 Thank you. Good morning. Thank you each one for joining the class Let's take a moment to pray and we'll get started may I request somebody to please pray with a class? You can pray Start you know I can pray precious father, we thank you and praise you for the God For this wonderful day, which I give unto us We thank you once again for the God in your wisdom and grace for the God We ask you to fill us and father God prepare our heart prepare our mind prepare everything of father God so that Everything what we are going to learn or father God we can able to store it and father God We can make it fruitful for your kingdom and for your glory We pray that father God that Lord master strengthen your servant and Lord master That everything what he's going to release let it be from your wisdom and from your spirit from your revelation We thank you and praise you father God for this wonderful time in Jesus name. We pray. Amen. Thank you master. Amen. Thank you Hey, good morning, Rowan. Thank you once again for joining so this is our course on media and technology and As I said last week Our goal is to cover a wide spectrum both in the media space and technology space and Look at how these things can be Used how media and technology can be used in the ministry And at the same so there will be you know as we get started initially We'll talk a little bit today again the class will be a little bit about you know a biblical perspective But then from tomorrow onwards. We'll start looking at the actual contemporary things that are going on In various aspects in the preaching of the word and the way the The venue with services are held and then then we get into all the details of the equipment and so on so forth So the goal as I mentioned last class is to give us sufficient information so that When we have to make decisions You know, we will be able to engage meaningfully and make Useful decisions, so at least we'll know how to go about making those decisions Today I just want to cover two parts just two areas As we Talk about this one is we want to talk about Methods contemporary methods in ministry And then we also want to establish a little bit of some guidelines When we use Contemporary methods are changing methods, so we I think we all agree that The world around us is changing Like we saw last week. We looked at some data You know, we can tell you know more or more people are spending time online. They're spending time with devices. They're spending time on social media platforms and they're engaging with each other digitally in increasing manner and The digital world has given us the advantage of being connected so we could literally, you know, we are literally connected with billions of people globally Digitally through the internet. We are we are connected and so it gives us all of these advantages So the world we are living in is changing. It's very different And so we need to think about these things. We need to look at the tools the resources and we need to Be open to using them using the contemporary methods and tools To bring the message of the gospel and the message of God's word to people We shouldn't shy away from it We shouldn't stay away from but we should say look, let's use it. Let's engage with people using these tools So I just wanted to spend a little bit of time to impress that upon us. I don't think Anyone of us would hesitate in doing so that look we should I think we're all we are all in agreement that We should use tools resources and methods that are currently available and When we look at scripture and I'm just Looking at, you know first Corinthians this passage was Corinthians 9 19 to 22 Maybe talk about Paul shares his own approach To the proclamation of the gospel, you know, he says look he is a debtor he Is compelled to preach the gospel to take it to as many people as and I'm just paraphrasing that To take the gospel to as many people But while he's doing that He also mentions his approach He says, you know, I I Become I relate to the people that I'm ministering to the Jew. I become like a Jew To the Gentile I become like a Gentile meaning those who are outside the the law of God I become like them and yet I don't live dishonorably I myself Don't violate the law of God even though those people that I might reach are not living under God's law I go reach them While keeping myself under the law of God He says To the week I become like the week And he says I become all things to all men That I might by all means Save some You know, so what's he telling us? He's he's giving us a very important understanding about the approach we take in bringing the gospel to people he says essentially if you if you have to sum up what paul is saying in first Corinthians 9 19 22 says look Let's get into people's worlds Let's relate to them in a way that they understand Let's go there. Let's become like them without of course violating the law of God In order to communicate the gospel to them now If we translate what paul taught from first Corinthians 9 19 22 to our day here we are 2000 years later the tools the methods Have evolved have changed We have media we have technology We've got lots of opportunity so from paul's understanding He's encouraging us use it Get into people's worlds do what you can to get into where they are to connect with them to become like them and then Of course, you don't step out of What is pleasing God don't step out of that But staying within that you get into people's worlds and then communicate the gospel to them so we We must be open ready We must be equipped to use contemporary methods in christian ministry And what are the advantages of doing that? Well, I just put on four here One is you know, it helps us be relevant That means we can speak to people in ways that they understand We are able to connect with them You know, for example, if you use media we are using technology a lot of people Especially in urban context. They are very Engaged digitally So we are able to speak to them in a bit in ways that they can understand It gives us greater reach we can Go where people are We can reach more people in