12+1 Core Values: Ownership Promoting | Pr Jack Ling

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Let's get into the eighth one today, which is ownership

promoting hallelujah. So let's go with the heart behind it.

What's the heart behind it? You have your books with you? Ah,

all right, hopefully you still have it, you know, until

the end. Keep bringing it, okay, and write notes on it. Okay,

anyone lost it yet, don't tell me. Okay, go look

for it, okay. Anyway, heart behind it. The early church

was not just a gathering. It was a community. So

what is community. It's a combination of two words, right,

common unity. They had something in common, right, not what

is common, but what they had something in common. They

believed in the same things, right, and they were united.

Right.

How many of us here you think we are united?

Excotec commaning, we are united. I think to a certain

extent we are quite right. Like I come here, I

usually go to Excyberjaya, and I come here and I

start to speak about these things and we can relate.

There's you know, there's some common things and you don't

feel like what you're talking about.

You know, these guys was strange. You know what, what

topic is this?

But we all know we're using the same book, so

there's some kind of unity. But how much do we

agree with the same thing, like the like some of

the values we flashed out just now, for example, spirit field,

how many of us here really agree together? One is

agree in the mind, and then how many of us

here actually practice it together? Are we really truly united

in this way? Because there I'm sure we can see

some differences, right, And no condemnation here in christ right,

But it's good to observe that. It's good to be aware, like, hey,

there's differences in some office, especially when we see the

action of it. We can see it, and that's okay

because I think everyone's at a different place where this

whole thing is a journey, right or in a journey

towards Christ. I didn't start being a Christian straight away,

preaching here wearing a tie called buster one and this

and that. I didn't start that way. I started Christianity

as a kid. I was you know, my uncle brought

me to church. I was not a believer, definitely right.

I was bowing down to idols. I was the priest

in the house burning jowsticks to kudn't.

Yum all right.

Then I realized that kudnyam sorry the drink anyway, it's

a Chinese tea. So interesting, So I was doing that

kin that's kunyam is ganto gano. So I was doing

that and I found you know, I we ended up

eventually praised God.

You know, my whole family you know, came to Christ.

And I remember that very vividly, the kunyam picture first.

Ye.

I also remember the lion dance are coming and doing

the bow to the That was like interesting anyway. So

then I remember that time where I don't know which

pastor was it, but in Guantan there was this like

breaking of the idols and all the different things in

my house breaking, smashing, burning, and we were set free

from that hallelujah.

I mean it looks brutal, but.

I thank God because there was the moment we were

all set free from all these things. Uh and uh,

you know, we got baptized and things like that. So

there was a journey and all of you, all of

us here, we're on a journey as well.

And but.

It's it's good to think about that, right, like are

we truly united? And I pray and believe that we

are all walking towards that unity. We have one vision, right,

what's the vision again of the church?

That the earth will be filled with the glory, knowledge

of the glory of the Lord as the water.

Has covered to see. Oh, thank god, I can't remember.

It's been a while since we say it. Amen, Yeah,

you speak it oky. So community, they had something in common,

and they had unity. All right, let's see how united

they were. But let's go on with the the next one.

They shared a common faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I believe all of us here all right, are

also in the same faith.

We believe the Lord Jesus. We sang that song.

I believe in God, our Father, right in Christ, the

Son and the Holy Spirit. All right? Three and one.

Some of us are still struggling and go like, what

is that?

What is that?

How do I explain that to my friends? But it's okay,

don't be anxious about it. It is difficult to explain.

And it's okay because that's God, all right. Nobody cooked

it up, right, And and uh, you know, if humans

made that, they would admit it make sense. But to

us human minds, we still can't fully comprehend it. But

that's three in one father Son, Holy Spirit. Amen.

Yeahweh.

So we have the we have a common faith, we

have a common Lord, Amen, and a common aim.

We are going somewhere together.

And then, uh, no one treated the church as someone

else's responsibility. No one stood on the sidelines. They were

all in together. So I pray this is an encouragement

to all of us that we too will do the same,

that we will not treat the church, our beloved church,

as someone else's responsibility. It is our responsibility together, all right.

Some of us do a little bit more. Some of

us we do a little for now, but that's okay.

Then if you can take up more, tick up more,

then everybody can share the load.

Amen.

