Thanks for checking out this movie review video. So this is for the 1989 film sleepaway camp 3 teenage wasteland and Oman First of all if you have not watched my reviews for the first sleepaway camp and sleepaway camp 2 unhappy campers You can check those out. They're on my channel right now. Also. It gives it kind of builds upon the whole story So it's kind of good to watch those Also, I give a lot of the background on kind of the whole franchise in the first one So check for that because I'm not gonna rehash it here now Know that much like those two reviews that this will be all spoilers because it's an older film The other thing is I have a correction actually if you watch my review for the second one Then you may pick up on the fact that I stated the wrong year for that film I said 1989 for that one. 1989 is for this one 1988 was for that one. So sorry for that and that's my correction So let's get into it. This one was directed once again by Michael a simpson the guy who directed the second one Who's done films such as impure thoughts and fun land? And it was also written by Fritz Gordon who also wrote the script for sleepaway camp 2 So yeah, Angela comes back to her reprise her role I'm sorry not Angela comes back Pamela comes back to reprise her role as Angela and that's Pamela Springsteen and like I said on the last one Yes, Bruce Springsteen's sister and like I said on the last one She is the most popular Springsteen in my world because I don't really listen to Bruce Springsteen's music So I know her a lot more than I know him which is kind of a funny thing to say, you know But anyway, she was also Pamela Springsteen was also in one of my favorite coming of age films fast times of Ridgemont High, which if you haven't seen it I highly recommend it. It's funny. It's endearing. It's a great film and Do-do-do-do the budget for this film actually This is crazy to me. The budget for this was $15,000 more than the budget for sleepaway camp 2 unhappy campers That blows my mind because it seems like there's a lot less to this film than there is to that one Yes, it's a year later. So maybe there's a little bit of inflation there, but Mmm, I just can't believe they spent more on this one and it's way worse than the second one Now I feel like the second one's actually a pretty solid ish sequel to the first film this one It's just it's not so good I mean I feel like it's good to watch if you're into The first two films just to know where it goes next because there are some good ideas here There are some inspired kills, but I just feel like overall Fritz Gordon just he kind of phoned it in with writing the script and You know, there's not much else They could have done to to up the ante on the script or script or dress the script up Because as you would assume the acting is not very good. The directing is actually fine But it was fine throughout the other films Actually, I think the directing in the second film is probably the best directing period This might be the second best and then the directing in the first one's the worst in my opinion But the content's the best in the first one One of the biggest problems with sleepaway camp 3 teenage wasteland is that the kills man Like what happened to the kills now? It may be a situation where it's the MPAA's fault But I also find a hard time or I have a hard time thinking that that we can't get a uncut version of this film and Especially now like I feel like that would have happened because sleepaway camp has been become like a cult classic For I mean it's been a cult classic for quite some time now So I would think that in order to you know capitalize on that there would be an unrated version Now maybe when they had scenes cut because they had to cut some gory scenes for the MPAA in order to get an R rating I Don't know maybe what they cut just was destroyed and they don't have that I don't know that situation But I just feel like there should be an unrated cut or you know Maybe they didn't even shoot all that much gore to it But the MPAA was being super strict and what they had it really wasn't that much and they cut that But I find it hard to believe that the version I'm watching on shutter got an R rating and They couldn't have had more gore in it because the second film was also an R rating and it had way more gore to it It's just weird. It doesn't jive with me So I kind of feel like they that maybe the information about the MPAA forcing them to make all these cuts is Maybe a little bit false because of looking at the second movie and looking at the third movie There is so much gore in the second movie and there's not a whole lot of gore in the third movie and they're both rated R So, you know, it just doesn't make sense to me And that's one of the biggest problems with this film is that it's missing those scenes Where you in the first film you have a new concept an interesting story You don't know who the killer is initially that creates interest that keeps people engaged with the second film You already know who the killer is. She's returning But they do a good job with having inspired kills and having some good gore to it Not I mean one of the biggest problems is I they needed a lot more gore to that But they also tried to overcompensate with not having as much gore with having, you know More sexuality more sex scenes more nudity stuff like that They have a little bit of sex and nudity and actually I may May have like one sex scene in this but they have some nudity But it's way less than the second one way less sex than the second one and the gore is way less So they just went down in the things that they could have compensated with and when I say that I mean not for now like back for back in the end of the 80s Like that's kind of what you needed to get these slasher films To get people in front of these slasher films basically or to get this film in front of Viewers is what I mean. Sorry. So yeah, it's just It's a big time to mission returns on this one So they did shoot this film at the same camp that they used for the second one So it does, you know, some stuff looks a bit familiar And I do want to note that the film return to sleep away camp Which was the the next movie after this one Which I don't