 I just want to read from Proverbs. Today is the last day of the month, January 31. I just want to read from Proverbs 31. And these are the words of King Lemuel Lass, the introduction goes, which is mother taught him. So the Proverbs 31, about the Proverbs 31 woman or the virtuous wife is actually information shared or wisdom shared by Lemuel's mother with Lemuel. So the thing is, it starts by saying, you know, what my son, son of my womb, son of my wives, do not give your strength to women. Know your ways to that which destroys kings. It is not for kings or Lemuel. It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes intoxicating drink, lest they drink and forget the law and pervert the justice of all the afflicted and so on. Then it goes on to verse nine, open your mouth, judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy. So here's a person in leadership, here's a person who's a king and the instruction and the wisdom that is shared is this, you know, you judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy. And these are some things that are going to compromise with your strength and with that ability that you need to have in order to judge righteously and to plead the cause of the poor and needy. And it is going to distort your wisdom, distort your judgment. So you need, you cannot, you know, it's like giving away your strength when you indulge in these things. I just list a couple of things here, but you know, we know that there could be many other things where, which really, you know, distort our sense of judgment. And in a way, take away our strength to judge righteously, take away our strength and fervor to speak up for those who do not have a voice and take away that sense of compassion and God's heart for the poor and needy. Right? So, well, that's the, that's a warning and also the exhortation that we see in Props 31. Right? So let's pray and yeah, let's just ask the Lord to, you know, to really protect that we would also, you know, take time to protect or keep ourselves in that place of strength. Right? Let's pray. Father, we thank you Lord. Thank you for these words of inspiration, exhortation and also God, your word which very clearly warns us God that here are some things that really take away our strength. Take away our ability and compromise on what we actually are called to do as people of influence. Lord, we pray, Father God, that today, oh God, that it'll be a wake up call for some of us, God, it'll be, Lord, it'll be a stirring up in some of us that we would take our place and which you've given us, God, take the place of influence and where you've placed us, God, that it'll be, Lord, from a place of strength, God, that we will not compromise on anything. We will not indulge in anything that will take away that, that position of strength, God, that dilutes that God. And Master, we pray that you'll enable us to really, Lord, walk worthy of the call with which you have called us and to fulfill the plans and purposes that you have for us, God. We thank you. We give you all the praise and all the glory. In Jesus' matchless name we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, so today I just wanted to just talk to us a little bit about the methodology, you know, all of us have, all of you have given the, most of you and some of you are, you know, I just, you've given it and you're not very sure yet. I'll just finish that today. But most of you have given the topics and you're clear about what you need to do. So I just want to talk about the methodology, right? What is the methodology that you're going to take up in order to carry out your research? Okay. So that is something that we, you need to be sure of, or you need to be, you know, give, you know, thought to what is the methodology, how am I going to do this? Right. So you've given your, the methodology would, or the way you go about your research would depend on your topic. Which some of it, some of this topic is very, what I would say, you know, you need to find out the data is out there, right? The information is out there. And I say out there, okay, it could be in the form of books, articles, maybe something that you can find online in a public library, newspaper, whatever the information is out there. You need to get that information and collect that information, right? Some of it is qualitative information. The sense you need to actually find out by way of, let's say, for example, I'm just saying, you know, there was a topic on burnout among Christian leaders, right? Among pastors and Christian leaders, I think that was the topic. Yeah. So you need to actually find out. Okay. Now we cannot make an assumption. Okay. Now, what is an assumption? You know, this is what I feel it is, you know, this is what I sense. I've been getting a lot of, you know, I've been hearing this person saying that I've heard this message, this sermon. So, so it must be, you know, I'm just making an assumption of all that. But your research is actually very specific. It could be specific to a group of people. It could be specific to a particular area, right? And, you know, maybe I saw some topics like unreached people in certain areas. Yeah. So the thing is that you need to be a little more specific. You need to validate on data. Right. So it would require, for some, it would require maybe this particular topic, for example, if we take it, burnout on Christian leaders. Yes, you can, you know, get it from the article and