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Toure’ Roberts, who is known as the Pastor who has made church cool for Millenials in the entertainment industry, leads The Potter’s House at One LA in Los Angeles, and The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado with his wife Sarah Jakes Roberts, has a new book out called Wholeness.
In a recent interview with the Christian Post, “PT”, as his congregations call him, discussed the emotional pain he dealt with from being rejected by his father (a subject he also deals with in his new book “Wholeness”).
“I had to acknowledge that I was hurt and to a certain degree deeply damaged by the rejection of my father. In that chapter, I found myself with my back against the wall,” he told CP. “That was really an earth-shattering, life-changing moment. Just really acknowledging, ‘hey it hurts.'”
As a man, Roberts said it became easy for him to ignore his painful past.
“It’s not exclusive to [men] but most of the time we feel like we always have to have it together and we don’t say that things hurt,” Roberts told CP. “We feel like saying something hurts, that’s weakness or what have you. So we walk around with pain inside that can never be healed because it’s never addressed.”
Bishop Jakes, who is Roberts, father in- law wrote affirming words to his son in law in the forward of the book. Words that have helped Roberts with the healing process.
“As a man, you at some point in your life have to hear from a man, preferably a successful man, that you are enough because that’s something we’re always asking ourselves. To have him say I am enough brought a level of healing and a level of confidence,” Roberts revealed.
You can purchase Toure’ Roberts new book “Wholeness” HERE