidence, rather than others’ opinion of him.
Yeah. I do. In a different way. I feel invincible like, nothing is bigger than God. If God’s for me, who can be against me? That’s helped me in a lot of situations where I feel judged. It gives you confidence and you can carry yourself in a cool way, but it’s not cocky. It’s a confidence that’s a godly confidence. That’s what I always want. I wanna be loved for being a good dude and for being confident in myself because I know who I am and what I carry and what I sacrifice.
The singer said that Jesus is the greatest healer of the human soul. “And he really heals. This is it. It’s time that we all share our voice. Whatever you believe. Share it. I’m at a point where I’m not going to hold this in.”
h/t: Yahoo Music
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/justin-bieber-comes-out-with-shocking-announcement-about-jesus-thatll-get-him-attacked/
