Vanessa Hudgens, a Hillsong Christian

Hillsong’s worldly cool, non-judgmental brand of Christianity is evident in the life of former Disney star Vanessa Hudgens. She credits Hillsong for strengthening her “own personal relationship with Jesus” (“Vanessa Hudgens Credits Hillsong,” New York Times, Mar. 29, 2015). Hudgens also credits her live-in boyfriend, actor Austin Butler, with helping to restore her Christian faith (she grew up Catholic). She “loves Jesus,” but she also lives with a man to whom she is not married and uses New Age and pagan forms of “spirituality” such as crystals and dreamcatchers. She says, “I’m a definite hippie. I’m literally my happiest self when I’m dancing half naked on a grass field listening to Led Zeppelin.” Hillsong Christianity is a major sign of the times, and Bible-believing churches that are adapting contemporary worship are building bridges to this dangerous world. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables” (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

(Friday Church News Notes, April 17, 2015, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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