12+1 Core Values: Discipleship Focused | Pr Yvonne Chong

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So the fait value today it all it will be on discipleship. Okay,

we are disciple ship focused church, all right. Anyone who

can still record the first four value? Oh that's the

first one? Spirit filled? Yeah, came my minded? What faithful?

And today we are on disciple ship focused all right?

And and you know this recently I've been I discovered

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my nose in and I hope the slights looks okay

for you guys, I say, experimenting this this machine, but

somehow we got it's tied to my Google a cow,

so I got to use it a bit more now,

So I hope it looks good. Okay, So you know,

discipleship focused, but I want to I I kind of

came out of my own title for it. You know,

I titled it beyond the Program and the Price and

the Power of discipleship. Uh, those of us who are

part of having a part of expercial sometimes. You know,

our theme for last year was also our discipleship. But

I'm gonna narrow it down a little further for us today.

Uh.

And you know, as as I don't Malaysians, I am

really really happy to be in Malaysia, really powered to

be Malaysian. And sometimes we see all the lacks in Malaysia,

but I realize one thing, you know, I'm just talking

to different ones, uh, and traveling a bit like not

so much, but a bit a bit and enough to

know that actually as Malaysians we are quite efficient, quite

like quite efficient uh in different things. We come up

with different ways uh. And technology is to help us

shortten uh you know a time uh. And and you

know you try to find short cuts as well. Uh.

Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's not so good. But you

trying to find short cuts to be efficient, okay. And

and you know, I don't know how many of you here,

but myself, I've been in Clang Valley fore, you know,

twenty one years already. Uh. And and now with technology

as well, you know, driving around, I never stopped using

and and relying on ways, although I know to get

to a place, you know, for example, you all this morning,

I know my way to some money already, but then

I still want to come here efficiently and on time.

And you know, if there's any terrible traffic as well,

I get the avoid so and and you know, now

as well, I realize how many of you use shopping

often to know that you can actually order for same

day delivery already. Yeah uh and I thought, wow, that's amazing.

Uh And and you know, saying at the same day

delivery or next day delivery. Uh And and you know,

we just cannot wait. Uh and we get, we we

do get. You know, we do progress as well, you know,

come up with new train lines, you nor more efficient

trains running. Uh. One of my friends, he's involved in

the recent train l R T three, the building of

it as well his company. And uh he is also

a civil engineer. Uh. So so they they do that,

and and you know, uh, you know in you know,

there's a lot of a I s R. Online programs

that will actually help us to improve you know, our skills,

you know, self improvement, self development. You can take a

lot of you know, I think one of the earlier

pinners or you the me all right, you can take

short courses there. Uh. A lot of people are into certifications,

and those of you in the corporate world, you know,

with more certifications, it somehow helps you with you know,

your pay rise and you know your promotions and stuff

like that. So we are into you know, human beings.

These days, we are into better structure.

You know.

We prefer good structure, good framework, good programs. Uh, you know,

dynamic causes. You know, people don't mind paying a lot

for don't self development causes. Uh. Even the government as

all right, it gives a lot of subsidy for HRD.

Uh your human resource development training. Uh, you know, as

long as you go to a certified you know, trainer,

the kind of thing. So a lot of investment is

put into programs that will help us be better. But

then today, you know, I want to bring us just

a shift that discipleship itself, because some people may see

it as just a program, okay. Uh, some maybe people

may say, okay, it's a structure. Maybe it's a timeic

cost that we have to go to for discipleship. So

that you know, and then after that, once I'm done

time ways, I can be certify a disciple of price.

I get your professional certification from there. But I want

to bring us further than that. Okay, it is beyond program.

But in X you know, we record this, you know,

discipleship is not a program, but it's a relationship. Okay,

in X you know we do it. How do we

do discipleship to relational? Relationally? Okay? What does it mean

when it's relational? What do you do when you know

you want to build a relationship with someone? You invest? Right?

