 All right. Good morning, everyone. Good morning to our students online as well. All right. So let's begin this session with a word of prayer. Let's pray. I'll then we'll start our discussions. Father, we thank you so much for this time that you've given us Lord and even as we've come together to study, learn your word, pray Holy Spirit that you will speak to our hearts, minister to our Lord, teach us, lead us and guide us. We pray God that everything we learn will minister to our hearts. Speak to us and Lord, we thank you for this wonderful time Lord. In Jesus name we pray. No, we can hear. Okay. I'm not sure if everyone heard everyone here with the audio key for everyone else. Okay. Okay. All right. So let's begin with today's session. Last class we looked at the responsibilities of a pastor, right? And we took up points from 1st and 2nd Timothy and Titus as well. For those of you who missed the class, I posted the notes for that chapter on the classroom on the stream. So please you can go ahead and download it, go through that. Right. Today we'll talk a little bit about the rewards of the pastor, right? Now, when we look through scriptures, we see that the Lord Jesus teaches us all through old and the New Testament. We see that our God is a God who is just, right? Grace is free. Rewards are different, right? Always say this. Apostle Paul's reward and somebody else's reward, maybe a person who's just a few years in the Lord. The rewards are going to be different, right? Paul writes about it in the book of Corinthians, in his letter to the Corinthians. Let's just read that portion. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 10 onwards. Yes, would anyone like to read that? 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verses 10 to 15. According to the grace of God, which was given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid a foundation and another builds on it, but let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one's work will become clear. For the day will declare it because it will be revealed by fire and the fire will test each one's work of what sort it is. If anyone's work which he has built on it and yours, he will receive a reward. If anyone's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved yet so as through fire. Yes, so here Paul is talking about, if we study the book of revelations, he's talking about the judgment seat of Christ where each one of us as believers will have to stand in front of the judgment seat of Christ and is also known as the judgment of rewards. It will be rewarded for what we did. And Paul says here, if anyone builds on a foundation which is not a strong foundation, not on the foundation of Christ, his works will be tested by fire. And so he brings this whole presentation here. He says there is gold, silver, costly stones, those three, and there's wood, hay, and straw. So it very clearly shows us here that the Lord Jesus is a God who will reward us. Now this is eternal reward. This is rewards that we will stand in front of the judgment seat of Christ. We will get rewards. We will be crowned in glory and all of that. Now many of us, we can't wait till we go to heaven. Rewards is something that we all like. We all want to be rewarded. Imagine somebody who's practiced all his life and athlete and he comes first in 100 meters and they say, hey, good job. And don't give him anything. He's not rewarded for what he has done. It's not going to serve the purpose. He may be encouraged, but for him to feel that, hey, what I have done, what I have gone through is, and this is the reward for it, it's a different joy. So each one of us in ministry will be rewarded. Rewarded in our ministry, rewarded in life, in our personal life, the way we look up the things, how we handle what God has given us. All everything is accounted for being good stewards of what God has given. Now today we look at what are the rewards of a pastor? Now as a pastor, many of us know that it is not an easy task. Paul writes to Timothy, he says, you have chosen a noble task. Now with a noble task, with responsibilities comes more responsibility. With responsibilities, we need wisdom, we need strength, we need to understand how to deal with people. All of this is there. So I'm just going to put out a few points. I know nothing is on your notes. I will post the document on the stream so you can go through it, but if you can make notes as well, go ahead and do that. Okay, what are some of the blessings or the rewards for pastors in ministry? Now remember, we know that pastoral ministry is difficult. Initially, when we start off, maybe it's exciting, we're encouraged, especially if you're pioneering a work, you're really excited. You say, oh man, I'm going to build this. I'm going to take this to another level. But over time, things will change, especially in ministry. People will start accusing you. People will start backbiting. People will have unfair criticism with you. They'll be suspicious. They won't have faith in you. Different situations that you will have to go through. Initially, when I joined, I said, oh man, nothing like pastoral ministry, all of them