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Long before Pastor Touré Roberts founded one of the fastest growing churches in Los Angeles, California, he was nursing a gunshot wound as a youth in the city.
The 45-year-old pastor, who leads The Potter’s House at One LA in Los Angeles, California, and The Potter’s House of Denver in Colorado with his wife Sarah Jakes Roberts, has paved an unconventional path to the pulpit. In his recently released second book, Wholeness: Winning in Life From the Inside Out, Roberts reveals the intimate details of his life struggles before he pursued ministry full-time.
At the age of 16, Roberts was the victim of a drive-by shooting, which he admitted was a memory that he blocked out of his adult life. As an adult, Roberts became apprehensive about addressing the matter.
“I felt ashamed and extremely self-conscious about being shot. … What type of person gets shot,” Roberts wrote in his book. “Maybe they would think I was some sort of drug dealer or thug. As a black male, I knew I could easily be stereotyped.”
After being raised in a single parent household and growing up in a tough Los Angeles neighborhood filled with drugs and gangs, Roberts went to college and made a name for himself as a successful businessman in the technology industry. Eventually, God called him to lead people in the faith that his mother instilled in him and he obeyed that call to start One Church LA over 15 years ago.
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DISCUSSION: PASTOR TOURÉ ROBERTS TALKS STRUGGLES, GROWING A MEGACHURCH, MISCONCEPTION ABOUT PREACHERS was originally published on praisecleveland.com
