Actor Denzel Washington was baptized and received a minister license at Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in New York City.
Washington shared a story about meeting a woman who told him he was “going to travel the world and preach to millions of people.”
“If [God] can do this for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you,” Washington said. “The sky literally is the limit. And there’s no limit to the sky.”
“To God be the glory. Hallelujah!” Washington added, per Today. “Anything I can do, I will do for this church, the Almighty. I just want to be in that number when the saints go marching in.”
Washington wrote in Esquire that the “biggest moment” in his life was when he “was filled with the Holy Spirit. It happened in the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, Crenshaw Boulevard, Los Angeles.”
“Things I said about God when I was a little boy, just reciting them in church along with everybody else, I know now,” he described. “God is real. God is love. God is the only way. God is the true way. God blesses. It’s my job to lift God up, to give Him praise, to make sure that anyone and everyone I speak to the rest of my life understands that He is responsible for me. When you see me, you see the best I could do with what I’ve been given by my lord and savior.”
“I’m unafraid. I don’t care what anyone thinks,” Washington continued. “See, talking about the fear part of it—you can’t talk like that and win Oscars. You can’t talk like that and party. You can’t say that in this town.”
“I’m free now,” he declared.
