 Hello and good morning everyone. Thank you for joining the class. I've turned on the recording so we can record this lecture for other people who are doing this course with us on the e-learning portal and of course this recording is also available. It will also be available in our coursework section in the Google Classroom for those who would like to go and listen to it again. So welcome everybody. We will pray and get started in this class today. Just I'm going to be Siddharth. Would you like to please pray with all of us and we can start. Oh yeah I was just asking Siddharth to pray Siddharth. If your mic is okay you can pray Siddharth. Can I pray? Yes go ahead Siddharth. Thanks. We can't hear you. Siddharth you're not able to hear you. Okay no problem. Manu why don't you pray and then we will start. Yeah. Yes sir. Thank you Lord Jesus. I pray to you Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord Jesus. I submit each one of us in your hand Father God Father God. I know this is your hand and Lord Jesus. I submit all of you in your hand and Lord Jesus. I allow your wisdom and politics in your life. Whatever you are going to learning. I pray to you Lord Jesus help us. Thank you Lord Jesus. I ask in the name of Jesus. Amen and amen. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I'm just going to share my screen here and we will look at the notes and get started. All right. So we had one lecture last week as we introduced this course on urban church planting. And as I mentioned, we would not just be talking purely about church planting, but we would also kind of extend this, whatever our learning is to starting any kind of urban ministry or urban missions. When we say urban, we are talking about cities, which today are very complex areas because we have all kinds of people, people from different parts of the country or different countries that come and live in urban centers that we call as cities. And we may also include larger towns in our country. We say when all of these are urban centers. So I just shared a little bit about my own experience, my own journey in serving in different cities over the over the years. And then we started last class in our second chapter, where we emphasized the importance of depending on the Holy Spirit, right? And in whatever we do in the city as we are reaching people, we must learn to depend on the Holy Spirit because he is the director. He is our guide as we look at the city and as we think about ways to minister in our cities or urban centers, which if you're in a larger town or in a city doesn't matter. We need to depend on the Holy Spirit. He will give us the wisdom. Now we kind of ended last class by just highlighting that many times we struggle in doing both, at least as I've spoken to people and even in previous classes when we would interact, students would express the struggle of listening to the Holy Spirit and as well as looking at the practical side, which is what we're going to spend a lot of time here in this course as we talk about doing research and observing and strategizing and we're talking about methods. Yet at the same time, we need to balance that out with listening to the Holy Spirit. And that is something we must learn to do. And the challenge, as I mentioned last time, is sometimes we could tend to swing to either extremes. Sometimes we just tend to go and do things without listening to the Holy Spirit and then we end up spending a lot of time and effort in things we shouldn't be doing or we swing to the other extreme where we are sitting and waiting for the Holy Spirit to tell us something, whereas he would speak to us if we go out there and just explore, do some research or keep our eyes open and look on the fields, so to speak. And if we start exploring and just being there with people, then the Holy Spirit will speak to us and say, hey, this is what I want you to do, go here, go there. So it is very important to depend on the Holy Spirit. And the Spirit of God speaks to us in many different ways. I'll just share one example before we go forward. I remember, you know, as far as our youth ministry in our city, all people's church that we started in the youth ministry, way back, I think it was in 2002. And I might share some of these stories as we go along. We were a very small church. We had just started in 2001 in Bangalore city. So we were still a small number, maybe about 30 people. And as you know, in 2002 or somewhere around that time, I could be off by a year, 2002 or 2003, I forget exactly. We just felt that, hey, you know, again, this was something that we felt prompted to do. And this was around the month of February around Valentine's Day. And you know, generally, everybody's talking about love and relationships and things like that. So I remember that particular year, we said, you know, we will host a seminar for young people in a hotel. I just invite young people to come and it was on dating and marriage. And that was the topic. And this was back in 2003, almost 20 years ago. And to our surprise, about 70 young people just showed up. We don't even know. We just did a little bit of promotion. We were a very small church congregation and 70 young people showed up to listen to this. And so that gave us an indication that, you know, when you start addressing a need, people respond to that. And so obviously, young people had all these questions on dating and relationship from a biblical perspective. What is a church's perspective? And so they all showed up to listen, you know, and we had a wonderful time. The other thing around those days was we started out out-treat in coffee shops. And this was way back in 2003. Cafe Coffee Day had just opened up in Bangalore City. So we went to them. We said, you know, can we just use your cafe? And this is not a Christian cafe. It's just, you know, a regular cafe. And can we use your cafe for two hours? And, you know, we're going to sing songs and all that. But we will have a group of people come and we will buy, you