The Greg Stier Youth Ministry Podcast - Former NFL Defensive Back Derwin Gray talks about Race and Christianity - Dare 2 Share
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The Greg Stier Youth ministry Podcast

episode 3 | May 2021

NFL Defensive Back Derwin Gray talks about Race and Christianity

Dr. Derwin L. Gray is a former NFL defensive back, long time Dare 2 Share speaker and current Lead Pastor of Transformation Church just south of Charlotte, NC.

During this interview, Greg Stier and Derwin Gray discuss the topic of race and Christianity in depth. Derwin shares about how to talk about race in the Church and how as Christians we should be responding to the current issues in our world.Ā 

MORE ABOUT DERWIN GRAY

Derwin met his wife, Vicki, at Brigham Young University. He played for the BYU Cougars football team. They have been married since 1992 and have two children.Ā 

After graduating from Brigham Young University, Derwin played professional football in the NFL for five years with the Indianapolis Colts (1993-1997) and one year with the Carolina Panthers (1998). During that time, he and Vicki began their journey with Christ and experienced Godā€™s faithfulness and direction as He moved their hearts to know Him and make Him known. Derwin and Vicki began an itinerant speaking ministry in 1999, One Heart At A Time Ministries. Derwin went on to graduate magna cum laude from Southern Evangelical Seminary with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree, with a concentration in Apologetics, where he was mentored by renowned theologian and philosopher, Dr. Norman Geisler.

Following Godā€™s call on their lives and their desire to shepherd people towards transforming their world through the mission of Christ, the Lord transitioned Derwin from his primary role of itinerant speaker to serving as the Lead Pastor of Transformation Church in January of 2010. Coupling his dynamic speaking style with a shepherdā€™s heart, his intense passion for seeing lives and culture transformed is both contagious and inspiring. In 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary. In 2018, he received his Doctor of Ministry in the New Testament in Context at Northern Seminary under Dr. Scot McNight.Ā  In addition to his role at Transformation Church, Derwin teaches at conferences nationwide.Ā He is the author of Hero: Unleashing Godā€™s Power in a Manā€™s Heart (2010),Ā Limitless Life: You Are More Than Your Past When God Holds Your Future (2013),Ā Crazy Grace for Crazy Times Bible Study (2015), The High-Definition Leader (2015), and The Good Life: What Jesus Teaches About Finding True Happiness (2020).

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