love each other. All of them care for each other. We're all in this beautiful world. But soon I realized that's far from the truth. We must understand that people, we all are different. Ministry is about people. And so when we are pastoring, shepherding people, people are different. If you say something to somebody, if you bring, for example, a pastor can say, hey, if you don't mind, can you be on time to church? This is an example. Now, who things can happen? And there are two kinds of people. One will say, I'm not coming to church. The other one will say, okay, pastor, this are the challenges I'm facing. I will try to come on time to do things. Now, how will you deal with that? There will be people who will say, I'm not coming. You said you told me you come at eight. I can't come at eight. I will not come. So pastoral ministry is not always a bed of roses. Meaning it's not always very easy and everyone will listen to you know, right? But there are rewards. And the rewards, of course, we see in here, we there are eternal rewards, but let's look at some of the rewards that we see in the natural. And it's wonderful. It's so encouraging to see these rewards. First one, the reward of studying and learning the Word of God. As pastors, you and I have this great joy of getting into God's Word and studying God's Word. Now, I'm not saying others don't do it, but you and I have a greater responsibility. We have this greater weight that we carry. Hey, I need to minister to people. So I need to get into God's Word. I need to share, right? There are days you will have to take your Bible and sit and read and go and meditate in God's Word and just ponder on the truth of God's Word. Go back. There are days you'll have to go look at history, geography, everything to be good ministers of God. Now, it's not a burdensome thing. The more we study God's Word, the more the blessings of God pour into our life. It's a joy. Yes or no? The question that I can ask is, how many of you are joyful to come to Bible College? Joyful? Oh, Bible College. Today I'm going to learn. And that should be the attitude. I mean, today I want to learn. There should be this joy. There should be this eagerness. And in pastoral ministry, it is a big responsibility. But with that responsibility comes the reward of God's Word getting into our heart. What happens when God's Word gets into our heart? We are transformed. We are changed. The Word exalts us and sanctifies us. It does so much to us. Now, we are preparing so that we can teach people. But we sometimes forget that what it's doing to ourself, it begins to minister to us. All of a sudden, we feel, oh, thank you, God, for speaking to me. And all of a sudden, we begin to realize, hey, God is giving me the wisdom to handle situations, to handle people, right, especially as in the pastoral ministry. Remember, initially, people may not, you know, even if it's normal things, right? Like, oh, should we put the stage here? Should we put the speakers here? Initially, people will not do that, right? People will not come and ask you, should we do this? But over time, they will come and ask. So it's not only spiritual, but there are also practical things, decisions that you have to make. When we study the Word of God, we must consider it a privilege to read God's Word and minister God's Word. It's a joy. Yes or no? Yes, right? It is a joy. Yes. Let's repeat the question. When we are talking about this joy, we should find joy in God's Word. Is there will be any time, like, for a pastor or for you, like, you don't find that in any instance because of our situations? Yes, yes, yes. So that's a good question, right? So do we at times don't feel joy? Definitely. See, we are human beings as well, right? Or, you know, getting up, praying. It's not always like we feel, oh, man, I'm so happy and joyful to be in God's Word. No. But here's the thing. We've got to push ourselves, right? We've got to tell ourselves, hey, whether I feel God or don't feel Him, whether I see the answers or don't see the answers, whether I'm in a good situation or in a bad situation. I, as a pastor, as a leader, I have to push myself to come out of that comfort zone, out of that zone of feeling, you know. So, for example, last week I was very tired. I said, oh, man, who's going to get up again three, four o'clock in the morning? Let me just wake up late. I have, everyone will want to get some good rest and just do nothing. But that feeling was like, okay, God, you know, the way you feel, right? I'm sure all of us feel that there's no joy. It's not like there's no joy, but then everything is just, it's like one straight line, okay, get up, pray, go, teach, do this, do that. And it's a natural thing. But what is happening is the more we go back, so today, I was in no mood of, you know, praying, just like, okay, God, thank you. I hardly, you know, went strong in prayer and all of that. It's just a regular prayer. But what I know is that even in those regular prayers, just these words that come out, you know, meditation of God's word, there's something that is happening inside us. So we have to push. Situations will come, challenges