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- Anybody looking for a miracle?

I said, anybody looking for a miracle?

And you see, I've seen miracles before.

Here a miracle, there a miracle,

everywhere a miracle, miracle.

Are you looking? Oh god, we finna see one tonight.

Oh God, bring them here. Come on, oh yeah.

God's about to heal you tonight.

He's in the miracle working business.

Yeah, he is. Oh yeah.

Are you ready? Are you going to receive?

Yes you are.

Ah!

I feel it tonight, y'all.

God's about to do it. Get up and walk.

Oh, get him outta here. Glory.

That's all right.

Some of y'all are looking for your miracle to walk.

When the Bible said we gonna mount up,

I believe that I'm about to mount up

like an eagle and fly, fly, fly away.

Fly, fly away.

Dear God, make me a bird so I can fly, fly away

on my miracle, ah!

♪

- Can I ask you a question? - Sure

- Bro, why not take the church back in LA?

That literally would solve all your problems.

I mean, you get to be closer to your fiance,

well, ex-fiance, and you get your daddy's church.

And that's what started this whole mess, anyway,

I don't see what the problem is.

- 'Cause man, the only reason he gave me that church

is because his boy failed.

And his whole energy is like, I should be so happy

to have this opportunity.

Man, look out. I'm good.

- Yeah, you ain't never gonna give her that ring back.

Shoot, her work husband got a better chance

of giving her a ring.

- What's that mean?

- You just busy trying to show up your dad

when you should have been showing up for Keisha.

Bro, this is a lot for her.

- Yes. Support is a lot nowadays.

- Dog, you lost your woman

trying to get even with your pops.

- Thanks, Rodney.

- It's ego, why you won't take that job,

and it's money why you looking into this new job.

Neither one of them things have anything

to do with Keisha. - Do with Keisha.

- It's the same thing she said

when she was giving the ring back.

- Anyway, subject change.

We got until Easter for you to tell Pastor Theo

what you thinking as far as the decision is concerned,

so what's up?

- Oh, I'm taking that job. - You're leaving Bethlehem?

- Yes, I know it's selfish,

but making three, four times what I ever made preaching

sounds like a good idea.

And that's my decision.

- Cool, man.

I'm gonna just, I'm gonna head back to LA next week.

- What you mean?

- I'm not going with you to that church.

- Why not?

- Well, my position is filled there.

And honestly keeping in the buck,

I came down here 'cause we had a plan.

Now you leaving, so I'm leaving.

Just head back to LA, find me an MD job, start back writing.

Hopefully one of these originals hit.

- But why are you leaving?

- 'Cause you leaving.

Dawg, I can't keep following you, bro.

I love you, but I gotta go somewhere

and plant myself where I can start growing.

I'm always gonna be there for you, bro.

But you out, so, dawg, I'm out.

No hard feelings, you know that.

- Yeah, yeah, of course.

- And my new girlfriend, she's gonna be pretty upset.

- Wait, your new what?

- I'll talk about it later.

- I was gone for two days.

- Yeah, you know a lot can happen in two days, bro.

You ever seen "Married At First Sight?"

[Man laughs]

You know, like, it was

♪ Love at first sight. ♪ First sight.

- Okay, let me hear you.

♪ I know

- There it is. [Man laughs]

♪ From the way she looked at me. ♪

- There it is, y'all.

- You gotta turn to the side

♪ Me. - when you, yeah, that's work.

- You're losing your son.

- He is hardheaded and stubborn.

- He's a man, a grown man,

who's capable of running your church, his own church,

or anybody who wants to give him a shot.

You know, he's so far up your butt,

he's running his own life.

- Please, according to him, he's got offer upon offer,

and he, [laughs] he turned me down just like that.

- It has nothing to do with offers.

It's you, you don't respect him.

He's trying to prove you wrong so much

that he doesn't even realize

that he's losing his own fiance.

- That woman ain't going nowhere.

- I love my son. I really do.

But I hope Keisha is better than me.

- What are you talking about? - You know,

Corey doesn't know how to put his woman first

because he's watched his whole life,

you never put me first.

