Judah, wearing an oversize burnt-orange button-down, black skinny jeans, and black leather boots, opened his sermon by calling himself a “Jesus guy” and launched into the Old Testament story of Rahab, a prostitute who found faith against the odds. The stage was illuminated in blue and purple lights, and a keyboard stood in place of an organ. Former NFL player Reggie Bush and his wife, Lilit, slipped into reserved seats toward the front row of the nearly-2,000-capacity theater. One guy with a fur collar on his jacket had a neck tattoo of praying hands. On a Wednesday evening last February, the lobby of the Saban Theatre buzzed with teens, twenty-, and thirtysomethings wearing T-shirts and distressed denim. Which begs a question: Is Churchome truly expanding what it means to be Christian, or are the Smiths sleek storytellers who know what it takes to stay popular with Gen Z and millennials? But his church is infamously anti lgbtq so maybe address that too?” Churchome has thus far managed to avoid major public backlash, in part by skirting most issues that could be considered controversial. Put clearly, we do not affirm a gay lifestyle.”) On Instagram, Hillsong NYC’s Carl Lentz described New York’s Reproductive Health Act, passed in 2019 to legalize abortion at any point during pregnancy if necessary to protect the mother’s life or health, as “evil, shameful and demonic.” And actress Ellen Page called out Chris Pratt’s relationship with Zoe Church after he talked about his spirituality on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in February, tweeting, “Oh. (Its Australian-based founder Brian Houston wrote in a 2015 blog post titled “Do I Love Gay People?” that “Hillsong Church welcomes ALL people but does not affirm all lifestyles. That messaging has been key to their meteoric rise and may be far more inclusive than the truth.įellow celeb-loved church Hillsong has come under fire for barring its gay members from holding positions of leadership within the church. They like modern art (Judah is an abstract painter) and tattoos (he and Bieber got matching ink) and sex (after marriage, but they won’t judge if you disagree). Its pastors say they love and accept everyone. Chad Veach, another friend of the Smiths, leads L.A.’s Zoe Church, which counts Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger, and Ashley Benson among its followers.īut Churchome is different, says Chelsea. The Smiths introduced Bieber to Carl and Laura Lentz, who lead the New York outpost of Australian megachurch Hillsong, which many of the Smiths’ congregants (including Bieber and his wife, Hailey Baldwin Bieber) attend when they’re on the East Coast. services have drawn the likes of Kourtney Kardashian, Ciara and Russell Wilson, and Selena Gomez. According to the Smiths, their church collectively draws more than 10,000 people every week to its five locations in Washington State and California, including its Wednesday-evening service at the historic Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, where it’s not uncommon to find the front rows reserved for celebrities and the back doors staked out by paparazzi. The program features testimonies from Lentz and his wife Laura as they give their perspectives on the variety of controversies faced by Hillsong.Nearly a decade later, the Smiths’ nondenominational church-which has since been rebranded as Churchome-has become one of the most influential Christian congregations in Hollywood. That Friday, FX premiered the first two episodes of the show, and is expected to conclude the following Friday, May 26. On May 19, 2023, Lentz's scandal was retold in the docuseries The Secrets of Hillsong.
On March 30, 2023, it was revealed Carl started employment as a strategist at Transformation Church. "I am deeply sorry for breaking the trust of many people who we have loved serving and understand that this news can be very hard and confusing for people to hear and process."
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"This failure is on me, and me alone and I take full responsibility for my actions. "I was unfaithful in my marriage, the most important relationship in my life and held accountable for that. "When you lead out of an empty place, you make choices that have real and painful consequences.
He added: "Over the years, I did not do an adequate job of protecting my own spirit, refilling my own soul, and reaching out for the readily available help that is available.
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