know if I'm gonna be able to review because I'm not finding it anywhere That actually came out in 2008 and ended up ignoring The two sequels and then full of sorrows was returning as Angela So I think that's kind of a good concept I would really like to get my hands on that and check that one out So going into the events of the actual film It feels weird that it doesn't actually start at camp because the first two films start actually at camp already Now this one starts with a student who's gonna be going to camp So I understand why they do that and that's fine like story wise. That's fine It's just it feels weird having watched the first two films and you're just assuming it's starting at camp So it's just this weird feeling How does Angela know by the way that that person is going to camp? That's one thing that doesn't make sense You know, she shows up with the the garbage truck and she runs her over which Should have been more gory obviously, but whatever It's just the beginning. That's fine You would work would ideally work your way up with the kills But um, it just doesn't make any sense that she comes out of nowhere And she just happens to know that this person's going to camp and then assumes her spot They could have written it somehow that she actually would know that information Just saying like here's a better concept for it She tries to hitchhike to the camp because she's one of the underprivileged kids going to the camp She tries to hitchhike Angela picks her up. She finds out. Oh, you're going to this camp Idea. Let me kill her and take her her place It's just the writing is just the It is a funny juxtaposition juxtaposition in this actually that Angela is trying to pass herself off as a bad kid Specifically a drug addict in the beginning and then when she ends up selling the bad drugs to the news anchor Yeah, I just found that kind of like a cool funny juxtaposition But you know in the end doesn't really matter because this movie's pretty much garbage Like I said really only worth seeing if you really wanted to know where the films go after the second one The death scenes in this actually are the worst too That's one of the other things not only is it that they they don't have enough gore And they don't have enough violence to them to be satisfying But it's also that they're not all that inspired for the most part. There's a kill here there That's pretty good probably the best one being the lawnmower one where the the female counselor like head counselor of the camp Where she kind of like buries her up to her neck and then she runs her head over and you see like a slight bit of like Something some sort of gore flying out.  It's just so bad I Like how the music also on the boombox that the one bad kid the gang gang kid Is playing is is an actual music. It's just like sounds like someone kind of like beating on You know with like a bass track in the background and just like beating on some pots and pans. It's It's so laughable terrible The rich versus poor campers idea is actually not a bad idea and I assume that it was kind of used for a little bit of interest added to it and also to kind of create some more opportunities for some Some more comedic Moments like they had in the second one, but they really aren't there like those those comedic moments in the second one where it's kind of like These these moments of dialogue where they're talking about like someone dying in a veiled way like people making comments About someone getting knocked off but not knowing that that person's gonna get knocked off like those are funny little inside jokes for the audience and I feel like they Attempted it a few times in this film not nearly as much as they did in the second one But they just don't work like they're they're few and far between and they don't really work when they're attempted So it's just like overall the execution of this film is just like Not not up to snuff But you know, it's the third of sleepaway camp. So what do you really expect? So the cop as a counselor is another good idea for the script because it kind of creates from the get-go This kind of cat and mouse situation, but they don't use that They don't use it at all. They they introduced this concept of him being a a police officer and Of his son having been killed at that camp by Angela and they barely use it because they then like break up into those two Groups of campers and he's in the other group You needed to start with them in the same group and have a cat and mouse throughout the thing throughout the whole Movie like that's where the interest comes in with the film and they just totally they set it up And then they totally don't use it and then when they end up getting to it at the end as a cop he's too dumb to realize that when someone has both their hands behind their back and You know at that point that there are a killer a criminal that he does nothing about it Like he isn't suspicious at all that Angela is doing anything or up to anything. That's insane to me That's lazy terrible writing because if he's a police officer He would have been suspicious of Angela as soon as he got a whiff that she was involved in any of that stuff And at the time that she has her arms her hands behind her back He's established.  It seems like he just lays down and takes it But you know going back I went down a bit of a ranting rabbit hole there But to go back to it they had a great setup for that cat and mouse thing and they just didn't use it And that's the thing like they have great opportunity to capitalize on a lot of these kills as well And they just don't do it. They just don't do it There's so much that actually could have gone right here Story-wise like they lay the groundwork to do something right with this and then they just fail at every turn Snowboys graffiti in this is awful. It's the worst graffiti.  