 All right. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the session on discipleship and small groups. Let's begin this time with a word of prayer and get into our teaching. Let's pray. Father, we thank you so much once again for giving us this opportunity to come together and learn. And I pray God that even as we spend this hour just learning from your word about discipleship, about small groups, Lord, pray that you will speak and minister to each of us and God. Give us new plans, ideas, strategies, and, Lord, give us the wisdom to perceive what you want us to understand from your word. Look, we thank you and praise you. Jesus' name be prayed. Amen. Okay. So last week we looked at chapter 5 and chapter 6. We covered the responsibilities of a saddle leader. We looked at some of those responsibilities, disciples and members, pray for your saddle leaders. Then we also looked at personal life and character, three important points. We be an example to be passionate about what you're doing and three, be convicted. You know that, okay, even though it's a small setting, but you're doing this and you're touching lives, you're ministering to people and you're impacting the kingdom of God. In chapter 6 we looked at how the minister to saddle members, right? When you have people, when you probably start off a new saddle group or you have new people coming in, keep reiterating the vision of the saddle group, the church, you know, to be committed to the church and also the basic, you know, like what about the foundations, the simple initial stages of foundations that you can take them through. Then very importantly, we also talked about how as a saddle group member leader we must be also able to minister to people in between saddle meetings. So you have a Sunday service and you have Saturday, probably a life group. So you need the next Saturday. So in between, you know, make efforts to probably call or email or visit them. Work at a personal level, especially when you know that people are going through a crisis or going through a situation, just pay special attention to them. Make disciples, meaning don't be afraid to talk about issues, try to meet people's needs as much as we can. Counseling, have a good year of listening and when you feel that you're not able to counsel a person over a certain limit you can always, you know, direct them to the pastor or a counseling team in your church. And finally, we looked at how we must handle conflicts and problems and issues that may arise. Now, how do I say this, right? Ministry is about people and people have different ideas, different plans, different thoughts. So there will be conflicts, there will be issues, there will be problems that need to be solved and as a leader, we must solve those problems. We cannot run away from them. But we must be willing to find the right solution and solve those problems. Okay, let's get into chapter seven, which is your ministry team. Let me just present the notes. Chapter seven, your ministry team. Now, one of the important points that we always want to, you know, drive home is when you and I are in ministry, never work alone, right? Always build teams, right? You may be 10 people, it's all right, build a team, right? Now, how can we do that in a cell group? Follow up of newcomers to your cell group. You can delegate this responsibility. So you delegate responsibility to members in the cell group. Now, initially, right, you and I can, as a leader, we can do it. It's good to initially call the cell members and say, hey, thank you for coming and all of that. You're doing a follow up. But over time, learn to delegate, encourage cell members to take a step. You know, because it's very easy for cell members to just say, okay, the life group leader is doing everything. I just have to sit back and, you know, I don't have to do anything because he's the leader. No, you delegate responsibilities, form a team, right? Now, when I say form a team, right? Initially, it may feel weird. We're only eight people. So as a life group leader, you don't have to tell them, hey, I'm forming a team, right? You can just keep it in the back of your mind and look ahead, work ahead. Say, okay, I can give this person responsibilities, delegate some responsibilities, see how faithful they are, see if they're doing a good job. And then eventually, you know that, you know, you can raise him up as a leader, you're discipling the person to become a leader. And then you look at strategic relational evangelism. Now, when it comes to strategic evangelism, what you can do is as a cell group, firstly, you ask the cell group members, hey, can maybe write down the names of those who are unsaved in your family or your friends that you know, right? And pray for them. Remember, we talked about the life of a cell group is prayer as well. Prayer is what gets the cell group to be stronger. That's the foundation. So you can get them to pray, right? Pray for those who need salvation. And then you can also, you know, equip them. So for example, as a cell group leader, you may have somebody who's a believer, he or she is new in the group or new as a Christian. You can probably train them, hey, I'm going on an outreach. Would you like to come with me? And so they