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Bishop Walter S Thomas - Interview - The Potter’s House of Dallas · THE WORLD'S BEST PREACHER

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  Speaker 1: Going in three, two. Bishop Walter Thomas, pastor of the
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  Speaker 1: New Psalmist Baptist Church. Been pastoring here now 38 years.
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  Speaker 1: But I hope and I'm praying to God that in
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  Speaker 1: the presentation that I share, folk will have some aha moments.
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  Speaker 1: That something will create an aha moment. where the lights
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  Speaker 1: will come on. And whenever lights come on, you don't
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  Speaker 1: get everything full on. Oh, now I understand and now
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  Speaker 1: I can do it. But when the lights come on,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to know where to search. You begin to
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  Speaker 1: know you need to search. You begin to seek out.
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  Speaker 1: And so if the lights come on, chances are I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to get up and go to sessions tomorrow. If
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  Speaker 1: the lights come on, I'm going to read books when
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  Speaker 1: I get back home. If the lights come on, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to hold more conversations. If the lights come on,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to gather to myself more information that's going
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  Speaker 1: to help me with what it was that came on
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  Speaker 1: in my head. The lights coming on doesn't mean that
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  Speaker 1: I now know totally what to do. It's now I
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  Speaker 1: understand the urgency of what it is that must be done.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things I think most of us who
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  Speaker 1: lead staffs need to do is to ask ourselves the question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the vision that I'm working on? And does
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  Speaker 1: my staffing reflect my vision? Or is my staffing reflective
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  Speaker 1: of another vision? A vision I may have had two
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  Speaker 1: or three years ago. One of the questions I ask is,
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  Speaker 1: how long ago or how many visions ago was the
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  Speaker 1: structure you're using put in place? Because the structure is
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  Speaker 1: always tied to the vision. And what a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us don't realize is we put a structure in place
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  Speaker 1: some time ago because we had a vision. And we've
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  Speaker 1: been adjusting that structure, adding to it, almost like a
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  Speaker 1: person who builds a house, then realizes they want another
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  Speaker 1: room over here, so they go and put another addition on.
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  Speaker 1: Then they want another bedroom, so they add that bedroom on,
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  Speaker 1: but that new addition is there, so they've got to
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  Speaker 1: put it in. Then they realize they like something else.
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  Speaker 1: And before you know it, you look at this house,
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  Speaker 1: And you say to yourself, it's a lot there, but
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  Speaker 1: is it the most functional arrangement of what you desired?
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of pastors don't realize that
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  Speaker 1: the arrangements they have, the structures they have put in
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  Speaker 1: place are provisions they've moved beyond. If this structure was
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  Speaker 1: put in place in 1983, how functional is it 30
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  Speaker 1: years later in 2013? And as long as the structure
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  Speaker 1: has places still to fill, it means the vision is finished.
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  Speaker 1: That's excellent.