So I really like that. I thought he was great for the role He was fun. I kind of liked it if he lived a little bit longer make him Maybe one of the last kills because he was just fun to have on screen But the other thing is that Herman's scoring with one of the Uh campers especially the campers scores with is unbelievably unrealistic like a lot of things in this film It's just weird Another one of those moments where you're just like, okay Uh another great moment. Well another moment that could have been great great concept was the fire Firecracker kill where the firecracker was put in the one kid's mouth as he was sleeping That's a great idea But you have to show it you have to show it even if you're not going to show it when it happens Like with the first two films with a lot of the deaths, they don't show it when it happens But they show the gory nasty aftermath. You got to show the aftermath of it Not as much in the second one. They don't they don't do it, but this is even less so Um, Angela does kind of go back to killing only bad kids in this But one of the things that ends up happening that really doesn't make any sense is the fact that She's killing only bad kids that makes sense because she's back to her kind of code of ethics Which I talked about in the review for the second film like that makes sense She only kills bad kids for a while, but in the second one she ends up losing it and kind of Comes up with a reason why she has to kill someone who could rat her out For being a killer basically and then she just goes off the deep end and she kills anyone and everyone So it seems like she's got herself under control and she's just going by her old Code code of killing ethics and that's fine But then she breaks from it in the very end when she ends up killing those two Campers who actually weren't bad kids at all who were you know The all three of them were tied together and the one guy in the middle gets to live But the other two get killed. Well, they didn't do anything. So at that point she's kind of um Done she's thrown the ethics out the door So it would make sense that she would then just go off the rails and Try and kill everyone, but she leaves the couple That that what she says, oh you make a cute couple She leaves them alive and that makes no sense today, especially after the events of the second film She would have killed everybody. She definitely would have killed everybody just saying Another thing doesn't make sense You get another dumb happy camper song flashback in this I was not happy with that in the second film and they did it again in the third film It was terrible in the second one. It was actually even worse in this in this one. So yuck Um, so this this film actually does make me wonder if angela kills when she's not at a camp Uh, or is it a situation where she only kills when she's at camp because there's something that gets triggered And when she's not at a camp, she's just seems normal. I don't know But that it just made me wonder that and I think that it would be interesting If there was a film that would kind of address something like that Because if you notice we're only seeing her at camp and you know camp isn't year round You think bobby's a good guy until he gets kind of rapey I thought for sure he would in the beginning he would end up living in the end or getting close to living in the end Because he seemed like a really good guy and then he's tried kind of almost tried to rape angela. It's like, okay Once again, it does bear repeating the lawnmower kill was a really cool idea. It just needed to be done better Um, I like how Angela does kill everyone in her group and then tries to move over to the other group. That was a cool idea That was a cool concept, but then they don't do it You know, like if you're if you're gonna have that idea, they should have just gone with it They should have actually had her You know picking them off one by one like she did in her first group, but they don't really do it So what was the point? Um, yeah, like I already said if barney's a cop, how does he not suspect? How is he not suspicious of her behavior? It's ridiculous Um, and then uh, yeah That's pretty much all I have to say the the ending is not so great Um, I mean the the end portion of of angela being treated in the Ambulance and then she ends up killing people that's fine because it sets it up for another film It's you know, kind of gory-ish And yeah, I mean it's it that's a good ending But when I thought it was gonna end and uh the couple the nice-looking couple They uh, we're talking about he was saying like they should get married and then she was like well I have a boyfriend That was kind of funny and they should have ended it right there, but then they have him go Oh, yeah Well, um, he's like, huh, and then she's like, but you could come visit me.  It's not funny. It doesn't make sense.  This is a pretty bad film. I wouldn't really recommend watching it uh, and I will say though the intro and outro music is fun. That's good That's fun. Uh, but anyway, uh, I'm gonna have to rate this Just overall, I'm not even gonna do an overall of like I can't do a two ratings because for the first two I was rating it two ways, uh Just as an actual film like being serious about the rating and as like a so bad. It's good I can't even do a so bad. It's good because it's just bad so I'm just gonna give it one rating so out of five stars. I'm gonna give this one star rating um There's some Like I said, there's some good ideas here But they just don't execute those good ideas. So I'm giving them some credit for having the good ideas But they just don't execute the good ideas. So one star But anyway, uh, let me know your comments, uh, what do you have to say about this film? Put them down there. 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Okay. