How Faith Has Slowly Crept Into The Bachelor Over the Years, and Why It Matters 3 Shares In between the shirtless workout b-roll, the vibrator that seemed to be in every room, and all of the Queen Victoria drama featured during The Bachelor's premiere, there was one thing that all the contestants couldn't stop talking about: the prayer led by season 25 lead Matt James. Kicking off his opening address to the group of women with a prayer set a tone for the rest of the season for both the contestants and the audience. Matt immediately makes it clear that his Christian faith is important to him, saying that praying "recenters" him when he's anxious. Though it looked like many of the women respected and appreciated the time he took to center himself with his faith, I wonder if there were contestants that felt odd, uncomfortable, or even disrespected in that moment because their religious beliefs were different from his. While it's wonderful that he felt comfortable expressing that side of him, would someone of a different faith have been as confident?