Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer. I'm so excited to Start off this brand-new week just seeking the Lord together Welcome to those of you with us online as well We're gonna be opening up today with Psalm 27 starting in verse 4 One thing I have desired of the Lord That will I seek That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life To behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple, but this is our one thing But this is how we start our day This is how we start our week But our one desire is you But that we would be ones who do well in the house of the Lord To behold your beauty, but we don't desire anything else Jesus, it's simply you It's always been you Nothing else is gonna satisfy Nothing else is gonna do But our hearts come alive when we behold you when we behold your beauty are beautiful you are gracious you are kind You are holy You are worthy of praise honor and power We don't get tired Lord But here again just asking for your presence That our hearts would be graced with the presence of The true King Jesus Christ Lord that you would hear our hearts cry from heaven And that it would draw you near But as we draw near to you this morning Lord that you would draw near to us An imperfect broken people But one's hungry Hungry for our Lord and Savior Hungry for our beloved Desiring you and you alone God Nothing else Would you hear from the heaven Lord and would you draw near? Hear our praise Lord would it be pleasing to you? There's it's not about us twisting your arm. It's about us just simply asking simply desiring Simply drawing near So this morning Lord we draw near We draw near with faith That you'll draw near back Or so as our hearts cry out to you Lord Would your presence just dwell here today? He knew that you want from me. Is it an offering of thanksgiving for something we haven't given thanks before? Is it a clap? Is it a song? Is it a dance? Musicians? Is it a melody? I want us to go before the Lord and to actually ask him God What's something new that I can bring you today? Well, what's the the new bread that I can bring you today? So Lord we just invite you into our hearts But if there's areas we've been holding back Something new that you want from us God would you just highlight it bring it forward? But we want to worship you in spirit and truth So Holy Spirit come illuminate our hearts today. There's the greatest commandment in the law Jesus said to him You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul Or do we not be one to forget? the greatest commandment Or that the greatest thing we can do for you is to love you To love you with every part of our being With our heart soul mind Better we acknowledge that We need to love you better we need to love you better So God would we be a people to remember? To love you first God that it's not about Religion it's it's it's not about other things. It's about loving you. That's all you want That's what you want from us first Lord is to love you Or so where we've been focused on other things Where our eyes have turned from loving you and where that's gone to the back burner When it's been about routine or obligation Lord would it be about love again Would it be about loving you? authentically Lord with our heart soul mind and strength With every part of our being God when we love you in a deeper way Would there be fresh revelation that causes us to just overflow with love for you? God with the with the path of expressing love to you Acts and words of love would it be well worn in our hearts well worn in our minds Or that it wouldn't feel strange. They would feel like second nature to love you But what you want from us first is love God and we can think that we're good at it. We can think that we we know everything about how to love you Look out. There's always more to give There's always more words to describe you. There's always more Acts of love Ways that we can express it God. So would you lead us and would you guide us with all of our heart soul mind and strength It's the greatest commitment It's the most important thing that we could do for where we've made loving you a means to an end We've made loving you a way to self promotion A way to somehow earn more love from you as we love you more you somehow Unlock more love for us. God. That's not it's not how it works As we love you we somehow gain position in your eyes No, there's there's no way that your love for us could increase anymore We can't earn any more of it. We certainly Don't deserve it Lord where where our hearts have become like Martha worried about doing things for you worried about gaining position in your eyes somehow there's a ladder to climb to get to the top of the love of God Or we just repent we come to you and we let you see those sick areas of our heart and we ask for you Jesus great healer To touch our hearts To give his hearts like Mary Who didn't seek to gain anything from loving you but sought to to give it all? Just cuz you're worth it. Just cuz you're beautiful Just because you first loved us But how sick we would be if it weren't for the cross How different our lives would be if it weren't for the cross Lord in your in your kindness you came down and you changed everything Before we ever did anything for you before Any of us were ever even Before we were born before we were formed you took a cross for us So that we could love you and Lord we're so sorry for taking that for granted. We're so sorry Where we've believed the enemy's lies that it's loving you is to gain something. No, it's not how love works We love you simply because You're beautiful and you're holy and you loved us first It's what our heart was created to do was to love you and to be loved by you But in where we've let other things slip in where we've made it about something else Something self-centered we just repent And we ask you Jesus that you would bring us back and your kindness Touch our hearts Rewire them to love you without seeking to gain truly just Give our love freely Not expecting anything in return because you've already given all are we just asked for you to examine us today? We give you full access Lead us in your kindness Lord be gentle with us Notice and lead us the way everlasting Take a