 Great, great. Okay. Good morning everyone. Welcome to BC 309 Our class a course on urban church planting. Thank you for connecting to the class today Let's take a moment just to pray and then we will get started This request somebody to Please lead us in prayer and then we will start. I Would like to lead us in prayer Faster shall I put go ahead for Parker, please do that Do you have any father? We praise you with knowledge your holy name at this moment We come on to your throne of praise father. Thank you for this wonderful opportunity That you're leading us into this hour of class father Let's pass to Ashish. So and all the students here father leaders and guidance and teachers in the way You want us to be in your future father. Thank you so much I dedicate all the time and all the members until mighty hand Bless us bless each and everyone. Thank you. I ask this prayer in the name of a Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you, boss Amen Man. All right. Thank you everyone once again. Thanks for connecting to this class we are talking about urban church planting and last week we covered ground on about the seven mountains Or seven spheres. I mean Seven spheres seven areas in society that we can mobilize people to impact The and then we moved into the next chapter, which is we started talking about stages of growth and development That is as you pioneer a work As you are planning a church or a Christian ministry That work Is going to go through Stages of growth, it's going to grow over time and And so we need to understand we need to understand, you know, what are those stages of growth and then in each stage we need to Let's say I do certain things so we need to be mindful of how we are building, you know So and I think a good example a good analogy would be the construction of you know a big building and and that's a good analogy to keep in mind where You initially lay the foundation And so you go through that stage of foundation laying and then you have the these structure coming up and and the structure comes up You know, and if you're building several floors you build floor by floor Then after the structure comes up then all the other things begin to take place in that structure Until the building is completely finished now that's a good analogy because In first Corinthians chapter 3 when the Apostle Paul is talking about his work as a pioneer as a Church planter as an Apostle He uses the same analogy. He says, you know as a wise master builder. I Have laid the foundation And Somebody else builds on it, but let every person take heed how he builds on it So he's saying, you know to put it in simple English Paul is saying look God has given me the grace to lay the foundation and then somebody else builds on that foundation But let every person you know comes and builds let them be careful how he builds on it, right? So he's using that same analogy to talk about church planting to talk about pioneering the Apostolic work He talks about he uses the same analogy. So with that in mind let's quickly Now review what we started talking last week and then we will move forward So we we mentioned the pioneering state. We will we were discussing this or just sharing some thoughts here That you know as you plant the church In a city urban center You'd look you can look at the early year sometimes two years sometimes four years You know that early stage as your pioneering stage you are laying a foundation and From there you're going to build now In the foundation stage you are, you know, of course you're digging down you're going down It's not very impressive, you know, it's a whole lot messy and dirty and Because you're digging into the ground you're pulling out earth and then you're putting in all the The rocks and you're doing all of that. So it's not you know, people are not seeing big things happen It's all going underground But and whatever you do think about this right whatever you do in the foundation May remain or not may but will remain unseen And nobody's gonna come and clap their hands and say wow, you got a strong foundation. No, it's all hidden It's all it's all covered here after you lay the foundation So in other words the pioneering stage It's not something that's going to be celebrated in time to come People are not going to remember it many times they forget but That foundation stage is so important for everything else that happens in the future Even though it's not going to be recognized in the future People are, you know, nobody's people are not even going to know how deep you went People are not even going to know, you know, what all you put in the foundation No, it's all hidden under the ground They only see the building that comes up on it But it's the foundation that's going to last for the entire lifetime of the building It's going to last for the entire lifetime of what of whatever that work is going to be So it is so important and yet it is so unrequited it will go unrecognized people are going to forget and it's not going to be spoken about often in time to come but it is so important for everything that happens in the future So Understanding the importance of that pioneering stage that foundation laying stage is so important so The motivation must be I must lay a good foundation And this is what the future is going to be built on The foundation and lay now, you know, when you when you're talking about spiritual things, I'm you know God, you know, it's it's not entirely