so on, but in your personal research, right? If it is, let's say, a church or a group of churches in a particular area and you want a group of pastors in this particular city, then you would need to, you know, interact and find out and talk to them and get real data, right? Get real information on, you know, what is it that actually caused you to burn out? And what do you sense is, you know, it'll cause a spiritual burnout in people. And maybe you can, you know, you can look into the word, you know, did people burn out halfway? Yeah. There are a couple of examples in the New Testament as well, right? One who, they just halfway through, they just went back. So we see those examples. So, you know, you can share that also. And also, you know, so your methodology, the research methodology is very important, right? And so that is why I just kept reiterating that your title needs to be specific because your title, the research title is actually going to give you the scope of research and the scope of research, meaning, you know, how big it is, how wide it is will also determine the methodology that you're going to use. Okay. So let's say, you know, some of it is very, what I would say is very academic in the sense you would find information in a library and you would need to go through, read through, and come with your conclusion, right? So, and come with your, you know, the pattern that you see in all these articles that you've read and so on. So, so which is, which is fine. Some of it is academic. Some of it, you need to, you know, find, get information, talk to people, get information. So when it comes to that, you can probably use questionnaires, which could be printed, people actually, you know, maybe have to just stick their responses, depends on what kind of information that you're getting. Or it could be a telephone conversation, or it could be an interview with, you know, interviews with people, various kind of people, and you record it, right? So this has to be presented as well, you know, if you're doing, if you're maybe interviewing people and you and this statistics, this information that you're putting together in a table that needs to be presented as well in order to form the conclusion. So these are some things that you need to keep in mind when you're talking about the research methodology. So even as I'm saying this, you know, probably you're thinking, you know, like, you know, there's a topic called reached and reached thing I told Pratik, you know, you need to specify where, what, who are these people, and so on. So then what else I'm just going through some. So Maxon had actually put a topic called false profits. And again, I gave the feedback that Maxon needs to fine tune that topic and to make it even more specific, you know, it's generally is it about false profits or false profits in a particular city or what, you know, so that that would give the scope. You look into the word, see who those false false profits are, look outside into the church and see, you know, what is what happened, how do they start go and you know, you have to do. So that would be the methodology of for that particular topic. Okay. Then what else do we have. Okay, so each of these topics, I see that, you know, you need to get specific with your research work, right, finding out information, citing what information, citing meaning, you know, you're, you're actually referencing it you're in your research paper. If you get to that, you're actually making mention of it, because it's not your original thought, you're actually mentioning that this is what I read, and this is the author, this is the book, etc, you're making mention of that. But also, you need to present your original thoughts, your ideas on this. Any topic based on your reading, based on your interviewing, based on your research, based on your interactions, you know, what is the conclusion that you are coming to, and you mentioned that this is what I feel based on this, based on, you know, this information, based on so and so, you know, this interaction, this is the kind of, this is the conclusion that I'm coming to. Right, so, so original thought, original recommendation, that has to come from, you know, you, in a sense, if there is a problem, talking about the problem, let's say false prophets. Now, what is the antidote to that problem, right, and it'll be good if your research would bring out that solution, you know, and a lot of it is that, you know, reaching the unreached, you know, unemployment, I see that have been some unemployment and our responsibility as Christians. So, so it would have a solution, you know, to it at the end, right, it would have an antidote to it. This is how the problem can be solved. Okay, I see Chris's title also does alcohol have a place in the rifle believer so obviously, you know, you present the thoughts but also, you know, what to do for people who are compromising what to do. You know, how can people who are stuck in it come out, you know, you present that solution as well as a conclusion, right, before you conclude, you present that solution as well. Okay, yeah, so, so, you know, in the Google sheet, once you refine the title, please mention the refined title, like the changed one, right. So, Rupa, you know, you're home away from home. So I suggested in the email, what you could, you know, some options to change or add to the title, so that it actually defines the kind of ministry, you know, the open home