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. Very happy new. Who else is there? Okay. Okay. Good morning. And God bless. Have a great year ahead. What was that? Are we on UPS or something? Okay. Okay. Anyway, no problem. All right. So I just wanted to read something before we start. So this is some, just some practical wisdom, and it's a quote from a book. Okay. So, so this is how it goes. It says, new goals, don't deliver new results. Okay. New goals, don't deliver new results, because every time we, you know, we want a fresh start, like a, like a new year is a great time to, you know, think of new goals and think of new things that we want to achieve. But new goals don't necessarily, you know, give new results, right? Or we may not achieve that. So this is the full quotation, you know, new goals, don't deliver new results, new lifestyles do. Okay. So it's the new lifestyle, which will deliver a new result. So it's, because the lifestyle is like an input, right? If you want a different output, then we change not the goals, but we change the lifestyle. Okay. And which is what, you know, the Bible talks about in Romans 12, verses one and two, where, you know, be transformed, you know, we want change, we want new things, we want to achieve new things. The Bible talks about Paul writes, and he says, be transformed by the renewing of your mind, which means, you know, how you go about doing things, how you go about achieving things, let the change be internal. If the change is internal, if the change is, you know, in the way we think, the way we do things, then you don't have to worry about the results, results will follow, right? Okay. So let's, let's just pray and just ask for God's grace for a new lifestyle or a new internal change, right? Father, we thank you, Lord, for this, for the morning, we thank you for this new semester that's ahead of us, God. And we thank you for all these subjects that we'll be going through. And Lord, we ask, Father God, that, that we will see transformation, Lord, in, in various areas of our lives, Lord. If, Lord, if there has been, there has been good progress in certain areas, Master, we ask for Lord that to be established and made consistent. And Lord, if there has not been Lord progress or little progress in certain areas, Father, we pray that they will be changed even as we, Lord, give ourselves, Lord, to you, to your ways, to your word. And I pray that that will completely saturate our mind and will and emotions and our spirit. And yes, Master, and we want to be victorious, led in a triumphant victory, in a triumphant procession in Christ Jesus. We come at each one of us into your mighty hands, in Jesus' master's name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. So, yeah. So this semester, we are looking at Christian leadership. Okay. So that's the subject that we are looking at, Christian leadership. Okay. I will put up the notes, upload the notes probably by the end of this day. So you can take a look at it. Let me just share the notes here for today. Okay. So that's Christian leadership. And if you look at the course, we will have two quizzes for evaluation. One, you know, somewhere after the first month or second month and then one towards the end. Right. Two quizzes, same for online, same for e-learning students also. Okay. So Christian leadership. Okay. So we are dealing with this whole aspect of, or this whole subject of leadership. Okay. And, you know, what gives it, what makes it interesting is this aspect of Christian leadership. Okay. So which means we look at what does the Lord Jesus or what has He said about leadership? What does the Bible say about leadership, which may or may not be how the world defines or teaches leadership. Okay. So question number one is, you know, is leadership necessary? Okay. So if we ask that question, I think we will agree, yes, you know, leadership is necessary. And if we ask the question, why, what would you say? Why is leadership necessary? We know leadership is important. Right. But why do you think leadership is important or necessary? Okay. We, we need leaders who have a biblical perspective so that it can be different from the world. Yeah. But why is leadership necessary? You know, why do we say it's necessary to lead people in a, in the right way? Okay. Okay. You can use the mic. Okay. We'll be meeting after the, sometime. So, so the thing is, yeah, so this whole thing about leadership is that leadership is about people. Right. So that's one thing. Leadership is about people. So it's about leading people. We can't lead, we can't say I'm a leader or somebody is a leader if there are no people to lead. Right. So it's all about situations or environments or setups where there are people. And, and we see that leadership plays an important role in getting people or in, you know, in the journey that people make from one place to another. Right. It could be, it could be a physical, literal journey, or it could be, you know, a journey through life, you know, in that sense, as a figure of speech, we say that, okay, people are journeying through life, people are going to, you know, are pursuing a vision or a goal. Therefore, then leadership becomes necessary in order to lead, in order to guide, in order to, you know, in order to influence. Right. So some, just one second, sorry. Okay. So, if you, if you think of some leaders, what leaders come to your mind, what names come to your mind, you know, let's say Bible or even otherwise, Moses, right, very challenging situation. Yeah. So Joshua, right after him. Right. So in the Bible, these Paul, yeah, the Jesus, yeah.  And, you know, so we see that, yeah. Okay, somebody's waiting. Sorry. Okay. So we see that, yeah. So leadership, we have these pictures of leadership. Okay. So next question. Okay. Before that, let me just go through what is the, you know, what are we going to cover in the course? Okay. If you see on the screen, yeah, it's divided into three sections. Okay. First section is about leading through time, in the sense, leadership is not just an event, but it's, it's a journey. Okay. So leading through time. So we're going to be looking at that. Section number two is winning with people, since leadership is about people. And it's something that is done with people.  