Pastors do not belong to the pedestals – so says Justin Bieber.
In an interview with GQ, the pop superstar said about how he feels when pastors let fame go in his head.
“I think so many pastors have put themselves on this pedestal,” the 27-year-old devout composer told the publication without direct reference to Carl Lentz, the former Hillsong meghurch pastor Bieber once counted among the pastors. his best friends. The “Baby” singer does not refer to Hillsong or Lentz in the GQ interview, but spoke extensively about the role that pastors play in a church.
“[It’s] basically, the church can be surrounded by man, pastor, type and it’s like, “This guy has this final relationship with God that we all want, but we can’t get it because we’re not this guy.” Bieber said. “It simply came to our notice then. 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 criticized pastors, he praised Pastor Judah Smith, who leads the famous Churchome.
“He put our relationship first,” Bieber said of Smith, and he maintained Smith’s close ties to his own family.
“It was something I always dreamed of because my family was broken,” Bieber said. “All my life, I’ve had a broken family. So I was attracted to a family that eats together, laughs together, talks together. “
Bieber, who released his new LP “Justice” last month, also revealed that his marriage to 24-year-old Hailey Baldwin had a rocky start.
“The first year of marriage was really tough,” he said, “because there were so many things going back to the traumatic things. It just lacked confidence. There were all these things you don’t want to admit to the person you’re with, because it’s scary. You don’t want to scare them by saying, “I’m scared.” ”
The Canadian-born composer also opened up about hitting the bottom five years ago.
“It was a feeling of desire even more,” he said, acknowledging that his guards were so concerned about his well-being that they crept into his room to check his pulse and make sure he was alive.
“It was as if I had all this success and so on: I’m still sad and it still hurts,” he said. “I still have these unresolved issues. And I thought all success would do everything right. And so for me, the drugs were a numbing agent, which simply kept passing. ”
