Britney Spears: Born Again!

[Josh]

Britney Spears responds to altar call
Singer, mother reportedly cry, hug during emotional church service


WorldNetDaily.com

Pop singer Britney Spears has reportedly attended a church service where she and her mother cried, hugged and responded to an altar call.

According to a report in Scottish newspaper the Daily Record, Spears and her mom, Lynne, stopped by the service at the Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, Calif., near Los Angeles, on the way to a photo-shoot.

The 22-year-old singer and her mother hugged one another and cried "as they got caught up in the highly charged ceremony," the paper reported.

At the end of the sermon delivered by Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer, the church's senior pastor, he asked those who had been moved by the message to come forward. The Daily Record reports Spears and her mother then dried their eyes and walked hand in hand to the front of the church. Christian preachers often ask congregants to come forward if they want to make a public profession of faith in Christ.

According to the report, two bodyguards accompanied Spears into the church, which uses the Great Western Forum, former home of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, as its main sanctuary.

''Britney came in very quietly but lots of people spotted her. Some couldn't believe that she was there," the paper quotes one onlooker as saying. ''It was a really powerful, emotional service, and Britney was obviously very touched.''

The report states a television crew was filming the service, and some speculated Spears was merely trying to get publicity.

Karen Lewis, publicist for Faithful Central Bible Church, refused to confirm or deny that Spears attended a service.

Saying she considers visits to the church "very sacred," whether the visitor is a celebrity or not, Lewis told WND the organization's staff "don't discuss those matters with the media at all."

Spears, who has dumped her Southern girl-next-door image in favor of a grungy look, last made headlines when she married a childhood friend in Las Vegas and then had the marriage annulled 55 hours later. After the incident, the singer said she still believes in the sanctity of marriage.

[GusX:]

God can work in amazing ways.  I will wait to see that she goes again next week.

[Vlad!]

God can work in amazing ways.  I will wait to see that she goes again next week.

Good call. My (cynical) opinion is that, hey, she's a young female pop star, and she has proven in the past that she makes spur-of-the-moment decisions that she's unwilling to follow through on or deal with the consequences of over the long-term. Plus, she seems pretty superficial and obviously easily influenced by emotion. But maybe I'm just too pessimistic, so if I am then shame on me.

[Josh]

This is the part that really makes me skeptical:

The report states a television crew was filming the service, and some speculated Spears was merely trying to get publicity.

A TV crew? Hmmm. That really makes it sound like a publicity stunt.

Anyway, this hasn't been getting as much media as I thought it would, and I'm kind of glad; after all, this is really between Britney and the Almighty.

[latinchic]

A clarification:  the altar call was not a call for salvation.  I saw it.  It was a call for those that just wanted people to pray for them if they were going through rough times, "anxieties", and such.

Lord knows she's been having her fair share of those lately.  So she went up.

-latinchic  

[greg]

Also, the "TV crew" was the church's usual camera crew, from my understand. Most large churches film their services, as we all know. According to an article in People magazine, Britney went because her family had an "intervention" for her after the Vegas-wedding and her father wanted her to re-dedicate her life to Christ.

 

[linds]

hm.
i wonder if this affected her photo shoot.

[latinchic]

Also, the "TV crew" was the church's usual camera crew, from my understand. Most large churches film their services, as we all know. According to an article in People magazine, Britney went because her family had an "intervention" for her after the Vegas-wedding and her father wanted her to re-dedicate her life to Christ.

Of course.....not that seeing Britney there was a big deal to the members of the church.  Lots of celebrities attend there.  Also, she was kinda hard to not notice, considering she was pretty close to the front.  And not a lot of people went up for prayer as well.