moment and allow the Lord to to appear Deep into the depths of our hearts To uncover motives Just speak to them and touch our hearts to love you more today Let's continue to prophesy as they do just let your heart align with what's being played To ascribe glory and praise to love him Some emotions are just too deep for words So as they're playing Even though there won't be a chorus just let your heart express those emotions to the Lord that are just too deep for words The greatest act of love the world's ever known The greatest it will ever know you're so beautiful Jesus So wonderful But it's hard for us to comprehend It's impossible for us to comprehend all of your love But somehow you give it freely and we don't forget that today We ascribe to you this morning glory. It's all yours Our lives yours Our devotion yours Because you're deserving of it and we just We just close this morning asking that you would increase That we would decrease increase in our hearts Would a love for you in our hearts our soul our mind our strength or would it increase Would we be people who love you more today than we did yesterday Who see you rightly More clearly today than we did yesterday And we love that we get to continue to love you in new ways for the rest of our lives It's not something that becomes routine or stagnant I want to bring you something new every day So Lord help us and lead us Would you be glorified through our lives? Jesus name amen Thank you everyone for joining us for morning prayer today. We'll be back here at noon in 6 30 this evening God bless you guys


I've got to talk about this video. I know that you've probably seen it by now, but if you haven't seen it This is such an important video such an important video because it shows you How extreme the GOP is and I don't want to make it seem as if This is a new phenomenon that the GOP is getting increasingly extreme.  Okay, so take a look. This is from the good liars And why do you want to keep it fly? Why do you wonder why would anybody want to erase our heritage?  I would want to forget that heritage. I wouldn't want to remember that I would have run away from that, but this motherfucker is like nope. I'm proud of this heritage. Yep We own people as property before and Segregated the blacks and the whites and I like them.    He's like 97.  Unfortunately. I wish it were true But it's not Well, some people would say that that flag symbolizes Racism it symbolizes slavery And they might have some valid points there That's their opinion, you know, they're welcome their opinion if they wanted actually no, that's a fact dipshit That's a fact.   I have no comment Thank you for the interview.  I'll give you one more chance Pro or anti-slavery I'm no comment. I won't I'll give you one more opportunity to save your pro or anti-slavery No comment All right, well, there you have it no comment on the if you're in favor of slavery or not Which means you're in favor of slavery You're in favor of slavery Keep flying keep flying that fly egg. Who's grandpa is this?  Who's this dipshit? Listen, if this is your grandfather and you're watching this the next time you're at his home and really this is advice that I would give to anyone Go to their TV when they're not looking and put a parental lock on Fox news You can easily set up parental controls lock them out of Fox news And I promise you this is the way to save the country, right? They probably won't change from the reactionary ways of thinking because it's so ingrained in them and them because they were raised this way But you can at least stop them from further devolving from the brain rot from getting so bad that you know The brain goo leaks out of their ears.  I'm not being facetious. I'm saying block Fox news From your parents and grandparents set up parental controls. It's not that difficult. You can easily do it lock them out with the password They'll never guess. Okay, that's the way. This is the way and When they come over for Thanksgiving, don't feed them The second they say conservative things you take the plate away That I'm being facetious, but I mean like you've got to push back. That's the resistance. That's the way to fight Right stop the brain rot block Fox news now. Unfortunately for this motherfucker here It's not just Fox news.  He's Level 99 racism max maxed out can't go any further, right? And so if you go fully to the dark side, this is how Aged you become he might actually be like 25 years old But just going into the dark side like do you remember the game?   I haven't played it yet But basically you uh each time you die you age more and I believe you get different ability abilities Excuse me based on on your your age in that game until it's eventually a permadeath But yeah, he died too much and this is where we're at


Welcome to ToffeeTV, it is the Everton News Daily. Everton have been linked with a move for Kate Zuma. Today the French international is expected to leave Stanford Bridge this summer with Everton and Tottenham Hotspere supposed to be interested in the centre back according to reports in France of course. Kate Zuma had a very successful loan with Everton and did really really well and obviously the manager of the time Silver said that one of the reasons he failed in the second season, Everton is not having Zuma or replacing Zuma. Obviously a very fast strong centre back, use that pace really really well. At moments in Everton where it wasn't so great but the second half of the season combined really well to save me a home and have a really good second half of the season. He's got that strength, the pace, he's got goals as well, set pieces and it's interesting that Everton have been linked with a number of centre backs recently considering that Everton do have four good centre backs on the books plus Banthwaite plus Lewis Gibson so it might be a case of people putting two and two together and getting five. Yet he mean of course has got two years left on his contract, me interested to see whether Everton try and move forward with contract talks for him but it is interesting that Everton continue to be linked with centre backs so that one's going to be an interesting one moving forward but after waiting to see years 20, 26, 27 in October so as