the way it works in the natural because In the spiritual god can you know reestablish the foundation which In the natural you let you can't do it. You have to tear everything down and Pull it up again, but in the spiritual god can you know in a local church sometimes God does that, you know and and and the community in a church body that can happen but essentially The foundation your motive our motivation is I want to lay a good foundation You want to establish things so Some of the things that we did We did during the foundation stage and I'm just sharing this with you one which I talked about last time was Whatever we do now The way we conduct ourselves now Is the way we're going to be conducting ourselves in time to come now Take it what I would say is understand it correctly. It's not applicable to everything but essentially you know and I and I gave the example of how from the very beginning we We we worked with the idea that We're not going to go and visit people everywhere in their homes But people will come and meet us in the office as pastors and we would spend time You know, we would spend time with them as required Uh, so we we established that in the beginning people understood it and that's how we continue to work even today Right and it it enables us to serve more people that way So some other things that we had to establish in The pioneering stage. I'm just sharing about our own journey is From the very beginning we decided that we are the church That everything we do will be geared towards Ultimately discipling people And therefore we are not in a we will have evangelism. We will have outreach But we are going to equip people disciple and equip believers. We're going to stay with that Why was that important because You know, the there were a lot of ideas and there still are many ideas in the church Um, you know, uh, they're okay make your service very attractive to seekers You know, there used to be the seeker since day or seeker friendly services They used to be services that uh, the people used to have where you know, uh Make the message very simple and light so that you know, just anybody will come in and they'll understand Okay, so there were all these different options, but we said no We're going to teach the word we're going to you know, emphasize Discipline and equipping believers so that they can do the work of the ministry So that was a decision we made from the very beginning. This is the way the church is going to work it's going to be Emphasizing the ministry the word and the work of the spirit the word and the spirit so that believers can be crimped for the ministry So from the very beginning we did that Now so other things we put in place was things like emphasis on missions That means we need to be serving people beyond ourselves We need to be evangelizing and we need to be doing missions Missions we're going beyond our city going into other parts of the country and then looking beyond our own country Are looking into the other nations. So missions were something from the very beginning Was part of what we were doing Right, so even though we were a small church a small group just in the pioneering stage Missions was part of our our thinking our understanding that we need to be involved in it. So from our I think our second third year. I think from our second year 2002 We we started, you know doing going on missions and so on so forth and encouraging people to do that So so these are things that that you lay in the foundation because this is what you want the church to grow into you want This is the building the building is this is what the building will look like Based upon the foundation right And in the foundation time that you're establishing your commitment to that place That you're called to sell called to minister Okay, so this pioneering stage is very important and then from an organizational side, we'll get into it But you also need to establish certain things like excellence you want to do things well And so and that kind of leads us into the next stage But let me pause here and see there any questions here as far as the pioneering stage is concerned About urban church planting any questions on that any thoughts on that? Everybody's okay that any questions say your question, please go ahead Thank you pastor. Um, I just wanted to ask um What's the frequency of prayer at the beginning? um Is it always more and as we progress lessons or we maintain it or We keep increasing it Uh, what's the frequency of prayer at the initial stage? And then how do we continue there on Very good very good question. Um So generally speaking see, uh, there is no set formula You know for How much prayer how much word? How much things to do there's no set formula and I think each one should pursue What what god's called us to do but uh Having said that We must understand Prayer is a very important part of the whole process And we need to maintain it throughout Our journey So you know, I accept the six the Uh, sorry acts five acts five the apostles said, you know Sorry acts six the apostles said, you know, we must give ourselves continually to the ministry of the word and prayer So they understood the importance of both the ministry of the word and prayer And so you do whatever You I will share with you what we did but I'm just speaking in general terms now um Each one should do You know what what they feel called to do, you know the ministry of the word and prayer now You know when you