 Okay. Let's pray and then we'll get started. Let's just commit ourselves to the Lord. We read in Hosea, it says, come let us return to the Lord. We are people who are in Christ, who are in the Lord, who are walking with Him. But let's just think about that statement, come let us return to the Lord. In what way have we walked away? In what way have we distanced ourselves from the Lord? And today there's an invitation to return to the Lord. In whatever aspects that we have walked away from Him, today we have an opportunity to return to Him. Come, let us return to the Lord. So let's take some time to do that. In our own hearts and minds, I just tell the Lord, yes Lord, in this area or in this aspect I want to return to you. I want to come back to you, come back to how it was and Lord I pray that you would take me even further. Maybe it's something to do with personal worship, personal prayer, personal time of reading the Word and meditation and maybe it's witnessing, maybe it's something to do with that we using the gifts of the Spirit, being used by the Holy Spirit in the gifts of the Spirit to bless others, whatever. Maybe it's something to do with pursuing the knowledge of the Lord, pursuing the knowledge of God and just knowing God. So let's just tell the Lord, Lord, I want to return to you in this hallelujah. We thank you. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord for your timely word. Thank you for your invitation. Lord, for your instruction. Lord, thank you for drawing us Lord with your love. Thank you Lord that you Lord convict us by the work of your Spirit and draws with your love. We thank you for the mercy that is always available. We thank you for the grace that is always available for us God and Lord right now we just heard ourselves up to lay hold of that for which you've laid hold of us God and yes Lord we make it our choice today, our commitment today to return to you in all these areas God. Yes Master, we want to be used by you and we pray that Spirit of God that you would fill us, anoint us afresh, empower us Lord. We thank you Lord. We thank you. Yes Lord, I just come at each and every person in this class into your mighty hands. In Jesus' matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay right so just a quick update we have I just I think it was Dave who was asking about the template for the project report. There's some kind of a template. So Deborah from e-learning class she actually sent a couple of templates. So I've she checked online and sent a couple of templates. So I've uploaded one and I think you can use that. You can check it. It's in the classwork section. So you can you could use that. So it's good. There's also another book that Vasashish had sent to me and I just want to you know just I just go through it. I just want to go through it fully and then maybe that can be used as well. And I'll upload it probably by afternoon. I'll do that by evening today. Okay so so just to review some of the things that we looked at in the last class we you know we looked at what this entire course is about. It's like the name suggests it's independent. It's not a group activity. It's an independent research project and research paper. So you do a research investigate and then report your findings in the form of a report in the form of a thesis. And the assessment is twofold. One is the report that you would submit a written report. Of course it's a soft copy. So we have a format for that. How the heading should be. What the font should be. What the line spacing should be. If you're quoting someone how should that be. If there is a table of contents or no sorry not table of content. It's a if it's a statistical table that you want to put that you want to put in your report. How should that be. If you want to you know insert a picture how should that be. So the MLA the modern language that association that format would give you the you know specifics of that and then you can check the template as well right. So that's the that's one part of it. The other part of the assessment is the presentation that you would make. So those of us who are in the online class would make a presentation in class like this. So you would take about 15 minutes to present and there would be five minutes for interactions maybe question and answers based on what you presented. So 20 minutes would go for each person. So the dates are also mentioned in the in the guidelines the IRP guidelines. So you could check that right. So that's that's about it. So last class we looked at you know what are the what is the scope of the project. Like what are the kind of topics. So we discuss the timeline for that and so 25th January is is when 25th is a Tuesday. So on or before 9am by 25th January you need to submit a one page report a draft on what you want your what is going to be your research project right. What is the topic. What are you going to do. What are you going to you know research about what are you going to write on. And also you can include what is the research method right. Like are you going to be meeting people. Are you going to be giving out questionnaires because you're going to be collecting information. Are you going to be visiting libraries. Are you going to be you know checking online. Obviously you will do that. So mention that research methodology right. And yeah so that's a one page thing that you would Yeah. Okay. So we have a question Kiran is asking so shall I take city names. So what do you mean by that Kiran. Can you just explain please. City names in the sense. I'm sorry I didn't understand. So just I want to just confirm that we can take like a city names like the Jerusalem the Yehudi are like that and we can compare and like that. We can share the gospel to everywhere we can point. Yeah. Okay. You take a city name and then like let's say