Right. So it's winning with people. Then the third one is about teamwork. Right. So it's about, if you look at ministry, how do the Lord Jesus send the disciples? Yeah, the first thing itself, we said, send them, you know, in teams, the smallest team can be two people, but he sent them two by two. And so, so we see that whenever there are people involved, there, there's some dynamics, meaning challenges, encouragement, advantages, inspiration, motivation, everything comes, but also the other side of it, because we have fallen, you know, people and who are being put together, we are works in progress. So therefore, it just needs two people to start an argument. It just needs two people to have a conflict. Right. So about teamwork, what all does it involve? So that's the third section. Right. So, okay, so the question is this, is everyone called to be a leader? Or is everyone, oh, yeah, let's forget that question, you know, let's not say called to be a leader within, then, you know, we'll get into other. Yeah. Is everyone a leader? Can everyone be a leader? So that's the other simple question. Yeah. And you know what the next question is. Next question is why? If you're saying yes, why? If you're saying no, then why? You know, why not? Yeah, probably. You never thought everybody is a leader, but you, but you okay, okay. Okay. Yeah, but the other thing is why, why did that person say that that everybody's born to lead online students? Also, you can post so you have said that like it's about leading people like not only just physically, but also through life, guiding them, giving them advice and everybody we can do that. We can like, we can share, we can encourage, we can like guide everybody. You don't need some certain calling or anointing. We can all do it. So everybody has that. So you're saying everybody can, which means ability. Yeah. So you're talking about ability, ability, everybody has the ability. So I think yeah. Sir Anand's question is everybody's a follower. Who's the leader? Yeah. I'm sorry. Everybody's a leader who's a follower the other way. Yeah. So then we see that I think what we need to what we need to do is really define what leadership is. What is leadership? Okay, we know that it's about people. We know that it's about taking people. But really at the core of it, if we would define clearly, okay, what is leadership? What does it involve? Then we can look around and say, okay, is everybody, if I'm a call to be a leader, or am I a leader? Okay. So we, like you rightly said, that yeah, you don't need to be in an organization. You don't need to have a title as your manager, senior manager or project leader or pastor or whatever. So we don't need to have those official titles in order to be leaders. Okay. So it can be in a very informal way. It can be without any titles. It can be in a very non-formal way. Okay. Why do we say that? Because when we look at leadership, we see that leadership is about influence. So influencing people. For what? You can influence people for good things. You can influence people for bad things. You can influence, be a bad influence on people and still lead. It can be a good influence of people on people and then lead them. So to be a leader or when you say a good leader is to be a good influence, a positive influence on people. So that at the end of the day, they are benefited. It's for their good. So you're being an influence. So when we look at that and we consider leadership as that, then we realize, yes, each one of us, we can be an influence for good. Yeah. I see some responses here. Jack in says leadership is given to us by God. He places people above us. However, in whatever position we are in, we have someone watching over us. We can be that influence to those around us. Yeah. And Shukmar leadership means leading people to a particular goal. Yes, but a goal, a vision, a destination is there. Yeah. But if you look at the core of it, it's like taking people along, which means in order to take people along alongside us, we need to be able to influence them for good, to be a positive influence. Okay. So leadership like John Maxwell says, leadership is influence. Okay. So we have leaders who led people to their destruction. History is full of such people. And we also see leaders who led people for their good, for their benefit. And it really benefited the human civilization. So we see that leadership is actually for all of us. So we can look at ourselves and say, yes, I am a leader because I have been called to influence. Okay. So if you look at the verse where the Lord Jesus talks about our identity as disciples, he says, you are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world. Okay. So in those two words itself, we see some, you know, we see some of this thing about some significance about leadership. It's salt. We know influences, mixes, changes, flavors. Right. So it's about influence. Light. Again, it's about impact. It's about guiding.  Right. So we see that when we consider all that, we see that leadership is influence. Leadership is about impact and leadership is for everyone.  And we see that from that day, actually, you know, people, he began to lead. So we see that the Lord does that. So there is a place of appointed leadership or call to a particular assignment or a plan and purpose that God has. There is that aspect. But over and above all that, you know, generally speaking, each of us or all of us are called to be leaders because we are called to influence. And how do we say that? You know, we see that in the Great Commission. Right. What does the Lord say? The Lord says, I'll just read that out, Matthew 28, 18 to 20. Okay. 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 the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Okay. So this instruction or this command or commission, who is it for? It is for all. It is for all who would take up the cause of Christ or who would choose to follow Christ. It's for all Christ followers. It's for all disciples. So if it is for all, then we see that leadership is for all, because you cannot go and make disciples without influence. You cannot go without having that heart of serving, without having that heart of wanting something good for the people. No, you can be a leader with all different motives. But if you look at this scripture, you see that, okay, what is the motive so that they might come to no Christ, so that they can have a destiny which is in heaven and not in hell, which is what, which is for their good. Right. It's not for the destruction of people. It is for their benefit. Right. So they eternity is affected for good.  Okay. So one first thing that we want to settle in our hearts is that leadership is for all. Okay. It's because we might have through our experience or through our, whatever, good or bad, we might disqualify ourselves as leaders.  