observe ministries when you observe churches you find You know, some churches are more stronger in prayer. They saw the emphasis is more on the prayer side Some may be more strong in the word so the emphasis will be more on that So you have all kinds of examples that we can observe But I want to say one thing just keep this in mind Prayer will not do What the word of god Can do And the word of god will not do what prayer can do in other words Try to understand this together in other words Prayer has its place the word of god has its place I cannot Do in prayer what god has given the word of god to do in my life And I cannot do through the word what prayer is supposed to do in my life meaning both these are very important As an individual and as a church community Right, so I cannot substitute prayer with a word. I cannot substitute the word with prayer both are important Have it so so we have to discover what how does god want us to do it now um for us at apc when we started we used to have friday evening prayer So we started with that, you know and and one of the challenges we had was we didn't have our own place If we had our own place, you know, I probably would have had You know prayer every day or something like that. You know done much more in prayer But we you know we were having we had to rent our places where we would meet so we would rent this place Yeah, I think from the early days. Yeah After we moved out of the house to a meeting place we Started renting Place for friday evening prayer. So we would have friday evening to us prayer We would do that in the sunday morning would be the service Then we introduced we we did different things in our journey When the spot minute was possible and we had a place to do we did all night prayer once a month all night prayer So that's would go from 10 p.m. To 6 a.m. So we do that We would do evenings of prayer. So sometimes it would be two three hours on the evenings So we did that and then what worked for us what we were following before the pandemic was Twice a year we had five days of prayer. That was kind of the last format that was good for us. So we had five days of prayer twice a year And then every sunday morning we introduced for for most of our locations we introduced prayer Before the service we had pre-service prayer eight to eight thirty Every sunday which which we still do um in four of our locations because There people can come at eight o'clock and they spend the first 30 minutes in prayer And we decided to do the sunday mornings because everybody's together and so on So we've tried Uh, you know to see what would work best for us as a church community where people can participate Uh, some of the challenges we've had to deal with is we didn't have a we still don't have our own place So we always rent the venues um, and people have to drive through traffic. So Um, we we said let's do vener people gather together We will do that sunday mornings. They come together. So we do morning prayer and so on But at a personal level I try to maintain so as a leader I need to maintain a strong prayer life So on a weekly basis. So I would take time off to pray sometimes, you know, usually it's my Fridays Uh, I would keep that day aside for prayer preparation so on So I try to keep a day aside for prayer At a personal level, of course, you pray throughout the week, but to pray extended hours Usually it's on Fridays. I spend the day in prayer Most Fridays would be like that. So that's at a personal level and then at a at a corporate level we have different, you know, different, uh We've tried different variations um I hope I answered your question. I addressed your question. I was just sharing what we did. Yeah Yes, thank you Okay all right, so The pioneering stage is very important. Um christopher go ahead Oh, yes, pasta I just uh Wanted to understand a little bit about, you know, in the pioneer pioneering stage Um, and you mentioned a couple of times about, you know, not having your own place um when, um You know, churches in general, um started off um Is there, um You know, what a motivation to have their own their own place versus not not having their own place and how that sort of, you know, progresses over the over the years um, and um Maybe you could just, you know, give us some of the Poland cons of, you know of that and uh You know from from from a sort of a I mean just to share maybe just, um You know from a sort of a secular standpoint, you know, when when people look at, uh, you know Make a decision about, you know Having their own place versus versus renting, uh, you know, they kind of feel that sometimes, uh, you know they are, uh, you know giving The rent a rental amount to the landlord Which could be, you know, which could really, uh, you know, sort of be used to You know, uh pay for the for the for the for the for the mortgage or whatever, you know, whatever they need to pay for the for the place or orders over number of years And um, I am aware that, you know, there are some there are some churches which sort of, you know, drive that point quite aggressively Even among that, you know, among the congregation where they feel that, you know um, you know that they have to uh You know impose that to the congregation that, you know We have to, you know, have our own building and, you know, we need that we need us We need the support also from the congregation We just wanted to get some I get some insights from you on that Um, yeah, it's interesting