A review by geneticginger
Celebrities for Jesus: How Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Hurting the Church by Katelyn Beaty

4.0

This was a fantastic book delving into how celebrity and a focus on money can really hurt the witness of the church. Beaty describes celebrity as 'social power without proximity' and chronicles several instances where great Christian leaders fell due to lack of accountability because they were abusing power and focusing on creating a personal vs having people speak into their lives. At the end of the book she brings it back to Christ and emphasizes 'maybe it means casting off the big ideals of living big lives for God and accepting that our greatest moments of faithfulness may be achieved in complete obscurity.'