less time We could even enter into people's private spaces without being Or you know without being intrusive in that sense. That means You know You're not banging on the door and telling them to open up the front door and you're coming into the living room And yet you can still get into their living room In a very very quiet way Through the use of media and technology So you can actually get into their spaces and communicate to them in a way That they will be willing to receive So it increases our reach It also helps us be responsive. So We can respond more quickly to people and to their needs and you know, I I just been doing some learning about Artificial intelligence and how AI is being used in other industries for you know And and and you know, whether it's in the banking or in retail so on and and how you know, how amazing it is that they're looking at AI of course AI Machine learning is based on, you know, you're processing huge amounts of data, which we've been able to collect and then You're using all of that and you're using The ability that we have in machine learning and neural networks and so on to respond to people sometimes Not need to respond, but maybe even be proactive in reaching out to people and serving people Now, of course, they are doing it from a business perspective Whether it's a banking or a retail or whatever industry they use They're looking at it from a Responsiveness from a business perspective But I was thinking, you know, hey How do I translate that into what we are doing in Christian ministry, you know, what if Example, you know, some ideas, you know, what which I would love to implement But thinking about it example, you know, we all everybody knows about chat GPT You go then you ask a question and It pulls in from a world of information and gives you a response very intelligent response now If somebody comes to our church website to search for something It just gives a search result page We just a list of links and like what Google normally does It kind of gives okay here all the links that kind of match your keywords the search phrase but what if We give a response like our chat GPT would give that we enable people to search like that and give them a very intelligent response If somebody comes and says, you know, you know healing and deliverance And so rather than giving links to all the Artifacts the items we have on healing and deliverance. What if you give them a nice paragraph that explains what healing and deliverance is? Of course, you know, you take it out of the content that we have Get the nicest and then you give them okay And here are the things that you can here are some sermons you can listen to here are some books you can read for healing and deliverance that will be such a Much better way to respond and a much better interaction that we have with people now That we can now that is possible and it's possible to do that the technology is already there, right? Now we just have to Implement it, you know for us and like that, you know with artificial intelligence. We can do so much more with with the data we have to serve people and so on so Being responsive responding to people their needs It enables us to do that more quickly, you know Uh, and thank god for technology people, you know Constantly keep getting these whatsapp messages for prayer requests and whatever it keeps coming Uh, it has made us, you know more connected and we can quickly respond to people's needs you know Imagine in the days when they didn't have phone somebody had a need They'll have to send word through somebody else That somebody else would have to physically travel to go meet the pastor And say pastor, you know so and so out there Is in this situation. Can you come and help? but today they just send a whatsapp message send a message or call and You know, we're able to respond to needs so much faster so You know we can use technology and use you know these tools available to be more responsive to care for people and also I think Uh, it helps us be respectful for people that is We can give people the opportunity to explore In whatever way you prefer, you know That way somebody sort of wants to explore about the christian faith You know, they can come without Anybody forcing anything on them? Example they can go to a some website a church website or something or they can listen to whatever video they want or sermon they want or read a book that they would like to And take their own time and without being forced They can explore, you know, so I think it's a very respectful way of letting people explore the christian faith without being forced to make a decision right here right now kind of thing Take your time hear all the resources available use what you want Listen to what you want watch what you want read what you want and make a decision so um The use of contemporary methods for christian ministry Has a lot of benefits and advantages On this right so let me just pause you and see if you know if anybody wants to add any thoughts to this, you know About using contemporary methods for ministry Everyone's okay so far. You're all comfortable. Does anybody have any objection? To using contemporary methods in ministry What what what could be some of the negatives? You know, I've kind of I've spoken from a very positive point of view Uh But what could be some of the negatives when we use these contemporary tools Uh, that are available Anyway, I'm just just opening up for discussion. That's all The pastor I think so many old people Does not know how to handle these things because only the youngsters or The people they're about the technology. That is very good. Very good. That's a very important point, right? There there there is a generation Who are Not comfortable, you know, of course some people learn and some people There is a generation they may not be comfortable. They want they want to see you in person They want to talk to you in person. Uh, they may not know they may not be comfortable Engaging with technology and connecting in such ways, right? So we we must be very mindful of that and that's a very valid point