 Everyone, welcome back to the second session. As we continue in chapter five, what makes a local church strong? We covered the importance of having a vision and being able to communicate that vision with your team and your congregation, and the importance of emphasizing on the word and the spirit, having a good balance, and five key focus areas to strengthen the local church. One is evangelism, discipleship, prayer, and worship, fellowship, equipping for ministry, saying it's being equipped for ministry, and the importance of preparing for pulpit ministry. How do you, as the leaders of a church, which at whatever capacity that you're functioning as a leader, the seriousness, and the importance and the significance of preparing for pulpit ministry? The last statement that says there was each time we minister, we are nurturing people into one of these five areas, and so we have to make it count. So moving on to page 36 in your notes, how to continue to strengthen the local church, or one of the things what makes a local church strong, another aspect is a church where people are of one heart and one mind. Someone mentioned unity. John mentioned unity, but here we are. First Corinthians, Paul writes to the Corinthians. He says, now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you may be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in same judgment. Mark 3.25 says, and if a house is divided against itself, the house cannot stand. Is there anything about unity that can be said that hasn't already been said? We all understand the significance, the importance of unity and the damage that it can cause when there is no unity, wherever, whichever team that you're part of, be a team at church or at work, wherever, right? Schools, colleges, if you're part of a team and if the team is not in sync, then it's not going to look nice. At the moment, the football team that I support is, they have united in the name, but they are not united at all. So it's a pretty bad scene at the moment. So unity is powerful, isn't it? Again, so in his letter to the Corinthians, he's Paul is saying to the believers at Corinth to speak the same thing, to be of the same mind, to flow together in perfect unison and to ensure that there are no divisions among them. Now, one of the things that we need to keep in mind is unity is not uniformity. There's a difference. We're not going to do a word study right now, but I'm just putting it out there. Unity is not uniformity. So I said one of the things he mentions is to flow together in perfect unison. Now, if you are all part of a choir, now, if you've ever been part of a choir, we can all sing in unison. That means we can all sing just one part. And all there are four-part harmonies that you can sing in a choir. So there are the sopranos, the altos, the tenors, sometimes the baritones, and then the bass. And if I'm sure we've all at least heard a choir sing, they're all singing the same song, but they are singing in different harmony, different pitches, but it all sounds like one beautiful thing, isn't it? And so that's why I said, okay, unity is not necessarily uniformity. It can look very different, but there's something beautiful about it, right? So as pastors and leaders, we must teach people to be of one heart and one mind. Okay, it always, whatever it is, guys, whichever culture that you're wanting to set, it always flows from the top. Okay, water always flows down. You never see a water flowing going up, isn't it? The river always flows down. So everything, every culture that wants to be set has to come down from the leadership. If this is what you want to see as a senior pastor of your church, it has to come from you, right? Because that's how it is. And we know about this from the scriptures as well, from the Old Testament, when you read about it in, say, in 1 Chronicles chapter 16 and 15, when all the Levites and the priests, it says they were all gathered together and they sang in one voice and everyone played together as one. And then you see the time and time again in Solomon's temple as well, when they lifted up their voice as one. And then come fast forward to Book of Acts chapter 2. They were gathered together in one accord, in one mind, then God moved. God shows up. He manifests himself where there is unity among people. And so of everything that we are trying to accomplish with our church by strengthening them, unity is, to say the least, it's important, right? You have to just work towards building that. You have to constantly encourage people to work in teams, to work together to combine each other's strengths, et cetera, and whatnot, okay? And that's not easy because a bunch of individuals, we have our own characters, we have the things that we like, things that we don't like and whatnot. But that's where teamwork comes into play. So there are so many resources online that you already know in terms of leadership, in terms of teamwork, if you have to say some teamwork activities, just do it, just to build that unity, that oneness amongst each other, right? And in the notes, it says a lot depends on the pastor or leader. If the pastor or leader himself or herself is insecure, puts people down, is divisive in nature, works by manipulation, operates by a divide and rule approach, backbites, controls, slanders people, the local church will be a reflection of this. Amen. Right? It all comes down, it all depends on the leader, it starts with the leader, okay? So unity in the church is crucial for the strengthening of a local church. And the next thing is the church that is equipping and releasing people into their God appointed function. We've already read this before in Ephesians chapter four verse 11 and 12, it says, And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. And so one of the objective of the five-fold ministry gifts is for the equipping of the saints. It's one of the objectives