That takes a lot of investment in any relationship. You know,

we invest our precious time. Time is really precious. So

a lot of times I'm like, okay, God, I get

a safe time on the road. So where can I

put my time to God? You know, I get a

safe time maybe you know, using expensive to rods. So

where can I put the money into? All right? So

saving your resources pouring okay, in relationship as well, sometimes

pouring your messy life. Not powering, but opening up yourself

to others in like, oh no, there's a lot of

skeletons in the closet. You know, there's a lot of

cop webs as well. Uh. It could also you know,

allowing people into your unfiltered walk with the Lord. Okay,

being as transparent as it is. You know, how many

of you here wants to be friends or you know

those of you have married? Uh, you know, as you

were getting to know your partner as well. You prefer

to know someone who is as transparent as he is,

right or as she is as well. Uh, you know, married,

and suddenly why do I marry a totally different person?

Yeah? Her very low yeah here okay, yes, and feelter

uh you know, no hair comb and no make up

or that, and that's who she is as he is.

Uh. And and you know, ultimately, you know, as a church,

we do not want to just you know, be good

in our programs, you know, with the programs to gether

massive crowds. But as a church, we want to continue

to raise mature sons and daughters of the House, right,

mature sons and daughters that will follow Jesus, you know,

mature sons and daughters who will stand unshakable on a Monday.

It's easy, you know, on a Sunday like count church. Okay,

all no, no powers of this okay, take me down

and in one Monday walk to office a man. I

feel like a loser today, you know, no, you know,

with the persecution that you go through from Monday to Saturday,

you know you're unshakable. So you know, this is what

we are committed to, even as a church, all right,

but you know, uh always see that. You know, sometimes

you have like yay, I have all the ideas in mind,

but distractions will happen, right uh and and and a

lot of distractions will also you know, draw us away

from even our true call, even as a church. Okay, uh,

sometimes you know the distraction it okay, be like okay,

how do we continue to improve the worship team to

be the perfect worship team? How can we improve the

lights to be as flowers as possible? How can we

improve the projection to be as flowerss as possible?

Uh?

You know, how do we have a better or more

efficient and all those who are very administrative, you know,

your high seats. You know, how do we you know,

improve our administrative structure to be more efficient? How can

we you know, continue to have a dynamic community outreach

in some money? How do we have excellent events? You

know every time we organize you know, perfect to adult

and sometimes you know, as a church we can get there.

Sometimes as believers you can get there, you know, like okay,

you know, how can we have the most perfect pastor

for some money?

You know?

Then you started, you know, every time you come to

church you know you have a check list. Okay, a

perfect pastor who like this there, pastor Stephen there you

check Well, it's like Busters Stevens nine one hundred. Uh.

You know, we measure, we measure different ones against that.

And sometimes the world do that because we might be

too used to the whole KPI thing. But in church,

when we want the church, God wants us to walk

into a spiritual atmosphere, a place that's focused on spiritual transformation,

real spiritual transformation, uh, than just the external expression. It's like, wow,

you know, the flow today got a bit more lines

are Uh, we started picking at a lot of things,

but at the end of the day, you know that

is not who we are at least you know I

can speak for you know, our own family here, spiritual family.

That's not who we are. But we are here to

help us go to a place of a lifelong call

of knowing the why, the what, and how of becoming

a true disciple focused church. Okay, all right, So why

is disciples important to us? Okay? Two points? Yeah, So

all right. The first very important is going back to

the world of God. That is from Matthio twenty eight.

So can I get us to read that, okay, Matthew

twenty eight. Some of us might have memorized this by heart,

verse eighteen to twenty Matthio teny eight, verse eighteen to twenty.

And if you're there, you can say ya, yes, rischall

we together in my country, okay, and one two and

three and all nations.

I think.

That's first nineteen. Let's go to eighteen, Yes, first eighteen onwards.