you just tell me tell me again you take a city name in the sense. Okay. Let's say Bangalore city. Okay. And then what would you want to do. You're muted Kiran. Your mic is muted. Sorry. Yeah. So if we if I take the Bangalore name then how we how I can share the gospel that different different state the college is there school is there garden then how then I selected the city names and I point some. Okay. So your question is so can your topic be how can I reach the city. Right. How can I reach the city with the gospel. So yeah. So you can do that of course. So yeah. So let's just take this time which is what we wanted to do is just takes us time to discuss about you know what topics you might want to you know pursue. Okay. So we can take this time in this today's class to talk about that and the feasibility of that right. So like I said you're always free to email me so that I you know I can give a more detailed explanation or you know suggestion but we can also you know discuss in class right or you can also put it on the stream where we can you know discuss that. Okay. So Kiran's question is okay. Can I take a city and and can my topic be this you know how to reach the city with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Okay. So you take a city or you can take your your city maybe and yeah you can definitely do that. But the only thing is you know a city is very vast right. It depends which place you pick. Let's say you're in Kolkata Kiran. Are you in Kolkata? Kolkata. Okay. Okay. You're in Kolkata. Let's say you take Kolkata. Now Kolkata is a very vast. I mean so it's a big city like it's a it's one of the metros. So if you take Kolkata now there are different sections of the city you know in the sense geographically. Okay. Now you have the industrial area. You have the corporates. You have the residential areas. So you have to study the city and and see how you can reach out to different you know different kinds of people. Now who are the you'll have also have to study of course like who are the people who are there right you and what kind of people live in the city. Of course you will have you know people who are native to Kolkata who speak Bengali and you know who are who are there and maybe you have people who have come from other parts of the nation. You know maybe from South India maybe from East maybe from the West or North who have come to Kolkata to live there to to for you know in terms of employment or studies even so you'll have different kinds of people. You'll have you know working professionals. You have maybe students then you have you know people who are migrant labor laborers who have come there and they are working as you know working in parlors working in you know different kinds of things. So you will it's a very vast thing right so you need to think and say okay do I am I going to do a study on how to reach all of them now that's not possible between now and April you know if you need to finish the project within I mean I'm not saying it's it's it's not impossible but it's going to you know if it's if you're going to only do that only the research part of it then it might be possible but since you have other subjects to you know study and work on I would suggest that you pick maybe one section of the city you know maybe or one group of people in the city who have not been reached you know you can so for that you also need to study who are this group of people they know maybe the most unreached group of people group of people in the city and and you know maybe you can study about where they live what they do what are their beliefs and you know and and then work on a strategy how can the church reach you could do that yeah so think about that and you could do that yes sure okay so what about the others like Erin did you think of a topic anything that you're you know thinking about any options that you're considering for the research or anyone else also like Dave, Kannan, Thomas, Sid, Blessing I know you just joined but you're also free to share what is the topic that you're considering okay so not yet okay Erin so that's fine but you have you know today's Tuesday or Wednesday you have you know like six more days to just think about the topic and then you know write the draft and submit so you suggest that you think about it and also you know we can discuss it right what about you Dave anything that you have in mind Christianity in Nepal okay so anything about any specifics about that Christianity in Nepal that you can think of you know you want to do something about the origin okay how it started and and their transformation through the years okay okay that can be something that you can do yeah that will be that'll be something that you can do okay so you can backtrack and you can see who are the first missionaries who arrived in Nepal where did they where did they start the work so you yeah you might have to check online of course you'll have a you know wealth of resources to find out you know how the whole thing started right in Nepal how did Christianity start in Nepal and who are the first people to come there who are the people who started it how did they start it and what did they face etc you know you'll find that information but with that okay their methods etc and of course you also want to talk about the current situation at present and the struggles of the start of church is okay okay okay so you current situation if you're going to talk about maybe it'll be a good idea to map the entire country I know it's it's small area and not very vast but then you can you know you can map the you know city-wise village-wise and see you know I'm sure there's research and findings available online also or maybe in the library about the kind of churches which are there you know I know that you have the you know the AG church maybe the