I said Marcus Silver obviously said one of the reasons why he failed for him was not replacing him so it would be interesting whether there is anything in that. Everton have made a sign and today the Everton women's team Tony Duggan has returned to Everton after spells with Manchester City Barcelona and Athletic Homebridge. He signed a two-year deal, should be 30 this month. He coincided with the launch of Everton's new kit which is available in a Everton women's version with a alternative sponsor on it, mega fun if you're interested in that but big business for Everton, that good deal to get a proven striker back to the club where it all began for him. She played 2007 to 2013 for the Everton team before moving on to Manchester City so Everton women's team are obviously trying to break into that upper echelon of teams in the women's super league so it'll be interesting to see. As I'm mentioning the new kit was unveiled today. To a mixed response I think slightly different, it's got a bit of a pattern on it, the dazzle pattern. There is a video featuring me and Baz if you want to check that out where we have a little look at the kit. I think it's one of these kits that when it's hanging up it doesn't always look great but when it's on someone it looks better looking forward to seeing it on the players. It's got a nice yellow trim which people always like. Training gear looks good, the goalkeeper kit is a bit mad so that is available to pre-order now it comes out next next Thursday which I'm sure a lot of parents will be dreading just in time for the summer holidays but no no Everton's new kit so there's a link in the description if you want to go through our link if you're looking to order anything. Josh King has signed for Wofford. The play obviously was with Everton for the second half of the season without making a single appearance starting appearance for Carlo Ancelotti as signed for Wofford. It's a great move for him actually staying in the Premier League with a newly promoted side so good good luck to him just don't score any goals against this place but it's good to see that he's back in the Premier League with Everton choosing not to reassign him. So there you go obviously all the same links are about Moise Keane and Paris Saint-Germain. Everton refusing to let him go on loan and that one's been knocking about again today but we've covered that extensively in the week. Dunfries as well again there's reports of him. Everton's odds of being cut short of him for Everton to go and sign but again it's just I think it's just it's when a story comes out and then someone else gets the story and then someone else gets the story just goes round in a circle. Two obviously big cup finals this weekend as well obviously there is the England versus Italy game at Wembley, the Euros, Jordan Pickford obviously will be starting goal for England and hopefully Dominic Avalon will be involved in this game he was after the semi-finals hopefully he will be involved and there's also the Copa America final Brazil versus Argentina with Charleston I imagine will be involved he's started all of but one I think of Brazil's game so hopefully he'll be starting in that as well that is on Sunday night I think as well so two big games involving Everton plays over the weekend to where check out there you go make sure to give this video a like subscribe if you haven't already check out that give video as well and if you want more great videos daily live videos join us over on Patreon see you later


Greetings, everyone. I thought it was time I'd check in again. November is here, and we are too. And that was not to be taken for granted. The fact that we have operated this long under conditions of safety and relative academic interaction was something many people doubted any. University R-sized could bring on. So I need to start, again, with thanks first to our students. Not merely for your compliance and fidelity to the Purdue Pledge, but to the leadership you've shown in encouraging yourselves, your fellow students, and all of us to do likewise. And to our faculty and staff, thank you also for a terrific performance that many people elsewhere have noted. Now, all that said, honestly, I'm concerned as November arrives, and I think with good reason. The virus is up all over the world. That's true in the state and in the community that we live in. And last weekend, apart from a great Boiler Maker comeback win, we really did not experience our finest moments. We had too many incidents of departures from the Purdue Pledge. The vast majority of our students, yes, maintained the discipline and stuck with the prescribed behaviors. But as we've all learned, it only takes a few bad events to cause a real problem that is university-wide. This weekend, got another big game coming, another Boiler Maker win we're looking forward to, and we've got Halloween. We need to do better than we did. So I'm asking you, please, remember that when you stick to the Pledge, you're not just taking care of yourself, you're taking care of everybody else and this entire institution. Now, next week, by popular demand and a really good idea, we're going to have Reading Day. The forecast is terrific. I hope the weatherman is right. If we get a day that nice, it'll be a chance for everybody, but especially our students to catch their breath, maybe kick back a little bit, and contemplate really what we all have accomplished so far together. Then we'll have a next challenge as we face the last three weeks. We'll be asking you to remember to protect yourselves with special care. We don't want anybody to take this virus home and watch for ways in which you can get tested and make sure that that doesn't happen in your hometown or family. Look, I know you're tired of what we've all had to go through and what we've asked you as students in particular to go through. We all are. But we are on the verge of a really serious accomplishment here and it'll be your achievement if and when we make it. I'm very proud to be associated with the students, faculty and staff of this university for the way you've all conducted yourselves these last several weeks. I just know if we maintain our vigilance, I'll be that proud to come this Thanksgiving.