and it's a very key objective. It's growing in maturity. And I've said that so many, many times, isn't it? And new believers need to be discipled and then equipped to become ministers of God. New believers cannot stay as new believers. I was just teaching about the Tabernacle of Moses to the third years, how the Tabernacle of Moses has the gates, the outer courts, the inner courts and the holy of holies. Most of us enter through the gate. Jesus says, I am the gate. He enters through the gate and we are in the outer courts. We are satisfied being in the outer courts. We don't wanna go into the inner courts. And then some of us will choose to go to the inner courts and then not really progress into the holy of holies, right? I think like most of us, it is possible that we are just very satisfied and content at being the outer court Christian believers while there is an invitation for us to go all the way in to the holy of holies, right? So that is all about equipping the saints, just taking them saying like, hey, there is more. Let's go all the way past the outer courts into the most holy place, okay? And the next section is talking about a church that is relevant to the world it is in, relevant to the world that it is in. So guys, we all know the time that we are living in. Yes? You all are aware of the time that we are living. Day and age, so to speak. How can the church be relevant in today's day and day? Another question, sorry. Do you think the church is relevant in this day and age? Yes, no, maybe. Is that a hard question, guys? Can I try? Yeah, sure Isaac, yeah, go ahead. Yes, I think the church is relevant or should be relevant for the teaching of morals and religious standards. I think the church is relevant. Okay, all right, thank you. All right, and what else? Some churches are, but some are not, okay? Is the church relevant today? If yes, how? If no, what can we do to be relevant? I believe church is relevant today, reason being people are in need, people are losing their faith in God or faith in themselves. And church is the only place where they can come in a relationship with God to find the ultimate purpose of the lives. So church is ever important, especially at this time and age. Okay, yeah, thanks, Jackie. Anything else guys, what else? Yes, like John was saying, the church is relevant or should be relevant because as we already know, we have two worlds. The moral world that is the kingdom of God and then the kingdom of darkness that is the king of the world. And like John was saying, people are more nowadays, people are going more towards materials, the things of the world, they are so driven. So the church should be a background factor again to bring people back to the kingdom of God. That's my belief, thank you. Thank you Isaac, thank you. Thank you. Oh, what else? I am still waiting on. Sid, did you raise your hand? Yes, Pastor. Pastor, I would like to share something. Like, I don't know what the Bangalore culture, but in Delhi, there is a mixed crowd. Means the old people who are coming from that old kind of Christianity background, they are like very much strong in their belief. But the young generation, they are coming to them, it looks like a very dramatic thing. Like when there is a manifestation of Holy Spirit and all to the young people, it looks like it is our old drama. But to the people who are old from old backgrounds, they think like it is the manifestation of Holy Spirit, science wonders and miracles are happening. So what is my perspective in that? To the younger generations, the church may not be that relevant as it is relevant to the old people. Okay. Yeah, like young people, they are not able to relate it as they should. Okay. So I think the topic of being relevant all comes down to how do we teach and share about the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy Spirit in a way that it is relevant because we can't compromise and say, okay, just because they are thinking it's weird, we can't say, okay, I'm not gonna teach or preach on it. So I mean, I think we kind of get a picture of what Sid was saying, isn't it? It's in 1 Corinthians, chapter nine, verse 19 and 23. Hey, thanks Sid for sharing that. So 1 Corinthians nine, 19 to 23 says, for though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all that I might win the more. And to the Jews, I became as a Jew that I might win Jews to those who are under the law as under the law that I might win those who are under the law to those who are without law as without law, not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ that I might win those who are without law. To the weak I became as weak that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for gospel's sake that I may be partaker of it with you. Right, so in the notes it says, God speaks in the language of the people whom he is speaking to. Okay, that's a very significant line there. God speaks in the language of the people whom he is speaking to. Okay, so we can go to pause and just say, okay, if God is the ancient of days, right? He's from everlasting to everlasting, he is God. Think about the number of generations that he has seen go before us, the current generation, the ways that he's spoken to them, the things that he's seen them do and learn and minister and whatnot. Nothing can take God by surprise or no generation, Gen X, Y, Z or Z can take God by surprise. He is not shaken or he is not taken by surprise. He's not moved with anxiety or whatnot. Okay, oh boy, here comes generation Z. They are all into technology and phones and whatnot. What are we gonna do? He's not moved or shaken. He's still God and he is a spirit of wisdom. He knows how to speak to this generation, every generation in the language that they speak. And so that's where the Apostle Paul in describing how he went about ministry essentially sums it up. I have become all things to all men that I might by all means save some. And so the message Bible says this, even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, just please follow along with me, as I read that one more time, even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people, religious, non-religious, meticulous, moralists, lose living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized, whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ. That's very important, those lines. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ, but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into God saved life. Right? So Paul attempted to communicate in a way that the people whom he was trying to reach would understand the gospel and also see it in him. Now this kind of wisdom and knowledge can only come from God. When you're trying to address so many different groups of people, communities of people, I mean, think about the list of people that he's mentioned there. To the Jews, he became a Jew. To the Gentiles, he became a Gentiles. To the poor, he became a poor. It's easy for us to just say, okay, Jew, he became a Jew. Gentile, he became a Gentile. Just think about it. Jews had their way of lifestyle, their way of living. They believed in certain things. Like this is what you have to do when you wake up in the morning and this is what you have to do before you go to bed. So every community or group will have their own way of living a life, isn't it? And for Paul to say that, okay, I kept my core strong. That means I did not, like the message says, I kept my bearings in Christ. I did not take on their way of life, but I became relevant so that I can save people from every group, every community, right? So it's important for us to be relevant, guys, because the world around us is changing and while we don't change the message of the gospel, the way we communicate or share the gospel has to change our progress, right? So the local church has to be relevant in the community that it is in. Are you guys with me? Anything else that you'd like to add? Okay, right, and page 38 and 39 as one big point, it talks about a church that is raising up leaders, a church that is raising up leaders in Galatians 2, verse nine, it says, and when James, Caiaphas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that had been given to me, they gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised, okay? So this point is talking about, and this I wanna talk about this and the next point is about leaders are the pillars in the house of God, raising up leaders. We saw how the deacons came about, right? The deacons and elders and they're all nothing but leaders in their own way, isn't it? And we also saw, okay, to serve people better, we need to raise leaders, a spiritful leader. So they went and found the deacons who can serve food and whatnot, and then elders. And so what they were doing is that they were raising up leaders. And so in your church, where God places you and where God has placed you, it cannot be a one-man show, right? It simply cannot be a one-man show because you will not last long. Right, okay, I'm the founder of this church. I'm gonna do everything because I want people to see me. I want people to know about me. It's gotta be only about me because I want everybody to see how hardworking I am. I mean, it's not gonna last long if you don't raise leaders, raising up leaders, raising good leaders is very important and it takes time, right? It takes time, it takes time that you meet with those leaders. You recognize them and then you begin to nurture them, right? Coming back to that word is where we nurture them, okay? So what will happen is that if we don't raise leaders, if you come down to page 39, for example, you'll read this passage of scripture in Judges chapter two verse seven to 11, it says, so the people serve the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord which he had done for Israel. Now, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord died when he was 110 years old and they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnahires in the mountain of Ephraim on the north side of Mount Gash when all that generation had been gathered to their fathers, one generation arose after them who did not know the Lord, nor the work which he had done for Israel. Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and served the Baals, right? So we simply put, if we don't raise a generation of next leaders, just like what we read in Judges chapter two, we will lose an entire generation to the kingdom of the world. And so we need to echo, we need to train, and that's what discipleship is all about, isn't it? You equip them and then you teach them about the word of God, you teach them about who this God is and you raise them up, you make them better people, you build them as leaders, you raise them up in your church and then so that they can follow and have that continuity, right? And just about at the bottom of page 38, it talks about this passage of scripture from 2 Timothy 2, 1 and 2, right? It says, you, therefore my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Okay, so just as Paul invested into Timothy, and he is encouraging Paul, okay, just as I've done with you, you do with those whom you see fit, who are faithful, you teach them. And so they will also continue to teach others also. So the continuity is very important. What happens to your ministry after you are gone, right? So that's the end of chapter five. I want to leave with that. And, but I just want to pause here and ask, is there any questions guys, do you have any questions, any thoughts that you want to share? It is one of the points that I just remembered on talking about relevancy is we all know about Billy Graham, wonderful evangelist. In the, I think it was about somewhere in 92 or 93, he invited Michael W. Smith to come in a lead worship in his crusade, one of