Welcome, everybody to Ask Me Anything. This is Matt Love.

We're here with J.D. Greer.

And this is a new season, which is very exciting.

So you can catch new episodes every single week.

And we're just excited to be able to continue doing what we've been doing,

asking really honest questions and getting Pastor J.D.

to give us helpful, helpful quick answer. So the question this week is a good one for you, J.D. to give us a helpful, helpful quick answer. So the question

this week is a good one for you, J.D. Is Christian celebrity all bad? All right? I don't know

if you consider yourself a celebrity or not, but is Christian celebrity a bad thing.

Well, phrasing it that way, I would, I would, if you're defining me as that, then no, I would hope

not. But yeah, I would maybe quibble with defining me as that then no I would hope not but yeah I would

maybe quibble with your definition of celebrity my understanding of the word celebrity just

means either somebody that's well known or somebody that is I guess to use the strict etymology

of the word celebrated for some reason you know I don't think it's categorically across the

board a bad thing in fact it's categorically across the board a bad thing. In fact,

it's kind of an inescapable thing. It's always really been a part of Christian history. There's

always been men and women that God raised up at a particular time for some purpose. And people

knew who they were. I mean, I think of names like Billy Graham or Elizabeth Elliott. John

Piper is a great example even, you know, currently. These are not people that play to their

celebrity, but just because of their gifting and because of the opportunities, they've become

well known. In fact, I think you can make a pretty decided argument that in the first century, the

Apostle Paul, Apollos, they were celebrities.

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