know, your beverages and snacks. For them, it was, it meant business, you know, having people come into the coffee shop. For us, it was an outreach to young people. So, you know, I guess it worked well. And so that just grew. And I think within a matter of a year or so, we had more than 100 young people show up. And we went to the biggest Cafe Coffee Day that was available in Bangalore City in those days. I think it was on Cunningham Road. And that was the biggest one, of course. Many others have opened up since then. But it was the largest one available in those days. And, you know, over 100 people squeezed into that coffee shop. And we would sing, we would preach from the word. And they would invite friends. And, you know, of course, we had a time of ministry, then we had time of, you know, refreshments and so on. So that again, that really, the Lord was leading us, you know, as the Holy Spirit speaks, just step out and do it. It will grow. And I remember we moved into auditorium because, you know, we had more people, young people come. We moved into an odd regular auditorium. So now this became like a youth service. This was on Saturdays. And we were, you know, meeting in auditorium. And so that's how the ministry grew. And now, so I'm fast forwarding several years in 2011, we were having one of these youth services in the auditorium. And I remember, you know, I was up in front. This was towards the end of that particular youth service. I was up in front. The young people were there. And at that moment, you know, it just was an idea that flashed into my mind. Why didn't you take these youth services into college campuses? You know, so there was no preparation, no thought. And I'm not saying, you know, everything is going to happen like this. Sometimes you'll need to go and plan and things like that. But it happened at that moment. And I knew the Holy Spirit was speaking. And the idea, the thought that came was, why don't you take this youth service into college campuses? Because instead of telling the young people to come to us, we go to them. And, you know, without even discussing with anybody, I just announced, I said, Hey, are we going to take these youth services into college campuses? And then, so that's just announced it. And I had no idea how it's going to happen. But then immediately ideas came. This is how we go about doing it. So we reached out to some Christian colleges where the management is Christian. Of course, the college is a regular secular college. And we asked them, you know, we would like to come to your campus and host a one hour program for youth. We'll be talking about these things that's going to be from the Bible and so on. And colleges began to open up, you know, so forth. And, you know, of course, in the college, you've got hundreds of students. So for instance, when you went to one particular college, the auditorium was packed with 600 students. And there was no expense from our side other than sending a team of people to go there and minister, they gave us one hour to speak to the students. And we had a, you know, of course, we had a planned, we planned out what we're going to do in that one hour to be worshiped, to be minister, the word praying and so on. Another college campus, there were 1,200 students in the auditorium, you know, and young people. And so again, we get an opportunity to speak. So like that, several college campuses opened up. And we were taking, literally taking a youth service into those college campuses. And how did that idea come? It was from the Holy Spirit. It was a very spontaneous thing. It happened at the end of one youth service. Take these into college campuses, then we'll be contacted the management of different college campuses, things just opened up and we were able to do it. So that's just, you know, just giving you a little illustration of how at, as the ministry is progressing at different stages, the Holy Spirit can prompt ideas. And then, you know, of course, the idea comes, but then you also have to do a little bit of, you know, work in the sense of planning, have a developing strategy, how are you going to speak to the management in different college campuses and get their permission, you know, fit it into their schedule, and then so on, you know, how will you minister to the young people? So, but then the idea came from the Holy Spirit. So you're kind of balanced both as you're reaching out to people in the city, right? So let's move into chapter three in this course on urban church planting as we give some, you know, just a little bit of definition and objectives of church planting. That means, you know, what are we trying to achieve here in the city or in towns, you know, now, as we said in the very beginning, you know, the cities are very complex places because we have, it is a melting pot or it is a gathering of people from different cultures, from different languages, you know, and they're all in the city. They all come there to work, to live their lives, to develop, you know, have families and so on, and they're all in the city, they all come to these towns and from various languages and cultures are there. So cities are very, most cities are very complex communities of people, diverse people, diverse cultures and people groups in that one city and most cities these days are huge, you know, there would be millions of people typically and so, you know, what are we trying to do when we talk about having a Christian ministry, whether it's a church or some other ministry in an urban center, you know, what are we trying to do and how should we go about it? So those are things we want to just address in the very beginning. So Matthew 28 verses 18 to 20, these are very familiar verses, this is the great commission, could somebody read that for us? Matthew 28 verses 18 to 20, please. Yes, sir. And Jesus came and spoke to them saying, all authority has been given to me and in heaven on the earth, go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. Thank