Hillsong NYC megachurch Pastor Carl Lentz has revealed in a new book that in the past he ran away from church and feared that God wasn’t real.
On Thursday, The New York Times published an interview with Lentz about his new book, Own The Moment, in which he detailed his struggles on the Christian path.
“I have a real palpable disdain for religious jargon. I grew up in church. I ran from church. I know a real Christian from a churchgoing nominal Christian better than most,” Lenz reveals.
He added that on the day he found God he was “riddled with fear.”
“Things like ‘What if this isn’t real?’ ‘What if this means I have to give up everything that I love?’ ‘What if this means that for the rest of my life I have to listen to terrible Christian music and wear pleated khaki pants and get a haircut that looks like literally every single Alabama football fan?'” he wrote.
The book deals with a variety of different issues, with NYT describing it as a “collection of sermons.”
“The way I try to preach is the way I tried to write this book,” Lentz said in the interview.
“I’m going to preach straight, and…
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