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Let's pray.

Father, I ask for help now that you would cause my mind to be faithful, my heart to be faithful to your word and that whatever counsel is

given would be true and would magnify Jesus and honor you and hallow your name and

would advance the cause of racial harmony and diversity in our churches.

And I pray for the audience that they would be alert and wise and discerning in their listening.

In Jesus' name. Amen.

I came expecting to give one message and totally rewrote it this afternoon because of my sense in

listening that the focus tonight is is very practically on the local church

and that's where I've served for 30 years and I'm very happy to

adjust everything and I'm very excited about what I have to say. So I'm going to quote from you a sentence from the

conclusion of this book. The aim of this book has been to encourage you to pursue

Christ exaling, gospel-driven, racial and ethnic diversity and harmony,

especially in the family of God, the Church of Jesus Christ.

So that's the goal of the book,

to do what I'm expected to do tonight.

So it's not a alien purpose that I have undertaken to advance a Christ-exalting

gospel-driven racial diversity and harmony, especially in the local church.

And on pages 260 to 262, there is a list of 34 things that we have tried to do at our local church, and I'm going to talk about 10, half of which are not on that list.

So that's where we're going, and I don't have any idea whether I can do this in my time allotted

but when quarter of eight happens I will stop and if I'm at number eight, I have ten of these, then we'll skip them.

And you can put on one of your questions, what was number nine?

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