Okay for a while, I'm like, hey, how come my

version different? One reading the book? Reading a book? God,

Let's get to our bibles. Okay, uh, Verse eighteen to

verse twenty Ready and one two and try. And Jesus

came and spoke to them, saying, all authority has been

given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore

and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them the name

of the Father and a Son and the Holy Spirit,

and teaching them to observe all things I have commanded you,

and Lord I with you always to the age. All right, amen? Amen? Okay,

So this is Jesus's final sovereign command, or we call

it the commission to us all right? Before you know,

he left and before he was ascended as well. Okay,

So the word the primary word the Greek. I always

like to go back to the original word as well. Okay.

The great word here, uh, and it is math t o.

I don't know whether I have it on the slide

cell m A t h e. Those are your taking

knows m A t h E t e u Oh, okay,

all right, and it's you know, it's it. So this

word is go make disciples, baptize down and teach them.

The root word is matha theo, and it means actually

to make disciples, okay, okay, So it is not just

you know, making disciples here. The root word not does

not just refer to us, you know, having students or

having Oh we'll just sit down for a lecture on

every Sunday a lecture listening to the word, you know,

taking down your notes in your notebook right now that

you have been given to pass an exam. Okay. But

the rule word for master tale is actually from this

word mathter test okay, m A t h e t s.

It means apprentice. Okay, all right, what is an apprentice? Okay?

The apprentice leave with the master, okay, walks with the master,

eats with the master. All right. Uh. And and you know,

copies everything and that the Master behaves. Ok you know,

like how the Master speaks things, walks as all sleeps.

And I think you a very very easy the example

for us if we watch any kung fu shows, right

you know the you know haha, yeah, how the trainings

they go through. But then that thing about kung fu

is the master does not passed dow one hundred percent

the student, but our God okay, uh, it's not a

going for master. Uh, he passes on and and and

and discipleship itself. You know. In church, we follow after

our leaders as they follow Christ uh and and they

pass on everything to us. So so Jesus did not

call us to collect just converts okay, like you know,

collecting your shopping coins or your grad coins grad points.

But he has called us to replicate ourselves, to replicate

ourselves into other people. Okay uh. And the word go

itself you know, although it's two letters, but it's really

really powerful, all right. Go it means us coming up

from our comfort zone. And you know our human beings, right,

we are always creatures of comfort. And no matter what

yourdis it is or your personality type is your introvert

extrovert and does not really matter because the other day

we will still be comfortable in our comfort zone. So

away for example, the extrovert, their comfort zone is just

being extroverted, all right, Like, oh they are, but that

is the comfort zone. But you know, God says, come

up from your comfort zone and go and it all

go beyond what we are familiar with. Ah. And then

what we're familiar with as human being is that we

don't really although you know, to be able to intentionally

so on one in someone's life that is not comfortable

for us, especially you know, to connect with a stranger,

to allow allow ourselves to be vulnerable so that others,

you know, can be part of our chaotic mass. You know,

sometimes it's not easy, but discipleship requires that to come

out from our control climate. You know, sometimes we set

our own thermost or you know, you're just and like, okay,

how much do I let other people in? But you know,

disciples allow others in and a discipler so it allows

ourselves to walk someone through things. So the first point

why because this is God's greatest commission for us, And

the second is true discipleship okay uh requires the highest

currency of commitment. Okay, Uh, it cannot be automated. Sorry,

engineers here more automated better. But sometimes you know, I

still feel I I appreciate and still enjoy human touch

through things. I know, you know, certain more developed countries,

things are so automated now that any artisanal stuff, Okay,

those who are good with hands, using their hands to

make jewelries and stuff like that, they almost become obsolete

in their skills because you know, you can just create most, right,

machine create most and just more your rings and your

jewelries out some people actually do go our job. And

I know someone personally, you know, has gone our job

in his own country, uh, as an artisan jewelry maker,

but his excu is still in devine other countries, but

in the first country no longer.

