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Transcripts For WPVI Nightline 20151127

To stay here. Tonight perched on perus magnificent mountain. Were on top of the world. But first the nightline 5. Sleep like the kids went to nanas house. For the whole weekend. Zquil. The nonhabit forming sleep aid that helps you sleep easily and wake refreshed. We come too burlington to buy our coats and to give them back. To help those in need. It makes buying coats here even more meaningful. Number one in just 60 seconds. Good evening and thanks for joining us on this thanksgiving. The pastor youre about to meet is so dedicated to his faith, hell spread the gospel any way he can. Even if its unorthodox. With a little help from his glamorous friends and his equally glamorous wife. Tonight we take an encore look at how that creative approach works to bring in worshippers for our series faith matters. Reporter it was the wedding made in tabloid heaven. Kimmie and kanye, two of the most famous people on the planet, tying the knot in an extravagant italian ceremony. Televised thanks to keeping up with the kardashians. No one expected the pastor uniting them in holy matrimony, tucked behind the bride and groom, to steal so much of the spotlight. All of a sudden reporters are showing up. Everybody wants an interview. But i was utterly shocked, why is anyone even focused on me . Reporter maybe his uncanny resemblance to leonardo dicaprio, catching the attention of tmz. Pastor rich wilkinson jr. , aka the lords leo. Hes pretty. A lot of people think, well, you know, a man of god shouldnt hang out with hed donism or hiphop, profanity. Do those things collide . I think we have to understand that you dont have to approve of someone or even agree with someone always to accept them. Jesus, the greatest criticism of him is that he was a friend of sinners and a guest of sinners. Reporter Justin Bieber is his pal. Youre like a celebrity magnet. I feel a lot of people get terms like celebrity pastor and i think were the opposite of that. Theres people in my church no ones ever going to talk about. Reporter whether he likes the term it hasnt hurt. I love my life. Reporter rich and his wife, also a preacher in her own right, have a new reality show. Were a team in everything that we do. Reporter rich in faith premiering on the oxygen channel. Hes got a book deal, the cover designed by kanye. I think the language of the culture, either curse the darkness or light a candle. I dont want any kreamer. You dont . Things you dont know about me after how many years . Do i think im going to be criticized . Absolutely. For me i want to use every tool we possibly can in our culture to promote faith. This is it, man. Reporter dont let his tattedup hipster look fool you. Rick wilkinson jr. Is legit. Ive got a plan, ive got a purpose reporter fourth generation pentecostal preacher, even though his sermons feel like rock concert records less fire and brimstone, more modernday straight talk. If you dont know reporter issues like sex. The girl on the side, a girl you call up at 2 00 a. M. And she knows whats up. Reporter and marriage. Husbands, love your wives just as christ loved the church. Good to see everybody. Reporter but gay or straight, prochoice or prolife, he says he wants to make going to church cool. Were frontrow people, filling in seats. Reporter hes on a mission to get millennials in the door and sell them on the holy spirit. The vast majority of young people are having premarital sex. Is our culture in conflict with morality . I believe the message of jesus goes even deeper than morality. If were not careful we reduce the message of jesus to behavior modification. When i think its about heart transformation. Reporter rich is perhaps the latest in a wave of preachers creatively marketing their brand. To help spread the gospel. The bible says that we have an adversary called the devil. Reporter using methods from the sublime to the ridiculous. Bull riding pastors to mixed martial arts ministers. All in an effort to get people in the pews. There were outlandish tactics that you undertook. Oh my gosh, youre killing me. Swallowing a gold fish . How do you find this stuff . Is this really out there . Did you really get yourself stunned by a stun gun . More of a zapper hopefully you come back next week reporter his tactics are more sophisticated these days but word of these charismatic preachers is spreading. With a growing fan base hes opened a new bigger church. Called vous, as in rendezvous, in the heart of hipster miami. Vous church. Reporter they set up the new digs the day before the first sunday sermon. What will this stage look like tomorrow . Tomorrow theres going to be a whole bunch of singers up there, screens, lighting. I mean, i dont know, i think its hopefully it looks like a normal youve been to concerts. I think we try to make church feel a little bit more normal. Reporter theyre expecting a crowd of over 600. The goal tonight, no judgments, just acceptance. When you get attacked by other christians who are saying, your christianity is not correct or your christianity doesnt live up to my ideals, how do you deal with that . Im not as concerned about the critics. I know theyll come. If were being honest, it hurts our feelings. I do want people to like me. At the same time, i dont know thats what gods called me to, that everybody like me. Reporter he shies away from hotbutton issues like gay marriage or abortion because he says he doesnt want to drive people away. If you had a congregant who came to you and said, will you marry me, ive been faithful to my gay lover, weve built this home. Would you marry them . I would for sure have a conversation with them first. I think what troubles me is youre either on one side or the other and as soon as you choose a side its like, you know youre attacked by the other . Youre attacked by the other. Reporter kickoff sunday, people are lining up to hear pastor rich preach. Most of these people dont look like your average churchgoers but thats exactly what rich is hoping for. Its showtime. Ready . Lets do it. Go ahead and give jesus a big round of applause. Reporter he uses humor as well as urban slang. I got pumped. Oh, got my bible back i flipped out. Reporter his stories and his style perhaps uniquely poised to reach this hipster generation of worshippers. I want to tell you, your value is not determined by this world, your value is determined by gods words. God said ive got a plan for you. God said youre perfect inside of you. Youre valuable. Im not some great theologian, im not a great philosopher. Pastoring is about shepherding, helping people on the journey. Its all about river with the father. It is his amazing grace. Come on. If you believe it, celebrate. Come on. And wilkerson is now out with a new book, sand Cass Dell King on the search for true lasting happiness. It started with Justin Bieber and videos on social media. 