And then when new ones come, let's encourage them. Hey,

take up some as well. Let me pass you some

some responsibility right now. And it's okay. All right, don't

feel bad doing that. Don't feel bad doing that, but

be accomfortable about it, you know, say, tell your leaders,

I'm gonna get this.

I'm going to disciple this person.

Let's do that, amen, because we all can share a

load some more. And we can, and there's more churches

to be planted, all right, get ready for it. Then

this value is a call to that same spirit. Amen, okay,

and then the next light goes. Not a congregation of consumers,

all right, Not a congregation of consumers, but a family

of owners.

Wow.

We're not here just to consume to enjoy, all right,

but we are here to take part. We own this

and we take part. I had a recent conversation with

my children as well.

All right.

I think it's it's a young you know, young person

thing as well, challenge that they go through.

Good.

Good that I discovered this, you know, one of my

kids said. I asked, I just say, hey, what actually

what you're trying to do? Like why why are you

rushing sometimes to get home? You know sometimes it's a

bit masked with like I want to go home, you know,

so on a shower. You know, it sounds sounds responsible.

And uh, I said, why why are you rushing? But

then I know, but I know, right, you want to

you want to have your screen time.

I caught it. I caught them, you know you want.

To have your screen time, right because this is weekend

and you know this, I want to maximize my screen time.

Uh. And you know it came out from the old

mouth as well.

Yeah, you know, because you know weekdays, I don't get

so much of it, so I get then I want

to watch my thing. Then, you know, always the argument

with the siblings will be like he gets to watch his.

Thing, like I don't like I want to. Now, let

me choose that.

I go like, wait, wait, wait, wait, it's your goal

in life two to get that. Then I think, thank god,

you know quite honestly say yeah, you know, you.

Know I want to.

I want to make sure I get the entertainment. I

can't say why, see why good conversation? Why said, because

when you're an adult, you can't have this anymore. So

I so felt guilty at that time because I felt like,

did I give him the impression that adults can't get

entertainment anymore?

Which is true in some ways because I don't really

like to watch movies anymore. I don't go to the

cinema anymore.

You know, when I was a college student, I had

no TV, but I played computer anyway. And yeah, in

a way, I guess as adults we do have to

be more responsible. Well, you know, wash the dishes through

the laundry, you know, wash the poop whatever for me

dog poop.

I have to scoop dot poop every night.

Right, otherwise you will kill the grass and uh, and

the kids like to walk on the grass with the

you know, full of poop there and look at the

mulberry tree and but the fruit and so in some

things anyway, So yeah, then I said no, no, no, I said, no, no,

we do get entertainment.

We do get entertainment. That's it.

But you know, please don't don't make that your goal

in life, to get fully entertained. You know, entertainment should

be something you do after your responsibilities. Make sure you study,

finish your revision. You don't get showered, do the house chores.

All right, okay, you can get anything in between, but

don't make that your full goal in life. And know

it's a lie that adults don't have fun, all right.

And then so I decided, okay, I'm gonna try and

have more fun.

With my kids.

So they don't get the impression that adults don't get entertained,

and so they want to maximize it. I said, I said,

you know, if you do that, don't I mean, in

a way, there's some truth to that. You you're young,

you get more into But if you keep doing that,

then when you're an adult, it will stick with you,

is it won't change. You will become an adult who

seeks entertainment all the time as well.

So please don't do that. So I think made them

think for a while.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do see some changes.

In the house. Okay.

Anyway, right, so not just consumers, but family of owners,

not visitors passing by or passing through, but sons and daughters.

Everyone says, sons and daughters who take responsibility of their

own home. Quite funny, right, I just thought about my

own son, and yeah, sons and daughters. All right, So

do you all see yourselves as that? Do we see

ourselves as that? Sons and daughters of this house?

Yeah?