will come. Ups and downs will be there in the pastoral ministry. People will come up with all kinds of things, right? You know, there's this one person, not here when you were in Mangalore. This person came up to me and said, see, I think you have to work on your speaking. You speak too fast. Now, he's only two weeks in church. He came up and told me, at first I was taken aback. It's just two weeks in church when he's coming in. But I realized that, hey, if it's something that I have to take, I have to take. So there are times when not everything goes the way we want to. But for me, it was like two, three weeks. How can he say that to me, right? Sometimes you know, what all I've done, you know, do so much. I'm there for the church. And how can he say that to me? So it was very difficult for me to pray and seek God during that time. But we push forward and we say, okay, God, it's okay. And the more we do that, the more the reward is for us. The more the reward is for us, right? We're able to forgive. We're able to let go of our things that we're holding on to. So first one is studying of God's Word. Two is watching God work over a period of time, meaning seeing the fruit of your labor. Now, when we look at a farmer and he sows the seed, he's not, he's not very happy, oh, I've sowed the seed. He's happy when he sees something coming out of that seed, right? So Paul, again, he, he talks about it. He says one person sows, another person waters, and God makes it grow, right? So watching people, watching the fruit of your labor is one of the greatest rewards that you and I can have as pastors, right? I remember this one time, I don't know if I've shared this example. No, we were in Mangalore and it was, we were very, maybe 10 of us, right? And there was this young boy who was, you know, he was, there was something wrong in his attitude and his character and he was, you know, always doing weird things, right? So his mother was very concerned and we were only like about nine or 10 people in church, right? So they, they were not part of our church because they were more confident in the regional language. So they asked if you can just come and minister and remember just going there and this boy would not meet with anybody, nobody. If anyone comes home, he'll go into the room and lock the room. He would wake up at two, three a.m. and have dinner. He will cut paper and keep it on the table. In the night, he light candles and sit, right? He will write things on the wall, right? So there was some demonic kind of an oppression that was there, right? Nothing. He's not spoken to his father for years, staying in the same house. All he does is in the room. So obviously when we, mother called and when I went, the moment I rang the bell, he went into the room. I said, how can we minister to this guy? And over time, you know, we, we kept going to the house and praying. And eventually one day he came and he sat, he came and he sat out and his mother was surprised. And then he said, why are you coming here every time? I don't want you to come here. So I said, see your mother's calling. I'm coming. I will continue to come, right? But over time we started, you know, just talking and it was very casual, right? About guitar and he liked guitar. So I said, I'll take guitar classes for you. You will come and sit. He said, okay. So I said, how many days in a week you're free? You said, I'm free every day. I'm not doing anything. I'm not in college. I'm not studying. I'm not doing anything. I'm free every day. So I said, okay, I'm coming every day, but I'll come alternate days. And then we started going there and over time, you know, everything changed. He only cut his hair. His mother didn't say anything. I didn't say anything. He cut his hair, got a good, himself a good trim. He said, I'll come with you to church. So he came with me to church one day. He came, he sat, he went back home, but over time God just changed his life. And that is such a wonderful feeling to see the fruit of your labor. It is so rewarding that one person never forget him my entire life. Now there was no preaching, right? I didn't do evangelism and all, right? I didn't say, oh, this is what God is saying. Nothing. Just seeing God work in his life. And there are plenty of times when, you know, we were 10 people, I would remember telling the church, hey, put 60 chairs, right? The place could fit. You'll have seen the church in Mangalore, right? Maybe about 80 people and put 60 chairs. We've got 10 of us. So one day all these 60 chairs will be filled, you know? And seeing it happen was such a rewarding thing, right? I think some of you sent some photos and our church folks still send me some photos of the church and it's such a joy to see that, right? The most rewarding thing. I remember, I know how Mangalore was. In that 10 people, three people won't come. They'll say, I'm not well. Or, you know, Mangalore, six months it rains. So you can't do any ministry for six months. Heavy rains, right? And the next six months, whatever you have to do, you have to do in that six months, right? And they'll say it's raining or some of them genuine reasons. There were