Okay, good anything else, you know that we can think about the negatives and I was very forceful on the positives But what could be some other drawbacks of? Using contemporary methods So, um pastor My so how do we how do we? um use the contemporary method to do ministry and be effective in its same time Without losing focus on that generation That are not comfortable in using these contemporary methods. How do we keep a balance between the two? Very good. So I think we need to have both kinds of ministries going on, you know, that is yes, we We will use these tools and methods But we also engage In person one-on-one The way, you know that generation is comfortable Relating to and expecting to be ministered to right. So we need to have both we cannot just If we go all out only on one direction, we will lose out. We won't be able to minister to them. So There are people who prefer Yeah, just listening in person so on so forth They want you to come they want you to sit and talk and so we need to be willing to do that So as a church or as a ministry We must do that don't cut that off completely and also We while we are doing this media and technology space work So we need to do both and I think finding the balance there, you know, is very important both using media technology Gives us some advantage gives us a lot of advantage, but then We must also continue to Serve them the older generation or the generation that's not comfortable In person being there for them so on I'm seeing abraham's comment here If the world system doesn't influence the activities of the church. Yes, abraham. That's true And that's going to be our next point that we will talk about is how do we protect that right? Russian I see Media technology is a great way to reach new people and they can connect with us then one on one Yeah, so definitely media technology gives us this this great reach the opportunity to reach people beyond so okay, so let's Get into the next point that I just wanted to talk about which is So while we are aware of you know, the fact that yes, we should be using contemporary methods I think very important is we must Put some guidelines for ourselves You know when we are using these methods the changing methods Now and and I've just you know listed out some guidelines just just to You know help us remember these things. I think about these things you know Yes Using changing methods is helping us be relevant That means I am we are communicating The message Through a medium And in a manner That connects with people In today's world A good person a large population of people So we are being relevant and that's one of our big motivations in using media and technology are understood But While we are doing that It's very important that we do not compromise in the message That's the first thing that we need to be very careful of the Audience is telling us Hey, come to me Through this medium Because I am there Fine fair enough But the audience must not dictate what we tell them And that's the danger That we must avoid Right. So the audience is telling us. Hey, you come to me on social media. You come to me through Videos or you come to me through whatever medium that they are willing to consume content on Yes, that's fine But the audience should not dictate what We should be speaking to them Now the danger is Which you know, and I'm not I'm not blaming the whole church world or anything But we can see in some places that While there has been a movement to use contemporary methods In some cases The message has also been compromised. Why? Because in an attempt to reach a certain audience through a certain medium They were not careful In keeping the authenticity Of the message or the integrity of the message so the message got compromised because of the whole passion in which They were trying to reach that particular audience so for example if If there's a certain group of people Whom I could reach You know through creating interesting videos and all of that. Okay, that's fine Let's create those videos. Let's communicate the message, but If in order to reach that particular group I start Saying what they are comfortable with Instead of saying what the bible tells me to tell them Then I have begun to compromise the message so example if I want to reach the lgbtq community and that's a tough part or I can bring the message of love because god does tell us to love everybody So we love them as people but at some point I have to speak up and say This is what the bible says god made man and woman god made you male and god made you female and There is there's nothing else. There's no other way The bible presents his creation to us, right? and What a sin. I have to call it a sin While I say god loves you God hates sin God hates this kind of lifestyle or god hates anything that is going against his original design And that has to be communicated in love But we have to speak the truth in love, right? We can't dilute the truth so In an effort to reach a particular community. Yes, I can you know reach them through a medium that they may be comfortable with but We need to present the truth. We're not going to condemn them We're not we're not here to condemn them or judge them, but we need to present the truth Similarly, you know, we'll have different audiences Okay, but I cannot compromise the message I can use methods that will help us reach them perfectly fine But the message always comes from the scripture And so I put, you know first Corinthians 1 18 to 25 here Just to point out that, you know when Paul is talking about his audience. He says the Jews require a sign the Greeks Seek after wisdom But we preach Christ crucified Now that's Paul is saying look in my audience The Jewish people they want science. They want something spectacular. They want something supernatural And then I there are the Greeks They want something very intellectually stimulating. They want things that appeal to their mind But to the Jews and to the Greeks that means whoever is in my audience I have only one message And it is Christ crucified That's the message, right? So it's a very powerful