Yeah, I'm sure you've heard that before, but I think

it's something that we need to take ownership of. We

take ownership of even that that we are sons and

daughters of this house personally your sons and daughters of

Jesus of the Lord, amen. But we are also sons

and daughters of this house because it's the house that

I believe the Holy Spirit has led you to, and

you're part of this house, and so you are not

just visitors anymore. If you're new, maybe you're visiting, that's fine,

all right. Visitors are people who come once, twice, maybe

three times. That then enough ready, that's visitor done. And

then if you decided like I'm just going to keep coming,

then you want to take ownership of this house. And

you are now becoming a son and a daughter. You

see that, you see yourselves as that. Maybe some of

us are good. Hm, right, fifty to fifty, that's okay,

Still like you're in a journey, right, but don't take

so long. Don't take so long. You gotta realize that

I am a son and a daughter no matter how

old you are. All right, So you're like, no, I'm

you know, father, mother, grandmother, grandfather. How how am I

We're going to be a son again? But you know

you're still someone's son, right, or someone's daughter, no matter

how old.

Yeah, And how.

You treat your father or your mother right, because you're

the son. No other person can do that. The responsibility

that we have over our family, no matter how old

you know they become, Nobody else can take that because

it is the right and it is the responsibility of

a son.

And a daughter. And I want to tell you that

you are right.

If you've been here four times and more, you are

already walking into that position as a son and a

daughter of this house. And so ask ourselves that question,

what should I do as a son and a daughter?

What should I do in this house as a son

and a daughter? How should I look at the people

around me as a son and a daughter of this house?

Right? And then we are truly brothers and sisters. Amen?

Yeah, that changes a lot of things, all right, even

for myself when I realized that. All right, let's go

next one. The church grows when every part does its share,

and that only happens when everyone belongs, contributes, and takes

ownership together. This is in efficients four. All right, we'll

read that together later. Okay, let's go on the first

point here. Okay, the overview kind of mentions some of

these things already, all right, but here we go.

The church is community, not a crowd.

Okay, we're no longer a crowd just sitting there unknown, right?

Uh?

And uh, you know crowds are you know how many

of you you've been to concerts? You've been to concerts,

especially rock concerts. Yeah, no, how many of you were

there when switch Foot actually came to Malaysia? You know

switch Food and you actually no switch Foot, never mind

other concerts. I don't know it was Coplate ever here,

I think they came quite recently, right, how many of

you were in a complate concert do you want to admit?

How about how about.

Sheila Maja okay, Shela okay?

Anyway, I don't know it was Chinese concerts or the

Korean stuff anyway, if you've been to a concert, right,

no matter what concert, small concert, big concert, and we're

part of the crowd, right, we can shout anything we want.

Nobody cares. Nobody knows who did that, who said that?

All right?

And we can even like scold the artists on the stage,

all right.

Your lip sinking la right, cannot dance all right? Or whatever.

We can say all things as a crowd.

Nobody cares because there's no ownership of it, all right.

We paid money, so entertainers, right, So that's a crowd.

But again, you know, if we own it, we're community.

We are the ones running the concert, we're the ones

running the show. We're the ones running the house, and

so we there's more care for it right, there's more

care for it. We'll care about the system, We'll care

about the equipment, we care about the people coming, we

care about when someone shouts a vulgarity out there, like

a crowd, is that we're going to address. What's going on?

Are you okay? Like you know, are you part of

this church or what?

All right?

And then we start to you know, disciple the person

bring to the toilet for a while. Maybe I'm not

just kidding, say you need to appease it. You say that, okay?

Anyway? All right, So not a crowd.

People who share a common faith. Lord and Amy already

mentioned that. Okay, Uh and uh they are one. They

are one. We are one, we will we are united.

You know, when anything happens, when there is a leak

in the building, right for example, I don't know what

we pray never, but let's say something happens, rain, heavy rain,

and this place gets flooded leak. If we take ownership

of it, we will be here the moment we get

a text, you know, we text the homes, you know.

The building, there's some flood, all right, please help.

Then it's not just pasta than alone here trying to

you know, light's not working because you know when what

this kind of things happen. Now, all the things happen

when now you know, all right, it happens. It happened

to our office. I think one time, right, a few

a few times there, but this one time it was Sunday,

you know, and this text game is there. It's flooding

video showing us how bad it is. And you know,

if you're you know, if you're an owner in a sense,

you take ownership your son and daughter. You don't think

so much should I go be like what, let's go

my office is there. You know you'll be driving straight.

