The Breakfast Club, a morning show created for the hip hop listening audience in New York, has become quite the go-to spot for preachers and christian artists lately. In a recent interview with Hillsong NYC’s leader, Carl Lentz, co-hosts DJ Envy, Angela Yee, and Charlamagne Tha God, questioned the pastor about his modern day approach to christianity and what causes him to be linked to A-list celebrities.

Lentz was invited to the popular Power 105.1 studio after Kirk Franklin mentioned his name while visiting previously. The team was intriqued by how much Franklin respected the pastor and decided to invite him to be a guest on their show.

During Lentz’s appearance, a normally vulgar Charlamagne asked him questions about his unique appearance as a pastor, his ministry and his thoughts on fornication. They inquired about his brand of preaching, and his relationship with global music star Justin Bieber.

Lentz made sure to talk about true repentance and the tendency of New Yorkers to try to have “their life and a little bit of Jesus too.” He shared his coming to Jesus moment and the importance of the Bible being looked at as good news — a love story and not a rule book.

“The Gospel literally means good news, so there’s bad news before good news. The bad news is we can’t do this on our own, the good news is that because of God’s grace somehow in his power He can regenerate a new life in us and even when we sin we have the power to change,” he said.

He talked about his relationship with Bieber, explaining that his good friend — fellow pastor Judah Smith of The City Church in Washington — introduced the two and they now have a good friendship as well. Yee asked Lentz if people only attend his church now because of Bieber, to which he responded, “They find out pretty quick that our church is not going to be about that. You might come for Bieber but you’re not going to stay for Bieber.”

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