YO CHRISTIANS: Reason 1113 To Take It Slow When Celebrating Celebrity ‘Conversions’

In the past few years we’ve seen many prominent people celebrated for public conversions to Christianity. Some were legit, others, not so much. Add one more to the list.

It’s only natural for Christians to get excited about someone pronouncing faith in Christ. Luke 10 tells us that the angels in heaven themselves rejoice whenever a lost sinner comes to saving faith.

Couple that with the West’s unfortunate infatuation with the cult of celebrity, a public profession of faith by someone known for longstanding rejection of the faith is catnip many Christians can hardly resist.

But scripture calls for discernment. Are we celebrating a changed life, or another gimmick in the never-ending impulse for an influencer to attract new eyeballs and attention?

There was some excitement in the past week over a woman best known for her exploits on Only Fans who shared a video of her baptism.

Here is the video that some conservatives and Christians are passing around excitedly.

Lily Philips, who had sex with 1,113 men in 12 hours, turns to Christ and gets baptized pic.twitter.com/zril5JZflw

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 1, 2026

Reports are divided on whether Lily Philips did or did not actually one-up her previous sexual, ahem, ‘achievement’ of bedding some 101 men in 14 hours by allegedly besting a rival’s record of 1057 sexual partners in a single day, setting the new bar at 1113 men.

Whichever the real number may be, when a woman whose claim to fame involves dizzying levels of promiscuity declares her faith, it’s sure to get a lot of attention from people across the spectrum of both faith and unbelief.

Before proceeding with ‘the rest of the story’, this is the part in which Christians can get it wrong in two equal and opposite ways.

Mistake One — Judgmentalism

The judgmental side would look at someone with such a past and write her off with all the usual pejorative terms that are applied to brazen sexual promiscuity.

Such people have made the mistake of following the example of the Pharisees and not Christ Jesus. The very same people the pharisees denounced as harlots and whores are the ones he welcomed into his company… with one important caveat, as they were welcomed they approached Him on His terms, not the fallen world’s.

Some of our most beloved passages in the gospels include a woman with a ‘past’ coming to Christ, meeting him at the well, or washing his feet with her tears and drying them with her hair and pouring an offering on him that prepared him for burial. If that weren’t enough, flip through the pages of Hosea some time and see what a perfect example the wayward wife is for the sin whose guilt we ALL bear before a holy God.

Mistake Two — Libertinism

Blurring the distinctions between token obedience and a deepliy transformative change of heart. God is not willing to be ‘one among many’ in our loves and priorities. The Christian call is not for the faint of heart. It is nothing less than ‘come and die’ to the life you think you have, and be given the one He has for us in exchange.

When Jesus embraced anyone the ‘respectable’ people in his society would see as lost causes and degenerates, he didn’t merely befriend them. He called them to holiness. ‘Go and sin no more’, he would say.

His entire message can be summed up with the words of Matthew 4:17. From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

What did Lily REALLY say about her faith?

Instead of jumping to conclusions about her ‘new found faith with God’ and claiming her as a dear and beloved sister, let’s take a closer look at a recent interview she gave on this very topic.

For anyone actually interested in doing the digging, she answers the questions about baptism in her own words during an interview.

Inside the industry, Phillips has yet to connect with fellow creators who have shared a similar experience with their Christianity — but she hopes to do so in the future.

“I definitely need to do that because I think that there are a lot of Christian girls who are in this industry,” she said, “but people might not know it and they might not feel comfortable talking about it because of the judgment.”

Phillips, meanwhile, “can understand people maybe not thinking” that she’s a “good Christian.”

“That’s totally fine,” Phillips said. “That’s their opinion. I’m definitely not claiming to be a traditional Christian at all. Obviously, I’m not against gay marriage. I am also pro-choice. So I definitely don’t have, necessarily, traditional values. But that doesn’t mean to say that I can’t be Christian. I would just hope that the Christian community welcomes me, because I guess everyone’s relationship with God is bespoke to them.” — US

So, she has every intention of remaining in ‘the industry’. That’s a bit of a clue, even if she obviously thinks it’s not a deal-breaker for faith, whether her own or that of others. But there are other red flags.

Earlier in the article, we see phrases like ‘reconnecting with her religion’, ‘deviated from religion’, ‘start speaking to God again’, ‘hadn’t really practiced faith’.

Those phrases, and her a-la-carte approach to the call to repentance intrinsic to a holy God whose emnity toward sin is enough that he shed his own blood on a cross to redeem us from it make it seem that the allegedly Christian influences in her life are no more secure in their relationship with God than she herself has been.

The God who died to save us from our sins did not come ot make our sin acceptable, but to give us the grace to be free from it… not just the people we think are exceptionally bad sinners, but the rest of us ‘ordinary’ sinners, too.