What made Red Sox pitching so tough tonight? I mean, Ovalde controlled the zone really well. We got a few opportunities to do damage, and we hit few double plays. And I feel, I think after that we don't have, like, more chance to score rounds. So it's tough night for us. I mean, after Joey Homer and things like that, we really don't do too much. I mean, first game of the series. We lost, but, I mean, tomorrow is another day for us. When Denver switched the home run to put three on the board in the first, does that feel like a bigger deficit because of the way this offense has been struggling? Not really. I mean, always when we face Boston, it's back and forth. I mean, when they make a run in one inning, we make two in the next inning. I mean, we feel like nothing different in that way. But, I mean, like I said before, we don't do too much when we have a score on position, guys on position, and, I mean, we lost too many opportunities to score tonight.


Welcome back. Hope you had a good break. Let's resume the way we left off. In the previous session we completed the case study of the church of Antioch and their pros and cons of the highs and their lows, all the work that they did. I hope it kind of gives you an insight about the growth of just, I know it's only two churches but I hope it encourages you, inspires you, something about them. Now let's just take a look at the stages of growth. We've taken some of the key points from the book called the Apostolic Strategies, Affecting Nations by Dr. Jonathan David and we've outlined a few several stages here. His book is called Apostolic Strategies, Affecting Nations and the author is Dr. Jonathan David. There are different stages of growth and more specifically to our context and the stages of growth in church, the growth of a local church. One of the first early stages is the pioneering stage. I mentioned in the last class that we will talk a little bit more about pioneering, being a pioneer of a church. This is what it is. The first early stage is, what is this stage all about? The church planting team and leaders establish commitment to a territory where the Lord has sent them or a family or an individual. The church planting team and leaders establish commitment. That means you'd actually say, hey, this is where the Lord has called me to go. Because of that, you are obeying God's word and you're committing to what God has spoken to you and you are saying, yes, I will go there. That's the first step as a pioneer. You are showing your commitment. You're establishing it by going to the place. There's pretty much like so many people that we can think of. One of the first things that can come to your mind is say Abraham, he didn't go plant a church and all, but when God says go, then he said, he's just back to his bags and he left. That's how you show your commitment. Then you start laying out the groundwork through prayer, intercession, reaching out, building bridges with a community that is being reached. You're laying the foundations down as a pioneer. You're praying, you're interceding for the city or for the town that God has sent you. Then you ask, okay, what is it that's burdening your heart regarding this city? You start hearing from God. Initially, he says, okay, go there, but he might not always give the big picture. Very rarely, he gives a big picture. I can't think of any instances where he's given a big picture, but he always works in process. Once again, I'm reminded of Abraham.  That means he hasn't still shown him the place where Abraham is to take Isaac. Abraham obeys and he says, yes, and he goes and then he says, go to that mountain. That's how it is in our cases, isn't it? When God tells us to go to a place, he will not necessarily say everything, okay, you should buy a house in this area, you should go there, okay, plant, maybe he will. You never know. I'm not going to put God in a box, but that's what it is. The first step will lead to another, and one to another, and the next to another. Now that he's sent you to a place as a pioneer, you start seeking the heart of God for that city, for the people there, okay, what is it that you want me to do here? Why it's me?  Interceding simply means standing in the gap or standing in the middle. That's what intercession simply means. Once again, Abraham stood in the gap and he interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah, right? It's like, okay, even if at least there's 10 people, will you spare this city? And if there's one person who's righteous, will you spare this city? Right? So as a pioneer, you have to pray. There's another brilliant book on prayer that I would encourage you to get your hands on. It's called, I mean, it's also called EM Bounds. I just put it in the chat section. He has a lot of materials on prayer and there's so many wonderful authors out there who written on the topic of prayer, but he's extensively written on the topic of prayer and the importance of it for us as ministers of God. We can't neglect that. Every successful minister who's been in ministry for decades and decades is because their prayer life is strong. There's no substitute for it. So playing the groundwork. Groundwork is not always the cleanest work. You're going to get hurt. Your hands are going to get dirty. Everything is going to get messy, but that it's much needed, isn't it? It's the most important part. So playing the groundwork through prayer, through intercession, reaching out or outreach, where you reach out to the community, to people and you're exploring what can be done and then you're building bridges with the community that is being reached. All of these, as you see God, as you wait on him to hear from him, he'll start giving you strategies and ideas. This is the bridge that you can build. You can do this to reach this community and whatnot. So this is the pioneering stage. Remember this is the first stage of group. Are you with me? Okay. Hope I haven't lost you already. Okay. So here is the question. Okay. When you hear from God for a particular city or place to go and you go and share with your pastor about it and if he says why you want to go so far, work here. I will put you in the cell group as a leader. You can serve God here. What should one do in this case? Rosalind, why are you asking me all these hard questions, Rosalind? That's kidding. Sorry. Yeah. Well, God's voice is more real, isn't it?  