Russell Brand remarked on a "big change" over the last month since converting to Christianity.
In late April, Brand discussed his decision to convert to Christianity in a video shared on X. The comedian later referred to his baptism as a "profound experience."
Brand remarked on his first month in the Christian faith in a Monday video shared to his X account.
“I’ve been a Christian a month now and it’s been a big change,” he said. “Not that I’ve entirely changed as a person, of course I haven’t, but I’ve taken on a lot of new concepts, and it changes you to accept that it’s not like you’re in a game show and by doing really, really good things, you can get redeemed.”
“No, repentance, to repent, means that you have to continually change and acknowledge that I am in a battle against myself,” he continued. “That I need to surrender myself to an ever-present eternal and accessible Jesus. That mercy is something that’s given to me, been granted to me, that I live with through love, not something that I can sort of win or achieve by doing good deeds.” One month as a Christian, and already… pic.twitter.com/1wBt9CJYaG
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Brand said he had enjoyed reading Christian literature and felt a newfound sense of peace.
“When I’m in doubt, I feel the instruction is there, accessible, and I feel like I know what I am supposed to do and when I don’t do what I am supposed to do, that is even clearer,” Brand said. “When I feel myself being selfish or inconsiderate or putting myself first or not thinking about how I can be better to other people, it is as if there is an inner illumination available to me now.”
The comedian said he loved the "simplicity" of the story of Christ's birth and subsequent sacrifice on the cross, giving Christians the "opportunity for redemption."
“I like the idea, when I am in prayer and in communion just alone, that there is a figure available, wounded and coronated, available to me," he continued. "In my failings, in my failures, and in my fallibility, there is strength to be broken. Not just broken by life in the sense of life is rearing and exhausting, but to be broken in the same way that you have to train an animal to behave itself, to be broken into better conduct. It is a beautiful journey to go on.”