you, current. So this is, you know, we refer to this as the great commission and Jesus said, go make disciples of all nations. So, you know, our heart must be for the nations, for people across various parts of the world and languages, cultures, races of all nations, go make disciples. So that's what he left us with. That's the mandate he gave us. And so, when you go into the, when you look at the book of Acts, I just left the early disciples with this mandate, go make disciples of all nations. And when they started preaching, preaching the gospel, what we see happening in the book of Acts is that wherever they went proclaiming the gospel, they established communities of believers, a gathering of people who had been, who responded to the gospel and you know, we call them local churches. So they established these communities of believers and it served several purposes. One, of course, was believers were nurtured in these communities, right? So they came to faith, they heard the gospel, they believed in Jesus, they didn't just said, okay, that's enough to go away. No, they assimilated them into communities of believers where these believers were nurtured and equipped. And then they in turn could influence their community. They in turn, in turn could be, could host God's presence, you know, be the dwelling place of God as the Bible scriptures says. They could be the dwelling place of God, the temple of God, in their city or town or region, wherever they were. So what we refer to as local churches or communities of believers who serve the purpose of nurturing new believers, of equipping believers, of influencing community, of hosting God's presence in that community, being, you know, the representation of God in that community. So when we talk about church planting today, this is what we are working towards. And we want in our cities, many such communities where there are believers who are able to be nurtured, equipped, host the presence of God and influence their region or their sphere or their city. And we want to do this in a self-sustaining way. That means these communities of believers that are established should not be dependent on some external source for their life and continuity. They should be self-sustaining. So when you look at a self-sustaining church or a church plant, we're looking at that they should be self-sustaining in leadership. That means we want leadership from among them to lead the work. Maybe for a period of time they would be external input and guidance to help develop the work. But then at some point they should be self-sustaining in leadership. They should have their own leaders leading the work. They should become self-sustaining financially. Maybe for a period of time money will come from outside. But eventually the community should be able to sustain that themselves and in the ministries that they are doing. And they should be self-sustaining in the community itself. It should keep on multiplying and growing rather than depending on somebody else to come and stoke the fire and keep the fire burning. The community now should become growing organically, new believers are added, people are growing and it keeps expanding. So it becomes a self-sustaining community of believers. So this is what we are, what we're talking about, a church planting and what we are trying to achieve. Now let me just make a statement here about church planting. Some people use the term church planting. Some people don't like that term. So they like to use the term pioneering by starting a new work or a new local church or new ministry. Now we are going to be very flexible for us. Terminology is just a means for communication. So it doesn't matter what terminology you want to use. We're comfortable with anything. As long as we convey the correct idea and the same idea, whether you're planting a church, you're pioneering a church, it's okay. You know, however language you're comfortable with, it's fine. But the objectives are clear. We want the self-sustaining community of believers in various parts of the city so that they can nurture, equip, host the presence of God and influence their region and do it in a very self-sustaining manner. That means they are growing and they're able to do this on their own. So to summarize, what are some of the key objectives here in planting or pioneering local churches in urban centers in our cities? We said we want to establish and host the presence of God in that place. We want to disciple new believers from influence and of course we want to multiply. We want to be able to, you know, that one church can then, as it becomes self-sustaining, become like a mother church and plant more churches. I want to pause here before I go forward to take up any questions anybody may have, any thoughts on this so far? Any questions? Everyone's okay? All right. If there are no questions, I will go on to the next chapter. Feel free to answer any time and, you know, ask your questions as we talk about this. And yeah, this is, you know, this whole topic of church planting is something very special because I see it as a very powerful way to impact cities, you know, to transform cities. You know, sure we, you know, conferences are good, seminars are good, you know, having gospel meetings are good, they all serve their purpose. But if you want to talk about something that will be a sustained effort to impact the city, then we need to think in terms of the church, the community, establishing this community of believers in the city. Now, we could, it could be in the form of the local church, or it could be in the form of some other kind of ministry, you know, maybe it's a ministry, a specialized ministry for children, maybe it's a specialized ministry for the youth, for the adults, for married couples, for the elderly, you know, you could have many different kinds of ministries and we will, you know, talk about some of these things. So whether it's a local church or whether it's a ministry, but if it's, if we want to