‘To God be the glory’: Denzel Washington gets baptized, licensed to minister

It took him 50 years, but outspoken Christian actor Denzel Washington, 69, took key steps towards ordination as a minister on Saturday, being baptized and licensed as a minister.

 “In one week I turn 70,” he said, according to CBN News. “It took a while, but I’m here.”

Washington told the congregation at the Kelly Temple Church of God in Christ in Harlem, New York, it was a fulfillment of a prophecy spoken to his mother nearly five decades before.

“She said, ‘Boy, you are going to travel the world and preach to millions of people,'” Washington said. “She wouldn’t even spell the word prophecy. My mother wrote the word prophecy…50 years later, look at God. If He can do this for me, there’s nothing He can’t do for you. The sky literally is the limit and there’s no limit to the sky.”

Archbishop Christopher Bryant, who conducted the service, called the service “uplifting.”

“We celebrate the addition of Minister Denzel Washington into the clergy, having received his minister’s license in the Church of God in Christ today, in a truly uplifting moment,” Bryant posted to Facebook.

Photo: Christopher Bryant/Instagram