his crusade. And there was a lot of opposition for that. It was like, why are you inviting Michael W. Smith? I mean, although he was a Christian artist, it was his music Michael W. Smith back then, 93 was almost how many years ago, 30, 40 years ago. It was very young and upcoming musician, artist, worship leader and whatnot. And his people, his team were wondering, why are you inviting Michael W. Smith? We are old school, just sing some hymns and move on. But Billy Graham saw that, okay, to be relevant to the young audience, he knew that, okay, they would come to the music that is relevant of that day and age. And so he had Michael W. Smith lead worship. So there are so many ways that you can be relevant to reach out to the generation that you want to reach out to. Okay, this chapter six is the conclusion of section one. It talks about church growth principles. Okay, some of the principles that we can follow for church growth, okay? We've spoken about the word growth, you know, the meaning of it and what it means for you and the importance of it and how God looks at growth and how growth is God's idea. And we know that God's ideas are always good. That means growth is a good thing, right? God desires all of us to be fruitful. The father is glorified when we are fruitful. That's the first line of chapter six, right? The father is glorified when we are fruitful. John 15 verse eight, it says, by this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit. So you will be my disciples, okay? By this my father is glorified that you bear much fruit, okay? And so one of the aspects in which the local church must be fruitful is in continuously winning people to the Lord and growing in numbers. One aspect, okay? It's very important, those first two words. One aspect in which the local church must be fruitful, okay? Some of us, it is possible to read it as the only aspect in which the local church must be fruitful. No, it's one of the aspects, one of many, okay? The local church must be fruitful, is in continuously winning people to the Lord and growing in numbers. Okay, so some of the principles in this chapter are put together by the key principles by Yungi Cho. A Yungi Cho, David Yungi Cho is a co-founder and the senior pastor of a Yoydo Full Gospel Church in Seoul, Korea, right? I mean, he started that in 1958, guys. And by the way, I've heard my grandma talking about David Paul Yungi Cho coming to go to KJF Kolar Goldfield, I mean, that's another town close to Bangalore, it's to us from Bangalore and whatnot, have crusades there and you can imagine how young I was when, and if he started churches in 1958, yeah, he'd be big, but at the time I was born. So he started, it says, in a tent with only five members and within 30 years, his church, his congregation grew up to 800,000 people and that's pretty huge, right? And there are a lot of his workshops, his seminars on YouTube, guys. Once again, I would encourage you to make time to listen to him, it's very encouraging. He's one of the generals, God's generals, I would say, in the kingdom, right? So some of the principles that's mentioned are taken from some of his teachings, right? The first thing, what he mentions is have a vision of a large growing church. We just spoke about vision, isn't it? What makes a local church strong? The first thing is vision. And what's the first principle for a growing church? Vision, okay? Oh, is this amazing, isn't it? The emphasis on vision. So the church grows through your visions and dreams, he says. So it says, church grows starts in your heart, okay? The church growth starts in your heart, starts with a vision in your heart. You already have a vision of what your church should look like, you know, how big your church should look like, whatever, okay, it should have this, so on, so on. So you already have an edge in your heart, you already have a blueprint up here, right? And so that's when you see it come into fruition, right? So the church grows through your visions and dreams. He goes on to say that it is not that you that makes the vision, but it is the vision that makes you. So when you have the Holy Spirit inspired vision in your heart, then the vision is going to make you. The vision will change you, okay? So Romans chapter four verse 17 says, what you can see, you can handle. God calls things that are not as though they are. We all know that scriptures, right? In Genesis 13, it says, what you can see, you can have. God told Abraham, the land which you can see, I will give to you, okay? The land that you can see a vision, basically have a revelation of, okay? So there's also, by the way, the huge difference between sight and vision, okay? So right now I'm able to see everything that is in front of me. I have a sight, although it is, it can be misinterpreted as vision. There's a partly truth, I do have vision, but I also have sight. What it is, is sight. Vision is much more different than sight, okay? So to get a God-given vision for your ministry, because guys, we say for your ministry, what God's called you to do, think about it. It's his work at the end of the day, right? If God's called you to do into ministry for something to save the lost or to go into missions and whatnot, it doesn't become your thing. You're sure that you're calling, but it is his work. So, you know, it's, he's the boss, and he's the one who has to give you the plans, the strategies, okay, hey, this is my work, this is my project, you know, this is how you ought to do it and whatnot. So it's so important for us to lean into his heart, get the vision, the heartbeat from him, from the Holy Spirit for us to do his work, the work of his kingdom here on earth, right? Okay, the second principle is have a strong burning desire for a large growing church, okay? Have a strong burning desire for a large growing church. Your desire gives power to the vision and your vision increases