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When you think of a Christian pastor, you almost certainly don't envision a tattooed 30-something who wears a motor bike jacket, listens to hip-hop music, references The Walking Deceased and Dark colored Lives Subject in his sermons, and every Weekend draws a standing-room only audience to a location normally used for rock and roll concerts - in godless New York City, no less. But then you clearly have never found Carl Lentz. As head pastor of the first United States branch of global megachurch Hillsong, the former college basketball player is over a quest to make Christianity accessible in the 21st century. In Own the Point in time, he shares the improbable and inspiring report of how he travelled from being an average teenager who couldn't care less about chapel to leading one of the country's fastest-growing congregations - how 1 day he is looking to encourage a Virginia Beach 7-Eleven clerk to wait his service, and only a couple of years later he's baptizing a global music icon within an NBA player's Manhattan bath tub. Amid such candid personal tales, Lentz offers illuminating readings of Bible passages and sensible tips on how to reside as a person of faith in an progressively materialistic world. How do you maintain your principles - and complete them on to your kids - in a culture that worships money and sex and fame? How do you embrace your defects in this Instagram time that exalts the looks of perfection? How do you just forget about "living the wish" and figure out how to embrace the wonder of your actuality? These are only a several many important questions Lentz answers in Own the Point in time - a powerful book that redefines not simply Christianity but spirituality all together.