have something sustained, something that has sustained impact on the city, we need to think in terms of establishing these kinds of communities of believers and nurturing, equipping them so that they can be self-sustaining and impact, you know, the city or at least part of the city for God's kingdom. Now, as we progress in talking about urban church planting, pioneering churches, pioneering new ministries in the city, one very important thing is to have God's heart for cities, God's heart for cities. That means if you are serving God in a certain city, you know, whether it's Bangalore or, you know, Kathmandu or Mysore or, you know, whichever city, Calcutta or whichever city you are in or wherever God is sending you, first thing, before even you can start thinking about strategy and methods and various kinds of ministries, first thing is, we must have God's heart for that city, right? And I want to spend some time in this chapter talking about that, it's very important. Now, even the scriptures reveal to us that God has heart for the cities. We will look at some of these verses, if we go to Matthew chapter 5, can somebody read that for us? Matthew 5, 35, I know I could quote these verses and just go on, but I think it's useful for us just to turn to them and read them, because, you know, it's very powerful, just reading the scriptures. Matthew 5 verse 35, somebody could read it please. Nor by the earth, for it is the resting place, for it is the seed, nor by the Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king. Thank you, Aaron. So Jesus, of course, is saying, you know, don't swear by anything at all. And then he, in this, as he's in this teaching, he says, nor by Jerusalem, it is the city of the great king. Think about it. He's saying Jerusalem, Jerusalem, if you look at it from a natural standpoint, it's another city, you know, like, whether you think of Bangalore or Delhi or Calcutta or New York or London or, you know, Singapore or it's another city in this geographically speaking, just another city. But he's saying this is the city of the great king, because God is identifying himself and he's saying, you know, all the cities on the earth, I'm picking that city, I have something to do with that city. It's a city of the great, it's my city. And sure enough, as we go towards the end of the book of Revelation, we see that, you know, God is going to establish his presence there in the new heavens and the new earth and the others, the heavenly city of Jerusalem coming down and being established here on earth. So God identifies himself with a city. Now that doesn't mean God is not interested in other cities on the earth. No. What we do see is that God has his eyes on every city, because wherever there people are, God is interested. And people are living in cities, large numbers of people living in cities. And when you look at some other examples in the Bible, you think about Sodom and Gomorrah, let's go to Genesis 18. Now, God was touched or God in some way was, you know, if we could use the word disturbed or unhappy about what he saw concerning Sodom and Gomorrah. So Genesis chapter 18, verses 20 and 21, somebody could read that for us, please. Genesis chapter 18, verses 20 and 21, somebody read that for us, please. And the Lord said, because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin is very great, I will go down now and see whether they have done all together, according to the outcry against it, that have come to me. And if not, I will know. So Genesis 18, 20, 21 is telling us that God is concerned about the sins of the city, right? And God takes notice. Now, don't get too caught up with the language here. And it tells us, you know, God is saying, I'm going to go and look at it to see if it is so or not. Don't worry about that language because God is omniscient and he doesn't have to, you know, come and visit every city in order to check things out. In one instant, at the same time, he knows what is happening across the whole world. The point that I want to emphasize here is that God is interested and God is observant. God is seeing what is happening in the city. He knows the sin or the sinfulness and it is coming up before God. He's not, you know, ignorant of what's happening in the city. So in our city or in the cities that each one of you are living in, if God was to look over your city, what's he going to see? What is the predominant thing in happening in that city? And God is saying, what would that be that, you know, rises up before that city? Now, this is about Sodom and Gomorrah. Another city many of us are familiar because of the story of Jonah is the city of Nineveh. And so let's just go across to the Old Testament Book of Jonah and just look at, you know, a very similar view of Jonah, or sorry, of the city of Nineveh. Can somebody read that for us, please? I'll look for the Book of Jonah. Jonah chapter one, we're going to read the beginning and the closing verses here. Jonah chapter one verse one and two. And then also we're going to look at Jonah chapter four verse ten and level. Jonah chapter one verse one and two, I'll read it faster. Go ahead, please. The Lord gave this message to Jonah, son of Amitya, get up and go to the great city of Nineveh. Announce my judgment against it, because I have seen how wicked its people are. Then Jonah chapter four verse ten and eleven. All right. Then the Lord said, you feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It come quickly and died quickly, but never has more than 120,000 people living in the spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn't I feel sorry for such a great city? So the Book of Jonah is a very, very small book. Just a few chapters there. Of course, you know, we can look at it by focusing on Jonah, the man, the prophet, God had called to go and deliver a message to the city. But we can also look at it from God's view of Nineveh. The opening verses, which we just read, God says, you know, look, the wickedness has come before