You know, I never had the courage to leave you.

- What?

- I barely had enough courage

to tell you when something was wrong.

- Hey Pastor, you text me to come down.

- Oh, hey.

What, did you teleport here?

- No, I was actually in the parking lot.

I needed to talk to you.

- Have a seat.

Corey, these past few months have opened my eyes

to two things.

One of them is I really enjoy what you're doing here.

- Thank you.

- Yeah, from the counseling to preaching,

and whatever I need you to fill in, you filled in,

and it really exceeded my expectation.

Because of that, I want you to lead service

this Sunday for Easter.

- Pa-Pastor, look- - No, hold on.

Listen, I know it feels like I strung you along,

but I just needed to be sure.

And the second thing is, I really enjoy my vacation

and I wanna make it permanent.

- Permanent? - Yeah.

- You shutting the church down?

- No, no, Corey, I'm shutting me down.

I want you to take over the church for good.

I prayed on it for a while.

The church is moving in a different direction

with all the technology, and you can handle that,

and maintain the Word for older people like myself.

It's time. Yeah it is time for me to just get outta the way

and enjoy my retirement.

- I don't know what to say.

- Whatever it is, just say it on Easter service.

But keep it between me and you. I haven't told anybody else.

- Alright. Okay.

- Well I'm gonna clean some things out

and make the transition easier for you.

- Alright, thank you.

- Hey, Pastor.

- All right.

- So, you tell him?

- No. - What, why?

- I mean, I came to,

but he asked me to preach on Easter service.

- No, I thought you was starting at the new church

with Pastor Theo on Easter Sunday.

- That's the plan.

- And you ain't tell Pastor Stenny?

- I wanted to, but he like

unloaded a lot and then just left.

- Well, I'm about to tell him I'm leaving.

- No. Why?

- Because I haven't had a chance to talk to him yet.

- Corey, look, bro. You got to six o'clock, okay?

He just gave me this job. I just got the music department.

I at least want to give him some time

to find somebody else.

I owe him that.

- Okay. Gimme till six.

- Six o'clock. - No earlier.

- Six o'clock. - All right.

- I'll be at rehearsal.

- Knock, knock.

- Corey, come in. Have a seat.

I was wondering when I'd hear from you.

- Yeah, sorry, it took me a minute.

I had to go and check on my family.

- How's the fiance?

- She's great.

She couldn't be happier for me.

- Good. It takes a special woman to stick by a pastor.

We have a tough job.

We need to be available for what feels like

all the time to so many people.

But I'm sure she supports you.

That's why you're so good at what you do.

- Thank you.

Are you married?

- Divorced, I didn't have that kind of

support system at home.

So let's get to it. What'd you decide?

- What's going on here? - Thank you for coming down.

- Of course. What's the problem?

- No problem.

You know, you are the longest tenured member here.

You've always had my back even when I was wrong.

I love you. And I thank you for that.

- You're a good pastor and you're loyal to the Lord.

And so in return, I'm loyal to this church

and your leadership.

I have a pot of greens on the stove, Pastor,

why did you really bring me down here?

- I'm retiring.

- What?

- Corey will be taking over the church.

It makes sense.

He's young, but he has everything that I don't.

- Corey is good, but he's not you.

- Yeah, you're right. He's not me.

I think he'll be better than me.

Please,

I respect you, I just wanted to tell you

that after this Easter, this will be Corey's church.

And I hope that you make this transition

as smooth as you did for me when I first got here.

Could you do that for me?

- I'll pray about it, Pastor,

- Thank you. Thank you.

- I prayed over it, Pastor.

Not over my dead body.

- I sincerely appreciate you for believing in me.

- Pastor Stenny, [door knocking] yoo-hoo?

Not here?

Hey, phone call.

[phone ringing]

- Please leave a message at the tone.

[phone beeps]

- Hey, Pastor Stenny, it's Rodney.

I came by your office to talk to you before rehearsal,

but you're not here, so I'll try you again afterwards.

[bright music]

- All right, cool.

So listen, let's go over that flip one last time.