and interesting observations so I can share with you our approach to this whole thing about Owning our place and so on um, see from the beginning for us There were three things important and I always put this first first is We want to build people not buildings So that was one of the things I told even Hey, when people ask us, oh, you don't have your own building. You don't have your own land I said, you know first thing we want to build people not buildings Secondly I wanted to I always was thinking like you see the moment I'm just sharing you sharing with you our thought process The moment we build a building it immediately puts a limitation on how much we can grow and for me I always, you know, was saying, okay, we want to hit thousands of people want to sell thousands of people So I don't want to build a building where 100 people can fit I would not be satisfied with it Now that was easy to do right you can buy a place and put up a building 100 people can fit that but that's not that's not What was in my heart? And I I see churches today. I see people have you know in our own city You know, I see yeah, they bought a piece of land They put up a building and what does it do it can hold 100 people it can maybe hold 200 people But that was not the vision That we were caring for us. We wanted to impact thousands. We wanted to impact people all around So I didn't want to settle for that because the moment you build something like that it puts a ceiling that okay You'll have 100 people there are 200 people, but then you can do multiple services, but that also how much can you do? right the third thing Was I never wanted to trouble people with money to build Right, so that I didn't want that to become the focus didn't want that to become the distraction So Uh, this was our philosophy if you will this was our thought process from the beginning build people don't put in limitation with a small building and third is don't burden the people with asking for money for building and so on and so You know for a long time till 2018 that means the first 17 years I mean, I did speak to I did speak about you know, we you know, we would definitely like to have our own land and but then we won't have a place that would Accommodate the bible college and all of those other all the ministries that are happening. So it's good It has to be of a sufficient size And all that I would talk about it But never you know raised funds for it until 2018 to 17 years after we started Right, so in 2017 2018 we kind of officially launched our building project more of the bible college that is Let's buy land. Let's build our bible college facility. Let's go, you know formal with it So that we can have hundreds of students come in we can have students from all over the world come in and train them And so on so we kind of formally launched it in 2018 And then of course we did the estimate we need at least four acres of land and all those kinds of things um And then, you know, we said, okay, we need so much money to buy the land And the interesting thing is all the money came in. So all the money we need to buy the land has been sitting with us for some time now But we have been looking for the land And of course the pandemic came in between so for two and a half years the search for the land had to slowed down a bit And then and then you understand the situation here in india that uh, it's a very messy process a very complex process of Identifying buying the land. So we have to be very careful because this is not personal money. This is church money So we have to do all the due diligence before so, you know, actually just to sum it up Our our building project team they they visited more than a hundred sites hundred pieces of land not none of them passed Right now we're in a stage where we are reviewing one piece of land. That means it's going through the legal process And if that comes out it's it's about 4.7 acres of land And so far everything looks good In the next one on one to two months We will know for sure but the lawyers and everything, you know, they'll give us their final report and we'll make it And you know, it seems like everything is going good, but then The process is going on once it's done if everything goes well, then we will formally announce it That this is the land we're going to buy It's for 4.7 acres almost five acres of land. That's where the bible college is going to be that's where the You know, we'll have our main Church location all the other church locations will continue of course But this whole thing has happened without any stress to the congregation You know, we just said look we're doing this brother. There's so much money. We need the money came in first We haven't even found the land yet But I like it like this where there is no stress on the On the on the congregation nobody felt any problem or that we are asking for money or begging for money Nothing if it's just comfortable So that's been our approach Uh, what would I say to you know, if somebody says no if somebody takes a different approach No, we have to buy land we have to build It's up to them. You know, I'm not against it, but I don't like Putting pressure on people Uh, I don't like forcing people to give I don't like that uh, you know, I just feel that In God is in a he will orchestrate things and we don't have to force people to do these things um Yes, I understand, you know what the point you mentioned about it is better to put money into um