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He church swayed and rocked to the kanye west experience. grammy award-winning rapper and entrepreneur brought a full gospel choir and instrument ensemble to the largest christian congregation in america teaming up with pastor joel osteen. >> it feels like all this was meant to be. god had the plan of bringing me up in the church. then, took me to the lowest depths of debt, mental health, being canceled by my own race and my own culture. >> the meeting of two mega stars, the preacher and the rap...

Last night, absolutely mesmerizing, 20,000 plus seat lakewood church in houston swayed and rocked to the funding experience, grammy award-winning rapper and entrepreneur brought a full gospel choir and ensemble to the largest christian congregation in america. >> like all of this was meant to be. god has already had a plan of bringing me up in the church, then took me to the lowest depths of debt, mental health, cancel culture, being canceled by my own race and my own culture. >> reporter: the m...

I want to talk about politics and just a second. first of all, you think that he did the right thing? >> i guess the fact that murders have not picked up and stop and frisk has ended shows that i was wrong, that mayor bloomberg was wrong. his grade police chief ray kelly was wrong. we thought with murders over 600, when they took office, under 300 when they left office, over those 12 years, as a former mayor just said, something went right. what front right, i thought, all these years, was a sto...

Materialism, the over sexualization of our culture, the disrespect for the dignity of human life. this man seems fearless. it is not unprecedented that a person has a deep conversion and gets knocked off their horse and christianity. >> neil: absolutely. >> think of st. paul the apostle. as you go down through history, dorothy day or im sorry, his name just went out of my head there, the one who wrote "amazing grace," the man had been a slave owner, and became a great abolitionist. convergence c...

Basically that i can go anywhere without doing this song which is "walks." >> has not heard the business because the album debuted at number one on billboards top 200 and according to billboard, the album when it was released was the biggest streaming that west has ever had. >> dana: worship through music is so inspiring no matter what kind of music it is. but i imagine it was quite a big scene there. what was the reaction from the members of the church there? >> it was exponential excitement be...

The trend, the shift is going to change. i told you about my arrogance and cockiness already. now the greatest artist that god has ever created is now working for him. >> greg: was that a jab at me, juan? obviously i believe this is a sincere conversion. >> juan: are you serious? >> greg: you dont think so? i think hes giving himself over to god, right? how could you not see that? i know you treat him with cynicism, but i believe it when i see it. i cant doubt him. i cant read his mind. >> juan:...

Churches -- megachurches, joining pastor joel osteen to share his latest album and his recommitment to god. its attracted a record crowd. chief religion correspondent lauren green is live on the scene in houston with more. hi, lauren. >> reporter: hey, arthel. aint nobody having church like this this weekend, and that is so true. the rapper and mega-star kanye west coming here to americas largest christian church ever, and many people believe that his conversion, his faith conversion is really s...

Grandmothers church, this is a service designed to draw to thousands of people in who may not otherwise thought about faith, certainly faith in god. it is the meeting of two mega stars, joel osteen, the preacher and kanye west, the rapper musician and entrepreneur, joining forces and making faith cool. west coming to the biggest christian congregation in the country lakewood church in houston to talk about his recent faith conversion which is still garnering skepticism as a publicity stunt to pr...

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