This is not a Christmas story.

This is a story about perspective.About how the same moment can mean everything to one person—and almost nothing to another.

Over the next twelve episodes on Together 4 Good, we’re sharing real stories that remind us we don’t all experience joy, meaning, or even God in the same way.

This is not a Christmas story.But it is a real one.

In this episode, I tell a story from early ministry—one that began with a locked church door and ended with a pastoral call I never could have imagined.

What felt like a closed door, a clear “no,” turned out to be the beginning of something much larger.

This story is about detours, human inconsistency, and trusting the God who keeps working—even when we think we’ve reached the end of the road.

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