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Pastor Rob Rocha at Pastors and Leaders 2013 - The Potter’s House of Dallas (64k) · Healing the Strong Ones: Faith & Purpose

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  Speaker 1: Kenneth Mosley back here with Pastor Rob Rocha at All Access.
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  Speaker 1: He's teaching me a little Spanish back here, y'all. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see how this works out. But Pastor Rob Rocha is
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  Speaker 1: the pastor of Casa de Fe, the Hispanic ministry at
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  Speaker 1: the Potter's House Church. How are you today, sir?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing well. How about yourself?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing well. Thank you for stopping by.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for having me. A lot of what.
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  Speaker 1: The focus of this particular conference has been talking about
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  Speaker 1: bridging the gap between certain generations, certain times, certain cultures.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to us a little bit about how the mainstream
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  Speaker 1: church can begin to understand and embrace what it is
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  Speaker 1: that the Latino church brings to the body of Christ
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  Speaker 1: at large.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, it's a very interesting dynamic. And
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  Speaker 2: it's one, I think the main thing that Bishop Jakes
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  Speaker 2: wants everyone to know concerning our Latino ministry in particular
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  Speaker 2: is that it is not separate. We are together. It
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  Speaker 2: is the Potter's house and we are the Spanish church
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  Speaker 2: of the Potter's house. And so I'm very intentional when
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  Speaker 2: I talk to our Casa de Fe folks that we
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  Speaker 2: are Potter's House, Bishop is our Bishop, and that we
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  Speaker 2: operate under the same vision and mission as Potter's House does.
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  Speaker 2: What we bring to the mainstream church and our church
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  Speaker 2: is that we're able to just kind of bring the
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  Speaker 2: whole cultural element, the spice, if you will, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to use that word. But we bring the spice to it.
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  Speaker 2: We were able to bring in the the influences of
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  Speaker 2: our music and of the way that we worship. Many
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  Speaker 2: times on Sunday mornings, we are educated on a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the way that the Black Gospel Church worships in
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  Speaker 2: the music and in the style. And what we get
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  Speaker 2: to do is just bring a little bit of our
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  Speaker 2: element into it, too. And I think it mixes really well.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is one of the major, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to call it a selling point, what is
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  Speaker 1: the major benefit of pastors and leaders coming to a
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  Speaker 1: conference like this?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, you know, you get fresh information, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: because I know that a lot of us at times
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  Speaker 2: can get stuck in a rut and we just don't
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  Speaker 2: know how to get out. Second of all, the networking,
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  Speaker 2: the people that you come and connect with from all
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  Speaker 2: over the place. Just this morning, I met pastors from London,
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  Speaker 2: from India. I met one that came all the way
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  Speaker 2: from Pakistan. So just the networking opportunities you get to
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  Speaker 2: meet people, fellowship with them, and then just be in
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  Speaker 2: that same atmosphere together where you can just kind of say, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I needed. Encourage one another. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: We're always getting pastors from all around the globe coming
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  Speaker 1: to this particular event. Why do you think people from
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  Speaker 1: all around the world come to this conference?
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you, it's three words. It's T.D.
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  Speaker 1: Jakes.
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  Speaker 2: He, of course, we know he's our bishop. He's our pastor.
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  Speaker 2: And he's just the influence that he has around the world.
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  Speaker 2: And his message and the way he presents it has
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  Speaker 2: not diminished. And it's still attracting people. pastors, leaders from
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  Speaker 2: all over the world.