Uh.

You know, we are not automating, We're not just creating molds.

Discipleship is not you know, okay, everyone just looks a

certain way, you know. True discipleship is also it cannot

be outsourced. It cannot be done via you know, just

broadcasts on messages. You know, sometimes people think that disciples

is just passing on off messages, passing on of sermons

or other PURSPLESE. But what true and real discipleship is.

It involves a real personal currency. And then three areas.

First is our time, because we cannot produce a microwave

or air fire disciple, right, spiritual maturity. There is no

fast track to it.

Right.

It requires time to set. You bake your cake, your break.

If you open the oven prematurely, everything will just collapse. Right.

You're not as easy as you want to cook your

chicken and roast your chicken. You don't put in half

the time and expect it to come out, you know. Cook.

Discipleship requires our time, uh, not a microwave disciple. It

requires just walking through people through the long seasons of life,

through the short seasons of life truth, all the heartbreaks,

to all the career shifts, to all the spiritual dry spells. UH.

And sometimes I'm like God, why again? I thought I

want one to and I don't know one. But you

know after that, you know, last initially I couldn't understand

like God, I also got my own things to go through. UH.

But God has reminded has always reminded me that you know,

I have to invest UH into a person's life because

the person needs UH. Jesus. The person needs a real

person walk them through. Uh, not Ai, And not a

lot of people now do to Ai. They asked AI

a lot about their personal struggles, but AI cannot be

there physically as human you know, built to be relational. Still,

so AI can help answer a few things. But elien day,

God still uses a human Uh. And time to be

there for each other. Okay. Second Uh, the personal concy

currency that you know that will shake you all us.

Our comfort zone is trust. Okay. We cannot speak deep

truth into someone else's life if we haven't spent time

the build a relational bridge that is strong enough to

carry the weight of truth. Because without trust, right, if

not no one trusts each other, you can't actually speak

truth in each other's life.

Uh.

And trust is earned all right?

Uh?

Trust is given and trust is earned. So all right?

And the third point Uh, it involves vision okay U.

That means right when we invest, when we disciple someone,

or when we allow other peoples to disciple us as

our disciples, disciples us, we don't just see who they

are for today like man messed up? You know, why

is so stubborn? Why is so unstable? Why is so flawful,

not flawless. Uh, you know why not Holy Spirit. But

at the end of the day, you know, if God

sees a future and a hope for us, you know,

then you know, should see a future and a hope

for each other. So through all the mistakes, right, I

think you know, the perfect father's heart can be seen.

You know, through the story of the prodigal son. You know,

the father's heart is like, although my son has squandered everything,

you know, betrayed me, you know, already prematurely as for inheritance,

But the true father's heart will still wait. The true

father's heart will still see a potential in you know,

the so used in the useless son. Uh, you know,

having still that hope in the person. And it takes us,

you know, first as a discipler to allow the Holy spirital.

It's got a lot of times like can I just

slap the person left, frightds center and just jot the

person out it all, just put some electric current and

that's only the person count of the census. I wish

go through the microwave and things come out something oh straightened,

not already not. Uh. It takes us seeing a vision.

What do we see in a person's life. What do

we see in you know, a discipler's life as well?

You know, a discipler is flaw food also all right?

Uh?

And and and how can we them journey with each

other to be more matured sons and daughters of the kingdom? Okay?

So what is the focus discipleship? What is the core

mission okay for our church in making disciples? Okay? So

our core focus is not just behavioral modification some you

who's this psychology? All right? It's not your CBT, but

it is targeted at total transformation. Okay. So the first

point to this focus is the mechanics of transformation, and

it comes from Romans chapter twelve, verse two. So let's

turn to that. And Rea shall read it Romans chapter twelve,

verse two. If you're there, you can say, yes, yep, okay, ready,

that's reight in one to entry and do not be

conformed to this world, but be transformed by the runing

of your mind, that you may prove what is good

and acceptable and perfect will of God. Okay. The word

transform here the Greek word okay, it's like English as well.