Towards an EMI or towards, you know, something like that, but we are doing it without a loan So we have you know, there's no EMI involved at all. It's we have the cash We'll pay for it in cash. No loan We will build a building Without any loans That's the approach we've decided to take and that's how it's happening. Yeah. I hope I answered your question. Yeah, okay um, all right So Uh, so that's the you know pioneering stage. We've had some questions. Let's go forward now right so We are now So from the pioneering stage You need to transition into the administrative stage, right? So that means You can imagine it like this You've laid the foundation But now the structure has to come up. So example If you're going to build a five-story building, what do you do? You start raising the pillars You know that are going to Be the main part of your building That's going to support these five stories Um, and then you know the outer structure the outer shell begins to emerge but then You are beginning to say that okay, these are the you know main pillars. This is what the building on top Is going to look like this. You're giving structure to What's going to come up? so Um, that's The second stage as you're pioneering You need to put things in place Processes in place that will support the growth Right, so you define Systems and processes. How is everything going to function as a church? Then you identify your roles and functions for various ministries Right in the congregation And I'll get into the details. I'm just giving you a high-level view. I'll get into the details And then you also have ways by which new ministries can be birthed, you know because You're now ready to start. You're now ready to you've laid the foundation You're building on the foundation, of course And now you're beginning to launch out various ministries that are going to take place through the church that you are pioneering in that place Right, so you're kind of so this is how we're going to launch new ministries and very important Establish a reproducible model because we will talk about this a little later Yeah That Even though you're pioneering a church Hopefully the lord will lead you to plant More churches or this church that you pioneer In the future Will become a mother church to many other churches Hopefully hopefully that's in in in our hearts that okay, you know, we shouldn't only think okay. Let's have one Church plant that's enough. No You know, hopefully in your heart it is like, okay, we can reproduce this so Think always in terms of a reproducible model That you're you're establishing when you're pioneering a church so What happens is now as you begin to build You start thinking about various so in a service in your ministry Order the things you break things down. Okay, so you'll start thinking about all the teams that need to be in place like you know, like right from your greeters your ushers your worship team your Your your you know, you may have your team for the children's church team for the youth You may have a team that serves, you know, hospitality teams some so many different teams so you start thinking about Those things that need to be in place to make the surface function well Are you think about during the week like we already spoke about, you know, prayer teams people who would Care for people we call it member care. So people would do that part People would welcome new visitors. So you have a welcome team Or are you know, we call it a fdb first time visitor team so they meet with the new visitors for different teams and then You assign people people are put in charge you give them leadership You give them responsibility to lead these teams, you know, we just call them team leaders You may use different language. It's okay. We just call them team leaders. There are people leading These various ministries that are happening. So some of these things are being set in place And then how they all be interact with each other what they do so these processes are put in place so that you know You may have 50 people who may have 500 people may have 5,000 people, but all these teams will function. They just scale up You know, that means example If you have a welcome team that welcomes new people after the service They they will function the same way that you have 50 people 500 people of 5,000 people that welcome team is doing the same thing just that they may scale up As as a as a number of people coming in scale go increases They just scale up to serve more people but What they do like how they welcome people how they talk to people how they Do that that process is there It just increases in size to meet the needs of people. So you put these processes in place And I took care for you know to take care of what's happening and then You you stay in tune with god to birth new ministries Sometimes as a leader God will give you a vision Or what needs to be done, right? He'll put it into your heart sometimes The lord may send people to you and then you need to recognize it and say okay. Hey, that's a new ministry We're gonna go with it For example, you know Um In our second year, so we're talking about 2002 You know when we started the church, I I was never thinking about having a children's home that was not even in my thought and Given left to myself. I would not have done it because for me I felt I didn't want anything to become a distraction Our children's home is a lot of work a lot of responsibility and so on Uh, but in our