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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Russell Brand opens up to Carl Lentz about his spiritual journey, recent embrace of Christianity, and how faith has transformed his life. He reflects on his past struggles with addiction and fame, the challenges of balancing personal ambition with serving Christ, and the importance of surrendering to a higher power. Brand also shares his views on ministry vs. entertainment, the influence of comedians on his communication style, and his desire to spark spiritual revival. He discusses the "evil one," the "lunacy" of Christian belief, and the intellectual surrender that led him to Jesus.
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0:00.0 | It's going to attract a certain type of person. |
0:02.4 | And I just love the fact that we both love Jesus. |
0:06.0 | And he obviously had an imprint on a crowd that wasn't typically religious. |
0:11.5 | So let me ask you this. |
0:13.8 | I'm a huge believer that what you say about you is so much more powerful than what somebody else says about you. |
0:22.5 | If you were going to do a live bio right now, who is Russell Brand? What do you say about you? I'm a person that needs Jesus. |
0:32.0 | In a sense, that don't make me unique. That makes me like everyone else. And that's kind of, |
0:36.6 | when you first see yourself on a |
0:37.9 | billboard on sunset boulevard you think you're all that and it feels like a kind of big deal but down |
0:42.3 | the line you realize that's just an inadvertent side effect of other people making money out of you |
0:46.6 | what led you there because you're a spiritual guy you have done a lot of study a lot of research |
0:52.6 | you've been everywhere and you landed at at lot of research you've been everywhere, and you landed |
0:54.9 | at the cross and you've never left. How? Why Jesus? Why Christian? Because he's real. Because he's real. |
1:04.7 | In Church of England, it ain't like how he's in your country where everything's got all |
1:07.4 | Rasmataz and intro music. This is England, mate. |
1:10.1 | Razmataz, mate. |
1:11.2 | There ain't no like purple uplight in in the sides. |
1:13.9 | There's no, there ain't like, it's not being live streamed on the internet. |
1:16.5 | If it was, it would be like on a phone. |
1:17.8 | It's not like got good intros and sort of brilliantly framed offerings around tithing. |
1:22.6 | It's England. |
1:24.1 | And like, everything's like, hello, right, okay, now we're going to, there's a person, wait a minute, Marjorie, did you, is it by the biscuit tin? Where is it? Oh, right. Now, where did you leave Jesus? Was it by the crackers? |
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