Pastors don’t belong on pedestals – so says Justin Bieber.
In an interview with GQ, the pop superstar opened up about how he feels when pastors take fame to their heads.
“I think so many ministers place themselves on this pedestal,” the devout songwriter, 27, told the publication without making a direct reference to Carl Lentz, the disgraced former Hillsong megachurch pastor who once counted Bieber among his closest friends. . The “Baby” singer did not refer to Hillsong or Lentz in the GQ interview, but spoke at length about the role pastors play in a church.
[It’s] in fact, the church can be surrounded around 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’t get because we’re not this man,’ ” Bieber said. But that’s not the reality. The reality is that every human has the same access to God. “
Neither Justin Bieber nor Hillsong returned The Post’s request for comment.
Although Bieber was critical of pastors, he praised Pastor Judah Smith, who runs the famous Churchome.
“He put our relationship first,” Bieber said of Smith, praising Smith’s close ties to his own family.
“It was something I’ve always dreamed of because my family was broken,” said Bieber. “All my life I have had a broken family. And so I was attracted to a family that dines together, laughs together, talks together. “
Bieber, who released his new LP “Justice” last month, also revealed that his marriage to model Hailey Baldwin, 24, got off to a rocky start.
“The first year of marriage was really difficult,” he said, “because there was a lot to go back to the trauma stuff. There was just a lack of trust. There were all these things that you don’t want to admit to the person with who you are because it’s scary. You don’t want to scare them off by saying, “I’m scared.”
The Canadian-born songwriter also started hitting rock bottom five years ago.
“There was a sense of longing for more,” he said, admitting that his guards were so concerned about his well-being that they would sneak into his room to check his pulse and make sure he was alive.
“It was like I had all this success and it was still like, I’m still sad and I’m still in pain,” he said. And I still have these unresolved issues. And I thought all the success would make everything right. And so for me, the drugs were a narcotic just to get through. “