second year in 2002 There was one lady in the church who came and said can be started children's home and You know, like I said, it was not there was not even something I was thinking and I would not have have done it left to myself I would just stay with the ministry of the word and you know focus on those things Then I just felt in my heart that yeah, we can do this But I told her I said see If you are willing to take responsibility for this and you are willing to lead it. Let's go forward Do you take it forward? We will do we will back it up financially? It'll be a part of the ministry of the church, but you have to take it forward So she did all her homework, you know and and and and then you're setting up a children's home It's not easy because you have to have you know, uh, there's the legal side to things And so she did all that work. She did all that work and then uh, so eventually In our second year 2002 We started a children's home. Uh, we started with about um I think it was about 12 children 12 girls children. So we took up a home. We appointed a Uh, uh warden, you know for that and and and it's all done by that by her. So I was not directly involved other than just discussing approving things on but that was a ministry that was started now as of today that children's home has been closed Because all of them have now, you know grown up. They've gone to college and uh, and so on. So that's transition you know, so so we don't have a children's home today because That we we we journeyed with those 12 girls and took care of them We didn't grow it beyond that because a lot of responsibility But I'm just giving an example where that work took place Then similarly there was another a few years later There was another person who came and said, you know, she was involved in dancing you know performing arts and dancing and Yeah, mainly dancing and choreography and those kind of things So, you know, she wanted to do that. So, okay, you go ahead and do it and now this is not something I personally Had a vision for But it was somebody whom God sent You're like somebody in the church who came for out with that. It's okay. Go ahead with it And so wonderful things happened, you know, she got people together and We did several different productions Some of these videos are online as well And they would do, you know, sometimes they would do small choreo Performances sometimes they would do big things and all that she trained a lot of people So a lot of good came and today she has her own ministry, you know today she has So it's it's it's no longer part of the church, but she's Serving God and she has her own ministry serving lots of people But she always comes back and she's still part of the church. She always comes back and tells You know, thank you to me. She's you know, thank you for, you know It's basically like launching that ministry and today it's it's much bigger and doing much more things So, you know The point is this There are times God will give you ideas or visions or what you need to do There are times God will send people with You know these like I said a clear vision or what they should do and and it would be You're you're you're just a person supporting that you're just encouraging that you're kind of, you know, giving some guidance and supporting it And the ministries will be birthed that way so in both these ways And new ministries will happen and you just need to recognize it and move with God You know, and I'll just share this one thing one more thing because this was again something I never thought of so in our And I think this happened in our first year itself in 2001 You see at that time I had in my mind I had only thought of was an English congregation Have a congregation with just English and that's what was all and because that's the language I'm comfortable preaching ministering that but in our very first year unexpectedly Uh, one person came And he was kind of serving he was working actually he was working doing some work Uh in my parents house and so he came and said He said, uh, there is a whole community of Nepali people So Nepali, you know, so people from Nepal who have moved into because they're in India They've come down into India for work and jobs So there's this whole big community of Nepali people 100,000 people or so other in those years It's grown much more than that now And they Would like to have a church. Would you be willing to start a church? for the Nepali people and he also said These people work on Saturday Sundays. Now many of them, you know, would were working in Uh restaurants in uh, you know, they're working as security guards and all different kinds of jobs So they're off days Tuesday So can you start a church service for them on Tuesdays? Now when he came and asked me this First of all, I never was I was not thinking about starting A regional language service in that and I never think about not thinking about Nepali people never even knew that they were, you know, like I mean, they were in need of a church I don't speak Nepali none of it But I just felt hey god is opening a door. I'm going to say yes So I told him see We will do it I'll come and preach But you need to organize an interpreter And we will take care of all the other expenses. We'll do it So we stepped in, you know, so in our very first year we started a Nepali service Our service church service for the Nepali people on Tuesdays Uh, and I think if I remember correctly Um I think it was at 4 