You don't tell your family. I got to go save

the office. I go save the building. You know, legacy

is flooded. We will be going there no matter what,

all right, But if we don't have ownership of it,

you'll be like, nah, manah, the pastors will do it,

those guys, you know, the leaders. True enough when as okay, right,

I won't blame anyone thinking like that because their mine

is they don't take ownership of it. You know, I

don't really belong fully here yet, you know, it's just

my fifth time here, you know, Okay, I think those guys,

the seniors have it in control, which is not wrong.

So right, So ownership makes you be there all right, Okay,

and you're part of the team, right, the word that team.

That's why the word team. You know, if you are

part of a football team, right, some of us say

we support some teams, right, Argentina whatever, Right, World Cup?

You feel emotional about it when something happens to the player,

no matter how much they say it's rigged, you feel

oh messy, you know's weird, right, because you feel like

you're part of the team. And that's why they say,

you know, in the crowd in the football, they say

the supporters are is the twelfth player, player, the tolp player.

The Malaysian team, you call it Malaya the tale of

the tiger is still part of the tiger, right.

Yeah.

And then I don't know how many of you follow

the football Malaysian football.

Malitia lost to Thailand sadly yesterday.

Yeah okay, anyway, uh so, yeah, because I love I

love to support the Malaysian team. They are like not

great like at this moment and it goes scandal and somewhere,

but I still like, okay, this is my my country's team.

I just support Lie, you know, can't be supporting Thailand,

all right, So anyway, okay, we'll ex check Mike can

do that. Okay, So anyway, uh and cup they call

nobody watches it, all right? Okay, So that's where the

Bible verse for this, the Bible verse for this, all right.

Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and

signs were done through the apostles.

Now all who believed were together.

And had all things in common, and sold their possessions

and goods and divided them among all as anyone.

Had need.

A few chapters down from here, they will say, you know,

they had no lack uh and uh, you know, they

they shared everything. They didn't see it as like this

is just mine, but this is ours. You know, you

can you can share what I have, you can take

what I have. You can have what I have because

we share this in common.

Right.

And I'm sure they were also very curtiers to each other.

Don't didn't just go and take people's salt and you

know stof and food, go through the fridge and eat

their food.

They would have talked about it. I'm sure, all right,

it was.

I'm sure they were not rude about it, but they

shared according to how someone needed.

And I am sure you know we do this here

as well.

We do that in next Cyberjaya, So I'm pretty sure

this happens here as well. You know, when we hear

someone in need, we will get the homes. Ay, let's

make a collection and help this brother or this sister. Recently,

just a few days ago, one of our families, his

grandma in the Philippines passed on. She was ninety nine

years old, almost hit one hundred, but didn't get to Okay,

so they all flew back, the whole family, you know,

four of them, two kids, flew back to Philippines for

the ceremony. And we were just about to just let

it be and you know, give tex texts what do

you call condolences and stuff like that. Good enough, we'll

pray for you and stuff like that. That that sall,

you know. We suddenly, you know, thought and brought up

the conversation a bit's let's help this guy. You know,

I think a whole family flying back. The ticket immediate tickets,

you know, won't be cheap, right, So then we said, okay,

let's let's as a home. Let's make a collection whatever

we can lie you know, we can't fully pay for

their tickets. I don't know, you know, but there are

some generous people right in the church, and they made

a collection and quickly try to pass it on to

them because we thought about them and they're part of

our family.

You know.

It doesn't happen anywhere else, doesn't happen everywhere, right, people

suddenly think about you and want to make a collection

and want to come and visit you and want to

bless you.

You know.

I also felt so much love from some of the

x KK people. You know, when my wife was in

the hospital, there was flowers from x KK people, you know, food,

one person came and had lunch with her doctor Jill

when she came out of the hospital, you know, and

from x KK as well. So then that's like, wow,

that's definitely unity. That's definitely ownership. Amen, So praise the

Lord going on.

Owners not renters, a home, not a hotel. All right.

This is something from pastors, uh they This was a

revelation to me as well.

When I first came to ex church, I was a.

Church hopper, called church hopper, all right, So proud of

it with our gang of church hoppers. You know they

call nomadic with the nomads. With the nomads, right, it's

a lie, Okay, So whole group of them. We were

in a university and just like you know unity, right,

we're in every church. So anyway, finally came to ex Church.

When I was in all these other churches, I didn't

hear these messages. But when I came to ex Church

at the time it was one location. Pastor Kenneth pass

Andra talked about it, and they said, it is not

a hotel.

