Denzel Washington Speaks on His Faith

Denzel Washington recently spoke on his faith at the 108th Holy Convocation COGIC Cares Banquet. He reflected on his father, Denzel Washington Sr. who was a pastor for the Church of God in Christ for 60 years and how his being in his mothers beauty shop a woman spoke life into him.

Here's Denzel's words:

“Forty years ago, march 27, 1975 I was in my mother’s beauty shop. I had flunked out of college. I had a 1.7 grade point average. I had no future,” Washington said. “I was sitting looking in the mirror and I see a woman behind me sitting under the dryer. Of course, the voice of God always comes from under a dryer.”

The woman, one of the oldest members of his family church, began asking for a pen and paper so that she could write down the prophecy she had for Washington’s life.

“She said, ‘young man, you are going to travel the world and speak to people,” Washington said. “Now mind you I was 20 years old, with a 1.7 grade point average and had flunked out of school. She said, ‘you are going to preach.

In this 40 year journey, I guess she was right,” Washington said. “Through my work I have spoken to millions of people. In 2015 I said I’m no longer just going to speak through my work. I’m going to make a conscious effort to get up and speak about what God has done for me.”

Just minutes after his proclamation to do so, Bishop Blake called and asked him to keynote this year’s banquet.

Denzel later stated,

“I remember saying to my mother at a time when I was feeling myself, ‘Ma did you ever think that I was going to become this… She said ‘boy, do you know all the people who have been praying for your behind…all the prayer cloths, and prayer meetings… And she made me clean the windows. There has never been a time when God didn’t, direct, protect or correct me, there may have been times where I was less than faithful to him – but he had faith in me.”

Read the full article from the St. Louis American HERE

Mr. Washington has long since proclaimed his Christianity and was also a voice in The Bible Experience, a fully produced audio bible that features a cast of more than 400 stars, including Blair Underwood (Jesus), Samuel L. Jackson (God), Angela Bassett (Esther), Denzel Washington (Solomon), Cuba Gooding Jr. (Judas), and many others, lent their talents to create The Bible Experience, a one-of-a-kind dramatized audio recording of the Bible, complete with an outstanding original musical underscore, which is available on CD or MP3, The Bible Experience: was released in October 2006 and has sold more than 1 Million copies and was named Audio Book of the Year in 2007.

Here's a video from CBS News speaking to Denzel and his wife, Pauletta about The Bible Experience.

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