passage here in first Corinthians 1 18 25 The Paul is telling us look we preach one message Christ crucified. We preach the cross And what God did for us through Christ on the cross The third thing guideline The next guideline while we're trying to be relevant The next guideline when you're using changing methods is to keep stay pure in our motivation And this is again very very important because when we start using Contemporary methods Remember the world has its way Of evaluating the effectiveness of some of these methods And all of us are very familiar, you know If you're on instagram or youtube You're looking at the number of followers or number of subscribers Or if you have a post you're looking at the number of views you're looking at the number of Likes or shares or you know, you're looking at those kinds of metrics So Those are there They are useful But that shouldn't become our motivation Our motivation while we are using all of these contemporary methods tools, etc years Not to get into the game of the same metrics that the world is using or the metrics that are there But our motivation here is we're going to glorify God Right. We are here To glorify God Okay, so that must be very clear to us and it is something That we must be very careful of Because these same metrics then begin to become A point of competition Okay, how many subscribers do you have how many followers do you have how many views do you get per whatever, you know per video whatever And and then because a point of competition between christian ministers Right, so what has happened? Okay using a platform You're using tools and medium to reach people, okay But now we're using those metrics To see who's doing better Who's got a bigger reach? Who's you know, so on so forth now some of these metrics You know, generally we would refer to them as vanity metrics meaning they're not genuine For example, you know that you know on youtube if you if a view is just if somebody views your video for Maybe like 30 seconds and if it's if it's an ad it's five seconds So if you're running an ad somebody watches your ad for five seconds, it's counted as a view If you have a video and somebody watches it for 30 seconds, it's counted as a view So it doesn't mean they watch the whole video It just they watch 30 seconds of the video and it's added as a view Or they watch five seconds of your ad It's counted as a view your ad may be 30 seconds If they watch the five seconds it's not it's counted as view. So you don't even know if they actually got the message right But if you just look at the view count, so oh so many people viewed No, maybe they didn't you know, so that view count itself is not a true indicator Of any kind of impact or any kind of reach It's just a number Which may not give an accurate picture You know, yes, it's nice to have lots of views, but we don't know I mean you'll have to drill it a little deeper. You have to go into the analytics to see What duration of the video was actually watched by how many people But if you just look at the views it gives you no indicator of how many people actually watched the entire Video or got the message, you know, so So these metrics that we have we have to be very careful Don't let that become Uh A focus right our focus must be always glorify god and serve people well How do you serve them? Well, well enrich equip and empower them You're serving them. Well, that's it So keep that as the motivation Right. I'm here. I'm going to use these tools I'm going to use these methods But the motivation is lord want to glorify you By serving the people well I'll do the best we can So that they can people can be equipped and enriched and empowered We're not going to get into these Competition and the games of you know, the things that that come along with using these tools and methods Okay, so that's that's an important guideline to keep As we engage with these modern tools and methods and so on so forth You know and in the way we do our graphics in the way we produce our videos Sometimes, you know with video you can you can just Make things look so great and grand And you can you know, you can actually create completely completely different picture from reality So example if somebody's reporting on a meeting that that was held The way a video is produced to report on that meeting could leave the impression that there were hundreds and thousands People who are greatly impacted and so on so forth Whereas actually they may have just been 15 people in that place You know, so you could actually create a video reporting on that meeting Leaving a very different impression from what actually took place so The integrity of that production is totally determined by the person doing it right so we're using a tool They're using a medium But that medium How we use it is in our control and we must always use it in a way that glorifies god It does good to people that there's integrity in and how we use it how we use that medium So that brings us to the next guideline, which is You know for us to be blameless in our conduct that is the Use of this medium should make sure That we conduct ourselves in an honorable way And again, I understand there is a gray area here meaning What may be acceptable to some may be discounted by others in the christian realm of the christian church within the christian world And what may be accepted in one part of the world may be disregarded in another part of the world Because of cultural differences so We need to be very culturally sensitive. We need to be We need to choose an approach that Will be blameless For example, the next topic we're going to talk about is preaching the ministry of the world We'll pick it up tomorrow But i'm just mentioning this so in the ministry of the world if you look at how the ministry of the world has changed Today You know preachers can come on the pulpit. That's okay when you go in time past And we'll talk more on this tomorrow in time past The preaching of the word was held with so much reverence Right How you dressed you you dressed very very formally You you spoke very formally Very reverent. There