p.m. on Tuesdays and And it was so amazing how god provided interpreters, you know, because I was preaching in English They would interpret god provided people would come and do the songs the worship And we're just amazing when I look back And and and and people were coming, you know, so we rented a place for them and they would come And I did that initially I forget the year now, but I think it must have been till 2005 or six something like that. So the first five years I was I was quote unquote a pastor, but I was I didn't I couldn't speak to people I would just smile at them love them, you know and speak to the interpreter whatever I code a few things But I I really couldn't really care for the people because they're different culture different language But we were doing this and god had people there and I think it was in 2005 or 2006 one person came And and I just felt like I will hand this off to him His name was timothy And I said timothy You be the pastor of the Nepali church. You take it forward from here You know, I've I've done this whatever I could very limited way Uh, I've done this now you've come he came all the way from Nepal from Kathmandu And he was here in Bangalore. He was looking for a job and all this thing. I said you'd pass to the church You take it forward And so he took it while he became the pastor Nepali church some of their students Some of those young people actually studied in a bible college. We train them. So they you know, there's like a pastoral team I think about At least three of them were studied with us in our bible college After that They were trained And so the church just to call, you know, and then it grew We had more than I would still preach from time to time, but he was the pastor and he was preaching all the Sundays and all of that Uh, I would be like a guest speaker. No, but then The work grew to more than 300 people And then in 2018 I felt it was time So they were under they were part of abc till that time Then I said, you know, it's time for them to be on their own you know I have to have their for them to have full charge full Control of that. So, you know here rather than them trying to report to me and all of that. It doesn't make sense Let them have it all let them lead it. Let them have full ownership. So in 2018 we released them He said, you know, you take this forward We gave them money initially to, you know, find their own place to set up their own church You know facility get it all started I went and did the opening service for them and they were launched on their own that was in 2018 and you know, they've since then continued the work from there, but I shared that as an example where It was completely unexpected but a new ministry was born by the spirit Which blessed hundreds literally hundreds maybe it maybe I could say maybe even in thousands because they keep coming and going You know Lives have been blessed It was something unplanned. It wasn't something I thought of It was just a door that got open be recognized and moved in so new ministries are being birthed and God will birth it by giving you a vision He may birth it by sending people to you You need to recognize and you need to move with it and Let those ministries happen Okay, I know I've talked a lot here there are some more things I want to say here about this Reproducible model. We'll talk about it tomorrow Let me pause here. We have a few minutes to take any questions any questions so far we're talking about the you know the the structural state so While you're pioneering Your your birthing new ministries and how to do that any questions everybody's good okay so we will Continue this tomorrow. I'll just share a few more thoughts there on stage two and And then from there we will go forward okay all right may I request somebody to please close and prayer and uh We will dismiss after that our father now god will thank you Blessed to be your holy name father for who you are And who you've become and you're going to be Thank you for the work to god that we've had And thank you for your servant whom you've used to go to speak to us this morning Holy spirit, I pray that You will give us the grace of god to do that Which pleases god and not man I pray lord that even as we embark on this journey of god to subbing you in truth and in spirit you will give us the grace The enablement the wisdom the knowledge the understanding To work according to your will and not according to a flesh or according to the wisdom of this world We pray father that you give us the spirit of consistency the spirit of focus Just as we've heard this morning the the need for us to stay focused on that which you have called us on I pray lord that you will help us Help also god not just to be Man or god who just want to do God's work or men who are devoted to seeing your kingdom expand Father we pray that you will also give us The mind of god to expand That we should have given to us to others The father or god of mind the wings of god will spread out And be all god and wings of god for other people to flourish In the name of jesus Thank you father. Thank you son. Thank you. Holy spirit of god For we know that the words we've had today will not just drop for it But it will impact us and we'll go forward to see your kingdom expand In jesus name amen Amen God bless you. Thank you. I'll See you all tomorrow. Have a good afternoon. Good day. God bless Thank you. Thank you so much God bless you. Thank you. Thank you so much