I want to ask you to realize that in your life, God is up to more than you think he is.

I want to ask you to realize that God has given you a calling that will sometimes challenge your prejudices and your presuppositions. And you and I

have to be prepared for that. Peter learned it. The Apostle Paul learned it. And Pastor Paul

Shepard learned it too. Whatever you think God is doing, he's doing a whole lot more than that.

Hello and thanks for stopping by for today's Destin for Victory.

Always a pleasure to have you with us.

When the church is at its best, it's a serving church, a courageous church, and a growing

church.

And in order to grow, sometimes you've got to change.

Today's message is straight ahead, so please stay tuned.

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Now, let's get started with today's Destined for Victory Message when growth requires change.

But then as we continue to grow very slowly in those early years,

God kept sending people and he kept diversifying the group

so that six years later, by my seventh anniversary,

the church had about 250 members and a full 20% of them were non-black and it was already very unusual even in

those years and somewhere in that process I don't remember exactly when but somewhere in that

process I realize God is doing something here I'm slow but I'll get there get. I realize God's up to something here. I don't know

what he's doing. I've never seen it happen in any of the ministries I'm personally familiar with,

and God didn't ask me what I thought about it. And so it dawned on me, God's at work. Now,

you can either impose what you want or what you think on it,

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