Alison and Jamal, y'all both share the lead this time

and then we'll all come in.

Cool, five, six, seven.

♪ You ought to praise him in the morning ♪

♪ Praise him in the noon day

♪ Praise him

♪ Praise him

♪ Praise him when the sun goes down ♪

♪ I will

♪ Praise him when the sun goes down ♪

- That's how you flip a congregational song.

[everyone laughs]

No, really great work, guys.

Actually, if I can keep y'all for a quick second,

I just wanna thank each and every one of y'all

for just the hard work y'all been putting in with me.

It's a tall task to try to change something

that's been so habit,

but y'all have been sticking with me in the trenches

as we try to change the culture of Bethlehem, so thank you.

With all of that being said,

Easter Sunday is important.

- Rodney, Rodney, can I just grab you real quick?

- Yeah. I'm sorry everybody.

Could I just talk to Rodney real quick?

Just five minutes. Five minutes.

I promise you five minutes and you can have him back.

- Yeah, actually I'll just email y'all

what I was about to say.

No worries, y'all go ahead and get outta here.

Thanks for a great rehearsal.

Ronnie, make sure these girls get to their car.

- Thank you, bless y'all.

Thank y'all so much.

- What's the big emergency, like I hope you called dude,

'cause I called him already.

- What'd you tell him? - He didn't answer,

I left him a voicemail,

but actually we need to call him back right now-

- Hold up, hold up.

I told Pastor Theodore, I'm not taking the job.

- What? - I said thank you,

but there's too many things in that equation

that don't make sense at that church.

You, Jojo, my grandma

- Wait a minute, you passed up that kind of money?

- Yeah man, I can always make money,

but what's the point of being a pastor at a church

without my boy as the choir director?

- Look, but wait.

You sure that's something you wanna do, bro,

'cause don't make no decisions for me.

Look, 'cause honestly, I would've took the money

and left you high and dry in the middle of the road.

- Look, I didn't do it for you. I did it for me.

I mean, I spoke to God about it and I really sat down

and listened, and Bethlehem Temple

and all that comes with it, is for me.

And I don't want you to leave, bro. You know, I need you.

I love you,

And I need to apologize, man.

I've really spent the last couple months

making everything about me, and I'm sorry,

- Negro, dawg, you know I love you, man.

- My boy.

- I'm sticking around.

- I wasn't sure, man. [laughs]

- You know what's up.

- Now I gotta find Jojo

'cause he's just been ghosting me.

- Oh, no worries, lil' boy!

- Yeah. You think you slick.

I seen you with your little twiggys hanging out over there.

- What's up Jojo?

- What you want?

- Listen man. I was about to make a bad decision,

but I had to make a decision that I was happy with.

And staying here is what makes me happy.

And one of the reasons I wanna stay

is because I want you to help me.

- Help you?

I don't preach, bro.

I just show up 'cause I thought y'all was cool.

Then you was leaving.

So how I know if something better don't pop off

you not out?

- Because me and you about to be leaders of this church.

- Leaders?

- Yes, man, I'm about to take over this church,

this Sunday after Easter I'm gonna be the pastor permanently

and I want you to be my new assistant.

- Oh, I don't wanna be no assistant.

I'm not old like you.

- I was real selfish with both of y'all.

And I know I'm taking over,

but I'm not gonna have no success if I don't have y'all.

So can we be a team?

- You know, I'm in, let's get it.

[hands slap]

- Team Bethlehem! [everyone laughs]

Rodney. - Corey.

- Jojo. - Jojo, everybody.

Bethlehem on three, one, two, three,

- Bethlehem! [men laughing]

♪ Da [men laughing]

- Hey, Ma. - Hey, what's up, Ma?

- Hey guys. I was just calling to tell you, happy Easter.

Yeah, this is the first Easter

we won't be spending together.

But I wanted to tell you how proud

me and your father are of you,

and Corey, whether you are here or preaching there,

we love you and we couldn't be happier

and more proud of you.

- All right, Ma. Thank you, love you too.

- Okay. Love you, and I'll talk to you later.

- Bye, Ma. - All right.