independent church etc so you you could you know check about that and see what is you know like how old these churches are some of these churches and what are the in the last 10 years were there any new churches that have come in and what are their challenges they're facing and how they can overcome okay and also the way forward right maybe that will be helpful for those who are considering ministry in Nepal so you can also you know talk about maybe some of the mistakes or presumptions that you know churches make in in in terms of you know reaching out and you know maybe if you feel that okay this is why there is so much of persecution you know sometimes what happens is persecution happens because of course the message itself you know we know the gospel attracts persecution right you know those who want to live the righteous life will suffer persecution for all rights and the message itself is is is offensive right there is this offense which is which comes with the gospel so that apart you know is there anything that the church has done maybe culturally you know maybe maybe people feel it's a western thing because that's how you know they've seen it they feel that they're losing their cultural identity because of you know because of churches because of whatever you know just you think about it and and then you know that could be a good thing also to address okay maybe we need to you know we need to do evangelism or you know the church can be like this oh sorry yeah so you can you could do that right okay and these are just some thoughts they so you don't have to strictly go by it I'm just giving some suggestions but you know you think about it you pray about it and and you see you know what what you are interested in and then you can do that right so I'm just giving some suggestions okay so Eren is asking is it's only based on biblical terms right yeah so the thing is biblical terms in the sense so it can be something that is social political religious which is you know which is there right out there where you live or you know some place that you that you have in mind but you're giving a biblical response you know your reference point is the scripture right so you're giving a biblical response recommendation to those challenges so that is the thing so when we say it's based on the Bible biblical response or biblical reference point so that is it so we're saying okay this is what you know is is challenge but you know this is what the word of God says and this is how we can overcome that so that's what we mean by that Eren okay so Sid is asking can we pick a topic like addiction reaching out to people who are in depression or alcohol or porn okay so three different areas um we are talking about okay depression or alcoholism or who are into porn so you can yeah so you can so alcohol and porn come under the category of addiction and depression more of emotional psychologically you know challenge or even sometimes physiological thing you know something to do with the body which causes uh you know not the right hormones not being secreted and then because of which there is you know depression so it could be that as well or it could be a spiritual thing um a spiritual oppression and because of which there's depression so yeah so you could do that uh Sid so you could do that so but um I would say you pick maybe one or two um like even if you um let's say if you're picking a depression or alcohol or porn you uh like like we said before you think about the scope of the research okay so now in what like you can you can go really you can go in a focused manner or you can go a general thing you know and I say focus I'm saying you know what is the age group that you are looking at you know maybe among the teens maybe among maybe IT professionals you know maybe among a particular gender you know you can talk about men you can talk about women and you can say okay or or a particular group of people you know like particular nationality whatever you can um you can look at that and say okay uh you know why is this happening you know is it because of some challenges is it because of some cultural things traditional things that they are doing right maybe um so uh the youngsters are exposed to alcohol at an early age or exposed to drugs at an early age or you know something like that you know like uh maybe there are broken homes uh because of which there are the kids are playing spending a lot of time on the streets and there are street gangs which um you know force them into drugs or you know kind of um you know draw them into drugs uh drugs peddling of drugs selling of drugs and so on so you so you can you can look at that so it can be uh you know a specific age group it can be a specific um demographic so you can think about that uh definitely you can do uh you can do a topic like addiction so so one part of it one uh one part of that research would be what is the problem right so uh why so what is the problem uh why is there a problem uh like this like this addiction or alcohol alcoholism upon why is it there uh in this particular group of people or the society and uh and then you know uh like so that's a challenge and what are what is being done right now so you could you could talk about that what is being done right now what is the effectiveness of those methods right what is being done right now now so that will also involve some amount of research right okay what are the churches doing what are the uh NGOs doing what are the uh you know other things not churches not NGOs maybe you can even think of you know what are the secular organizations um like the rehabs like the deaddiction centers which are maybe run by the government um you know how are they addressing this challenge and and definitely you know uh you can say okay how can the church help like how can the believer how can the