Chicago Pastor Welcomes "Mayor Auntie" Lori Lightfoot To Pulpit During Sunday Worship

Chicago pastor Charlie Dates, a Gospel Coalition contributor, gives a hero's welcome to "Mayor Auntie," Lori Lightfoot, welcoming her to speak from the pulpit during Sunday worship.

This is the service where Pastor James Meeks officially passed the torch to Dates and made him lead pastor over Salem Baptist Church Of Chicago.

While much of the speech is honoring Meeks for his civic work, Lightfoot volunteers to preach from Deuteronomy 31, calling Dates the "Joshua" to Meeks' "Moses."

At the end of the address, Pastor Meeks (a Moody Bible Institute Trustee) embraces Lightfoot's "wife" Amy Eshleman, who then leads his own wife off the stage arm-in-arm.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_oxVlLZ2tM