see firsthand how outreach is done, how ministry is done. And then we train them. As leaders, you can give them books to read or you can give them resources that they can read up and learn. And then you also invite them to practical ministry because one thing that I realized is we can read all we want, which is good. When you try to do it in the practical, it's just not so, it is just the opposite sometimes. So you get them to also taste what practical ministry is all about. And then at the appropriate time, you ask them to share the gospel with people and get and invite people to the cell groups. Now, when we do this as a leader, you're encouraging them to step out. You're giving them confidence, you're giving them those the cell members, you're giving them a reason to be involved in the group. They feel valued in the group. So even especially now that what we see with a lot of restrictions around us, they'll be strategic, but don't stop teaching people how to recognize in your group. And then again, follow up with newcomers. Now, usually in the church, something that we do at ABC is we have an altar call at least once in a month. We try to do that. So the pastors will the pastor preaching will say, hey, if you want to give your life to the Lord, please come forward or you can just raise your hand. And many times people give their life to the Lord. Now, what is the next step? What is it that we should do? Now, many churches may have different follow up systems in place. Let me share what we do at ABC. So once we get the details on Monday, there's a thank you call. So we called and say, hey, thank you for coming to church. And we also know that we have made a decision to, this could be even for first time visitors or even new decisions for the Lord. So we say, thank you for coming and thank you for being at church. And I hope you had a good time. It's making them feel valued. And then after the first call somewhere around Thursday or Friday, we also send them details for life groups. Now, most of the times on the first call itself, we inform them, hey, we have something called as life groups, which meet all across the city. These are small groups. And if you'd like, you can attend one. So sometimes they say, yes, sometimes they say, not yet. I need some more time. So it's all right. If they say yes immediately, we connect them to our cell group or life group leader and the life group leader takes it forward. If they say no, what we do is we give them another follow up call on the following Monday or Tuesday. And then we just say, hey, it's not like we are, you know, behind them saying you have to come to church. You know, people like, not all of them, but people like being valued. So on Tuesday, either the next week, we asked them, hey, were you able to attend church on Sunday? Because this time they're not going to put their hands up, right? At church. This is the second time they come to church. They say, yes, we came. We enjoy the service. Then we tell them, hey, we have life groups. So basically, this is how you can get new members connected. Now, if not for life groups, there are also different teams in a cell group in a church. So you can have our shooting team, volunteer teams. You can just connect them to any group, right? But cell group, why we first ask people to join and get connected to cell groups is because that is where we can see spiritual growth. And volunteering teams, that's wonderful. But we want to see spiritual growth as well. So one of the things we do at APC is we also encourage all our volunteers and other teams. They could be sound and set up or media team, graphics team. We encourage them, hey, be part of a life group because you may be doing all of these other tasks. But remember that you must also grow in the things of God, right? So following up with newcomers and people who make decisions for the Lord, very important, right? And so this is something that we have. So follow up call one, follow up call two. And sometimes we do make a follow up call three. But normally by the second call we get a feel whether they want to come back to church, whether they don't want to come back to church, right? And reasons for not coming back could be, you know, they're part of another church or they're just visiting in the city. So then you can just, you know, take them off the list of follow up. All right, next one. Seed projects. We briefly talked about it, right? Sowing seeds of love and compassion in the community. And with this, many doors can open, right? I remember this happened in 20, I think it was 2014. I'm not sure, I'm not wrong. Could be 2014 or 15. So some of our church folks wanted to do, they live in an apartment complex. And as a life group, they wanted to, you know, just have a stall and, you know, have these a few books and some eateries and some snacks. And they just wanted to bless the community, right? And so they had asked some of us from church, if you can come and just play a few Christmas songs. It was Christmas time, right? So play a few Christmas candles and said, yeah, okay, fine, we'll come. So two, three of us, we went, we played a few songs. We were not even, you know, we didn't have speakers, we didn't have a full band or anything. We just