group of believer you know help because there's so much in the word of god there's so much power in the word of god so how can and how can they bring about uh solution to that right so you can yeah you can talk about that you can do a research on that sure okay um or you can even you know you can even pick the church you know addiction in the church right I think that would be a kind of a uh uh I don't know controversial thing right it would be and it would be actually very relevant you know like uh challenge because some of these things just go unaddressed you know yes we just sometimes think it's out there but what about the group of believers themselves struggling silently uh not reaching out for help you know so you can you can look at the church it said but the challenge again is okay how will you find out right how will you uh make a survey how will you find out information that would be a challenge that needs to be something that you can work on but if you're looking at my store and uh if you're looking at you know some of the challenges of the church maybe you can make it anonymous you know uh you don't have to put names put uh you know mention church names mention pastors names or mention the names of the person of course you should not keep it anonymous but you can uh do uh you know uh good research and find out uh you know what is it are people struggling are people reaching out um maybe even checking with some counselors counselors would of course uh you know uh not reveal the identity of the people but you can get a general thing you know how many males how many females how many you know age group what is age group what is the you know what is their profession are the believers unbelievers uh you know is you know what are they struggling with why and so on and you might come across three four main things that they are not doing or they are doing because of which you know they're struggling um and then you can come out with solutions right okay so that's uh yeah okay so um thomas anything that you have on your mind khanan thomas you can type or you can uh you can just let me know and you can speak i'm sorry what you're thinking about karnataka is a topic of revival is it happening or what are the struggles or challenges uh the revival okay both i have seen whether happening or any obstacles for the revival and how to we we can pray about for that revival in karnataka right karnataka as a state uh revival so it would help to define revival it will help to um also talk about what happens in revival you know because uh because when we're saying okay um of course you would have done through done some of the you know in revival's visitations you would have studied that so i would say uh you know obviously you'll have to mention what revival is so but don't pick information from there right because it's something that you've already done um but you can of course definitely you can need to define what revival is what happens uh uh during a time of revival uh the outputting of the spirit what are some of the distinguishing um you know characteristics and and what is happening right now in the church um in in karnataka what is happening right now and uh yeah what needs to be done maybe you can you can you can even in um you know uh uh interview some of the pastors you know some of the senior uh pastors if you have access uh some of the pastors who've been in the city uh in bangalore or maybe other towns um who have kind of uh you know uh been there experienced the more of the spirit maybe in their church maybe something like that you know we don't we don't really have information of course we have about other places uh and even in india right but typically in karnataka about revival uh i don't know i haven't really read uh anything so it will be interesting it'll be really interesting nice topic you can you can yeah you can actually research and find out um uh what is happening um and what we what we as believers we as churches and pastors uh should really do you know pursue the presence of god prayer uh and other things you know good so you can do that sure right uh but it would also i just want to yeah i just want to tell you uh not not just for thomas but also others but that it will um you know involve a little bit of a lot more a lot more work in finding out right so you won't find it in one place you may not find one article you may not find one you know research uh report or something you may not find it so uh you will have to kind of investigate you will have to go through a numerous uh articles or books or whatever um in order to find out so i just want to you know kind of alert you to that so that it it'll involve that so uh and you need to do that regularly you know not keep it for a later time later date and say okay this report is you know i i need to submit it only then so i'll do it two weeks before that no it won't happen you'll be under so much of pressure and you may not find information and you may not uh you know people may not be available to share or to give you interviews so i would say that you do it regularly i do it regularly maybe every week uh and you know if possible every other day some work uh needs to go towards this okay some reading towards this some uh searching online towards this some meeting people you know if you've already kind of in that process um so you will need to do that right so i just want to alert you to that um yeah thomas yeah you can definitely talk about this revival in kanataka past present future challenges recommendations you know how and from a biblical standpoint how did it happen how does the outpouring so that uh yeah you can use that sure okay kanan thank you yeah kanan anything that you're thinking about yeah yeah kanan yeah i also when you speak about the uh the region about the people right yeah so uh