times it was like three, four people in church. There were times it's just me and my family sitting there. We have preached to them. We've closed and gone home. What's the attendance three? One adult, two children. Right? And gone home. But now to see it is so rewarding, right? So in our total ministry to see the fruit of God's work in our lives in the ministry is so rewarding, right? Now, here's a very important thing to remember. Fruit takes time. It doesn't happen overnight. Yes, right? So we must be patient. Walk along with God, right? Continue to look to God. Keep our focus on God. Three is to see people grow in faith, grow in maturity, right? So when in the pastoral ministry, you'll have people from different walks of life, right? So some of them may know the entire Old Testament. Some of them may know the entire New Testament. Some of them may know nothing, right? So you have people from different spiritual levels. Now, a wonderful reward is to see a person grow from being a baby in Christ to becoming an adult or becoming matured in Christ. That's such a rewarding thing, right? So you have somebody who's just become a believer, or young boy, or young girl, or youth, comes into church. He doesn't know anything. Hey, my parents were Christians. I'm a Christian, right? I believe in Jesus, but he doesn't know things of God. And so as a pastor, when you are able to minister, you're able to disciple, mentor, see people grow from where they are to where they become such a rewarding thing. Yes? I said this before, if you imagine you become a CEO of a company, and then you go to your school, or you go to your school and your teacher says, hey, whatever you become, CEO, really, oh, I remember you, you did everything wrong, but now you're a CEO, right? It's so rewarding. Now the teacher, you give whatever amount of money you want, you give whatever gifts it's not going to take the place of the joy. It will not, it will not, because that reward is something, oh, man, my student has become a CEO of a company, right? And yeah, so that's so rewarding, right? Let's look at the next one. Seeing people radically changed, right? None of us are any more or less deserving of God's love, right? There are times when we are reading the Bible, we are talking about the things of God, and we see people changing, we see people growing, people, you know, come into church with different kinds of baggages, right? Now, again, just like how people are in different spiritual levels, people come with different baggages, right? Not all of them who come to church have a holy, holy attitude or holier-than-thou kind of feeling. No, everyone, right? Everyone have baggages, right? So if you look at it, churches will have people who are divorced, people who are single, people who are addicts, who are on drugs, who are smoking, who are drinking alcohol, people who are going through a divorce, so many things, right? But seeing lives radically changed is a beautiful gift and a beautiful reward that you and I can see, right? Remember this, again, I'll just share, I'll just keep sharing a few testimonies. This young couple, right? They could not have a child. So for many years, you know, the husband, the wife was always looking to God, saying, God, you will bless me, and the husband was very angry, very upset, and he was, he was, you know, all his life, he was in church, serving the church, worship leader, been there for everything, and then he got married, and now this has happened. The doctors have said you have to, you will not have a child. So he was very upset. He said, I'm not coming to church. I don't want anything to do with this. I've given my life for church, finished work, come, you know, be there for church for anything, but now, what is the gift? So he was very upset. Now, is it an, is it a natural thing? Yes, right? It is natural because this boy, from the time he's six, seven years old, he's in church, he's been serving in the church, Monday, you know, every day, life group, he'll go with the guitar, Bible study, he'll go with the guitar, right? And these are, they were all working. So for everything, he's there, and now God is not there for me. It's a natural feeling. So hurt. So, you know, I remember just telling him, you know, this is what God can do. I know what you're going, now it's very difficult when they already know, right? But what happened was, the wife would keep coming to church, and she would keep listening to God's word, and then over time, over time, he started coming, and he started listening, he started being there, but he wouldn't volunteer, right? So he's coming to church. And just before we left from Mangalore, maybe a month or so, he came, the wife came and said, we have a gift for you. They gave this box, and that was the pregnancy test, saying, I'm pregnant. It was such a joy. And seeing this boy, this young man, just come to a place of understanding how God is, what he does, he was radically changed. And there are many, many examples this way. Seeing the fruit of people's lives changed is a beautiful reward for us. Again, fifth one, watching God answer prayers. Everyone are praying. We are