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This holiday season, select crest whitestrips are buy one, get one free. When sean mendes began posting videos of his Justin Bieber cover songs on the internet he had no idea how viral one would go and hed soon be a pop star in his own right. Chris connelly takes a look inside the whirlwind mendes life has become. Reporter the teen screams of young female pop music fans may be familiar i hope you enjoy the show, guys. Reporter the face and the name that theyre screaming for may not. Ive been hurt before reporter this is shawn mendes, a 17yearold singer songwriter, on his own onstage with just his voice, his guitar, and that smile. This canadian can draw a crowd of thousands in los angeles. You watch me reporter watching him play such wideeyed hits as stitches. When youre out there and your fans sing it back to you what goes through your heart . Its the best. Theres no other feeling like having your fans sing your song back to you. Its a good feeling. Bring me back to life hes really hot, hes really hot. Im sorry it took so long. Im very sorry. Reporter its the climax to a full day which began hours earlier. Reporter on the go, shawn serenading a smaller group, the fortunate ones at his vip preshow. I was trying to get my phone to take a picture and i couldnt he looks like an angel came from above. He smiles at you. Its like aah reporter now shawn is due at the teen Choice Awards across town. Shawn mendes reporter at the show he wins a tca for music web star. For the fans, i love you guys so much. Thank you so much. Did i sound as nervous as i was . I hate speaking. I suck at speaking. Stick to guitar. Today is nuts. Just won a teen choice award, now going to play at the greek . Pretty cool. Reporter performing with big beats, dance moves, or hightech production, mendes is refreshingly old school. Yet his rise has everything to do with social media. And its ability to mint new music stars at warp speed. Could you have done it without a vine, a facebook . To be honest i dont think i would have had the confidence to step in the street and start singing. Reporter two years ago shawn mendes had never sung a pop song outside his home in pickering, ontario. Hed grown fascinated by cover versions of big hits on youtube, the same diy efforts that got Justin Bieber noticed. I think i was so intrigued by the fact that someone could take a popular song and make it their own. And that on top of that, people could like that more than the original. When did you start thinking that could be me, i could try that . I had one friend and she was like, i know you sing, why dont you try it, post it . Reporter which he did. Not only on youtube, as bieber had, but on facebook and on vine. Its just so unique at the time. You know, no one was doing that. I didnt do it to become famous, i didnt do it to get recognition. I just did it for fun. Reporter until one day in august 2013, when he posted six seconds of himself singing biebers hit as long as you love me. It was an overnight smash. Was that frightening when it blew up . Totally. Like, i dont want that. That scared me. I was like, i cant do this. A couple of days went by. My friends were like, dude, you realize that your following keeps going up . Youre at 15,000. Im like, maybe i should do something about this. I went back on and posted a lot more. Reporter engagingly unpolished in his many clips, his sister aaliyah as his droll sidekick. Youll never get your blessing till the day i die reporter sean became a vine sensation. Weird having people online thinking im a superstar. Then going to school and everyone treating me so normal. A weird complex. Reporter island signed him last year. He left town and hit the road. Be the life of the party as soon as i signed to the label, everything took off. Life of the party went to number one. Things got crazy. Reporter on a torrid pace of Live Performance and promotion he opened for taylor swift. She got me on stage and had 60,000 people sing happy birthday to me which was nuts. So nervous, my heart was pounding. Reporter he heeded the counsel of his greatest musical influence, ed sheeran, whose career got a boost from opening for taylor swift. He said to me, do everything. He said, do everything. Go to every radio station, meet everybody, do everything. Why not . This is how you do an awards show and an actual show in the same day. Coffee. Reporter its a life so uncommon that, despite since denied reports that hes dating camilla caballo with whom hes recorded i know what you did last summer, shawn admits to personal isolation. Its true. Feeling lonely in a crowded room is one of the realest things i can think of. It kind of happens. No matter how many people are around you. Sometimes you dont know those people at all. I guess thats my question. Who can possibly understand what your last two years have been like . I dont know. Justin timberlake . Maybe when he was my age . Reporter even now, mendes is so green that he has no preshow ritual. Im going to chill by myself for an hour, bye, love you. Reporter and still gets anxious alongside his pop music peer group. To this day i get nervous in front of taylor and ive been on tour with her for weeks. I cant be calm in front of her. Breathe a little bit, put it together. It doesnt work. Shes taylor swift. Shes too gorgeous. Reporter words on the minds of the fans who scream as sean takes the stage. If you could hear my heart right now, its beating so fast. Oh whoa whoa whoa reporter after this show, shawn will fly to canada and again live with his parents in his old house. We built a new deck and i was able to buy a hot tub for my mom and dad to chill in. As a kid i wanted i want to get a job and make money and save it so that i can do something to make my parents less stressed. 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Once there, the company, tour a vive, offer luxury amenities and a bathroom all fit within these dangling capsules. The payoff, watching perus magical valley of the incas unfold before your eyes. And room service. Dinner and wine are included, along with this spectacular view. Thrills dont end at checkout. Guests zip line back down the mountain to the valley floor. So if the sky lodge is now on your bucket list, it costs about 300 per night to reach these dizzying and spectacular heights. Our thanks to byron. Tune in to nightline next week as we go behind prison walls. As dads serving time try to forge a lasting bond with their kids during one extraordinary visiting day. The most important in my life. The most important. And ive lost so much time with her that i can never get back. To know that theyve got to go back home. Not see them all for one day. Thanks for watching. World news now coming up with overnight breaking news. 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