that time i also uh thought of like uh in our place we have uh some people groups they don't have uh scripts they only have a spoken language okay still there there are many people they don't even uh heard the word about the jesus they don't know the word jesus right um how can we bring gospel to them like that okay okay so this is uh like you're talking about erode dirpur uh which area you're talking about it's in um uh nil greece it's a hill area yeah nil greece like is it about the todas irulas what community specifically um there are a lot of people there i think uh many groups are there so i want to basically my topic is uh basically my topic is the people who don't have um scripts they only have spoken language and also they the people who didn't hear about jesus right okay yeah so those who don't have a written um language as yet um yeah so that that would be um something you know i think um you know some of these organizations which do translations no bible translations um so they would have the data right so you can actually make use of that they would have the data about okay these are it's here and you know this is they've done translation in so many languages and and these are uh you know languages which which before which we there is no bible you know there is no um physical bible yet and translation in progress and so on so you can or they might have one portion like they might have the book of you know john the gospel of john uh like that um so you can you know you can think you can work on that but one more thing to think about is um see the how uh you know do they use the language you know that's also the other thing you know i know that um see one needs to preserve their language and so on otherwise the language you know just disappears and uh among the people groups right one needs to think but also you know you see that a lot of people move you know uh for in terms of livelihood right they move to the city they learn that language they get educated in that language they go to a maybe to a village school or a you know a city school and they learn that language and so reaching out to them uh you know how how would it happen you know thus the script needs to be formed again but the thing is they are more comfortable probably in the language that they are learning in school or you know they are being educated in or they are working that is also something to think about right so for example they they might know multiple languages they might know uh you know that they're that tribal language but they might also know Tamil because that is what they interact with the rest of the community you know in terms of business in terms of trade in terms of whatever you know maybe they are educated themselves uh and they are working okay so uh would Tamil itself be okay right uh things like that you know those are things that you need to think about uh because when you say unreached uh there could be many so you need to be specific you need to uh like get into the details and see okay who are these people first of all Nilgri's um that's a great um you know a geographical territory you know that whole hill area could know metapoleum onwards right metapoleum to utti to even the other side you know uh coming down Goudalur and coming all the way down um so that's a good territory and uh i'm sure you will find information on you know what are the different uh groups which are living there you know some are very frightened some are kind of they moved to the city so those kind of things and yeah so i'm sure you know uh work has been done uh but you could see how else you know what else can be done uh and i'm sure that'll you know when you just investigate when you pray and when you look into the word uh do a study how did paul reach out how you know i'm sure there'll be some unique ways um by which um you know uh we can reach out right which the holy spirit will highlight uh but you just need to read a lot you just need to read quite a bit uh explore quite a bit and you will find the you know find the information uh and you can put together yeah that'll be good right so that's good kind of you can do that sure um yeah blessing any thoughts that we've been saying about um the topic for the research so if there's anything on your mind you can you could share that um you can just put it on there i don't have anything on my mind now but i will submit before do you this line you gave yes sure sure yeah okay so where do you um where do you live blessing um which which country do you live in okay i live in both nigeria and hungary so i just them intercept between the two countries sometimes i'm in nigeria and sometimes i'm hung yes i'm hungry okay okay right yeah so you um yeah you can you can think about what what really catches your attention uh maybe in hungary maybe in nigeria you know it can be maybe some social issues uh maybe some political things uh and uh challenges which are there and what the word of god has to say you know as a believer you know by the word and the spirit how can you know change be brought there you can think about that uh or you can yeah it can be a you know it can be a purely uh academic little study as well you know you you know uh talking about maybe faith or you know uh going deeper in the spirit or something like that it can be that also um but it has to be um yeah it has to be a little um it has to be original you know it can't be uh something that that's already been uh you know discussed in the class or discussed during the course so it needs to be have some original thought and the application so yeah so think about it uh the only thing is uh you know 25th is the is the date for submission of that one-page draft right with the topic uh and also um yeah the research methodology etc so of course we will have a discussion once that is submitted