Okay. It's funny because it's happened to me in my life. So I know about it. That's why I kind of laugh. When you're 100% real about it, you have to take a stand and because God's voice is more real, he is more real. And just pray that the pastor understands because at this stage, I think you choose if you want to please God or if you want to please man. And I think choice is kind of easy sometimes, not necessarily. But yeah, I mean, with all honesty that if you're 100% sure, I think you will simply have to take a stand and say his voice is more real. And I'm sorry, I can't take you upon that offer. I'm flattered, absolutely flattered by your generosity of the offer, but I unfortunately have to decline it. Take a more corporate and give a very diplomatic response. You know, polite refusal as we used to call it in corporate. Yeah. I hope that answers Rosalind because I understand what you're saying. Yeah. Can I just add something to this? So one thing is with regard to the authority, and it's not sin to say no. Having said that, we have to also see if we are equipped to or trained enough to pick up a new assignment, that part of it. And another thing which I want to say is we also, when we become a leader and if one of our members wants to do it, we also should feel free to let them go. Yeah. Rather than manipulate. Yeah. Yeah. Thanks. I think that's how the early church grew, isn't it? Part of the growth was that they were sending out people. That was actually a huge part of the growth is that they sent out, sent people out. They blessed them and released them, isn't it? So, yeah. I hope that answers that Rosalind. Yeah. Anything else? Any other questions? Yes. Static again. Sorry. Okay. I come back. Is it okay now? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I think Rosalind's question is trying to put our eyes into the future. If we do become pastors and we've got subordinates who are being called by God, we should learn as leaders not to manipulate people. Yeah. We should learn to motivate them. Yeah. Allow them to grow up their wings and fly. So we would only encourage them, pray for them and ask them the nitty-gritty questions.  We would be helping them to build their dreams, not them to be in our dream or race. Yeah. That's what I can say. Thank you. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Thanks for adding that. That's wonderful, isn't it? Thanks, Lobega. Welcome, sir. Yeah. In the third point of the pioneering stage on the top of page 30 is it is the foundation laying stage. You are going down instead of going up. Right? You are going down instead of going up, but a strong and a deep foundation is necessary for future growth. Typically, the higher you are going to build, the deeper you must dig to lay the foundation. Okay. So this is a very key stage of the church growth, guys, is the pioneering stage. How well you pioneer will see how long the ministry of the church lasts. Right? So the deeper you go, the higher you can go up. Okay. So that's the first stage, the pioneering stage. The second stage is the administrative, organizational, and structural stage. What? The boarding stage? Is it like too much work stage? A very important stage as well. Now that you've laid the foundations, everything is set in its place. Now you start building, isn't it? You know, brick by brick, brick by brick, layer by layer, one step at a time, you're growing. So you will, once again, you will learn a lot more about church administration in your, I think it's not, is there a subject that you already, is there a question that you guys are already doing? Or I think next semester is the church administration. I'm not mistaken. Oh, right. This is a second year. Okay. You learn about it in the third year, guys. Okay. I think you're learning the final year. So as the congregation begins to grow, establish well-defined systems and process to serve the people. Okay. Establish well-defined systems and process. The key here is to serve the people. Okay. It's not as well-established systems for the sake of having a system or a process for the sake of having the process. Every system that you want to set in place or every process that you want to set in place or establish, it should be in the mind on how you can serve the people better and how they can serve the church better. So as the congregation begins to grow, begin to establish systems, assigned roles and functions of various ministries that the Lord releases in your midst. Establish Godly standards and guidelines for your ministry teams so that new members who come and uphold these values. Okay. So one more time, I want to read that point. Assign roles and functions for various ministries that the Lord releases in your midst. So when you start off initially with a church, when you start planting a church, and initially it might just be like, okay, you're the pastor and you're doing everything like the apostles did.  