- Oh, sooky, sooky, na.

[Grandma laughs] Ooh, sooky, sooky, na.

Where you think you going, miss Ma'am, you single?

- Oh, why yes I am.

- Hm, not for long looking like that, mm!

- Grandma, you look amazing. - Facts.

- Oh, y'all are so nice. [laughs]

This is Easter service,

and I had to look good for my grandson,

who is the new head pastor of the church.

Give God praise. Hallelujah, y'all.

God is so good.

- All right, y'all, let's circle up. Let's pray it up.

- All right. - Jojo, you got us?

- I got it. I got it. - All right.

- Father God, thank you for bringing us here today

safely on Easter.

My nigga, Corey, is preaching today,

so we ask that you let him turn up one time, Jesus.

God bless him Lord, he is very much needed here.

And we all love him.

God, thank you for my new friends here.

And I just want everyone to go out there and have fun.

And in Jesus' name, amen. - Amen.

- Before Easter? - That's okay, bro.

- ♪ So glad you covered me

♪ with your blood

- ♪ Aren't you grateful for the blood of Jesus

♪ Oh his love for us

♪ How its covering us. Come on can we thank him?

♪ It was your love for me keeping me alive

♪ Forever your love covers me

♪ It was your love for me keeping me alive

♪ Forever your love covers me

♪ Forever your love covers me

♪ It was your love for me keeping me alive

- Hallelujah! [people clapping]

- Amen, before I begin, I wanna say hello

to my mother and father.

I didn't know they were gonna be here today.

Hello, Mom and Dad. Amen.

Jesus was born in a manger. Something similar to this.

Now, if you don't know much about mangers,

they are placed in barns where farm animals live, breathe,

eat, sleep, poop.

You know it was musty.

Turn to their neighbor and say musty.

- Musty. - Amen.

- Thank you. - Keep on.

- You know some of y'all be a little musty

on the day Easter service been long,

but I'm gonna get you outta here.

But he was born in basically what amounts

to a food tray for animals.

Humble beginnings for our savior.

But what did he do with his life is all he's remembered for.

It doesn't matter where he was born,

what matters is what he did.

And the three wise men came from far and wide

to give him gifts, gold, frankincense, myrrh.

So he was both dripped out

and he smelled like white diamonds.

But the importance of the manger is

that even though he was born in something like this,

it did not diminish his value.

Mm. Come on up here, Jojo.

Y'all give a hand clap of praise for Jojo.

- Hey, man.

- Now, Jojo, I want you to dig around in that manger

and see if you can find something.

Ooh, look at that. What is that?

Show it to the people, Jojo.

Brand new iPhone.

iPhone, what is it? 13.

13! Three cameras.

Now is that iPhone not gonna work

because Jojo found it in a manger?

- No.

- The product's still the same.

Are you gonna use it? - Yes.

- Of course he's going to use it

because it doesn't matter that it was found in a manger.

What matters is the product still works.

It still has its same value.

Jojo, dig around in there again

and see how God wants to bless you this Easter.

Oh, well look at that, racks on racks on racks!

Backs on backs backs!

Look at that. What's that?

1,000, $2,000?

$2,000, let me hold on to it for just a second,

I'll give it a right back.

Now is the bank not gonna take this

because it was found in a manger?

No, the value hasn't changed.

It might smell a little bit, might be a little sweaty,

but the value's still the same.

Is it gonna spend the same?

Jojo, you gonna spend some of it?

Yeah, he gonna spend it.

It's gonna spend the same because the value has not changed.

Hey man, you go ahead and have a seat Jojo.

Make sure to put some of that and the tithe and offering

or God gonna take it from you.

You see, our value isn't where we're from,

it's who we become.

- Ha ha, preach, son!

- Jesus was born to give us all a second chance

to be who God planned for us to be.

You know, when I was born I thought I had to be one thing,

a man just like my father.

But coming here, I found my true calling

and I'm glad to be home.

Praise him if you will, Brother Rodney.

♪ Amazing Grace

♪ Oh how sweet, how sweet the sound.