maybe a guitar and a few singers. And so we went, we did it. We did about 20 minutes of candles. We finished it, right? But a few months later, the person who lives in that community called back and said, you know what the people in the apartment complex really like what happened. So they want to scale it up. So next year we'll have sound systems in place. We'll have a flea market set up. Will you be able to come and do carols for maybe one hour? And you can also bring your material, whatever books you had, you can place it, people can take it. Can you do that? So what started off as a seed project with a life group? Just maybe five or six of them turned out to be a project which we continued for years. For about six to seven years, we continued that. And through this, many lives were touched. Many people were also started coming to church through that. So you never know, right? Try to start seed projects and eventually that could turn into a ministry opportunity. Now, very important when you start these seed projects, don't always look at it as a ministry opportunity. Look at it also as a way of displaying the love of Christ. You just want to show people, the community, the love of Christ. And you want to see people touched. So look at it that way. Fifth point is again, outreaches and special events. We talked about it as a cell group. You can go ahead and plan. And here's the important part. If you are a cell group leader, you must be willing to take the step of saying, hey, let's do this. Because all of us normally, we like things going in a certain pattern and we don't want to bring change. But it's important that we also learn to step out. So as a leader, we must be able to plan and plan these outreaches from time to time. And then involvement in Sunday celebrations, meaning the Sunday church services. As life group leaders always be available to serve in the church. So there could be times when we could be short of volunteers, life group leaders, you have to step in and just be available. And then you also encourage this mindset in your life group members. So all of them have this mindset that, hey, I'm not just part of a cell group, but I must also be willing to minister in church in any area that it's required. So ministry should just become an outflow. It should never come to a time when, hey, this is not my responsibility. So get involved wherever you can. Of course, we do have other commitments and family and work and all of that, but wherever we can get involved. Don't see how big or how small it is. Remember that when you're involved in church and church ministry, church services, cell groups, all we are doing is we are building God's kingdom together. And knowingly or unknowingly, we are raising up other disciples as we serve people. Any questions, any thoughts? Shall we go to the next chapter? Sorry, I don't have the, let me just check if there's any questions. No questions. Shall we get into the next chapter? Okay, what are some of the pitfalls to avoid? We looked at some of the pitfalls, but let's look at this in a closer, with closer attention and detail. Number one, avoid shortcuts, avoid shortcuts. No shortcuts in building a successful cell. Whether it is, you start with two people, you start with three people, it's alright. Start strong. Avoid shortcuts, avoid trying to manipulate people or trying to, you know, coerce people, force them to come with, avoid all of that. When people come, they should come out of their own heart, out of their own willingness and know that they're not coming because of the like group leader, they're coming because they love the Lord. Remember the upward, inward, outward and forward model. So here's the upward and the inward where we avoid shortcuts. Look to the Lord. The Lord is the one who will bless the work of your hands, who will bless the ministry. So look upward and ask God to bring the right people. Ask God to give you the wisdom to, we all need the wisdom, right? We need the wisdom to minister to people, to reach out to people, to speak the right words. So ask God for wisdom. My little teacher does that well. When we ask God, God is, He gives us the wisdom that we need. Can do that. Avoid competitiveness. And this is one thing that we'd like to reiterate in all our, you know, in all our life groups. And thankfully, in EBC, you know, as a life group coordinator, been doing this for more than a decade now, I don't see any competitiveness. And that's wonderful, right? Because competitiveness is the work of the flesh. Some of the ways that we can avoid competition is one is if, for example, you are looking your life group leader, right? What you can do is you can get other life group leaders once a while to come and minister to you in your cell. What happens? People in this cell group will say, hey, we have a life group leader coming from, you know, maybe another part of the city. He's coming and sharing here. It builds the sense of unity. So all of a sudden, all the members in this cell group will say, oh, so we're all one. There's no, they are better or we are better. That feeling is thrown out of the window. And so avoid competitiveness. And let your people know that you are working together as a team. And there's no, there's no better