me. It means that, like we had just mentioned, even about Sodom and Gomorrah, God is very observant. God is very aware of what's happening in the city. And he's saying that their wickedness, you know, has come up before me, meaning it is alarming. It's got my attention. And I want a messenger. I want somebody to go in and speak to them. Now, of course, Jonah, you know, the story of Jonah, when you come to the end of that book in Jonah chapter four, verse 10 and 11, is Jonah feels more sorry about, you know, his own personal condition and what's happened to the plant that gave him shade and so on. And God is saying to Jonah, aren't you concerned on this great city? So Jonah's worried about his condition, about his situation, about the plant and so on. But he didn't seem to have any concern for the city itself. And so God is asking Jonah, now remember Jonah was sent as a messenger of God. He was sent to bring a message from God. But somehow he lost sight of the people to whom he was bringing the message. He lost sight of the city to whom he was sent. And he was so taken up by his situation, his condition, and the thing that was of usefulness to him. That's what he was concerned about. He forgot about the city. He forgot about the people. And in conclusion, the very last verse, God is telling Jonah, Jonah, for me, for me, I'm looking at Nineveh, the city. I'm looking at the thousands of people there. I'm looking at this 120,000 people. I'm looking all the people there and not to mention all the livestock. And that's what I'm concerned about. So the thing that I want to highlight here is, you know, what God wants us to have is his heart for the city. Now how wonderful it would have been if Jonah was able to look at things that we God was looking at things. But, you know, he'd forgotten all or he'd just missed all that. And we should not let that happen to us. We are messengers of God. We are bringing his word over here, carrying out his ministry in the city. And in doing that, we shouldn't be so focused on ourselves or on the things that are important to us. I'm not saying don't take care of yourself. We need to take care of ourselves. There are things that will be important to us. We need to attend to it. Yes. But don't lose sight of the city and the people in it. Learn to have God's heart for the city. So a prayer that I pray often is God, what do you want for this city? How do you want us to serve the city? How do you want us to, you know, reach people in this city? What do you want us to do in this city? I pray the same thing about our nation and the nation. It's God, what do you want us to do in the city of Bangalore? What do you want us to do in India? What do you want us to do for the nations? Because we need to be able to see things the way God is saying. Otherwise, like Jonah, we'll be only focused on our situation, our condition, and the little things that are of importance or usefulness to us. And we forget that the reason God has placed us in the city is to be His voice to the city, to be His ministers to the city. We could easily get, you know, forget that. So I want to help, you know, just remind us that throughout our journey of ministry, we must make sure that we have God's heart for the city. In Luke 19, let's go to Luke 19. We see something very interesting in the ministry of Jesus. We will read verses 41 to 44. Luke 19 verses 41 to 44. Somebody could read that out for us, please. Maybe somebody who hasn't read yet so far. Luke 19 verses 41 to 44. Somebody could read that. As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it and said, If you even, if you even you had only known on this day what would bring you peace, but now it is hidden from your eyes. The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. They will dash you to the ground. You and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you. Verse 41 is very, thank you. Thank you for reading that. Verse 41 is very, very touching. It says, Jesus drew close to the city, a city of Jerusalem. He saw the city, so he looked over it, considered all that was happening and he wept over it. He wept over the city. That's very touching. I wonder whether we weep over the cities in which we live. Has there been a time when you saw your city and I say saw your city means just consider in your mind's eye you can you know just have a bird's eye view or you know an overview of your city and as you see your city, does it move you? Does it move you to tears? Do you weep over your city? Because Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem and this is one record for us here. We don't know if he wept over the city many times. We don't know if he also wept over some of the other cities where he went to minister too. This was just one record for us. It's showing us his heart for the city. I want to you know encourage us that we should be such people who have a heart for the city and the city should move us, should move our hearts. God I must do something here. God something must it needs to happen in our city. The city is so big and so many millions of people and they need to hear the gospel. They need to know Jesus. They need they are going through difficulties. They need help. I mean there's so many things that and these things should move our heart. Now sometimes we can get very hard towards the city meaning the problems with the city can really aggravate us, make us angry. You know the roads are bad. There is no order. A lot of heavy traffic, a lot of congestion. You know all kinds of things we can complain about pollution. We can complain about different things and sometimes you know when you look at all these negative things we tend to become hard towards the city. You know we don't care about the city because all these problems man I have to put up with all these things. Well I'm living here but I want us to be careful about that and instead of being hardened towards the city may we have a very tender heart towards our city or we can cry or we can weep