We might have, you know, doubts or think twice and say, you know, I don't know. Are you called to believe it? I don't know. Maybe, you know, those kind of things. Right. So, but we see that according to the word, according to the Lord, each one of us, all of us are called because we are called to be influencers. Okay. An influencer is not just a person who's on Instagram or Facebook, you know, with so many followers, but an influencer is whom the Lord is called to influence, which is every Christ follower called to be the salt, called to be the light, called to share the gospel, called to make disciples and to teach everything that the Lord has taught us. Okay. So we are called to be influences. If we are commissioned to be influencers, then we are commissioned to be leaders. Right. Okay. So this is something that we see Romans chapter 12 and verses five to eight. Right. As people who are placed in the body of Christ. Okay. We see another aspect of leadership. Right. Romans chapter 12 verse five says, so we being many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. Having them gifts differing according to the grace that is them. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith or ministry, let us use it in our ministering. He who exhorts in exhortation, he who visible. Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. There was, yeah, there was it is. I apologize for that. I'm sorry. There was a brief disconnection. Okay. So, so what does this verse say? You know, it says he who leads with religions. So what is this verse talking about? Talking about all believers, we are one body in Christ. Right. Verse five. Yeah. We being many are one body in Christ. So we are all in the body of Christ. So the second part of it, individually we are members of one another. Verse six says, we have gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us. Okay. So according to the grace that is given to us, some of us are called or placed in the body to lead. Okay. So this is the other aspect of leadership, like you're saying, okay, am I called? Am I invited by Christ to lead? Yes. Right. Some of us are in that way. Maybe it's a, it's a place, it's a grace that is given and we are placed in the body of Christ in order to lead. And it can take in, it can come in different forms. It can be a spiritual leader, like a, like a pastor, apostle, whatever, you know, it can be different ways, maybe like a deacon, maybe in, you know, various ways. Right. So the, so this verse says, you know, he who leads, let them lead with diligence. So that's the thing. All of us are called to influence, to lead. And yes, in the body of Christ, there are different graces, God crisis graces with in order to be a blessing to people in the body of Christ. So yes, both are valid. Right. When you say some are called through, but all are called to influence and therefore we are leaders. Okay. So you look at your life, you see, there are many people or there are, there could be some, I wouldn't say many, maybe some people who are connected to your life, who are looking up to you. Right. Over whom you have influence. Just think about it. No, there are, if you look, if you look at your own lives individually, you see that there are people who are connected to your life. It could be one person, it could be two people, it could be, you know, however, and they are connected to your life in the sense you are, maybe it could be a formal relationship, you know, a family relationship kind of thing, or it could be just friends, or it could be just acquaintances. And sometimes you don't even know that people are observing, that people are looking up, over whom you have influence. Right. You don't even realize it. And, you know, for me, it came as an IO opener because you know, when I was to work in the organization for sales, my boss was a very tough person, the last organization that ever very tough, very tough, very hard, and very abusive. Okay. But he suddenly, I think I shared this, he only gave one farewell party as I was leaving. Okay. So then in the farewell party, he shared.  So then farewell parties, so they were very surprised. So we were curious what will happen. So in the farewell party, when you were sharing, he shared about certain things that he had noticed, which, you know, for us, we just do it. Right.  So, you know, when you talk about leadership, it need not always be people whom we say, okay, I'm one up, you know, I'm leading them. It can even be people who are above us, you know, whatever, maybe older, maybe senior, in terms of experience, skill, whatever, you can influence both ways. Right. But the point is this, that sometimes we don't even realize that we are being a influence in people's lives. So if you look at our lives, you even say, who am I influencing? Nothing, you know, no, that's not true. We are. There are lives that are connected. There are people who are looking up to you and looking at you as a role model. Right. And, and the, and if it's a formal role or even a formal spiritual role, when the Lord places us, He brings, He connects people. Right. Whom He wants you to be an influence over for good. He wants us to be a spokesperson. He wants us to, you know, bring instruction and bring inspiration and encouragement and lead and so on. Right. So, so we see that, yes, you know, this is something that is God ordained. This is something that, that all of us can and all of us can thrive in if we would understand and know the, you know, know what leadership is. Okay. Okay. So, the next thing that we want to look at is, okay, now, if I want to be a leader, who should I model my life? Who, whose steps should I follow? You know, yeah, it's good to learn about leadership. It's good to learn. There is a, in fact, I think about leadership and management and so on. There are plenty of resources, a lot of books. Right. And each one would define leadership very differently and, you know, this so much. Right. So, it's, it's good for us. Okay. We can pick and we can, you know, all that is good, practical wisdom and everything's good. But most important is, you know, leadership as modeled by the Lord, as modeled by the Lord. Right. We see that the world is now catching up and trying to actually learn as much from the Lord or how the Lord