or this is not good or they are a better group. They do more things and we are not better. Of course, we look at other groups and we learn from them, right? I can share plenty of stories where life groups have adapted certain plans and strategies of other life groups. And now they're doing well. But competition, get it out of the window. The moment you feel that somebody is, you know, there's competition between people in the cell group or among cell groups, deal with it. Handle the problem and resolve the problem. Let people know that this is not the right attitude. But now if I don't do that as a leader, they're continuing that and it's going to spread among the group. So when you see a problem, bring it to task, resolve it. And I think this is one of the most difficult, you know, aspect for a leader. And I'm sure many of you may agree with that. But we have to do it. It's this part and it's part of leadership. And it's a must. We must do this right. Thirdly, avoid careless pointing of leaders within the cell. We talked about this, right? Look at their motives, right? Now, if somebody is coming for a life group for one month, don't immediately give them leadership. And don't tell them, hey, you can share next week. No, you give them opportunities, you know, some things that we, for example, life group, if you want to be a life group leader, you should have attended church for at least three years. Very simple. At least three years. So we're not appointing leaders just because many times, you know, we really need a life group in a certain location in Bangalore. And we know of people, but we wait, right? Because they probably knew the church. They still don't know how APC works. They don't know what, they may not, you know, be ready for this leadership, right? It's not like there's partiality or any personal preference. Just that we have certain, you know, we also like to appoint life group leaders who are already serving in the church, at least in some capacity, or we see them every Sunday in church. We don't, you know, somebody who's coming once in a month, and then we tell them, hey, you'll be a life group. So it won't happen, maybe. We avoid careless appointing of leadership. Why is this important? Because the leader is going to minister to the people. Now, if this leader has wrong motives, then it's going to affect the entire life group. And the entire life group can just, you know, it will function, but then it can just be a place of chaos. And that's not what we want to see. Don't compromise on leadership appointments, whether it's in the church, cell group, or anywhere. Don't compromise. Give people time. Give them, see how faithful they are in the small things. And then give them bigger opportunities. Then don't let cell groups become a mini church service. Yes, we talked about this, right? We don't want them to, it shouldn't be a place where, you know, only the life group leaders talking, but it should be less talking and more of discussions happening in the cell group. Okay, here's, look at this. Watch out for people with personal agendas, right? Now, promoting pet doctrines. Let's take a few moments here. Out of these, maybe 10 audios, 10 audios, maybe there was one or two situations where there were people who were pursuing personal agendas. What happened was this person, you know, came into, started attending a life group and he was attending the life group. But over time, what he did was he started taking down numbers of those who are in the life group. And he started saying, hey, I'm starting a church. Can you come? And they felt bad. They said, okay, so sad, you know, I think he was attending the life group for over a year. He should be wrong about a year or so. So he had built relationships. So when he said, yes, I'm starting a church and these other people in the life group were like, okay, so sad. He's starting, nobody's there. Let's go and help him out. So they went and over time, he expected them to come every Sunday. He expected them to, you know, do all the volunteer work in the church and they were not comfortable with that. And they were also not comfortable with some of the doctrines that he was talking about. So when it came to that point, then they came and told us, this is what's happened. And so we had to, you know, really make sure that we, you know, resolve that problem. And so we want to be careful. What's wrong for people with personal and gender. And that is why we want only the life group leader to guide the discussions. And that is another reason why we have only the Sunday summons being discussed. So there is no ped-doctrines. There is no, okay, you know, actually the rapture is already over or there's no doctrine like healing is lost with the Apostle Paul or there's no gift of the spirit anymore. I think we're wrong. That's fine. So what does the word teach us? What is thought on Sunday? That is discussed. And so it's not like we are controlling people, but we are shepherding everyone. As a shepherd, we must also care for them. We need to protect them. And so this is something that we do. What about people from other churches? Okay, this is a question that normally folks ask during a life group leader's training. Can people from other churches