Justin Bieber can’t get enough of church these days.
The 20-year-old singer has been spotted at a slew of churches and bible study sessions, since his latest breakup with Selena Gomez at the end of September. And last night was no different.
Justin attended a late Sunday (November 9) service at New York City’s Hillsong Church with longtime pals, Kendall Jenner, 19, and Hailey Baldwin, 17.
Eyewitnesses at the service took to Twitter to share their sightings of the famous trio.
Twitter user Hope Revelle wrote, “Super cool to be at Hillsong church for the first time tonight in NY and sitting in first row was Jesus, Justin B[i]eber & Kendall Jenner.”
Super cool to be at Hillsong church for the first time tonight in NY and sitting in first row was Jesus, Justin Beiber & Kendall Jenner
— Hope (@Hope_Revelle) November 10, 2014
While @Josh3Estrada7 posted, “Justin Bieber and Kendall Jenner at hillsong tonight,” alongside a picture of the singer and the two models.
Justin Bieber and Kendall Jenner at hillsong tonight pic.twitter.com/MxFHyLwMY3
— Josh (@Josh3Estrada7) November 10, 2014
Another user on the social site, who also saw Justin at the church, managed to get snaps with Kendall and Hailey.
At least I got Kendall and Hailey pic.twitter.com/ne8n7abH6p
— JustinsBlunt (@smiley_channon) November 10, 2014
Justin na igreja Hillsong neste domingo com a Kendall Jenner e Hailey. #RollersMusicAwards Justin Bieber pic.twitter.com/8A9SD9UVbi
— lua (@bixabieber) November 10, 2014
No doubt, the rumor mill will see Bieber’s spiritually-inclined meet with Jenner and Baldwin as a romantic date.
But, in fact, the “Confident” singer has been on a religious retreat of sorts following his split with Selena.
At the end of October, the Biebs stayed with his pal, Pastor Carl Lentz, of Hillsong Church NYC. The singer attended services and Bible study during that time, before joining Pastor Judah Smith’s (of The City Church) “Jesus Is” tour for two days, according to our sources.
Bieber also dropped by the Pittsburgh Steelers’ Bible study meet on Saturday.
Much was made of Bieber and Baldwin’s attendance at Lentz’s birthday party in New York City last Thursday, despite the fact that Hillsong Church is well known to be popular with a young, hip crowd, that includes celebrities.
Some of the media furor was because it’s Bieber. But, also, just hours earlier, Selena sat down for an interview on On Air with Ryan Seacrest , after premiering her emotional, raw video and single, “The Heart Wants What It Wants.”
The stylish video has pulled in over 14 million views on YouTube since November 6, and during her interview, the former Disney star confirmed it was about Justin.
At some point during Lentz’s bash, Hailey posted a photo on her Instagram of herself with a female pal, with Justin just visible from the side of the shot.
It seems the pair took their evening on (possibly with others), and were spotted leaving the New York City club 40/40 some time later. Photos clearly show Bieber being directed to a waiting car by bodyguards, while Hailey appeared to walk off in another direction.
Justin also posted a face-pulling selfie of himself and Baldwin on his Shots account.
A source showed the Inquisitr a Twitter direct message exchange between Baldwin and a site user, which appears to be verified. After the user (likely a fan) urged Hailey to “date” Justin, the model allegedly replied, “No, no.”
Continuing, she wrote, “That’s not what it’s about. Justin needs good friends surrounding him and supporting him right now and that’s what I’m here for.”
( Screenshot via Twitter .)
It’s not a stretch to speculate that Hailey is referring to Bieber and Gomez’s seemingly for-good recent split, a later sighting of the starlet with Orlando Bloom at LAX airport bound for the We Day Vancouver event, and now the fallout the heartthrob is receiving post-Selena’s song and video release.
On Saturday, Justin responded to accusatory revelations in the songstress’ video intro, by posting an Instagram message on a grey background which read: “Sometimes love isn’t a feeling, it’s a choice.”
It appears to suggest he believes Selena made a choice each time she went back to their (according to the video) passionate but flawed romance, and cannot just blame her heart.
Elaborating, Justin captioned his post, writing , “It’s easy to love when you feel it, but love when it’s hard to love.”
No doubt many will have different interpretations of the caption, which is more cryptic than the statement. It could be read as Justin telling Selena: It’s easy to love in the good times, but what about when someone is hard to love (meaning himself), or things get tough?
Either way, Selena wasn’t having it.
Just one hour after her former beau posted his statement, the songstress punched out a split photo of herself with the actor Shiloh Fernandez — who played the leading man in “The Heart Wants What It Wants” music video.
There was no caption to the starlet’s Instagram, but it wasn’t needed.
During her post-video premiere interview with Ryan Seacrest, Selena revealed, “I think he [Justin] was a little jealous of the video guy at first.”
Bieber may find those church services come in handy right about now.
[ Images via Instagram . ]