praying. Congregation is praying. Everyone in the congregation are praying. We're praying together. We're praying alone. Some of them are crying and tears and pain and struggling. But seeing God answer prayers is a wonderful reward for us. Next one, seeing a new generation of leaders coming. Can you think of this? I want to share this. A lot of them in our pastors, pastoral team, they were all in children's church. So if you know some of our children's church pastors, they were all children's church. Can you picture that? They were in children's church in APC. Now they are children's church pastors. What a joy it is. I remember some of them were, now few of them who lead worship in different locations, they were all children's church. I remember them small, very small. Some of them would come after school, the school uniform. They would come and meet us in the church office. See that school uniform? Fifth, sixth standard, all leading worship, youth leaders, some of them in the pastoral team. And it's such a joy to see that. It's such a joy to see the next generation come up. And you all are the next generation. Next generation who will take on the word. And it's such a joy to see God just working. And so that's a wonderful reward. Watching these, this new generation do the work of the ministry is a reward again. The reward of just watching them and helping them, mentoring them, equipping Ephesians 412 Paul says to equip the saints for the ministry is a reward in itself. Now remember that you and I as pastors or leaders, our number one responsibility is to raise up other leaders. Look at the next generation. Look at raising up people who can take your place. So if you go back to your church and you've learned about, I think many of you know about media technology and all of that, you've got to raise up people for that. Is there a need? Yes. Right. Or you have youth, youth in your church. So be able to raise up leaders who will take on youth ministry, become youth leaders. And when we do that, and we see these young people doing the work of the ministry, it's a fruit in itself. Another point is watching God do the unexpected. The pastoral ministry, God does the unexpected everywhere. But one of the beautiful rewards is to watch God do the unexpected. He opens doors. He brings in, you know, supernatural providence, supernatural doors being opened. And we can testify of that. And God doing such wonderful works, unexpected things, things that we didn't expect God can do in the church. It could be in terms of church growth. It could be ministering to people. It could be the signs, wonders and miracles. It could be God's providence. Right. Oh, just so wonderful. I remember this long time back. I became a believer and then we were spending a lot of time in prayer. So I was thinking, God, what is this? What am I doing? I'm just praying. Nothing is happening. I'm just praying. You're just listening. Do something. Do something that is. So I wanted to build a room, a prayer room. And so I didn't have the funds. I said, God, you provide for the funds. And we prayed for many, many, many months and eventually God just supernaturally provided it. And then when that came in, I remember those times where we sacrificed, prayed, seek God, asking God. So it's very important for us to expect these unexpected things from God. Expect God to open big doors in your ministry, in the pastoral ministry. And when we expect it and we see God doing it, it's so rewarding. Right. The day you all will stand on the stage, graduate as students is such a rewarding thing for us. So rewarding for us. And next one, Second Corinthians 5.9. Let's read that. Second Corinthians chapter five verse nine. So the next one is God's pleasure is to reward us. It's not that God is stopping us. It's not like God is saying, okay, you do all of this, only then I will reward you. Now, first Peter, let's read the first Peter five and four. I really liked this verse. First Peter five and verse four. First Peter five verse four. And when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away. Like, when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory, an unfading crown of glory, which will not fade away. Now, what greater reward is there for us? And this, right? You have the natural rewards of all of this. And then you have the spiritual reward, a crown of glory that will never fade away. Right? Now, these are just a few that I've put down. There are plenty more, right? Once we step into a role of the pastoral role, how many of you are here, those online as well, are called for the pastoral ministry, you know, you're going to become a pastor, or you know that Francis, yes. Okay. When I saw Francis the first time I saw pastor written all over him. I just knew you're a pastor. Anybody online? You know that God has called you to be a pastor. Okay. Shiv Kumar says, raise this hand. Yes, that's wonderful. Now, even if it's something that, you know, you're not yet put on paper, you're not yet thought about, right? Or you feel that, you know, sometimes we feel that we are not equipped enough to start. But if you feel that you want God is calling you