The Real Reason Selena Gomez Is Leaving Hillsong Church

Publish date: 2024-04-15

Selena Gomez reportedly "doesn't identify with Hillsong any longer" despite having attended the church for such a lot of years. Per the Daily Mail, a source informed the Australian Daily Telegraph that Selena as soon as "adored" Pastor Carl Lentz. "She, [Hillsong cofounder] Brian [Houston], his daughter Laura, and Justin [Bieber] were a team, really close," the source said. "Now she doesn't want anything to do with Hillsong anymore." The supply informed the publication that "Selena considers herself a Christian" and "she says she has a close relationship with God, and she believes this is not how God wants us to operate, she's disillusioned."

Though it kind of feels like Carl Lentz's dishonest scandal used to be the closing straw for the singer, any certainly one of Hillsong's scandals could have resulted in Gomez's choice. Not most effective was once the church accused of being a cult, but in February 2019, Elliot Page reminded Twitter Hillsong is "infamously anti-LGBTQ," relating to a pastor from the church who wrote in a blog submit that he believes, "God's word is clear that marriage is between a man and a woman."

Now that Gomez is finished with Hillsong, we ponder whether every other celebrities will practice in her footsteps...

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