visit? Now, people from other churches are welcome to visit occasionally. But they cannot attend your cell group and go to another local church. Now, okay, let me, let me say this. Let me bring this point, you know, help us understand this point. For example, we may have somebody who is, we have friends from other churches, right? So somebody in your life group may say, Hey, can I call my friend to like, he's a believer, you know, for many years. So as a life group leader, you can say, Yes, you can bring him. Now, when he comes, he or she comes. Now, remember, that person may have a strong ministry background. They may know everything from Genesis to Revelation. Good. But the point is, you are the life group leader. So the life group leader makes all the discussion, leads the discussion. This person may come and say, Hey, you know, why don't we talk about. So for now, we took, you know, last Sunday, we took up the topic and we had a certain discussion on that. The Sunday some, but this person may say, Hey, we'll talk about something else. You say no, because this is what we're doing in our church. Now, if the person wants to continue coming, you tell that person that it's better for you to be part of your local church. And I'm sure your local church will also have cell groups, right? And it's good if you can be part of that. Visiting occasionally is fine, maybe once in three months or four months. But if he or she is continually coming, tell them, Hey, I encourage you to go to your life group. Now, these are instructions as leaders, like group leaders, you need to give your life group members, people in your cell group. Is it hard for them to hear it? Yes, they could be friends for 15 years and they go together everywhere. That's fine. But this is something that we want to do because what is the point of the ABC 12, you know, the life group, it is to disciple them. Now, when this person has a different vision is in different church, nothing wrong with that, right? It's part of a different church and the vision is different. So then things get entangled. So here's where as leaders, something that we do is when I train a life group leader, I take them through the whole training and these are points that we bring up. So you must be aware of this. And many times the life group leaders are new, they feel like they cannot tell the people in the group. So sometimes I go and I put these things in place. So I go for the first few life groups, I sit down and say, okay, now this person is a life group leader and this is how the life group will function. So the first life group, I'll be there just sharing the vision, sharing why we are doing this and they are free to ask any questions. We help them. And so for people from other churches, be careful, be wise. Okay, visiting speakers. This is another problem. Visiting speakers, we can have people from many places. People you want to invite, people you don't want to invite will invite themselves to the meeting. Now that's very difficult, right? We look at this point here, I like this. We would like to avoid inviting outside speakers to sell meetings. Sell meetings are not to be a Bible study. We don't want the reason. I'll tell you the reason we avoid it. If we invite a person from another, you know, maybe a pastor or a preacher, visiting preacher, he will come. He may open the Word of God, he or she, and they may reach their heart of powerful sermon. And the anointing of God could be really great upon that person's life. All that is good. But Light Group is not a church service. What about those 10 or 12 people who are sitting? They want to discuss together. They may have questions that they've been waiting to ask for the entire week. They may have questions that they've written down and they want to, and those questions need to be resolved. They may have prerequisites that they want to share with the Light Group leader. And now this person's coming and preaching and saying, okay, everyone, let's, you know, close in prayer. It's not going to help at all. Right? So now there could be situations where people will really want an outside preacher to come. I remember two instances where this youth group, it was a very nice youth voice group. And still going on very strong group. And this person said, I want to invite my uncle, he's a pastor, and I want him to come and share in our Light Group. I said, see, and it was his uncle. So I said, see, that's good. What you can do is you finish with your Light Group discussions, everything. And then you can hand over to the pastor, your uncle who's the pastor. You can take whatever time, but you finish your one and a half hours as a Light Group. But he was not too keen. He wanted them to, you know, he wanted him to preach and teach during the Light Group. So I said, see, I remember saying this to him, said, if that is the case, I will come and sit in the Light Group. So I don't know what happened when he said, no, it's all right. But the point I'm trying to bring is we want to be careful. It's not like I don't trust the person, but the people, those 10, 12 people youth are more important. See, we took maybe three years to build that Light Group to get it to about 10 or 12 people, make it a strong Light Group. It can