to start, you know, it's always good to look to God and start, right? Start doing what God has called you to do. Anyone else that's a pastor? Nikhil, what about you? All the pastors, wonderful. Aran, also. Yes, good. Good. I know that, I know that Chirra is already serving and ministering in his church. That's wonderful. Wonderful. So, yeah, so it's wonderful to, that all of us step into our roles. Now, even as we step into these role, it may not be smooth as we like it. God may ask us to clean chairs first. God may ask us to do the smallest of things, which is being faithful and allowing God to step in. And we just step into the role. I'm sure, I'm sure, you know, as time passes by, we will see the rewards that God is definitely, definitely, you know, in my personal life, when I look back and I think of it, there were challenges, there were ups and downs. I thank God that God has placed people around us to help and mentor and to teach us to, you know, sometimes like what Anand was saying, just feel weak and weary, just feel like giving up for man. Do I really need to go through all of this? But the rewards are much, much, much more satisfying. And when you look back, you say, oh, man, I thank God for letting me go through these situations or letting me go through these learnings. Right. So those are some of the rewards. And I'll post whatever the points that we have discussed here on the classroom later on today. Any questions, any thoughts? Next class, we'll look at the last portion. And then I will give you a couple of assignments that I'd like you to do. One is, you know, writing about maybe your favorite evangelist, your learnings, favorite, maybe a pastor and a teacher to take your time and do one of each. And that will be your midterm assessment. You can just post it. Yeah. Yeah. So you can choose one person and anyone. No, no, no. So one, one as a pastor, one as a teacher, one as a, yeah, all three. And so, and that will be your assessments. Okay. Yeah, that'll be both midterm and final. Yeah, you can if you want to. Okay, so I'd like you to do that assignment. Those who are online, if you have any questions you can ask. So the assessment, I'll just repeat. You can choose one person, anyone right now who's alive, and those who have passed on in church history as well. A pastor, write about, you know, their ministry and your learnings. You can also write about the downfalls, things that they have, you know, they may have failed in that you can learn from, right, not to pinpoint their mistakes, but some things that we can learn from others mistakes, right. So one is about the pastor, one person who's a teacher, and one of the evangelists, right. So I can do that. And next class, I'll, we'll go through the last portion of this, then we'll have these assessments. You can, you can write it, take a picture and upload it. Yeah, yeah. So, so I'll put it on the classroom as an assessment. You know, no need to present it, because there's quite a few of them online as well. So we may not finish everyone. But you can just look at it as an assessment. So you do the assessment, post it on, you can even write it, take a photo and, or you can just do it on a Word doc. All right. Any questions about the assessments or anything else? Yes. How we can be sure of that God called us to be a pastor or a teacher or to be a evangelist, how we can be sure of some of the guidelines where we can take them as okay. That helps us to come. Yeah. So that's, that's something that over time that comes, right. So for example, I've said this before, so your gifts and your calling go together, right. Now, we may have many gifts. And we were wondering, hey, what is my calling? Am I a worship leader? Am I a teacher? Am I evangelist? Am I a prophet? Right. Now, it is not, all these, these, you know, the Piper ministry, it is there for what? For the edifying of the body of Christ. It's good that we know, okay, we know that I want to do this. It's good when we recognize it. Okay, God has called me to start a church. When we know it inside, it's good. But many a times, God will take us through a season, through this whole pathway of surrendering to him, understanding his ways. And during along the way, he will open doors. See, for example, for me, you know, I always thought I'm a worship leader. I never thought I'd be anything else. So he started off with worship leading. But over time, what happened was suddenly they said, Hey, you teach in Bible college. So for me, it was like, oh, man, I thought I'm a pastor. So I thought I'm a worship leader. And now, and then after that, you teach in the church, preach in the church. Right. So again, it all didn't happen immediately. So for two years, I was leading worship. Then another door opened, then another door opened. Right. So now, as a pastor, or as a child, as a, as an ministry, we may be doing multiple things. Right. So don't, it was very important. Don't be focused on, okay, this is my calling. Right. So if you look at APC, right, something that we do is we don't say, okay, no, only pastor. You can be pastor, but still we have to go and do even the smallest of tasks. Because