It's metamorphosis or meta morpho. Okay, m E t A

m or r P h o O. All right. So

the English word now metamorphosis, and we use that to

refer to the transformation a butterfly, all right, transformation, but

the final transformation of a caterpillar. Okay, ah, okay, all right,

the caterpillar. So it goes through the stage of wow,

it can so mean that's awesome. I didn't know you

can do that for for for propri is that the

only me and right? Okay, efficiency next level? Okay, So

you know the the caterpillar that's not just sprout wings

right overnight a sprout it come my beautiful colors overnight.

But you know it goes through a process of time okay. Uh,

and and it moves from one station to another, right

And I shall not go into it because that sounds

like a science lesson, but uh, the transformation for a caterpillar.

H And some of us we may feel like, yo,

why do I sometimes feel like a worm ugly on

the outside. But for a caterpillar that experiences transformation and

every stage, Uh, it's just not an external transformation, but

a lot of things begins on the inside, right Uh.

And uh like ourselves as well, you know, the Romans

step the twelfth verse two. The root word for transform

begins by the reunion of our mind. Okay, so renew well.

Usually usually it's a slow, deliberate process, okay. And it

requires a lot, a lot, a lot of patients. Sometimes

you're thinking God, or sometimes we're thinking, like, why is

this personal? For three years already still the same one? Understandably,

human is habit also, that's why habit itself is also internal, right,

and then the external shows So God has to really

transform us from the inside out. And there are three

ingredients you know, that will help us understand that. What

causes time itself? Okay. The first one time okay, we

need to allow the Holy Spirit time and space to

work in our life. God can change us miraculously like

that as well, but a lot of a lot of

times He put us through the process of time to

bring the best out of us. And that's the first one, okay.

The running our minds. This ingredient's time. The consistent teaching

of the word okay, or the consistent consistent downloading on

the word, or the lot uh. You know, you can

never hear enough, you know, different speakers reminding us that

it all comes back to the Word of the Lord

as well. Right, we cannot run on just listening to sermons, right,

human beings, we cannot run our life just living on supplements. Right,

supplements are good. It's like concentrated whatever, like they put

into a pill or powder whatever. By the end of

the day, it's still lead produce. Right, it's still modified

in a way or another, although it's concentrated. But we

still need to come back to the true substance. Right,

And nothing nothing bits, you know, the slow chewing of

your fiber, your vegetable, your fruits, your food. Why because

you look at science, it produces a certain enzyme right

as you chew. So nothing is instant, and nothing instant

is good. Your two minutes instant noddle, We'll do your

mohamm your two minutes, you know, our hit up hot

dog in the no thirty seconds when you get from family,

my right, they hear up although you feel your stomach,

but in the long run, and it's not good. So

the constant chewing on the world of the Lord, not

just listening to sermon's daily, daily or every other hour,

would help us. So the teaching of the Word will

help remind us to come back to the basics, which

is the word of the Lord. And then the other

one is true spiritual modeling. Are we observing our leaders enough?

Are we watching?

Uh?

Someone else's like wow, radical faith, you know am hairs,

you know, to take out a job offer all the

way is ganda. And then the first thing both husbands

why being newly reds. So I'm like, okay, basta, tell

us what we can do for ex is ganda. Uh.

And and you know how many of us, you know

watch the different leaders like wow, uh you know they've

taken the price. You know that lived lived up biblical

truths in the marketplace as well, and I want to

be like him, like her also, Okay, So a lot

of times we come to church, we just consume. Uh.

Consuming is good. Uh, but you know different ones here.

I also hear the role model and we learn from

each other, not just the leaders, but those who are

matured in the world. The lot we model out, we

model out, you know, being an intercessor were model. You know,

it's just so in the lives of the children. So

learn all right, so that when we watch and then

sometimes when we go to crisis, sometimes you're like you

all can't remember the truth and the word of the Lord.