ministry, so you could mention that as well in the Google sheet. So we know, okay, this is the final title. Okay. Yeah, so I think that that has not been done yet in the Google sheet, right, so I'm talking about only for the online students. If you're a e-learning student, you would have to do that in the discussion section, right, whatever we interact, whatever material you're putting out the title, the summary, everything is in the discussion page. And so I can actually go through it and respond to that. Okay, so the Google sheet we're talking about only for the online students, right. Okay, any questions or doubts that we can talk about that we can discuss right now? Sir, I have a question. Yes, sir. I sent my question or my talk through your email and you tried that I can go ahead. Yeah. So am I supposed to update it on the Google sheet or what? Yes, please. Yeah, so the Google sheet is what we are, you know, the entire class. Everybody has put their title here and they're going to be refining the title also. So I would suggest that I see about 21 titles right now. So Alfred, you can also enter your title there, please. Where should I find the Google sheet? Okay, the Google sheet in the classwork section, you know, if you go to the classwork section, classwork tab, you will see the lecture videos. You will see list of topics. The first one would be list of topics, I guess. And so you click on that and there's a Google sheet there and you can enter. Thank you, sir. Are you able to see that? Yeah, I will do that. You'll do that? Okay. This is the place where all the videos are, the lecture videos are, and also the resources are. There are a couple of books. I mean, the guidelines are there. You can always check that guidelines and also there's a small book on writing research papers. So it's that section, classwork section. Okay. Okay, Sri Kumar, you want to... Thank you, sir. I want to know that, sir, when we are calling the church, so we have to cover all the denominations or it is just to... We have to just to see that whatever problem at this point of time we are facing is only a NEP and a coastal church. Is it like that? Well, that depends on what your research is, Sri Kumar. Sri Kumar, you put your title here. I'm just going through that. Have you entered in the... Have you entered in the Google sheet? I don't think it's entered here. Okay, then I will do that. So you can do that. Yeah, so I remember what you think. So the thing is that you define the scope. If you want to do it in a certain denomination, you do it. Otherwise, you define the scope. Thank you, sir. Okay, so Louis, email and I have entered it in the Google. Okay, thanks. Thank you, Louis. Okay. Any questions? Any doubts or any ideas that you feel might be helpful for the class in just starting the search work? Sir, when we have to start to write, we have to start it. You can start right away. Thank you. You can start right away. Pastor, are you going to go through a little more detail on this MLA format for the report format? By the way, I've actually put the format... And the guideline has the format. What I will also do is I'll put up a template. So then that's self-explanatory. I'll upload a template. So you will know where to enter what and you can use that. Okay. Yeah, okay. Yeah, so what we'll do is next class, which is next Tuesday, we will not meet online. Right? So you can just focus on doing the research work. We will not have our class, which is next Tuesday. And I'll put it on the stream as well. So you know that you don't have to tune in. I'm talking about... This is 7th of February. So 7th of February, we will not meet online. We'll meet the following Tuesday. So you can actually focus on doing the work and getting that information. So please continue to do it every day. Don't just keep it for, you know, the last few weeks or something. Just do it every day. And then you can, you'll be able to finish it on time. Right? Yeah. Sir... Yes, sir. You give us the template or we use your school format or there are anything that we use, or is there an online portal where we should be feeding the information or we need just to write the paper and this form. The other question is when is the first... When do you expect the first submission like for you to go through before the final report? Yeah. So, see, we will have, if you actually go through the video, of the first video, we went through the, you remember, we went through the guidelines. Right? So let me just mention that we went through the guidelines and we looked at what needs to be done. Okay. Let me just try and share that with me a minute, please. Okay. I can't just one second. Sorry. Okay. Are you able to see the screen now and... Okay. So, you can see that this, the guideline, this is also in the class first section, Alfred, so you can go through it. So it has a timeline. What, when each, you know, each submission has to be. So, from the next submission will be a little more stringent. So, if the submission is not on time, then we could lose Mark. So, I've mentioned that 27th of February is the next February, which is a Monday. That is the next submission. And it's a draft with that work status of work done. Okay. So, which is, okay, this is what I've done. So, these are the readings. This is the material collected or these are the interviews done. This is the questionnaire. So, whatever is the status, so you just submit a draft of it. And then the final draft