uh on that as well right so we how we can fine tune it how how we can get into the specifics we'll talk about that as well yeah but Tuesday 25th is something that you need to work towards right okay sure it's okay sir okay right okay so Erin anything from what we've discussed any thoughts any spark any ideas I think Erin is typing yeah so so these are some um it's it's good so uh all of you I think there's something forming right some some idea some big things um and as we go further it I'm sure it'll be even clearer but um but the only thing is uh you know you need to decide what uh that you're going to do and that and the topic and of course you know let's say there are some additions to it there could be some fine tuning to it you know maybe you decided oh I don't want to do this like uh I'm just looking at the chat and uh Revivalent Karnataka you know I just put it based on what Thomas said uh but maybe Thomas you you change your mind and you want to look at you know maybe a couple of villages or maybe a couple of cities you know coastal Karnataka right so um yeah Erin you want to say something yeah but sir um is it okay to do in the topic like um leadership in authority in church today leadership and authority in the church today okay so uh what exactly do you have in mind I mean it's good but what is it about the leadership and authority that you want to you know uh address um that is something that you need to ask yourself you know um um what is it that you're noticing in the church is there something that is uh different from what you see in the bible uh do you want to talk about that or do you see you know what are the uh something that is uh something that's going good and you want to talk about that or something that is bad something that is abused you know when you say leadership and authority uh maybe there's some damage done to people you know because of abuse of it maybe you want to address that you can talk about that um maybe so when you when you say church you know uh are you in um are you in uh Kohima Erin or um okay so I know that uh you know many uh different kinds of churches right like you have a lot of presbyterian churches you have uh uh some independent churches as well and you also have churches for like different different communities you know different tribes right you have the uh I don't know or what is that suma is that suma semi say same same yeah same so uh so you can even you know talk about that okay these are 12 15 tribes languages uh is there any difference in the leadership and authority um or you know how is it done in the main line churches how is it in the thing because different church structures right so you can think on those lines yeah um yeah so definitely we can look into the word and you know draw from the instructions which paul gives the uh you know it gives titers and timothy about leadership and um how to serve and so on and also from the life of the lord jesus you know how he came to be a servant leader and uh and uh how he says you know so you know uh those of you who desire uh to be great let him be first be the slave and and so on so we get some idea about the kind of leadership that is required um leadership qualities so yeah you could study and see is it there or you know like do we do we need some changes how can people be groomed to be such leaders or something like that you can think about it um yeah it helps to be uh specific just because of the you know we don't have like six months we have about three and three and a half months right so uh it would help to kind of narrow down and be specific and uh and talk about maybe if there are 10 things that are there maybe you can just reduce it to five things that you want to talk about leadership and authority um yeah you could do that you can do that sure sure cluster thank you right okay yeah so like i was saying you know uh thomas also again about the scope when it's revival and maybe you want to look at coastal karnataka maybe you want to look at the cities you know uh you think about it and so um during the course of our discussions we can always you know change the scope okay but uh but i would suggest that um you know that um that that earlier on we we kind of settle down we kind of fix it because your effort towards the research work paperwork uh research paper would uh would would need that right you can be focused you can put all your efforts uh and once you once you've really said okay narrowed down and said okay this is what i'm going to be looking at uh otherwise it'll be wasted effort you know you're looking at so many things you and then you know you're not you're not decided on what to go after right okay fine so we'll we'll stop here and uh so i look forward to you you know you guys submitting that one page draft uh the specifics of that or uh there again in the every time you know you just go to the irp guidelines which are uploaded in the classwork section um make a note of the dates when you need to submit and then just go through that okay and and you need any clarification of course you're free to you know discuss among yourself uh among yourselves uh and also you're free to put it on the stream so that i can you know answer uh and also you can you're free to email me as well right okay um so right thank you you guys have a good day we'll catch up again um in our next class god bless bye bye right see you guys bye bye uh karan you want to say something yeah we we have uh another class right the next one or um no uh no karan today it's no no irp is only one uh research is only one hour weekly so today it's only one hour then tomorrow we have sorry yeah i saw something like uh two classes okay okay okay okay i think it's tomorrow tomorrow and we have discipleship and small groups uh yeah that is two two classes yeah thank you okay see you bye