Right.

In hotel, you will not put up your picture. An

hotel you keep all your stuff in your bag. Right,

maybe some of you hang for a few days there,

all right. An hotel you won't unpack the what is

you won't unpack. When I heard that, I was so convicted,

you know, and I'm glad someone said it and said, you.

Know, there is no hotel. This is a house, the

house of God, not a hotel of God, all right.

And we say homes, not hotel homes. We have belonging there.

We belonged to a home. We belong to a house,

my family's house. And then we always say reunion where

we do combine reunion because Chinese knew it right. Everybody

must be there.

Everybody must be there, no matter how angry you are

with that uncle, be there all right and receive his

uncle anyway. Then forgiveness flow straight, all right, thank you uncle,

I forgive you, Please.

Forgive me all right? All right?

I loved I love the Harry Raya methods already go hey,

but didn't they shake hands?

All right?

Because family come right, So reunion we must be there

to get no matter what. That's why see you at

ex church conference, see you at the combined service.

All right.

We are going to try and be there anyway, no

matter how bad the jam is going to be, no

matter what, right, we're gonna make a way that because

this is family, is reunion time, and we wanna we

want to just be there and see the other church plans.

I know we don't get deep a lot with many people.

We can't, and that's why we grow small, all right,

But let's value that that we are a big family,

all right. So if you haven't, if you haven't unpacked yet,

I want to encourage you do so unpacked, make this

your house. But we all know that we don't simply

make our house and then throw everything anywhere we like.

All right, there's still there's still the parents. We need

to honor them. We need to talk to the leaders

and say, how can I where can I put my clothes?

Uh?

Where can I serve you? All right? How can I help?

Can I just bring the kick anytime? I like that? No? No, no,

you know, the the kick that is not fully big one,

don't bring.

There's one time, you know, I can't remember which service

was that, you know, caicks and then someone so nice

and generous bring kick, while then the kick someone in

I've got stomach ached badly, you know, diarrhea. We realize

how that man the insight not cookla can didn't big

properly raw eggs in there? So anyway, okay, this is

a house. They're still order.

But we unpacked.

We unpacked, We don't, you know, like see you know,

look and see that's the that's the word, right we

see how fust right back still by my side. Okay,

after a while, unpacked, take one of the rooms in

a sense, all right, be a son and a daughter. Amen,

all right, let's look, Uh, owners built, the owner of

a house can build, can renovate?

Tennant?

Cannot? You cannot suddenly I want to add a room here.

You're you're just renting, right, and the tennis won't care

the toilet spoilers all like he's not going to fix it.

He'll call the owner right and say, hey, the tallet

spoiler hour. How the owner cannot say you fix that,

but you can work with the renter. Now you can say,

can you you know, be around when I call the

the the contractor come and fix right. Owners only look

into these things, okay, uh right in the house sons

and daughters, hotel visitors don't unpack and then partner. Right.

That's why we use the word partner, not members, not

church members, because us sometimes that the word member. You know,

when we go to a club or where I went

to that Quota communing club, I don't have membership there,

but people sometimes invite me there. I go there, I

feel like not everyone there. I'm sure anyone here you're

part of Qutta coming club. You're all very nice, but

the people there really act like.

I paid so much for this.

Okay, I'm going to have my ah can first recognition,

so to ask a guy open for me, right, But

membership makes you feel like a sense of entitlement. Right,

I have a right for this, and I want to

do something here, and if I don't get it, I'm

going to get upset.

Right.

So, but partners, we take ownership. Okay, we're kinder, we

take we do our part. Of course, we're sharing, we

have shared responsibility. You know, this is something that we

teach our students in Victory Academy.

Right, you have a right as a student. You have

a right to enjoy.

The facilities, to have a room, to have a good

education from the teachers. And if the teachers simply scoll you,

you have a right to voice it out, tell the

management something happened. You know, abuse is taking place. You

have a right, but you also have a responsibility. You

have a responsibility as a student to study well, to

take care of the cleanliness, to you know, be respectful,

to teach us. So it's both it's rights and responsibilities

a man, So the same thing here for all of

us who take ownership. You have a right and you

have a responsibility. This belongs to us. We belong here

the church. You know, we can take ownership of the

church and we belong isn't it wonderful to belong somewhere.