your desire, okay? Your vision, your desire gives power to the vision and your vision increases your desire. When you have desire, you would pray day in and day out and you will work tirelessly. Would you guys agree, you know, what is a power of desire? You think having desire is important to feed your vision and vice versa, yeah? Yeah, desire, I'm just thinking, yeah, desire is something like thirst for water, that unless you get it, you won't be satisfied, surrounding after it, you need to get it to, just to survive at least. Yeah, yeah, I'm just looking at the stories of words and the progression of those words, is your desire gives power to the vision, okay? I wanna share an example where it's just so silly and can be so funny, but please forgive me. Maybe it's just my, okay. So your desire gives power to the vision. Say for example, I mean, I'm saying this because, okay, this is the person who goes to the gym, who wants to go to the gym, okay? At the moment, it looks very different, but then he's had a vision of how he should look like he or she should look like, okay? Like, yeah, I gotta lose that one pack and get a six pack. That's the desire, right? And so he's gonna say, okay, I gotta lose this one pack and have that six pack. And so he has the vision and so he's gonna move in that desire to just work out, lose all the fat, and then the second part of the statement says, your vision increases your desire. So you've been working out, you've been consistent, you've been disciplined in what you eat, you've been disciplined in your working out schedule every day, et cetera, et cetera. And then, okay, you're seeing change and you're seeing a difference in the way that your body is transforming. And that increases your desire. It's like, okay, I can see this, okay, there's a little bit of change. I can see my tummy is almost flat now and that's increasing my desires. Like, okay, this is just some more hard work. Let me get to that thing, okay? So I told you guys, okay, it's a silly, funny example. So, but then I relate to it, okay? So when you have the desire, you will pray day in and day out and you will work tirelessly. So have a strong burning desire. And one of the things I've learned about desire is that for us to desire more of him, only he can give us that desire. Because in my flesh, I can only desire so much of God. But it is my spirit man, you know, when that can long for more of him. And that desire, that spiritual hunger, that divine hunger and desire can only be birthed in me by the Holy Spirit, okay? So that's one of the principles and engage in continuous prayer and spiritual warfare. We must be a praying church. That's one of the points that we spoke about, isn't it? And how to have a strong church, a strong local church is engage in continuous prayer and spiritual warfare. Don't be shy about teaching or preaching on the topic of spiritual warfare. Equipping your church and the congregation on this topic is very important because we are in the middle of a war, if you like it or not, okay? So we ought to know everything about spiritual warfare, there is to know. And okay, so the first thing, have a vision. This is some of the key principles for a growing church, okay? Have a vision and then have a burning desire. Let your church be a praying church. And then that should lead to, for us having a strong faith in God, right? We must be determined to stand in faith to see the vision fulfilled because it's going to be challenges. There has to be challenges. There are going to be shortcomings. They're going to be good days. They're going to be bad days. They're going to be really, really bad days where you feel like giving up and not do anything, you know, just go up basically. But then that's when faith is key, right? Faith is the substance of things we hope for and the evidence of things we do not see, right? Like what is mentioned in the notes, it says faith is not an emotion. You may not feel it, but faith is a choice. Right? There's this APC publications called Speak Your Faith. It's again available for a free download. It's all about declaring your faith, the importance of declaring. And so get your hands on that book if you can. It's available for free. It's called Speak Your Faith. So you must speak your faith, call things that do not exist as though they did. Right? So when you are discouraged, you don't know what to do, a way to go for, what not declare, right? The one who's started a good work in me is faithful enough to finish it, okay? So call it out. Don't lose faith. Declare and speak your faith, right? And have a close fellowship with the Holy Spirit. That's again to have an intimate relationship because intimacy is not a product of what do I say? Cosmetics, right? Holiness is not a fruit or a result of cosmetics. Like for example, you don't become holy or righteous by wearing white shirt and white pants and not growing beard or not wearing any jewellery, et cetera, et cetera. Right? Intimacy and holiness is a result of communion with God, a fellowship with the Holy Spirit, right? One person who was talking about ministry and holiness, he said, what's the first name of the Holy Spirit? The first name is holy, right? He is holy and he's inviting us to be holy and he makes us holy, right? And so it's, and that's when, I mean, anytime, even you're in a formal conversation, you always address them by Mr. Last Name, whatever, right? In different countries, it's different. Some countries it's their first name or last name, but to develop the close relationship with the Holy Spirit, we need to lean on him, for him to empower us to live a holy life. That's the importance of having a close fellowship with the Holy Spirit for the growth of the church, because it is the Holy Spirit that builds the church, right? It is the Holy Spirit that builds the church, right? So some of the pointers that's mentioned here is at