was a lot of reverence in the ministry of the world You compared it to today And i'm not saying everybody's doing this but what is happening in the contemporary church is You know, you can have a preacher who comes up with torn jeans and you know Torn shirt and i'm not Against all of that if you somebody wants a red torn torn jeans, that's their choice. I don't care. It doesn't affect me But i'm just saying what we what what's happening in the contemporary church So you can have a preacher comment just totally different attire And the language of communication would be very casual sometimes It may even border of being vulgar, you know being sort of hey, you're very close to being Dirty in communication But you know the audience claps and you've got thousands of people listening to the preacher but the language in which The word of god is being communicated is bordering on being very out of place But it's happening and there are thousands of people listening to such preaching so Where do you draw the line, you know, how do we We'll talk and discuss this tomorrow. I'm just giving an example here in being blameless in our conduct While we are being contemporary while we are appealing to people in our generation And while we're communicating god's truth to our generation we must cautiously choose to be blameless in how we conduct ourselves While we are trying to be relevant and contemporary Okay, more on more discussions as we get into the details of preaching styles and so on and finally Our another guideline very important guideline is look our goal is lasting fruit Okay Jesus said In John 1516 I've chosen you so that your fruit should remain You know in Matthew 7 he said you will know a tree by its fruit right so our goal is To to go for lasting fruit enduring fruit What do we mean by that we mean by we mean that While we are trying to be relevant to Contemporary audience and they're using what is available We're not trying just trying to excite people Or give them a good feeling Or give them or just hype up their emotion No We are looking at seeing lives changed to become Christlike That's the lasting fruit So example if you we will talk about this in another chapter When you look at the good contemporary church setting You know in times past they had these of course people met in homes And then we came up with these church buildings which are very sacred places and today in There are venues church service venues which are all Lights and blitz and you know, we've got our led projectors led screens and Uh smoke machines and lights and all of that Okay, that's all there now. We're using all of these tools and things that began to make that service exciting experience but Is our objective just to excite the crowd when they come Give them a wow experience or Is our objective In seeing them become disciples of jesus christ In seeing them seeing their lives changed into christlikeness Okay, you want to use led panels. Yeah, those are tools we have today You want to use a nice stage you want to use some color lights You know if that's useful to your audience it gets their attention. Okay But what are we looking for Are we looking just for hype and emotion? and excitement a good experience or Are we looking for lasting fruit? so What are the questions we need to ask ourselves? Don't compromise the message Keep your motivation pure Be blameless in your conduct And look for or focus on lasting for so I would present these Four points here as some guidelines Right, so let me pause here. Let's take up some questions and discussion here as we Talk about these things Yes, christopher your hand is raised. Please ask your question. Oh, yes pastor. Thank you um, I was just You know going through the you know these points and You know in the guidelines. I mean I can understand You know How points like relevant no compromise in the message Blameless my c-class include these all have In a sense, you know a reference point Maybe in the bible Or maybe you know, for example in the case of relevant It could be pertaining to You know what what is currently going happening in the world? um And in some ways, um, you know these can be These can be measurable Um, and you know, you could actually build a kind of a metric around it So for example, no compromise in the message, uh, you know if if If there are messages that uh, you know that do that are not Biblical for example Then, you know, that means that that is a message that's outside the boundaries of Of, you know, what should be should be right as per the bible and um In a sense a metric could be could be set up against that particular guideline um What I was trying to come you know trying to understand was that you know in the case of pure and motivation Motivation to glory glorify god. Yes, again that can also you know, we could could actually Build a kind of a metric around that But I guess to serve people well to enrich whip and empower people Or when a message is actually put across um How that could be measured Or how how that can you know sort of translate into some kind of a metric I was just trying to understand that so I just thought I bring that to that point and You know ask you your view on that just around that point. I was just trying to understand that Interesting um, maybe I'll just share a little bit about you know a struggle I had recently So at the beginning of this year uh I I I wanted to preach and I just felt in my heart To share three sermons One was on habits and routines And the second two were messages on planning and life plan and so on so The struggle I had was okay I know these things are going to help people but I also know that these kinds of messages are Can be preached by You know people who do these self-help Motivation type of messages. They don't know you don't have to be a Christian to talk about habits routines or planning You don't have to be a Christian to do that so meaning There is a certain element here, which is very natural. It's not spiritual Which you know people outside the church are already doing there are a lot of things on that so for me I wanted to