take one Light Group leader, one meeting to just cause a problem in the Light Group. Just one meeting can cause a problem. So eventually I told this because I also said avoid calling him to the Light Group. But what you can do is meet another day, request all of them to come on another day and let him do the Bible study or the church service. And so always bring this across to your, if you are a cell group pastor, you're a cell pastor, put this across. Even as a Light Group leader, put this across to people. Independent ministries, be careful, do not allow them. We do not allow them. We recommend not anyone not to do this. And thankfully at ABC, you know, it's been so wonderful, you know, everyone are, they understand. And that's why rules and regulations, guidelines are so important, right? Volunteer guidelines. And when we share this, we reiterate it over and over and over again. What happens is people in the Light Group understand, okay, these are things that I can do. These are things that are not really in line with the guidelines that we have. So let's try and avoid it. So to tell you the truth, as a Light Group pastor, I've really not had much trouble. Because everyone have, we have a Light Group leaders document, the rules and regulations are put in there. Sometimes they come up with certain ideas and I say, is it okay? Is it in line with the volunteer guidelines? Is it in line with the Light Group leaders guidelines? And they say, if it's yes, then please go ahead. If it's not, then they know what to do. And so sometimes I just don't have to say anything. And we bring them to that place of maturity as Light Group leaders. Okay, now this is dangerous. Personal prophecies and seducing spirits. Now these prophecies which people make, right? Now, I'm not saying everything, the prophecies are wrong, but we desire. We want our church folks to flow in the gifts of the spirit, right? Word of knowledge, gift of faith, prophecy, prophetic. In every gift, right? Gift of healing, working of miracles, we want all of that. That's the point of cell growth, right? We want them to step out of their comfort zone. But do not allow cell numbers to give personal prophecies to people in primate. Listen, words of prophecy must be tested by mature people, right? Now, let me give you an example. Now you have a life group and you have a person who is very prophetic by nature. He's part of your life group, right? And you've noticed that, hey, this person has gifted. So he flows very naturally in the things of the spirit. One of the things that you and I can do as a life group leader is to meet with them and say, hey, see this gift in you. It's wonderful. God is encouraging you to build this gift and you can begin to, you know, test this and now, you know, not test, but we can flow more in these gifts in the cell group. We encourage you in that. But I want to give you certain guidelines. So when you're giving prophecy, feel free to give it in front of everyone, right? When you're giving a word of knowledge, give it in front of everyone so that all of us can hear. All of us can be encouraged. All of us can build up each other, right? And, you know, there are times when, see, the word will learn more in the prophetic, the word of God comes to us. But the way we release it, the time, the place and the way we release it could be very different. Prophecy may be true and given by God, pure prophetic word, but the way we release it really matters. And that's why you need people who are matured in the Lord to test it. Because I've heard of personal prophecies given to me which were totally in line, not in line with God's Word. And even though I was not matured in the Lord, it took me a while for me to understand it and really come out of that. You know, to just cancel those prophecies. And so, again, personal prophecies, seducing spirits, be very careful with them, right? If somebody prophesies in the cell group, somebody says, hey, can we meet together? They're alone there, they're prophesying. If it does happen also, make sure that the cell group member is free to come and talk to you as a leader. They must be willing to do that. But again, you put these guidelines up, right? A simple gift of prophecy must build up, must share people. No correction, no mates, no dates. Don't give the date prophecies. Anyways, you'll learn more on that in the prophetic. So you just got to be careful. Don't force new members to become members of your cell group. Again, give them ample time to decide. Don't force people to have a relationship with you in the life group. Do not forfeit your leadership of yourself. Do not be intimidated. Very, very important. Let's look at these two points. Do not be intimidated. Now, if somebody joins your life group and this person is 20 years in the Lord, and he's already done a case study on the entire book of the New Testament. And now what are you talking about in the cell group? Faith. Now, this may be just nothing to that person, right? Don't be intimidated. As a leader, you are the leader. And so you make sure that you're following that person. If he knows the Lord for the last 20 years, he or she must be humble enough to sit and listen. And this has happened where, you know, I remember there