over the city and we can say God what do you want us to do for the city. Now if you examine this passage a little bit more carefully you know we could ask ourselves a question you know why did Jesus weep over the city of Jerusalem. Of course there are many unsaid things that means there could be many other things than what is stated here which would have moved his heart to weep over the city of Jerusalem. But if you go by what has been stated here in these verses that we read why do you think Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem and I just want to hear your thoughts. Why do you think Jesus wept over the city of Jerusalem. You could just unmute your mic and say speak if you want. Something different and something wrong happened over there. When you say something different and meaning can you explain that a little bit for us please. Something different sir like the church Jerusalem the church it was over there the temple oppressed and they were like sailing some different different things you know but that that is place for worshiping. All right so you're okay okay you're looking at yeah you're looking at verses 40 and 46 right like when Jesus sees the temple he's the synagogue and in this case the temple in Jerusalem he sees people buying and selling and okay yes I'm sure that would have that did affect his you know his him emotionally and we know what happened was 45 to 48 event and he you know draw out the people were buying and selling okay that could be a part of why he wept but if you look at these verses that we've read in the passage we did what do we see what you're saying is valid and what you said is valid that he must have been moved and affected by you know all the people buying and selling in the temple actually he they didn't recognize the day that's what it mentioned only was what we read if you only could recognize that this day please right they failed to recognize the Jesus yeah so Jesus weeping over the city because you know it's like God has come to you to the city here and they just are not able to recognize it they are missing out on their day of visitation God has come to visit them they don't know God's come and therefore they're losing out on the things that would make for their peace you know the things that would bless them bring them peace they can't see it the eyes are blinded and and and and so Jesus is weeping over the city because they're really missing out on what God is doing for the people in the city the people in the city cannot recognize it and that's what's touching moving his heart you know so and so he weeps over the city so really it's the spiritual blindness if you want to sum it up with one word or you know a statement the spiritual blindness of the people in the city moved his heart and he's weeping because they're not able to see they're not even recognized what God is doing in their midst they're blinded and therefore they're missing out on things that would make for their peace and and then they're actually going to face destruction right so he's moved by that the underlying issue is spiritual blindness so what I just want to say is you know when we see the spiritual condition of our cities of course there are a lot of other natural things you know the city could have a lot of natural problems social problems social tensions all of that and those are real issues I'm not indicating that but when we see the spiritual condition of our city like Jesus did can we weep over that you know will that does that move us the spiritual condition of the cities in which we live so you know we're going to stop here and we will take this forward tomorrow but I want us to you know I just want to leave us with this thought and say God give me your heart for the city in which I am in help me to see the city with your eyes in like how God saw Sodom and Gomorrah he saw Ninevah he saw the people like Jesus saw the city of Jerusalem and then God give me your heart may I be able to may I be moved by the spiritual condition of the city the the fact that people are not able to see the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ the fact that people their eyes are blinded they don't know the gospel the things that could bring them peace things that could heal them things that could deliver them things that could make them whole they don't know God opened my eyes God moved my heart for this about this okay I want us to just take a few moments to pray before we close this class we're going to talk more on this tomorrow and can somebody pray for us you know each one of us are in various cities around India and Davis and Kathmandu and there would be students on our e-learning portal who would be from various parts of the world who would listen to this lecture and can somebody just pray and say God help give us your heart for the cities in which you have placed us and called us to serve you could somebody pray for us and then dismiss please thank you father for giving us this um privilege to study church urban church planting Lord Lord as we as you have called us to be your voice to the nation to see the whites Lord Lord as we journey with this course and go more deeper Lord for each day help us to be more sensitive Lord Father with this spirit and Lord give us your zeal Lord Father give us give us the zeal in fullness Lord Father to study the care for the worldwide and Lord Lord Lord I pray for the pastor Lord Father Lord keep him a fresh revelation of Father as as he will prepare each and every single day Lord Father to teach us and Lord Lord Father I pray for each every single one of us that Lord Father I believe that Lord Father you will give us your heart Lord Father thank you so much for for your love Lord Father and Lord Father open up I open our spiritual I heart Lord Father to Mr. Peter Lord Father in Jesus most precious in my prayer amen amen amen thank you Aaron thank you everyone for being part of the class today and we will see you again tomorrow enjoy the rest of your day enjoy