You remember, okay, I remember waving you know when he

had to handle us really difficult person. She did not

punch it in the face, but he sat down, spend time.

You know, still have mama, go for your dada ah

and still love the person. I didn't put the person

on a skewer and start roasting on the pit. But

it all, okay, I can do this. It all with

this colleague of mine in the workplace. So yeah, so

modeling helps us, okay with that. So second point to

romance too, right, is the word repentance also okay? And

and I'm going to break down the great word again

meta noya And some of you might have hurt. This

word meta means the change to transcend or transform. Noyah

comes from you know, why not suddenly disappeared. Is it

on a slightness of Yeah? No? Yeah, from the word

now okay means the mind, the intellect, worldview, and mindset.

So it is actually involved. It does involve the structural

change of how we think.

Uh.

And the Old Testament right, the word in Hebrew is

actually shocked as h u v uh. So it means

a radical heart, okay, a radical stop and to turn

around completely. Uh, I've said in some people's driving before,

sometimes they realize like, oh no, I missed the turn.

The personally can break in the middle of road one,

then a come like god please, screaming inside the half first,

then the mouth comes out. Sometimes, especially with you know,

new new drivers, right, sometimes they just freeze in the

middle road like oh no, if the turn. Then they

try to reverse on the highway. They're like no, no, no, no,

no no, it's just good continue and and you'll find

the next turn. And a shot is that you altho

radically hot to turn around and walk, deliverery to the direction.

So in our life it's okay to stop me busy

having it and you realize, oh no, in all the

business and messiness, God, I am going the wrong way,

halted and turn around. And sometimes we can only do

that when you're accountable to someone like Shakina, I did

a booboo. I know, go this way, But then suddenly

you know, I missed the turning, the turning to truth

and life, and I'm heading down this slippery slope. I

need to stop, you know, I need to stop shaking that.

Can you help me through this? And a lot of

times we can internationally intentionally stop, but if that's not

one that holds us accountable, we can continue to glide

down the slippery slope. Right. How many of you have

played all those soap slope before you games? You pull

our soap and you just slide down. It's almost quite

impossible to stop halfway when it's going down that slippery slope. Uh.

And and and you need someone to really, I don't know,

pull you like. I don't want to do a hole

and throw and try to pull you back. You need help.

We need external help. So when we are going now

the slippery slope in our minds and our actions, in

our decisions, you know, we need a radical hot. We

need a radical stop. Okay.

Uh.

That's what discipleships. Discipleship will help us with. Okay, So

how do we express it in acts? We do life together? Okay.

We really really love our mama culture. Ah and you

know the Mama culture of inherit unhurried time.

Uh.

You know, te our eyes is very organic. I really

love Malaysia. We can really take time off.

Uh.

And and you know.

Parallely as we you know, in the spiritual sense, you know,

we are intentional. We share our weaknesses. We let our

hands down with each other. And I feel, you know,

in our Malaysia culture, let's let's not forget that. You know,

we can be Santai actually, although you know we are

uh in a faster moving pace now in Clang Valley.

But let's not continue to remember. Let's not be unhurried. Okay, uh,

continue to have authentic conversations each other, all right, be

real uh and be real, yes, be real uh and

and it will continue to encourage each other according to

the word of God as well. Nothing bids godly counsel,

not only nothing basically advice yeah so uh and and

and you know in the mama culture itself, you know,

take time off. And I know sometimes as family a

bit hard to have mama culture. But you can have

mama culture in your house. You know, you can invite

someone over, yeah, set up your own and at home

it works too. But the concept is, you know, it

takes more intentionality, right as we do live uh and

and and be authentic with each other. That lists me

to the second point, Okay, be real, be authentically real,

be vulnerable or I talk about that quite a big

ragy just now. Uh and especially for younger younger people

when we're so into young person's life as well, uh,

or actually anyone, we can the first thing. I don't

know whether you guys, but for me, we can actually

sniff out when someone is just having a facade.

