Bieber’s Bondi baptismal bath! Bad boy-turned-Hillsong worshipper Justin looks the picture of bliss as he floats in fresh water pool ahead of prayer meeting
There’s plenty of verses in the Bible about cleansing the body in water so it’s ‘whiter than snow’.
And it seems that former bad boy-turned-Hillsong worshipper, Justin Bieber, 21, took the message literally on Monday at the famous Bondi Icebergs pool in Sydney.
The Baby singer was spotted head and body fully emerged in the fresh water outdoor pool on the chilly winter’s afternoon with his face to the sky.
Deep clean: Bad boy-turned-Hillsong worshipper Justin Bieber took a dip in the famous Bondi Icebergs pool in Sydney on Monday
Turning a corner: Bieber, with estimated wealth of US$200million, started embracing the evangelical sect Hillsong late last year as he tried to put his rocky teenage years behind him
Just a few hours before he was due to attend day one of the five day annual Hillsong Conference at Olympic Park’s Allphones Arena, Bieber
Possibly thinking about the prayer meeting he was due to attend later in the evening with rumoured girlfriend Hailey Baldwin, he looked the picture of bliss as he floated down one of the 50m lanes, all while showing off his symbolic crucifix tattoo on his chest.
Bieber, with estimated wealth of US$200million, started embracing the evangelical sect Hillsong, which has faced many criticisms throughout its 31 years, late last year, as he tried to put his rocky teenage years behind him.
Washing his rocky teen years right out of his hair! The Baby singer was spotted head and body fully emerged in the fresh water with his face to the sky
Relaxed: He looked a picture of bliss as he floated down one of the 50m lanes, all while showing off his symbolic crucifix tattoo on his chest
‘People come from across the world to Sydney each year to attend Hillsong Conference. Justin is here – like tens of thousands of others – as a delegate who is seeking to build stronger foundations into his life.’
‘Foundations’ is something that Bieber is likely looking for after his many run-ins with the law.
In 2013, at the age of 19, a video was leaked that appeared to show the Ontario-born pop star urinating into a mop bucket and launching into a bizarre verbal attack on Bill Clinton.
In January 2014, at the age of 20, he was arrested in Miami Beach, Florida, on suspicion of driving under the influence and drag racing, reaching an eye-watering 136mph in his rented Lamborghini.
Baptismal-like dip: Just a few hours before he was due to attend day one of the five day annual Hillsong Conference, Bieber looked calm and collected
Bad boy turned worshipper! A spokesperson for Hillsong told Daily Mail Australia that Bieber is here to ‘build stronger foundations into his life’
Yeah, brah! As he submerged from the waters he also showed off the unusual cupping across his chest
Justin Bieber chats backstage at the Hillsong Conference
He was ultimately charged with driving under the influence, resisting arrest and driving with an expired license.
Just days later, Bieber was accused of assaulting a limo driver in December 2013. The charges were later dropped.
And that summer, in July, the controversial star faced a misdemeanour vandalism charge for egging his neighbour’s home – an incident that resulted in the neighbour taking out a restraining order against him.
Incognito: Shortly after his cleansing dip he went for a skateboard wearing a fake mustache
Just a regular guy on a skateboard! Biebs was spotted running up to people shouting ‘g’day’
But in March this year during his Comedy Central Roast, he seemed to have turned a corner by apologising for his bad boy ways.
Watched on by a star-studded audience, Justin admitted to being ‘pretty disappointed’ at his own behaviour, admitting he had also ‘lost some of my best qualities’.
But he insisted he was ready for the challenge of lifting himself back up and ‘being somebody that you guys can all look at and be proud of’.
Hanging with his religious clique! Bieber with celeb pastor Carl Lentz and another friend
Come pray with me! Bieber is said to have introduced rumoured girlfriend Hailey Baldwin to the religion. The 18-year-old is also Down Under
Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin jam with Hillsong band
A brief history of Hillsong
The Hillsong Church, a Pentacostal megachurch, was established in 1983 by the late Frank Houston and his son Brian Houston.
The church’s headquarters are in Baulkham Hills in the north-west of Sydney with campuses all across Australia and some parts of the world, including London, Ukraine, South Africa, Sweden and New York.
Services are also held in France, Germany, Amsterdam, Spain, Moscow, Los Angeles, Argentina and Brazil.
The church claims that over 30,000 people attend services in Australia each week.
The Hillsong Church almost came tumbling down in 2014 when it was revealed in a Royal Commission that its Senior Pastor Brian knew of about his father Frank’s molestation of a number of children decades earlier but never reported it.
In 2000, Frank confessed to the sexual abuse of a boy in New Zealand 30 years earlier, seven years later further allegations emerged that he had sexually abused a trainee pastor during counselling sessions in the early 1980s.
The senior pastor defended his decision to not inform police after finding out about his father’s alleged sexual abuse because the victim, who was an adult at the time of the revelations, referred to only as AHA, did not want a police or church investigation.
Brian said he believed he was doing the right thing at the time by informing the church’s elders and the overarching Australian Christian Churches organisation, despite not reporting it to police.
The senior pastors of Hillsong Church are currently Brian and his wife Bobbie Houston.
The church’s beliefs are Evangelical and Pentecostal in that it holds the bible as accurate and authoritative.
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