help people because I know that These things are helpful to people. Yeah, it's always helpful to have good habits and good routines and to have plan and all it's a helpful thing right, so that's where that's the serving well equipping empowering part But the question I had to ask myself before I Prepared these sermons was hey Is it really biblical? Is it in the bible is is this something god is telling us to do? right Now I personally I know I was motivated through scripture in my own personal life um, and that's how I developed and you know, so Uh, I knew I was very convinced that these things are very biblical because over the last several decades That's how I have lived That I was motivated from scripture in these areas Uh, I was you know, um, let's say helped by the holy spirit in these areas. So Although these topics are very Our topics that anybody outside in the world can talk about Uh, and these topics are helpful to people For me an important criteria was Hey Is it really coming from god? Is it really coming from the scriptures? Only then I have to communicate it and I have to be careful that I bring it with a biblical perspective not from, you know, a general self self-help motivational speaker type perspective, you know, so In preparing these three sermons, I struggled with this struggle means I had to consciously be careful Right So I think this is for me, you know, kind of in response to what you said where Yes, the motivation is to help people It is to empower them It is to equip them because all you know talking about habits and planning and routines Yeah, it helps them But at the same time Because it is being preached in church from the pulpit It has to come From the scriptures It has to come from the word of god Otherwise, I have no right. No, I shouldn't waste people's time You know just giving a motivational talk on these things Uh, what did I address your question? Uh, I know I guess, I mean, I think it comes back to the motivation Where I was coming from was actually In some ways You know, we need to maybe just a very, you know, basic You know important management sort of speak around, you know, if it if it cannot be You know, if it cannot be measured then, you know, uh, you cannot You don't need to know where you are So, you know You can't manage it in sense. You can't really, you know, uh, you know, be able to ensure that, you know, you know One is progressing So, um All the other ones I felt were, you know, uh, measurable measurable And the um, but this one seemed to be You know, um didn't seem to have enough, um, you know, I guess, um Um Yeah, I mean, for example, I mean, I'm just giving example, you know, if if in a third service, you know, and we are we are, you know the pastor is is Um, I'm asking people if, you know, anyone wants to, you know, accept My Jesus has a lord and savior. We know that in that particular Uh, you know, our service, uh You know, one person of 10 people have have accepted and so that is that is that in the sense is a measurable thing This one about serving people well, uh, seemed to be a didn't seem seemed to be a little bit I don't know it didn't seem to resonate too well. Um, we'll be able to form a measurable point of view. Yeah Okay Yeah So I think yeah, I would say that Yeah, it's something, you know, it has to do with our heart. Yeah, it's true We can't measure it but we check upon ourselves Say, you know, am I doing this right? Am I there's no motivation? Uh To really help people and build people up and it's just true. You cannot measure it And because you don't know somebody's heart, we don't know their motivation Yeah, that's true Okay, so Uh Just to sum up today's Class So as we now we are going to from next class onwards, we're going to start getting into all the practical things Uh, we'll start off by talking about, you know, contemporary preaching Contemporary stage venue And then get into all those things that media and technology does but There's just today's class mainly is yes, we all agree We should use Sorry, we should use the tools and technologies available because of the benefits they give us We must not neglect those who may not be there using these tools and technologies. So we need to Be mindful of that segment of people and care for them as well And while we are engaging with contemporary tools technologies media We need to stay within certain guidelines Um Some of these are very obvious Which is like chris was pointing out, you know, you know when you're preaching the message you compromise the message or you can tell then you know You're the the intent is to glorify god and When it is honorable and so we stay within these guidelines we maintain proper conduct And then We use these tools methods and tools in a very careful way To serve people So while we progress These questions will come up. You know, we will intensely ask What we are seeing in the contemporary church Is that okay? Is that not okay? Where should we be careful? We'll keep asking this question, you know Tomorrow we'll talk about preaching How preaching has changed so much both in the content in the delivery and in the Other aspects that go along with preaching it has changed so much What are what is okay? What is not okay? That's something we can talk about and discuss right and then like that will pick up topic by topic Get into various things All right, thank you everybody. Let's pray and we will close. I look forward to a lot of Discussion in this course as we talk about these things All right, could somebody close in prayer and we'll go forward. We'll dismiss Anybody could close that prayer Please go ahead God, thank you Lord for this class Lord. Thank you that we got to learn about media and technology and God whatever we'll learn we may understand in them that we had learned it in a way that If we should call him whatever you have for us God, I think you so much love for each one of the students that as they Have learned we they go with um Understanding Christian God. Thank you all for the best to our Swedish. We pray in your name Amen Thank you everyone. Uh, so tomorrow come less by now