Uh.

You know, Okay, this person always just like to hover

on the surface of things, and we try to dip,

you know, slightly lowered, and the water level the person

draws back right. Perhaps you know. Sometimes it's uh protective

mechanism because over time, sometimes hurt or bitterness will bring

us there. But a lot of times we try to

put our facade like everything's okay, everything is perfect, but

it is okay to have things imperfect, right uh, And

and we are we've got society these days, like okay,

you know this is how you should look like, you know,

go through the ninth plastic surgery because you know your nose,

you know, you can have your nose breach higher, uh

sharper features. But it is all not that right. We

can pick out someone who is not genuine, but we

can also pick out someone who's really really genuine. All right,

So let's let's be real and be authentic, and let's

be committed as well.

Uh.

In xts. I have seen you know how Pastor Kenneth

he he just flies across the border, you know when

currently you know, our chasing about needs that support. And

bus has committed every month in his busy schedule, he's

still traveled in Uh on a Friday, sometimes Saturday, come

back sometimes Sunday. He comes back across the border. And

he spends time as much time he's unhurried. Uh that

and and you know that takes a lot of finances.

So sor right to travel takes a lot of energy.

And and I remember, but the kind of money he

injured his Hell, yes, it's hell. I wanted to say

and go but hill at the bottom. He took some

time off, but as long as soon as he could walk,

you know, he was you know, I think the first

ministry engagement, he took us to fly to Bindulu. Uh

it was do with his crushes. But he went the

minister came back uh and then you know, back back

to you know, different things. So uh, it takes a

lot out of a person. It takes a lot of commitment.

Uh.

But you know we are always there. And I can fully,

fully confidently say, you know the different ones here who

have who are discipling someone, you know they are committed

to it. So so as you know your your leaders

here are committed to it. SL my encouragement uh to

to all of you you know considered you know, being discipled.

Uh and and and uh and and also to disciple

others as well. And sometimes okay, I desire these disciple

artists and you can ask them, you know, how do

I start? But for someone to start discipling others, we

have to also be a disciple, all right. So commitment

and as ex as well we build strong men and

women of faith, all right. And and you know the

day uh, as long as x I can continue to

live on the commission that God has given to us

the nineteen the calling that God has for us. We

are committed to that. But it takes men and women

of faith uh, to continue to see this house grow,

to pass on from our generation to another. You know,

passa Canna has retired from the being the senior minister

of x H. He has passed on to the next generation.

And the next generation can be the different ones of

you here as well. So uh, and how can that

passing on happen when we have disciples that truly truly

understand our mandate. And it's clear about the mandate that

God has given us as a church. Okay, So we

partner and the day you know, I'm going to close now,

but we partner with the Holy Spirit to build this church.

We partner with the Holy Spirit to build and invest

in the next generation. We partner with God as well

to make God honoring decisions also. Okay, So if you're

not currently even disciple, my encouragement is for you to

be that. If you have not allowed someone into your

life to walk you through your spending ritual journey, you know, time,

you know, to allow ourselves to come up from a

comfort zone, allows self to be vulnerable with each other

so that we can commit to continue to further God's

Kingdom together. Okay, we are here a real church, you know.

We are not just online serving Christians. Okay, but we

are Christians who are committed to build God's Kingdom together.

All right, So we are believers here today.

Uh.

And and if you're not part of this church, you know,

and I encourage you.

You know.

I'm being biased but not biased as well, that this

is the best place for you to be part of,

the best church to be for you to be part

of because we understand that. You know, as a church,

we don't just do programs. We don't just do conferences

one day, another training one another. But everyone here paid

the price to disciple and be disciples as well. And

because of that, you know, we see power, the transforming

power of God working.

All right, We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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