Why are Christian celebrities so successful?
Ah. There’s a great question. Jesus said this in John 15: “If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” If you truly love and serve God (and not yourself, mammon, fame, etc) then the world shouldn’t love you. The world should HATE you. This includes much of “Christianity,” much of which is completely apostate and teaching exactly the opposite of what Jesus taught. Now if you stand apart from the world, if you hate the sin of the world and of fake Christians who drag Gods name through the mud by their hypocrisy, and cry out against it, if you refuse to walk like the world and don’t partake in its sinful entertainments and occupations, or if you call out the fake Christians for their hypocrisy in acting exactly like the world, then they will hate you. They will tar and feather you. They will gossip about you and cast you out. You will be made a la...