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Forward of celebrating his seventieth birthday this week (December 28), Denzel Washington gave himself what might presumably be the best birthday present—turning his life over to God.
This previous Saturday (December 21), Washington was baptized and formally obtained his ministry license on the Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ (COGIC) within the Harlem neighborhood of New York Metropolis. The ministry license provides him the flexibility to grow to be an ordained minister sooner or later.
The famed actor isn’t any stranger to Christianity. He grew up with a father who served as a Pentecostal minister and is at present a member of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ in Los Angeles that he attends with fellow actor and director Robert Townsend.
He’s additionally publicly spoken about his religion prior to now. Earlier this month throughout an interview on BBC’s Radio 1Xtra, he spoke about seeing God’s face whereas he was on a yacht. Then in a November essay for Esquire, Washington mirrored on whereas he grew up going to church and witnessing individuals be crammed with the Holy Spirit and being saved, he didn’t fairly have a private connection to all of it.
“Issues I mentioned about God once I was a little bit boy, simply reciting them in church together with all people else, I do know now,” he wrote within the essay. “God is actual. God is love. God is the one means. God is the true means. God blesses.”
In a speech after his baptism, Washington referred to as it his “biggest accomplishment.” He additionally shared a narrative about assembly a girl named Ruth Inexperienced at his mom magnificence store when he was 20, who instructed him he could be strolling this path.
“She mentioned, ‘Boy, you will journey the world and preach to tens of millions of individuals,’” he recalled. “She wouldn’t even spell the phrase prophecy. My mom wrote the phrase prophecy…50 years later, take a look at God. If He can do that for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you. The sky actually is the restrict and there’s no restrict to the sky.”
Washington additionally inspired others to pursue their religious paths passionately.
“This world and its fame & riches will fade away, however solely what you do for Christ will final,” he mentioned.
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