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Dynamic Voices for a diverse church. This is Pass the Mic. Greetings and God bless. Welcome to this special live recording of Pass the Mike in Chicago

and for everyone who's listening to this podcast can someone can everybody here in this room just give it up and make some noise so they could hear you let them know that you're here?

We are here to celebrate the launch of Jamar's new book, The Color of Compromise, and I look forward to just us jumping into the book and hearing from you, Jamemar, hearing your heart and just gleaning from you

and even being able to have questions be posed to you tonight

and so that we as a team and you can engage with the audience that's here as well.

For those of you who may have missed it, you could submit questions via Twitter

at the Witness BC, all right, and so there is still time for you to do that also if you have

not picked up your copy of the color of compromise please don't miss the opportunity to

pick up a copy.

And I'm not too ashamed to say,

if you know somebody who needs a copy of this book,

like have you ever listened to a message

and say, you know what, this message is nourishing my soul but I know somebody else

that needs to hear this all right please take the opportunity and and give someone this

book as well and it would definitely be an investment worth making. So,

Jemar, before we take the time to get into the book, we want to take the opportunity

to hear from you and hear your heart and vision as far as what is the witness.

Because it's been mentioned a few times tonight and so for people who are not familiar with the witness and what we're about

What would you have to offer us for as that goes the tagline says a lot of black Christian

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