But as the ministry grows, you start breaking them out into different teams, you need a worship team, you need an accounts team, everything, a volunteering team that takes care of this and whatnot. And with all these different teams that are emerging, so to say, there are people involved and with people being involved, you need to have guidelines. If there are no guidelines, notice that it says guidelines and not a rule book, okay, like rule is a rule, but it's a guideline, it's kind of a diplomatic way of saying, here to help you. If you take a look at the website, All People's Church website and just go to guidelines section, there are quite a lot of guideline PDFs for every volunteering teams and you're welcome to download them and go through them as well. Okay, assigned roles and functions for various ministries that the Lord releases in your midst. The structure, the way it's set hasn't changed, at least in the last 10 years that I've been part of ABC, the structure is, okay, Pastor Ashish is a senior pastor and then we have associate pastors. For each location, we have five locations and each location is an associate pastor. I'm talking only about Bangalore City, guys, but it's the same thing. And then under the associate pastor, we'll have different teams that's in charge of that location, like the volunteering team, car parking team, the first time visitors greeting, greeters team, the welcome team, welcome lounge team, people who are coming in, so all of these various teams that can be like so many different teams. At ABC, if I'm not mistaken, recently we had this volunteer appreciation day, okay, so we take a day off one Sunday a year, we express our generosity and our appreciation to what they are doing. We appreciate the volunteers and so I was just going through the whole sheet and I was like, wow, you know, 19 different teams who work together to make one service happen, 19 different teams. So there might be churches with more teams or less. The point is there are teams that are working together to make one church service happen and that's pretty significant, isn't it? So assigning roles and functions is very key. Okay, this is a very important stage, by the way, guys. This is just the second stage, but administrative, organization and structural stage is key to the growth of your ministry. Point three says, do now what you will do even after you have increased in numbers. Don't say, okay, first let me grow a number and then I think it's better to do this and what not, but do as if you're fully added and you're already envisioning what you'll be doing. Put process in place when you have 50 people in attendance, which you will maintain when you have grown to 500 people or 5,000 people. So that's a very important thing to do. You will maintain when you have grown to 500 people or 5,000 people. All these things are going to have, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine regarding setting a culture of any new place that you're in. Any organization that you step into, a new organization or ministry or wherever you are, there's already a culture in place. Now, that could be a good thing, good culture or a bad culture. It could either be a culture of gossip, jealousy and blah, blah, blah, whatever, or it could be a culture of the kingdom of growth and of everything related to the kingdom of God and whatnot. So, because if you don't set a culture, the culture will be set for you by the people in the organization, right? I remember there's an example of a person who was talking about culture.  Okay, imagine your favorite food on a very dirty plate. Yeah, would you eat that?  So that's pretty much basically how he was explaining a bad culture, right? Everything can look good on the outside, but yeah, it's not helping anybody. All right, and the last point is new ministries can be birthed by the spirit in one of two ways. The Lord gives a vision of what needs to be done as you declare that vision. God serves the people who will step into it and carry it, okay? The first thing is, okay, there's a need in your church and then you've been praying about it. For example, a live-streaming team or IT team, a couple of people who can handle the technical department of it or a creative arts team, whatnot, right? You've been praying about it and you've been asking God to bring in the right people and then he does. So God will stir up people who will step into it and carry it out. New ministry is now being born. There's the creative arts team in your church that you've been praying for. The Lord may raise or send people with certain gifts and callings and you recognize these. Taking the same example, it may seem like, okay, hey, this person is good with photography or storytelling and whatnot. I think it'd be great if this person can do certain things like say a short film using the young talent of our youth in the church. So something that you haven't actually been praying about, but then you recognize the talent and then you say, okay, this can be used for the growth and the impact of our ministry, isn't it? So that's another part of growth. So this is the second stage, people, is the administrative, organizational and structural stage. You will learn in detail about it in the in the church administration course next year. So don't drop out. Yes, okay. The third stage now after laying the foundations and whatnot is the pastoral team stage, team ministry, senior pastor stage, whichever you want to call it. Pastoral team stage is establish a leadership team to carry out several areas of the ministry. The founding pastor moves into a senior pastor role, providing overall vision and direction for growth and expansion. Continuously create room and opportunity for developing leaders who understand and are committed to the vision God has