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CNLP 579 | Katelyn Beaty on How Christian Celebrities, Personas, Platforms, and Profits Are Harming the Church And What to Do About It

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

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The Inevitability of Celebrity

I wonder if sometimes there is an inevitability to celebrity. I think a lot of people who I know, not the people you cover in your book, but when I look at my friendship circle of people who lead some of the largest churches in America, all of them would say they never set out for that. There wasn't a strategy. I can plot out a strategy in the rear view mirror, but it's not like I sat down with a 10 year plan. It just kind of happened. You're right. Billy Graham was experimenting. I don't think he had any idea he would preach to more people than anyone in human history, including the Apostle Paul. So what do you

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