Judah Smith is the lead pastor at City Church and the author of a spiritual self-help book, How Is Your Soul? Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You. Smith has been noted for his close connection to celebrities ranging from Tim Tebow to Justin Bieber. “People say, ‘Wow! You pastor celebrities,’ and well, there’s only a few,” he said jokingly. “Most of the people that I get to encourage and do life with are not known at all, but yeah, Justin [Bieber] is literally like family to me. We would talk almost every day, talk and pray. And I’ve said it before, but I feel like I’ve learned more from him than maybe he’s learned from me. Celebrities have the same needs and essentials for living that we do. We all need faith, we all need hope, we all need love. We all need connection, relationships to feel like we matter, and we’re known, and we know somebody. So we talk about a lot of the stuff that we’d be talking about right here, and you would talk about with your friends.”

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