it's, it's just, that's what, that's what we do. Right. So don't be focused on, okay, is this my calling? Just go along with what God is doing. If you're interested in media and technology, right, and you're leading worship, and you think, Hey, what is my calling? Am I a worship leader? Am I into media and technology? God can use you for both. Right. He can open a door for you. He can make you a pastor and be a media. As a pastor, you can teach media and technology to the church, raise up people. You can do so much. Right. So we come out of this box of, Oh, I'm only a pastor, only an evangelist, because those especially early 1990s, you know, that whole mindset was there. No, I'm only a pastor. I'm going to be the evangelist, because this is what I'm going to do. And I'm not going to do anything else. So we come out of that. Right. So for example, as a pastor, they say, why don't you go and teach missions? Go and teach. You can't say, no, I'm a pastor. I don't know. You have to go. You have to do it. Right. So it's just, just being open to how God is guiding. But there are times you will know, you just know, Hey, they are more inclined towards it. See, some people may not be inclined towards evangelism, but you have people who are very inclined towards it. Right. So we'll know that. Okay, that's the calling. Right. We need to write about a particular pastor, teacher and evangelist. Yes, Nina. One pastor, one teacher, one evangelist, write about the person. Can you use the mic? For the assignment pastor? Yeah. So do you have like, what would you say, an expectation of like, how much words or how do you want us to write it? Yeah, you can write how many other words you'd like. I will read it. No problem. Okay, like just their life story, their life story, how they started ministry, how did it grow? What, what happened? What is the impact of the ministry? And also if there were downfalls, pitfalls that they had, and you know, some of the pitfalls that we can avoid. And so just feel free. So it should be more of a learning, right? Even as you do it, don't look at it as an assignment. Oh, assignment, I should get 95 on 100. Don't look at it that way. Look at it as a learning. Right. So even as you read, learn, right? Let it go inside here. Right. Do you know, I'll put the due date on the classrooms. When I put the assignment, I'll put the due date. Anything else? Okay. Yes, Francis. And also he said like, posturing in the church is not an easy thing. So people come with the different, different things, but like how to handle very easy, not to get an anger, that more, how to get a number one, don't take it personal. Right. Don't take it personal. So number one is don't take it personal. So there will be people who will come and tell you, you didn't do this, you did this, you didn't do that, all of that, right? One, don't take it personal. The mistake we make is we take it, how can you tell me that? You know, how many years I'm a pastor? 10 years. So we take it personal, right? So never take it personal. And even as people come and share, look, look at yourself, right? Okay. Is this something that is going to help me? Or is there something that, so if somebody comes up to me and say, you're speaking too fast, I have two choices. I can say, hey, you don't tell me I'm 10 years in ministry. Or I can say, no, the point of preaching is everyone should understand. So if I'm too fast, nobody will understand. So it's a good feedback. So I have to make sure that I speak slowly with clarity that people understand. So don't take it personal. Number one. Two is when you are giving suggestions and when you are bringing correction, don't, people will respond in different ways, right? Remember, you cannot control people's emotions and the reactions you cannot control. You may have to say, okay, guys, we'll try to come to church early. Okay, sound and setup team, can you come a little more early? So just a couple of weeks back, I spoke to the media team. I said, hey, guys, 730 is getting a bit late. Because by the time you fix the projectors, tested, tested on the speaker, making sure the announcements are played, it's almost becoming eight o'clock and eight o'clock press should start. So I said media team come by 715 15 minutes earlier, right? Now, I don't know if they liked it. They didn't like it, but I can't, I can't keep thinking, Oh, they, I said it. Of course, I've said it in a good way. I'm saying it for the benefit of the church, right? So they may like it. They may not like it, but you cannot, you know, depend on their reactions, right? So what you have to do, you have to do eight o'clock, eight o'clock, right? So don't go by what people react. So if you're looking at what is beneficial for the church, that is priority. The mistake we make is we think, oh, people will, it's a new church, you know, people will, people will leave and go. Next year, next year, we'll talk about urban church planting. We'll learn more on that, right? So don't, don't worry. Whatever decision you make, make sure you do it for the benefit of the church. All right. Thank you so much, everyone. Thank you. See you next week. God bless.