given. Spend time nurturing new leaders. I love this last point. It says the more trust you give, the more faithful your leaders will be. I think Pastor Ashish has just added that because he's seen quite a lot in the last 20 years of his being in the ministry. The more trust you give, the more faithful your leaders will be. So some key important points there is establish a leadership team to carry out several areas of the ministry. We see in the church of Antioch in the case study that we did, there were new leaders were constantly emerging in that church. That means they were continuously creating room and opportunity for developing leaders because they were also spending time nurturing new leaders. So a leadership plan for the church is very key. When you're not there, who's going to do what? What happens in case if you move on? So the leadership plan is very important. So establishing a team to carry out several areas of ministry. Like we just say, so now Pastor Ashish at APC is the senior pastor. He's the founding pastor. In many ways, he is the pioneer. And now there are several teams. Now he's not leading worship. He's not leading the youth ministry. He's not leading the IT team. He's not leading the media team. He's not leading the live streaming team. He's not leading the the welcome lounge thing. Okay, everything. He's not leading children's ministry. He's not leading worship ministry or youth ministry like I've already mentioned. But then he's the overseer of everything. Now there are teams and individuals who are appointed to take care of each area of ministry. By doing that, we are also being nurtured. We are also being developed as young leaders. So that is the third stage, the pastoral team stage. You're just providing overall side for the other leaders. Okay, so the next stage, the fourth stage is equipping is the equipping stage. Can we very quickly go to Ephesians chapter four versus Ephesians chapter four? Let's see. If anyone's there, please feel free to read from Ephesians chapter four verse 12 to 16. Ephesians 4, 12 to 16. For the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we should no longer be children tossed to and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. But speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him who is the head Christ from whom the whole body joined and knit together by what every joint supplies according to the effective working by which every part does its share causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love. Thanks John. You see it started, verse 12 started off by equipping the saints, equipping the saints for God's work and it ended with growth. Equipping of the saints, this stage has a lot to do with the growth of the local church itself. Okay, so focus on equipping the saints, you know, empowering them and discipling them. So that entire church is mobilized into ministry. It is no longer just the leaders doing the ministry but everyone is involved. Okay, if you remember, one of the key points from the course that we did last semester was ministering healing and deliverance is that everyone is called to minister in healing and deliverance. It's not just the senior pastor, it's not just the associate pastor. Okay, if you've forgotten, please go back and look at those notes. Okay, one of the things that we believe the culture that is being set is that everyone is called to minister in healing and deliverance. It's not just the pastor team, it's not just the leadership team. Right, so but that's the point that has been made here. It is no longer just the leaders doing the ministry that everyone is involved. Now we make ministry, the word ministry sound like it's a major thing and whatnot. The root word of the ministry is basically the root word is a server. So all you're doing is just serving. Faces on supernatural ministry and moving everyone into the realm of signs and wonders and the prophetic, equipping them to go deeper and deeper, not just stay where they are at. We're going to look at that much deeper a little later. The church begins to penetrate the community and catches a vision for missions. Okay, so as the saints are being equipped, as the people who are coming into the church are being equipped with different things of kingdom of God, now eventually the result of that is the church starts impacting and touching the community where the church is being placed, the physical local church is being placed. Okay, believers are ministering to one another and to the world. Okay, any questions still now guys? If you're hearing any pop music from my end, I apologize. Some killer scenes happening down the road. So just kindly But anything else? Any questions? Any thoughts that you want to add? Say, okay, so what's the first stage? The pioneering stage? Okay, then you have the administrative stage, then the pastoral team stage, and now we just finished the equipping stage, okay, the building stage. Okay, so see every stage is important. It plays its own role, right? All right, let's move on then. The next page is the apostolic function stage. Apostolic function stage. Establish an apostolic mindset. Okay, outward focused rather than a focus on internal care. All the process in place to continue to equip the saints. Okay, all of the processes in place to continue to equip the saints. The senior pastor and others have more time to go out and gain new territory for the kingdom of God. Okay, you see this now, when everything is done, that has to be done. Okay, pioneering stage is by default, then the administrative stage, okay, you have all the administrative teams in place, right? And as a leader, you have all the other teams in place as well. And then you've been