Right, you can say I belong to act church.

They love me, they care for me when I'm in

the hospital, they visit me when I'm sick, they call

me up, they send stuff to me. That's that's belonging,

all right. You'll belong somewhere and people know who you are,

they know your name.

Right.

Ah, So we belong and we belong to Christ Jesus

most of all. And I pray and hope, you know,

we all hope that we go up there. God will say,

I know you come into you know my faith, you

know my house, my faithful servant, all right. Or the

scary part is let's say, who are you?

You don't belong here? Wha.

That's a scary thing, right for all of us. All right,

So please hold on to Jesus and you will be there.

We will all be there together in Christ Jesus.

All right. Let's look at this scripture rather speaking the

truth in love.

We are to grow up in every way into Him

who is the Head, into Christ, from whom the whole body,

joined and held together by every joint with which it

is equipped. When each part is working properly, makes the

body grow so that it builds itself up in love

efficients for fifteen sixteen.

I want to highlight the middle verse. Here.

The whole body joined together, held together by every joint

with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly,

makes a body grow. Everyone say grow grow, We want

to grow, all right. We're all still growing.

Okay, whether we are a child or adult or a

more senior person, we are still growing. We can continue

to grow, all right. We never stop.

You know, God loves us and we're still here because

he's still training us.

All right, we're still disciples. Hallelujah. All right.

Final, No, I think there's two more, but number three.

Let's go number three. Ownership must be promoted, not assumed. Okay,

what does this mean? Not everyone thinks this way naturally,

so we must constantly promote it. So this is why

we also speaking about it because many times we we

are quite self centered people. Are we look at ourselves,

We look at how I can get my gain first.

That's usual human behavior, because you know, we want to

defend ourselves first. Even the airplane, you know, we go

up there and say, please, you know, rescue yourself first

before rescuing someone else, which is true, all right, So

that is a very natural instinct to take care of

yourself first. But you know God's way is to then

for us to look out for others. And that's why

we need to promote ownership. We need to talk about

it a little bit more. We need to teach but

what it means to take ownership of your relationship with

Jesus as a son and daughter as in the church,

right in your own family, in your business. I think

we all understand this as well. You know, when we work,

we do business. The workers that we hire, if they

just are hiring, they act like one, all right, they

talk like one. They will gossip behind your back, and

they will you know, backbite you. But a son and

a daughter in your business, right, you can see they

take ownership of it, and you want to pass the

business to them like you don't mind, like this guy

can take over one day even if they don't have

my surname. Right, ownership, we need to promote it. We

cannot blame people for the lack of ownership if we

never invited them to get involved or we keep doing

everything for them. So I think this is speaking to

the leaders as well, those who are serving. Who are

you know, who've been around sometimes for we want to

do everything ourselves too much, and because we don't trust

you say like, oh this guy, I don't know where

you can trust or not, so let me just take

it and do it myself. But we need to learn

to train people, to teach them how to take it

up and then to and trust them, equip them, empower them. Amen, Uh,

invite them.

It's always work. Life's right.

We say, you want to sign up, you know for

extreme as ex kids, we need a teacher, all right. Uh,

it's never easy to do that, and they need to

train them, right, you need to uh you know, share

with them. It takes time, but we need to do

it otherwise we can't blame them. So I think I

think one of the stories that pass the Kenneth Chad was, uh,

you know, for as our children, our own children, don't

blame them for not being able to wash the dishes,

to do laundry, you know, because when they were younger,

we didn't allow it. We're like, they're not doing a

good job, can't hang the shirt properly, so all right,

we just also, you know, we had a helper in

the house, all right. I made a helper in the

house one time and she did everything, wash everything, you know,

wipe everything. And then every time I told I looked

at the kids, hey hey, help with the houseworkerer, You'll

be like, it's nothing to do, all.

Done, all done.

And then it made me so upset, you know, And

finally came the contract ended up all right, I I okay,

I didn't hire the helper myself. Okay, it was our parents,

you know, my parents in law LA want to be helpful, right,

so I hired someone to come and help us at

the time because you know, Jill was pregnant.

And things like that. So okay, I understand it made sense.

It was good, it was helpful at the time, but

I realized it made me it was.