led. Okay. So, you know, especially this whole aspect of servant leadership. Right. Yeah. So, Matthew chapter 20 verses 25 to 28. Okay. But Jesus called them to himself and said, you know, that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them. And those who are great exercise authority over them. So he's talking about a leadership style. Right. He's talking about what is currently there. He's talking about rulers of the Gentiles and so on. So he's saying, this is how, this is how I see it. This is what they do. They lord it, meaning they boss, they, you know, kind of their authoritarian. They say, okay, you do it. This is it and nothing else. Okay. And those who are great exercise authority over them. And then verse 26, he says, yet it shall not be so among you. Okay. So he's clearly demarcating saying, okay, you are going to be leaders. He's looking at the disciples. You will be leading people. That is assumed. We say, it shall not be so among you. That, which means you cannot lord it over people or you cannot just, you know, use your authority in that manner. Yet it shall not be so among you. But whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. Right. So he's saying, if you want to be great, you want to be a great leader. You serve, you be a good servant. You be a great servant. Right. So which means the mindset is I want to serve the people. Lord has placed me as a leader. It is to serve people. Okay.  Verse 28, just as the son of man did not come to be served, but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many. Okay. So, so Lord is talking about himself as a leader. He's saying the son of man came to serve and not to be served. Right. He did not come to receive honor or to expect people to serve him, but to serve, serve to the extent of giving his life a ransom for many, meaning serve to the extent of a sacrificial service. Right. To give his life as a ransom for many. So this kind of leadership is totally, you know, it's a paradigm shift from what the world is used to or the world, what is there in the world. Okay. Now, you know, we see that people are actually talking about it and say, Hey, this is actually, this is what works because you can actually, you know, lord it, exercise authority, boss over. And for that moment, you can win the situation. But you've lost the person for, you know, the person will do it, not from their own heart, because boss is saying, or because boss is around, because, you know, that's, that is the only reason, not because, you know, I want to do it, I from my heart, I want to excel in it. That is not the motive at all. Right. So, so everyone is catching up with that. Okay. So John chapter 13, versus 12 to 15. John 13 versus 12 to 15, these notes will be up by the end of the day. So when he had washed their feet, now this is John 13, 12 to 15. Yeah, actually. So when he had washed their feet, taken his garments and sat down again, he said to them, okay, so he is washing the feet of all the disciples. And you know, you know, like Peter saying that, Lord, my feet, you should not wash and then that whole conversation. Okay. So the Lord is saying, you know, do, do you know what I have done to you? You call me teacher and Lord and you say, well, for us, so I am. Right. So he did not say, don't call me teacher, don't call me Lord. Right. So he's saying, okay, you call me teacher. This is who I am.  Right. Verse 15, for I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. Okay. So it's a very powerful picture of servant leadership. So he's saying, you know, he's not refuting the title or the role. Okay. So some of us actually are not uncomfortable or very, feel very uncomfortable.  This is what I came to do. But he says, I have set you an example. As I have washed your feet, you should also do for each other. Okay. So, so first thing is, as a teacher, as a Lord, he has come to serve. And, and that service is not just from, you know, just not from him to others, but he it is an example. What is an example? Example is a pattern that we can watch and follow. Do the same thing. So it's an example to follow. So I mean, and it's a command, what he's saying is that you should do as I have done to you. So now I know a lot of people take it literally saying, okay, you should do foot washing, have a foot washing ceremony and nothing wrong with that. I remember going to last year, recently went to Baroda Bazaar and they were going to different villages and one particular house where we went, you know, this, this pastor, he said, I want to, you know, before we go and say, and it was privately, you know, in a, in a room, he said, before you go and speak to the people, I want to do this.  But he did that. So literally, you know, people do and then, you know, make it a thing, which is okay. But more than that is when we have real life situations. We have real life situations. Yeah, I've come to the last piece of chicken, literally serving. I have been standing and serving. But you know, here comes this person, what do I do? Because those are even more difficult than washing the feet. Right. Yeah. So, you know, so those kind of things are, so the Lord is saying, you know, I've set an example. So the Lord never said it is going to be easy. It's going to be convenient. Right. He's never said that. But it's going to be, that's going to be tough on our flesh for sure. Right. So, when you look at the Lord, we see that there are some insights about leadership, there's some great insights about how we need to function as disciples of the Lord, as people in spiritual authority covers all that. And the Lord is saying that this is what you need to do. This is how you need to do. And so let's never forget those two, those two scriptures, very important, Matthew 20, where yeah, very, very, you know, distinguishes between worldly leadership and spiritual leadership. Right. Because you're saying, okay, the rulers of the Gentiles, which means that, okay, it's a worldly world system, world culture of leadership, maybe world culture of doing things. And he's very clearly saying, there is a difference. Okay, now this is saying, yet it shall not be so among you. So, so, so which means that, you know, there's a lot of practical wisdom