I know that for many of you you've not met me or never seen me and you were excited when I walked up

Because you thought I was TD Jakes, but I am not

Ah get ready get ready get ready, get ready, get ready.

Somebody give him some glory all over the bill.

I'm another heavy-set African-American preacher.

This church is unbelievable.

Your, your, just This church is unbelievable. You're just awesome.

I'm very grateful to be here.

But because we don't know each other, I need to tell you a little bit about me

so that you can just connect with me over the next few minutes that

we're together. We are living in a very cynical time, a time that is very

averse to people of faith, particularly the Christian faith.

We have been under attack worldwide in the last year like never before.

And particularly in this culture and in our country in this society, now more than ever what we believe is not

welcomed and is now all the sudden controversial but I have decided that I am

no longer interested in apologizing for my beliefs.

I got one brother here.

Anybody else tired of apologizing for being a Christian.

Let me go ahead and shout it out loud at the 1045.

I am a Christian.

I believe Jesus Christ is the son of the living God.

I believe he was born of a virgin named Mary. I further believe

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