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Newly Baptized Gay Disney Star Leads Worship At Pop-up Service

Days after Disney star Joshua Bassett got baptized at a Bethel Chuch Service, the 20-Year-old “gay atheist” hosted a pop-up religious show in LA. He played worship songs and gave a mini-sermonette to fans in attendance, sharing his testimony. Known for his role in High School Musical, Bassett explained that he called his dad asking how to be saved and was prompted to be baptized after he experienced a sign from God. According to previous reports by The Dissenter:

Bethel Church has done something that even at its worst, it has never done before. They are now baptizing openly professing homosexuals to the applause of the entire congregation.

….Prior to his baptism, he was asked by a pastor at Bethel why he wanted to be baptized. He said, in front of the congregation, that he had grown up Christian but had run as far away as he could in pursuit of “truth.” He revealed that his journey had only led him to addiction, depression, suicidal ideation, eating disorders, and more. However, he went on to state that “No other teacher gave me anywhere near the peace that Jesus Christ did, and I’m here to publicly declare him as my Lord and Savior.”

Unquestioningly, Bethel then went on to baptize him.

Before and after his baptism, Bassett offered a series of posts speaking of Jesus and his understanding of the gospel.

After news of his baptism hit the media, many expressed concern over Bethel church’s anti-LGBTQ theology, prompting Bassett to clarify that he strongly condemned gay conversion therapy and wasn’t aware of Bethel’s stance on it before being baptized there.

Days after his baptism, Bassett announced a pop-up service that would feature worship and testimonies.

During the event he told the crowd:

Without hesitation I called my dad and I say “Dad, I want you to help me get saved, and he helped me (unintelliegable) the sinner’s prayer. The craziest part about this is, at that very moment he was praying for the Lord to save me. At that moment.

…I’m running around telling everyone I know, I’m like “I’m a Christian now. I can’t believe it. God is real. Jesus is Great and I’m brand new.”

Though many will take this testimony and declare for absolute certainty that Bassett is a believer, all the usual cautions should apply. The evangelical landscape is littered with celebrities that believers have been burned on, and nothing should be assumed. Still, we ought to be hopeful that he’s been saved and patient with him as he begins the process of sanctification, includin making public errors. Above all else, we should pray that he gets surrounded by faithful Christians who will lead and disciple him.

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Bethel Pastrix: ‘Jesus Laid in that Bed with Me and Started to Play with my Hair’

A Bethel pastrix (because there are no such thing as women pastors) claims that she had a radical encounter with Jesus that resulted in her being healed of mental illness, psychosis and suicide, one that involved the Lord of glory slithering up next to her in bed and playing with her hair, running his fingers through it, his fingertips lightly scraping her scalp and his whispered sweet deliverances.

Jenna Winston is a pastrix at Bethel in California and also the proprietor of the ‘Heartscaping’ ministry. Her testimony is that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic who spent the first 40 years of her life going through psych ward holds and ‘multiple abuses, mental illness diagnosis’, extreme drug addictions and suicide attempts’ before winding up at a faith-based recovery program where she claims to have a radical encounter with Jesus that forever changed the trajectory of her life.’

Finding freedom from her demons, she calls herself a ‘Seer Prophet’ and does counseling through her Heartscaping ministry and “specializes in inner healing, prophetic deliverance, identifying and cultivating your spiritual gifts and restoring your full identity.” One distinctive is that unlike most people shilling their wares, her are unusually upscale in terms of their price, with a typical course video being $129,

In a video published by Reformation Charlotte, she explains what this radical encounter was, while she was in the psych ward.

Not long after I got there I ended up having um this encounter- well no, I ended up having what I now know to be natural deliverance, okay?

So much Jesus was going in and all of a sudden to me it felt like I got connected to all of this rage and I started screaming and yelling and cussing and throwing stuff, and now I know it was actually the demons leaving. And after that happened I literally, I’ve never experienced anything like it. I was spiritually, mentally emotionally physically exhausted- like nothing left in me.

I passed out on my bed and that is when Jesus became real for me, because Jesus walked in there and laid in that bed with me and started to play with my hair. And instead of telling me all the things I needed to fix, he said “I am so sorry for all the things that happened to you that made you not want to feel, and if you trust Me, I’m going to make every day of your life better than any day that you ever lived.”

It makes one wonder if the schizophrenia really left.