of the research paper is presented on the 10th of April. This is actually the report itself. So, that is your first question. Second question about the format of the research report. Now, this link here, which gives you details of it. You know, what should be the font? What should be the spacing? How do you, you know, mention your margins and paragraphs and so on. So, that's the MLA format. So, that is there in that link. You could have checked it out. I will also upload a template. So, you can use the template on a Word doc and you can upload it. Like how you can, you know, you've uploaded on the stream. You can just upload it. I'll probably create an assignment and you can upload it directly there. All right. I hope that helps. Chris has a question, Chris. Yes, Pastor. I was just thinking that, you know, in this research paper, there may be a need to do a short survey among a set of, you know, people. Yeah. So, is there something that, you know, you would encourage and again, I don't know for my topic, I'm not sure of that survey. I know it can be a bit inclusive in the field, even if it is non, if it is confidential and, you know, whether it is something that, that can be done. And I guess the question is, or whether, I mean, not specifically for my topic only, but for some of the other topics also, whether that survey can be in some way done, you know, within the APC church, the members within the APC church. I'm not saying that everyone will do it, I mean, then do the surveys, but I'm just saying a few of them, whether it makes sense to do it and whether it should apply. Yeah, it really depends on what the nature of the research. Yeah, definitely survey. I think in some cases are a necessity. And in your particular topic, it would really enhance, you know, your case if you actually do a survey and the survey can be of people who are, you know, who are indulged in drinking or come out of it, whatever, you know, whatever you want to bring out through that survey. It'll really, it'll be helpful, I feel. With regard to doing a survey within church, well, you, if you are, if you want, I can, you know, we can even give you a letter saying that you are a student and you're doing a whichever, you know, wherever you want to do the survey, you can even give a letter saying that you, for this research purpose only, for the academic purpose, that you're doing a survey on this particular topic. So kindly extend your cooperation, whatever. We can do that. But we'll also, you know, kind of probably jointly go through the questionnaire of the survey. I mean, what the nature of the survey, and then if need be, if you need a letter, we can provide one answer. That's fine, not a problem. Okay. So then maybe we could discuss this offline, Pastor. Sure. Sure. You can email me. Yeah, you can email and then we can discuss that. Sure. Thank you. Okay. Yes, Charles, you have a question. It's not a question. I'm also doing the identity crisis and the, I am equally in that area. So any help that would be given to Christophe? Sorry Charles, I'm not able to hear you very well. Can you, there seems to be some, there seems to be some disturbance. Can you hear me now? I actually missed what you said earlier. But you can hear me now. Yes. Yeah, I was, I was also requesting that I'm going to email you my topic. Then you also prepare me a document that I can present so that I can do a survey. That's what I wanted to request you. Yeah. So I will need to know what is the nature of the survey. So I need to see the questionnaire. I will go through that. Yeah, sure. So once you send me that, I will go through that and then I can give you the letter. Sure. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Any other questions? Any other thoughts? You just think about your topic, the nature of work and any, that comes to your mind on how to go about it. You can ask, right? Okay. So if there's nothing more, then we will wind up now. We, we are not meeting next, next Tuesday, right? I see Nisha is online. So Nisha, I have your, your email ID and details. So probably after the class. Sometimes if, you know, if you're not at work or if you're listening, we can, you know, I can, we can talk about that because your topic as well. But we'll try and finish everything today. You know, we want, we don't want to take it beyond this. I think we've already delayed this further. I'm just sharing this with everyone. So with regards to the topic, let's, let's not go beyond January. Okay. Let's end it today. And so our next interaction should not be about the topic. Okay. It should be about the methodology and anything else regarding the research work, right? Okay. Okay. So we'll, we'll stop here. And Abhishek, yes, I, I've seen that Abhishek. Yeah. I saw your email and I thought I responded to your email. I replied. I'm not sure. Let me check. Okay. And please upload the, you know, update the Google sheet as well. All those who got my reply. Please update the Google sheet as well. Okay. Thank you. We'll stop here. And I just want to, maybe we'll take a five minute break. And I'd like Abhinash, Sadant, and then Asha and Kuhn to stay back. Nisha, you can also stay back, please. And we'll just very quickly, we just like to go through your topic, right? We'll take a five minute break. And then I'll address the others. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you, Pastor. Thank you. Right. Others, please you can feel free to log out. Thanks.