So super lazy. Okay. I used to stop doing housework

for a while. I want to do so't done really, so.

I think, like, good work up, go and do some exercise,

all right, go and do other things. But then when

the time came for the contract to uh this person

to and.

I said, let's not hire another one.

I had to speak to my parents and say no, no,

no more, no more, no more. I want the kids

to do some housework and make sure there's some housework

to do all right, and so it was good.

We tried that out.

And finally I can say, help do the laundry, and yes,

there's a pile of laundry for him to do.

And then they started to do.

I used was joining along and dude, show example, say

this is how you flick the thing. Make sure is

straight before you hang it. Da da da da hang

it this way. I have very specific ways to make

sure because I don't want iron litter.

You flick it straight only the iron litter.

Next moment I left them alone, all crumpled and everything

hanging like that, I was like fuming.

I say like, come, come, come, how can you do this?

What quality is?

After that, I got reminded, I go like, if you

keep going like that, the flir is not gonna do

anything really because you keep criticizing the thing and it's

so not good and everything. How is he gonna learn?

Let him practice, Let them practice. So I just close

one eye and just let it be ready. Just just

just hang however, just hang all right, and they will learn.

They will realize, okay, it is a better way to

hang and stuff. And I mean you can gently still

teach and say, like you know, when you hang it and.

You freck it.

It can be straight, you know, so stuff like that,

and so I allowed it a bit and let them

do and good. Now a bit more, you know, responsibility. Hallelujah,

Praise good.

Yeah.

So this is something that we need to allow our

kids to to do. They make mistakes and they learn,

but they take ownership. Amen, Praise God. Involve them. So

same thing here, all right, play music a bit wrong

here there, right, don't let's not be so upside about it, right,

some mistakes. After that we debrieflin say, oh, you know,

maybe need to take a lesson. All right, Okay, let's

go on. Okay, this is just a story. You know,

Puss the Kennet was sharing about Japan. You someonelways know

this in Japan. Why, you know, when we watched the

World Cup and we watch Japan playing football matches or whatever, Right,

these guys will stay on and clean up the stadium,

even for the opposite, for the opposition, right, Why because

it's innate in them. They've been trained that way since school.

Right in school, everybody cleans up. There's no cleaner to help,

and they all do wipe down and clean up their

own scenes. Young all right, and then they'll they'll thank

each other for it, and somehow it translates into all

the other everywhere else they go all right, And I

heard one time we sit meanma or Laos also was

inspired by Japan. They also started cleaning up stadiums for

that one time. I think for that one time. Okay, yeah, inspiring. Okay. Finally,

everyone is a partner, not just a member. Right, we

do not outsource church life or stand on the sidelines.

We take ownership and responsibility together to make the church

great and everyone has a part to play. That is

that is the ex church we want to see. You know,

many churches I heard about it are in America, maybe

in other countries as well.

So they hire musicians to play for worship.

Maybe there's a lag or whatever, but they hire and

they pay them to play.

All right.

I don't know how much they're part of the church,

but there's a lot of these things going on and

it sounds good and it makes the church look good

and sound greater because you know, professionals and stuff. But

then will they take ownership of the equipment?

Uh?

And I can believe that they will say like there's uh,

there's no, there's no amplifier here, can you buy one?

Please? Fast?

So it becomes that kind of a system. Right, But

that's why we don't want to do things like that.

Right.

I also heard in Botswana one time, you know the

Botswana church people. They say when they started church and

they started praying for people for free, it was radical

because there some of these churches charge.

You for prayer. When you get prayed for, you need

to pay.

Amazing, Okay, So uh then that's that's that's not healthy.

There's not healthy.

There's no ownership there, right, And that's why some of

these things we do because we are owners with sons

and daughters and that's why we uh we we do

it anyway, amen, everyone has a part to play, okay.

And finally I want to encourage all of us that

make it work. And uh, you know, as you see

something in the church, you see a problem in the church,

you see a lack in a church. Though, let's not

just say hey, why don't have this? Why why is

this like that? Why is there emptyiness there?

All right?

Why is this person? Oh no, no, this person? You know,

where's the worship right away? Where's the bass guitar? You know, guitarist?

Right? And if you play bass, we sign up.

We take ownership, we make it work, and we make

things great in the church.

As a son and a daughter. Amen.

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