Comic Matt Rife mentioned he not too long ago bought baptized in a pool following the demise of his grandfather — and despite the fact that he “hates” church, he needs to imagine in God.
“I got baptized in August … in a dude’s pool,” the 29-year-old instructed Yannis Papas and Chris Distefano, hosts of the Historical past Hyenas podcast, in a current episode.
Rife, who clarified it was a “Christian” baptism, mentioned he did not develop up in a non secular family however would sometimes attend church with associates a number of instances a yr.
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When his grandpa died two years in the past, he started enthusiastic about God increasingly more, he said.
“I’ve never been a super religious person, but when my grandpa passed away, something hit me that I was like, ‘I’ll never see this person again,'” he mentioned. “So something has to exist. I skew Christian, so I started going to church a little bit more.”
“I hate church; I find it excruciatingly boring,” he mentioned. “But I want to believe in God, and it’s obviously a huge part of the process.”
Pappas and Distefano agreed, joking that pastors “keep doing the same act” repeatedly throughout providers.
Rife, identified for his raunchy comedy, is promoting out arenas along with his not too long ago introduced “Stay Golden Tour.” He not too long ago launched his first guide, Your Mother’s Gonna Love Me, a memoir from Simon & Schuster and a New York Instances bestseller.
Rife is the most recent in a slew of comedians to embrace Christianity or use their platform to debate the Bible, religion and faith lately.
Final yr, comic Rob Schneider introduced he’d transformed to Catholicism and felt referred to as to depart behind the kind of comedy he has carried out up to now.
“I know I can’t do the same stuff I used to do,” Schneider instructed The Christian Publish. “Not because I have anything against what I did; I did what I did, and I felt fine about it at the time. I’m not going to judge myself. But I won’t do the same stuff I’ve done. I don’t know what I’m going to do. … I want to come to it from a place of faith, a place of something good in my heart.”
Earlier this yr, comic Russell Model mentioned he’d transformed to Christianity and was baptized within the River Thames. He has since used his social media to doc his journey.
In October, the British actor mentioned he’s considered one of many individuals who “publicly are known to have sinned, to have lived a life away from Him, lived a life looking for the stimulants that the world offers you” and “live in open transparency.” He contends that individuals who match this description “can authentically accept that we are flawed and fallen.”
“That is the way that we will know Christ, through our brokenness,” he asserted. “We don’t have to be pretending that you’re something that you’re not. You don’t have to be concealing anything about yourself, because what you are is beautiful.”
Comic Joe Rogan, although not a professing Christian, typically discusses faith on the podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which has 14.5 million followers on Spotify.
In February, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Rogan mentioned the essential position Christianity performs in an more and more chaotic society and the necessity for Jesus’ return.
“I think as time rolls on, people are going to understand the need to have some sort of divine structure to things, some sort of belief in the sanctity of love and of truth, and a lot of that comes from a religion,” Rogan mentioned in a Feb. 7 episode of his podcast.
“A lot of people’s moral compass and the guidelines that they’ve used and follow to live a just and righteous life has come from religion. And unfortunately, a lot of very intelligent people they dismiss all the positive aspects of religion because they think that the stories are mere superstitious fairy tales, that they have no place in this modern world; ‘we’re inherently good, and your ethics are based on your own moral compass, and we all have one,’ and that’s not necessarily true.”
In February, Distefano beneficial Lee Strobel’s The Case for Christ to spiritual skeptic Invoice Maher.
“Well bless their hearts.”