♪ That saved, saved my soul

♪ And it makes, it makes me whole

♪ It's so amazing

♪ Oh the grace that you've shown to me its so amazing

♪ Its so amazing

♪ What you've done for me Jesus

♪ Its so amazing

♪ Oh it's amazing, yea

♪ Grace that you've shown to me, it's so amazing

♪ Grace that you've shown to me, it's so amazing

- Watch out Jakes, it's a new pastor in town.

- Hold up, when you get this done?

- Oh, come on bro. You know how it moves.

Got it made as soon as I found out

you was gonna get the church.

- Man, thank you, bro. - You all right, bro.

- We did it. - Nah bro. You did it.

- I did it. - You did it.

- I did it. - Your daddy here, man.

Shall we go see him?

- Yeah, man. Let's check him out, man.

Then we get that Golden Corral after.

- We are not going to no Golden Corral.

- Brother, bread be out front. - Hell no.

- Hey! [Man laughing]

- Oh yes.

- Hey, Mama.

- Young man, young man, glory to God.

My God, my God, my God. [Man laughs]

- Since when they start making First Lady Barbie doll?

- You so sweet.

- Man, if you don't get up outta here.

- All right, Keisha.

- Honey, you were amazing up there.

- Thank you Mama.

- This is your time. - Mm-hm.

- That it is. - Hey, now, Stenny.

- I'm Pastor Stenny.

You must be Corey's parents.

- Yes, I'm Bishop Corey Carr Sr.

- Wonderful.

- This is his mother, and my wife, Sonya.

- Hi, very nice to meet you. - Same here,

very nice to meet you.

Listen, I want to thank you for your son.

He's been an absolute blessing for us here at the church.

We're lucky we found them.

No, I'm not gonna take your time.

I have some things to take care of up front.

I got a sandwich waiting for me.

- Pastrami?

[everyone laughs] - You already know.

And oh, it was wonderful meeting both of you.

- Likewise. - Alright.

I am sure that Corey is going to give you

a full tour of his new church, right?

- Okay. - Amen. [laughs]

Alright. - Glory to God.

- Yo. You was dope man.

[everyone laughs]

You lit up there.

- Oh yeah, my man, you was crunk lit,

you know what I'm saying?

You was so lit and crunk. You heard?

- I'm sorry, don't ever do that again.

- Alright, well I'll leave you guys.

Have a good rest of your day. Nice meeting you guys.

- Appreciate you man. Be safe.

- Find me down.

- Alright, well you guys find me after you're done.

I'm gonna go to the ladies room.

- All right, Mom. - All right, baby.

- And I'm gonna go to the little boys rooms.

So y'all can find me when you're done.

- Oh god. - Bishop!

- Boy.

- Hey, I'm shocked you came.

- Man, this was my son's first Easter.

There was no way I was gonna miss this.

- How'd you find out? - Rodney.

Rodney has been trying to connect me

via text for a minute now.

So between that, your Mom opened them eyes

and more importantly, son...

- Oh, come on, Pop, you all right?

- I just wanted to, I just wanted to let you know

how proud I am.

That's why I had to be here. I'm proud of you.

- Thank you. Thank you.

- And I respect you, son. I respect you so much as a man.

I respect you as a pastor.

I know my actions didn't show it sometime,

but bigger than all of that, son,

I see that you're able to get what you want

without the approval of dad,

but only by the approval of God.

Glory to God.

- Thank you man. I love you, Pop.

- I love you too, son.

- Listen man, I was so nervous.

- Really?

- Man, when I saw you guys out there.

I didn't know you guys were coming.

You know, and I realized like deep down, I just,

I just want you to be proud of me, you know, as a man,

and as a pastor.

And to be honest, you were right. I wasn't ready.

You know, I found that out the hard way,

and this church really helped me get ready.

And, and that's why I gotta stay.

- Listen, I understand that.

And I will support you even until retirement

like you did me.

- Alright man.

- I'm gonna go find your mom.

- Okay, I'm gonna check on Keisha,

and I'll meet you out- - Alright? Love you, son.

- Love you, man, thank you. [sighs]

- Blocked?

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