[RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
The church in the African-American
community is the institution.
It is our healing balm.
It is everything in the black community.
Amen.
CONGREGATION: Amen!
OPRAH WINFREY: The church is made
up of people who are sinners who are just trying to do better.
You're just trying to live to the best of your ability
as a human being.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC, RHYTHMIC CLAPPING]
All right, everybody, you need to get ready.
Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride.
Hold on to your church hats, "Greenleaf" is coming.
[EXCLAIMS DELIGHT]
This is going to be a very exciting, revelatory season.
It will be just like when we started out,
a real new beginning.
The Greenleafs are now in crisis,
and the question lingers, will the family
survive this takeover by Harmony and Hope?
It's pretty scary for the Greenleafs right now.
The seat of power has shifted.
It's a whole new world for them.
I am fasting and praying until my God tells me what to do.
The issue with Harmony and Hope
is they come with the disguise of wanting to bring progress,
but, in fact, we find that their motives are more sinister.
DEBORAH JOY WINANS: Harmony and Hope's motivation?
Mm-mm, it ain't Jesus.
I can tell you that for sure.
At this point, they don't even want Calvary
to have its own building.
They want to just demolish all of it.
What is Bob Whitmore up to?
What are Phil Demar's intentions?
Daddy's counting on you.
MERLE DANDRIDGE: Those are the things that Grace is
going to go full throttle at.
Members of the family work from within against family
members.
This season, Charity is fighting for her voice.
This will make her have to stand alone.
We have to decide whether we're
gonna stand for the family or pursue our own selfish desires.
Ooh, it sounds kind of juicy, huh?
Ever since I saw what you were able to achieve
of that last day with Lady Mae, I've been on the run.
That the core of the relationship
with Lady Mae and Bishop, there is
such a deep love and respect.
People love this couple, and they're pulling
for them to stay together.
So am I, but, you know, we don't know.
We don't know yet.
Room service.
Divorce has awakened the Bishop to how deeply
he really does love this woman.
He doesn't want to be anywhere else.
God has not made the fine thing that you won't ruin,
has He?
Kerissa and Jacob are at an impasse.
Don't make me use that will.
This is a big thing, this will.
There's some shady dealings that
are going on around the estate.
Oh, Lord, we need you now.
KIM HAWTHORNE: We start to discover
that some of the seeds that were planted way, way in the past
are not roses, but maybe they're weeds.
[CHOIR VOCALIZING]
Well, this is more than just a TV show.
"Greenleaf" is a ministry, and that's evident in the way
the fans respond.
It offers the audience a window
into a world that they've never seen before,
a world of a black family and a black church
and a black culture that is unique and that for a long time
was, in a way, hidden.
I've heard from so many young girls
that they love being able to see a dark-skinned woman on TV.
The little things like that, that you
don't really know matters, it matters in such a big way.
That gets my unqualified amen!
It's important that we're represented
in all of our complexity.
It then gives you an opportunity to be better and improve.
It is certainly rooted in African-American culture,
but you can be of any ethnicity and understand
these people's journey.
And we tell human stories, they're not perfect,
but they're human.
We are family.
This is a show about family.
This is a show about pain.
This is a show about love, loyalties being divided,
and people being afraid, but at the same time,
people being brilliant and beautiful and joyous.
Thank you, Jesus.