in world leadership. There's a lot of things that we can pick up. Okay, like even this one, leadership is about influence. Okay, just, you know, you just very crisply, John C. Maxwell made that very statement. And it's very, it is accorded with scripture. So like that, there could be many, many such principles or teachings. At the same time, we need to, this should be a differentiator, okay, between worldly leadership and spiritual leadership. What do the Lord say? Is there a difference? If there is a difference, then that's the discerning point for us. Right? And the second thing is that the Lord set an example that leadership is about serving. So never forget that it's about serving people. It's to serving people, it doesn't mean that you say yes to everything. Sometimes we go to that other extreme, you know, like serving or love. Okay, boss, you know, it's truth, you know, it has to be with truth. It has to be with, you know, truth spoken in love. It has to be, you know, where you stand up for truth, where you stand up for whatever values, you know, that are, that is in accordance with scripture. So it's not saying yes to everything. It's not being used as a domain. It's not that at all. Right? So we need to understand that. Okay. Any questions so far? Okay, so let's look at, we still have some time. So let's look at, you know, some insights from the life of the Lord and how, what we can learn as a leader. Okay, so first thing that we see is when we consider observe the life of the Lord Jesus. This is the verse from John chapter 12 and verse 27. Okay, the Lord says, this is, you know, before the, before he's crucified, he's saying, now my soul is troubled, but what shall I say? Father save me from this hour, but for this purpose I came to this hour. Okay, so he's saying, okay, this is my purpose. So as the leader, the first thing that we can learn, one of the first, one of the things that we're going to learn is that know your purpose. Okay, what is the purpose of you being a leader and what is the purpose of your, you know, that's a very general thing. What is the purpose of my life? But know your purpose in being a leader.  Okay, what is that underlying thing which drives you or inspires you every day to be who you call to be? What is your purpose? So the Lord says, you know, it's a very difficult situation, right? He's about to be crucified and he says, you know, what shall I say?  This is so bad. This is, you know, it is tough, it is difficult, it's painful. Shall I say that Father save me? So what actually asked, what actually made him go forward? A strong sense of my purpose. He says, no, no, I know that it is for this purpose, I came to this hour, meaning that, okay, as part of this purpose, I've come to this hour, this situation and this time where this difficulty is there, this pain is there. But I know the purpose. So which means that when we have a strong grip on the purpose, okay, all difficulties, all mountains, all situations, you know, we will be able to go through because our focus is on the purpose of God. Everything else is like, it's fine, I can go through. The grace of God is there to empower us, enable us. But we need to have a strong sense of the purpose.  But then we are easily discouraged, you know, there is no strength, emotional strength, maybe we are easily, you know, we are like, okay, maybe I should not, maybe I should stop. But we have a strong sense of purpose. Then we will say, okay, it's okay. I need wisdom to handle this. But I'm going through. I'm going forward. If you look at some of the lives of the missionaries, you know, I'm thinking about William Carey, for example, you know, coming here to India, and we've studied his life, right, as a, worked as an apprentice in a shoemaker, with a shoemaker. But a strong sense of purpose that God called him for missions, God had called him to go to, you know, India, because when he went to, when he attended this, I think a church meeting where a missionary came and spoke and something stirred up inside of him. So as an apprentice, he studied the scripture in a shoemaker's, you know, workshop. He studied the scripture, he studied the Greek and Hebrew, etc., on his time as an apprentice, and then came to India. Came to India, came to West Bengal, you know, I forget, I don't know where exactly Kolkata or your place. But, you know, he didn't know the language. He had to learn the language. So he spent years, you know, with that Sanskrit pundit to learn the language and to translate the scriptures. And it's amazing how he has learned the language and he translated scripture into so many languages, the scripture, and it's, and we look at it, you try translating one page. You're just like, I need one strong coffee now. He translated year after year after year. And he died here. He was buried here, which means his family, you know, family was, his wife actually was, had some challenges, mental issues, etc., his son died, even before they could start certain things, you know, died. And at the end of the life, he died here, buried here, which means that whole life, the purpose was so strong, right? This is it. This is what I've called to do. This is what I've come to do.  Very inspiring, right? You read that and then you read about some of the work that he did and also some of the challenges, you know, like he did a lot of work, had a printing press, then one day his dog, I think, tipped over one of those lamps, the whole thing burned down, the whole shed burned down.  Had to restart, but he did that. So we wonder, you know, how can somebody do that, you know, what kind of a person, a person who has a strong sense of purpose, but of course, a strong sense of walk with the Lord. You know, what good is the purpose if the Lord is not in it? Like you can do a lot of things, but at the end of the day, you know, does it really count for eternity? So here we see this. So know what our purpose is. Now, it's not like, okay, day one, we will know, it's a journey. It's a journey and the sense of purpose grows stronger, stronger and stronger as we walk with the Lord. Okay, so we'll continue with this next class. We'll stop here. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. God bless.