Russell Brand 抱擁するs pal 耐える Grylls in the River Thames in newly 解放（する）d picture - after スキャンダル-攻撃する，衝突する comic 明らかにする／漏らすd he'd been baptised
Russell Brand has been pictured hugging 耐える Grylls in the River Thames after the スキャンダル-攻撃する，衝突する comic 明らかにする／漏らすd he'd been baptised.
Brand, 49, 発表するd that he had been baptised last month and?saw it as 'an 適切な時期 to leave the past behind' and 'leave behind the sins'.
The 儀式 happened with his high profile friend 耐える Grylls, 49, in 出席 and a newly 解放（する）d photograph shows the pair embracing in a group 抱擁する.
Brand, 耐える Grylls and an unknown person can be seen pictured stood in the River Thames after the comic's baptism.?
He 地位，任命するd the image on social マスコミ with the caption: 'Me, 耐える Grylls, The River Thames and of course, The 宗教上の Spirit.'?
Brand, 耐える Grylls and an unknown person can be seen pictured stood in the River Thames after the comic's baptism
Russell Brand pictured with 耐える Grylls on?Running Wild with 耐える Grylls television show
The 生き残り 専門家 and comedian had become friends through their television work.
Last year, Brand 投機・賭けるd across the Hebrides with Grylls in the former SAS 州警察官，騎馬警官's Apple TV+ show, Running Wild with 耐える Grylls.?
Brand had told his four million Instagram 信奉者s that his baptism was an 'incredible and 深遠な experience'.
He said: 'This is my path now. And I already feel incredibly blessed, relieved, nourished, held.'
Brand had 以前 確認するd on social マスコミ Grylls, who is a 長，指導者 Scout, 'and my mate Joe' joined him for the 伝統的な 儀式 which dates 支援する to the seventh century.
Christian baptisms are first 記録，記録的な／記録するd in the '宗教上の' River Swale nearly fourteen hundred years ago.
Nowadays, most churches baptise only at the font with a ぱらぱら雨ing of water over someone's 長，率いる.?????
Grylls 以前 told the Daily Mail: '約束 and spiritual moments in our lives are really personal, but it is a 特権 to stand beside anyone when they 表明する a humble need for forgiveness and strength from above.
'Friendships when we go through 堅い times are 価値（がある） so much.'
Grylls is one of Britain's most 目だつ Christians and has appeared in marketing 構成要素 for the Alpha course, an evangelical introduction to Christianity that is said to have 新採用するd 29 million to the 約束.
It was created by the Anglican priest Nicky Gumbel, of 宗教上の Trinity Brompton, just across the road from Harrods in London's Knightsbridge.
Grylls has spoken about the difference between 約束 and 宗教, as he sees it. 'I 会合，会う so many people who don't want '宗教' as such,' he said.
'I get it. I feel th e same. And, in fact, so did Jesus, the heart of all Christian 約束. 約束 and 宗教 are not the same thing.
The 二人組 are pictured here during the comedian's 外見 on Grylls' Running Wild show
Brand had told his four million Instagram 信奉者s that his baptism was an 'incredible and 深遠な experience'
'The Jesus I read about in the Bible was fun, 解放する／自由な and wild. He loved a party and he always hung out with the 非，不，無-宗教的な folk. The only people he ever got angry with were the 極端に 宗教的な types.'??
The 議論の的になる comedian's turn to Christianty comes まっただ中に 主張s of 強姦 and 性の 強襲，強姦.
He has 退却／保養地d to his countryside Oxfordshire bolthole in 最近の months after 存在 questioned by police twice in relation to 主張s of 強姦.
The comedian has strenuously 否定するd 悪事を働くこと, and says he has 証拠 to 反駁する 主張s.
Since December he has 地位，任命するd a number of ビデオs and pictures on social マスコミ in which he has discussed his 関係 with Christianity.
In his baptism 告示, Brand said: 'What's been explained to me is, it's an 適切な時期 to die and be reborn. An 適切な時期 to leave the past behind and be reborn in Christ's 指名する.'
He then 言及／関連d a 詩（を作る） from scripture, 追加するing: 'Like it says in Galatians: that you can live as an enlightened and awakened person', before 説 that the prospect of baptism was 'so 招待するing and beautiful.'
