Bishop T.D. Jakes

Media Quotes

• Time Magazine and CNN named Bishop T.D. Jakes “America’s Best Preacher” in September 2001 and featured him on the cover of Time.
  “He is a virtuoso, a prodigy. The only thing more exhilarating than the style of T.D. Jakes’ sermons is their rigor and compassion.”

• The New York Times named Bishop Jakes as “one of the top five evangelists most frequently cited by theologians, scholars and evangelical leaders to step up to the international pulpit behind the Rev. Billy Graham.”
  He was the only African-American present on the list; two of the other five were Rev. Graham’s children.

• The Wall Street Journal reported T.D. Jakes as one of the nation’s pastors at the forefront of utilizing the latest technology to move inside prison walls. A page one story also called his preaching “thrilling and persuasive.”

• USA Today called him “one of the nation’s most popular evangelists – and quite possibly the smartest.”

• Mrs. Coretta Scott King said, “T.D. Jakes is among the great African-Americans of his time, who serves society through excellence of his achievements, and who forms the rich history of black men and women in America.”

• CNN called the Potter’s House “the Smart Church of the 21st Century.”

• The Washington Post designated Bishop as “perhaps the greatest preaching phenomenon in black America and by some people’s reckoning, all of America.”

• The Washington Post called Bishop T.D. Jakes “a force of change.”

• Los Angeles Times said “T.D. Jakes names pain and self-hatred in the black community in a way we have not heard since Malcolm X.”

• “Bishop T.D. Jakes,” said the Los Angeles Times, “is turning the page of African-American history.”

• Christianity Today and The Dallas Morning News identified The Potter’s House as “one of America’s fastest growing churches” growing from 50 to more than 28,000 in five years.

• The Economist called Bishop T.D. Jakes “the black Billy Graham with the potential impact of a Martin Luther King.”

• Ebony Magazine (November 2001) named Bishop T.D. Jakes as one of the “56 Most Intriguing Blacks of 2001.”
  Other notable figures included Muhammad Ali, Barry Bonds, Secretary General of the U.N. Kofi Annan, Chancellor of M.I.T. Dr. Phillip Clay, Donnie McClurkin and Surgeon General David Satcher.

• Bishop T.D. Jakes was listed as one of the “10 Most Influential Christian Leaders” by Homelife Magazine.

• Named among Texas Monthly’s “Top 20 Texans” in 1999

• Savoy magazine named Bishop T.D. Jakes as one of the nations “Top 100 Powers That Be” in 2002.

• Designated one of the “World’s 365 Most Influential People” by Harvest House Publishers.

• Included in the Encyclopedia of African American Christian Heritage. (Judson Press)