was this young couple who we asked them, why don't you start a life group and they started them. So we had some of these great, like, you know, not sure folks who are very knowledgeable in God's Word, very good God's Word. And so I remember this young couple said, no, no, no, we'll not lead the life group. They are better than, I mean, they know more than us, let them lead. So I remember saying, no, it's okay, you lead. And then this life group leader, it's genuine, right? He said, but what, you know, they know better, why should I lead and they know better? That's all right. It's okay. It's okay if they know more. It's okay if they are better. It's okay if they know the verses by heart and they are 20 years in the Lord. That's all right. If God is appointed you to be the leader, you'll be the leader. Don't be intimidated. You make decisions, make mistakes. It's all right. Don't run from those mistakes. Do not relinquish your leadership. Now, one thing that we do in ABC, if you keep saying, I don't want, I don't want, what will happen? What is given to you will be taken and given to somebody else. All right. So take opportunities that come your way. Walk in humility. Walk in Christ's likeness. Submit to leadership. Don't relinquish. Without trying, especially don't relinquish your leadership. To see, do not hand over the teaching of the word to a new member. We talked about that. And that is why we ask like group leaders to guide the discussions. Maintain a balance between the outward journey and inward care. We talked about Jim McGee's model, right? Maintain the balance. So, okay, outward. I must be able to make disciples. I must be able to go out on outreach, reach out to people, minister to people, and also inward care. Now, your own people in your cell group will have issues and things that they are going through. You must be able to care for them. Don't be too focused on outreach and forget those who are in. What will happen is they will say, hey, what about us? So focused on others. That's why something that we always, something that I reiterate to the life group leaders is once in three months, you can plan to do something outside. But otherwise, focus on inner care, inward care, disciples within the cell group. Do not allow your family relationships to suffer. Meaning, listen, now, especially if it's a family group, youth groups are fine. Family groups, you know, you finish work, then you have, you know, as a life group leader, you have things to do. You have to look after your family. Don't continue blindly in pursuit of spiritual goals while neglecting your family relationships. That could be devastating, right? If you have to take a break, if you feel that you're not yet ready to lead a family group, cell group, it's all right. Now, see, as leaders, what I do is I, I call people and I say, okay, are you willing to start a life group? Is this something that you can think that you'd be interested in? Why don't you pray and get back to me? Many times, people have gone back to me and said, no, I'm not interested now or sometimes they say I need time. Sometimes they said, yeah, right, I'm ready to start anytime. Now that's nice. That's a good feeling, right? Or even, you know, give me some time. That's good. But when they say no, it's all right, right? So maybe they have things in their family that they have to look after. So as leaders, you know, give people the opportunity and let them make the choice. And don't neglect family over spiritual goals. And, you know, if that could be really devastating, just break the entire group. Because if your family is broken and you're trying to lead a cell group, it's just not going to work out. So it is very important that our family, our form is a strong unit. Then you'll be able to lead a strong life group. Don't become a programming cell. Sometimes, you know, the routines become routine constantly. So try to change things, create spontaneity, you know, how can you do that? You can maybe one of the cell group meetings, you can say, hey, this week we'll have an extended time of worship. Instead of 15 minutes, we'll have half an hour of worship. Or towards the end of today's life group, what we'll do is we'll spend half an hour just praying and hearing from the Lord. And then we leave it open for, you know, if anybody has a prophetic word or if anyone got a vision or a thought that you want to share. So what are you doing? You're not making it a routine. You're making it different. You're making it the feeling in the life group, you know, it's, you're making it alive. That's what we're doing. And so as cell group leaders, these are some things that we must do and that are pitfalls that we must avoid. And so we stop here. Next week, we get into cell administration. And so when you talk about a cell group, how can we, how do we look at administration? There are two or three people who don't need administration. But as the church grows or as the cell group grows, you have a hierarchy in place, you have administration. And we look more on that next class. Any questions? Any thoughts before we close? Okay. All right. Have a great week ahead and a great weekend as well. I'll see you all. I think we meet on Friday. So see you on Friday. God bless.