the bottom of page 42. First, we must develop a fellowship with the Holy Spirit by spending time with the Holy Spirit to listen to him and share our feelings and thoughts. Secondly, we must develop a partnership with the Holy Spirit and all our activities. Invite him as a partner in everything you do in your day-to-day lives. Don't compartmentalize and say, okay, I'm doing this, I can't have you in what I am doing right now. If you're, I'm preparing for the Bible College lecture, I make him a partner with me, okay, teach me, you know, or going to the store to pick up milk or whatnot, okay, come, let's take a walk. You know, the Benny Hinn's old book, Good Morning, Holy Spirit, it's about inviting, making him a partner in our day, in our everyday life is crucial. Thirdly, we should facilitate the transportation of the Holy Spirit to bring the love and the grace of God to us, to take our prayers and supplications to him. We pray through him and we pray in this spirit, we allow him to minister to us. We allow him to bring, to reveal the love of God and the grace of God to us. And finally, we should always remember that we are united with the Holy Spirit. We are no longer individuals apart from the Holy Spirit. Once we are, as soon as we are born again Christians, we are united with the Holy Spirit. We are united with the spirit of God. It is moving down to page 43, four step process of incubation or birthing of vision given by the Holy Spirit. Four step process or incubation of vision given by the Holy Spirit says, first incubation must be done in the context of an intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit and in faith. Secondly, we should ask for clear cut objectives. Third, pray for assurance. Fourth, when we are assured we must give thanks to God and positively proclaim everything through our mouth. Okay, so this is how we seek for vision, right? Because the church growth does not depend on our human capabilities and strategy. Church growth is more than a series of ideas, principles and techniques. Since the church belongs to the Holy Spirit, the church can only grow if the vision comes from the Holy Spirit. And the foundation and the core of it is all very simple is that we as leaders and pastors and ministers of God are to spend time with Him, to get to know Him at what pleases His heart and what are His plans for your city, for your country, for the place where God's placed you. That's key, right? And preach to demonstrate God's power preach. Your preaching must bring heaven to earth. And not compromising preaching on the word of God. So understand the difference between prosperity and greed. Prosperity is God's blessing to His children to meet their needs, to glorify God and to bless others. Greed is characteristic of the devil. So your preaching must meet people's needs right now through Jesus Christ. We must preach and minister forgiveness, healing, casting out devils, feeding the hungry, everything that represents the kingdom of God. And it finally talks about His principle about the cell groups, equip and engage believers in ministry, okay? Once again, we come down to this point which we've spoken about so much in Ephesians 412 is equipping the saints. It's all about equipping the saints. You raise leaders, you equip the saints and it's like your church will grow by itself, right? And this is all about, this last point, principle is about, he's talking about the cell system that the Yongecho's church followed which was started in 1964. It's a cell system, cell group, we call it life groups in church. On the website, you will see the life groups, like the life of the church. That's where people of the, people, members of the church are equipped, once again, disciple. The way it functions at APC is in our life groups, we once again meditate on the Sunday sermon of what was taught, right? So, and that there's a small group, devotional questions and whatnot. And a lot of things happen in a life group, right? That's where fellowship happens. Every core aspects that we discussed, right? Prayer and worship, evangelism, discipleship, fellowship, saints are being equipped. Everything happens in a cell group and the more cell groups, our life groups are organized better, the growth of the church will also happen, right, naturally or organically, so to speak, right? And so just as a conclusion, we can say that the church growth is only a by-product. When the church really becomes the church of the Holy Spirit, which develops an intimate communion with the Holy Spirit, when the church is a praying church and a fourth dimensional church, when the church takes care of the needs of the people, when the church becomes the church of spiritual blessings, material blessings and blessings in health, and when the church is a lay people and a cell system-centered church, the church will certainly grow, okay? So these are some of the principles from the teachings of David Yong-Hee Cho. And there are some books that are suggested in page 45 for you to read. Yeah, so that's the end of chapter six as well guys. So chapter five and chapter six are kind of connected, actually this whole section, right now when you look at it from the hindsight, every chapter makes sense and every chapter is so much in sync. And that's why there's so many points repeated over and over again. And so many recurring themes like equipping the saints and the intimacy with God, listening to the Holy Spirit, having a vision, there are so many points that are repeated and don't ignore those points. I think it's a very crucial for the growth of the church, wherever you, you know, God's planted you to be, okay? Right, so hope you all are still alive, everybody's doing good. Thanks for joining in. Thanks for being awake. Stop the recording now and I'll see you all once again next week. All right, you guys have a lovely weekend. God bless you all. Thank you, Master.