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Speaker 1: Pastor TD Jakes is stepping down his lead pastor at

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Speaker 1: his Dallas megachurch, The Potter's House. Bishop td Jakes, who

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Speaker 1: founded the Potter's House in Dallas back in nineteen ninety six,

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Speaker 1: informed members this past Sunday that his daughter, Sarah Jakes Roberts,

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Speaker 1: and his son in law to Ray Roberts, will assume

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Speaker 1: senior pastor Roles. Bishop released a statement that read is careful.

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Speaker 2: They're going to be oneing you about that, leaving stuff

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Speaker 2: for your key it here we go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: His statement read, in part quote, For nearly fifty years,

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Speaker 1: I've had the honor of connecting with and serving the

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Speaker 1: local and global community as a pastor, global faith leader,

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Speaker 1: and unwavering truth teller. As I enter my fiftieth year

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Speaker 1: in the public spotlight, I recognize the urgent need to

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Speaker 1: address more challenges of our time, particularly the looming threat

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Speaker 1: of a disappearing middle class, social unrest, and closing opportunity gaps.

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Speaker 1: Bishop Jakes added that he will not stop being a minister,

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Speaker 1: but it's time to allow the next generation to leave

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Speaker 1: the Potter's House in the future. Bishop Jakes did not

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Speaker 1: talk about the recent health scare he had back in

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Speaker 1: November in his statement.

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Speaker 3: So there you go.

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Speaker 1: So he's stepping down.

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Speaker 2: Fifty years, that's a long time doing anything. Everybody else retired.

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Speaker 2: You hate you run yourself in the ground. You know.

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Speaker 2: He's been an incredible, incredible run man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 2: To do it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just preach, oh all the way down. That's

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Speaker 1: you will understand it.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you will miss him. Yes, some mother passes need

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Speaker 3: to step down. You just you don't need him leap

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Speaker 3: pass you was Thurmon can't retire. We tied to him

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Speaker 3: to pass over my grandmother church. He's been there fifty

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Speaker 3: seven years. He should leave. Past annivers HeLa had a word.

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Speaker 3: I heard a word from him in thirty years. I

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Speaker 3: was squinty the last time he missed something to me

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Speaker 3: because you know he he older now, he got he

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Speaker 3: got he got medical issues set then amnesia is one

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Speaker 3: the word he forgot it. God said, get on down there, y'all,

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Speaker 3: y'all witness saints. No, no, we need we need Ted

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Speaker 3: Jake's pastor Thurmon can go.

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Speaker 1: But your grandmother.

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Speaker 3: You know when we take a community and you drop

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Speaker 3: your juice anything else, Yeah, yeah, you know you know,

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Speaker 3: well you don't know the Lord's name don't sit down,

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Speaker 3: and him upstairs said, what's his name?

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Speaker 2: Digging He turned around to the degal, what's his name.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. When you and your dance, Jesus, Jesus,

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