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This is a very significant event. Very significant event.

Bill Johnson is a fifth generation pastor in his family line.

Thank you so much. Yeah.

His followers call him Papa Bill, and he's grown his father's former church

into one of the largest and most unusual churches in America.

You know, I just don't have it in my heart to build a big ministry.

I never have.

But I do have a desire to build big people.

And the number of people in the room is not as important to me as the size of their yes.

So what makes Bill Johnson's church so unusual?

I actually hire someone who just records the miracles, and that's their job.

The job is primarily recording as a historian to record the miracles of what God has done

and give us printed reports on the things that have happened.

Physical healings, visions of angels, mysterious gems found on the sanctuary floor, even resurrections.

Bill Johnson, his fellow leaders, family members, and congregation, they make extremely bold claims of supernatural signs and wonders.

I'm going to be mocked by the entire city. There's no one in this city that is going to believe

this is God.

This is heaven bent. I'm Tara Jean Stevens.

This season, I invite you to join me as I explore Bethel Church in Reading, California.

Maybe you've heard of it.

Maybe you haven't.

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