Pastors do not belong on pedestals – or so Justin Bieber says.
In an interview with GQ, the pop superstar opened up about how he feels when pastors let fame go on their heads.
“I think so many pastors put themselves on this pedestal,” the dedicated songwriter (27) told the publication without referring directly to Carl Lentz, the disgraceful former pastor in Hillsong, who Bieber once counted among his best friends. The ‘Baby’ singer does not refer to Hillsong or Lentz in the GQ interview, but spoke at length about the role that pastors play in a church.
‘[It’s] basically, church can be surrounded by the man, the pastor, the man, and it’s like, ‘This man has this ultimate relationship with God that we all want, but we can not get, because we are not this man , ” Bieber said. ‘However, that is not the reality. The reality is that every human being has the same access to God. ”
Neither Justin Bieber nor Hillsong returned The Post’s request for comment.
While Bieber was critical of pastors, he did praise Pastor Judah Smith, who runs the well-known beloved Churchome.
“He put our relationship first,” Bieber said of Smith, considering Smith’s close ties to his own family.
“It was something I always dreamed about because my family was broken,” Bieber said. ‘All my life I’ve had a broken family. And so I was just attracted to a family eating dinner together, laughing together, talking together. ‘
Bieber, who released his new LP “Justice” last month, also revealed that his marriage to model Hailey Baldwin (24) had a rocky start.
‘The first year of marriage was very difficult,’ he said, ‘because there was a lot to go back to the trauma stuff. There was just a lack of confidence. There were all these things that you do not want to admit to the person you are with because it is scary. You do not want to scare them off by saying, ‘I’m scared. ”
The Canadian-born songwriter also peaked five years ago.
“There was a feeling of still longing for more,” he said, admitting that his security guards were so concerned about his well-being that they would sneak into his room to check his pulse and ensure he was alive.
“It was as if I had achieved all this success, and it was still like: I’m still sad and still in pain,” he said. ‘And I still have these unresolved issues. And I thought all the success was going to make everything good. And so the drug was for me an anesthetic to just keep going through. ”