equipping your saints for a good amount of time, like five years or whatnot. Okay, so now that everything is done, now you start thinking big, thinking wide. Okay, okay, now I can go out on mission strip. I can start, you know, impacting different regions, gaining new territory for the kingdom of God. Okay, that's what he's talking about here. The senior pastors and others have more time to go out and gain new territory for the kingdom of God. The church begins to actively reproduce itself in regions beyond. Okay, I just reminded so much of like the financial investment that you put in so much money. And after a certain time, it just keeps building on what you've already put. So you've invested, you've invested for like say five years. And after that, you know, you keep getting returns based on what you've already, you can stop investing and then I'm not saying stop investing in your church example. Okay, the last point there is the local church becomes more of a missions base rather than a spiritual nursery. We saw how the church of Antioch was the missions base. It's from there, everybody went out on a mission strip. And when this is in place, when you've done everything that when you've gone through every stages that's been mentioned, when you get to this stage, now the local church becomes a missions base. So by the time the church of Antioch became a mission space, that means it's gone through all these stages, right? It went through pioneering stage, the administrative stage, the pastoral game stage, equipping the stage, you know, equipping stage, and then the apostolic function stage. So they were at this stage when by the time it became a mission space, right? And so with all these things, with all these different stages, it just is only screaming changes, right? Different stages means different changes, right? And as pastors or as ministry leaders, we need a lot of wisdom, anointing and grace to lead our congregation. Can someone say an amen? Okay. We need a lot of wisdom. We need a lot of grace to lead our congregation, right? Because like as I just mentioned, with each stage, there's going to be a change that's coming. And the change is necessary. There will be certain, there will be a resistance sometimes, you know, as in why do we really need this change? Do we really need to do this a different way, you know, et cetera, et cetera.   You know, we have to go through different stages. You know, I'm going to give you solids and we're going to move on. We've got to grow, you know, and keep emphasizing that, keep stressing on that part and let them know as like, okay, I'm not satisfied with where you are spiritually. We need to go deeper. We need to go deeper, you know, until they have this apostolic mindset, okay? So constantly pushing people forward, getting them out of their comfort zone. It also results in growth, and it's a very important thing to do for the growth of the church in a bigger picture as well. Okay. I mean, just mention a few pointers here that will be helpful to helpful in growing the local church is, as I just mentioned, is pushing people forward, giving them responsibility and trusting them with what's been assigned to them. Bridging across two levels, what that means is minister to people at their spiritual level and stretch them to the next level. So we spoke a lot about equipping the saints, isn't it? Discipling them, empowering them. You meet them at the point of their need, see where they are, okay? No, we can have all the degrees that we want to have, all the PhDs and whatnot. But then if we don't speak to them in their language and meet them at their level, that means, you know, sometimes, okay, they might know a lot more in any topic given. So you need to equip ourselves to get to that level and then talk to them, or sometimes we need to stoop low, okay, so that we can engage with them in their language at their level.  I'm happy that you are here. But let's keep going. There's room, there's space for us to grow, okay?  So you're constantly pushing them to grow. Our teaching and preaching it must stretch their spiritual capacity, okay? Your teaching and preaching must stretch their spiritual capacity, okay? So that's bridging across two levels. And as I mentioned that there's always going to be resistance when it comes to change. When you ask them to go to a deeper level, this is like, I really need to go to a deeper level. I'm just happy, you know, being where I am. I love Jesus and I know He's my personal Lord and Savior. It's all cool, you know, I want to end there. But then you show them very patiently instead of, hey, from the Word of God saying, okay, hey, this is what the Bible has to say about this. There's so much more for us to encounter and experience Him. So let's go, okay? So we need the grace to explain that with wisdom. We need to have patience because that will be tested, believe me. So you have to lead the change. If you want to see the change, you have to lead the change. You guys with me? Yeah? So constantly pushing forward, you leading the change is very important. And also having the right people at the right place at the right time. I can't stress how important that is for the growth and the development of your ministry as well. Okay? For example, in the worship team, what we do is we need, if every time we want to add new people to the team. And now that I lead the worship ministry at APC, I'm not just going to put a billboard saying, like, anyone who wants to join the worship team, please come. So all are welcome. You know, come full musty, no. That's not going to happen. So we have a process in place. We have an audition. We send out a form saying, okay, hey, we're going to have an audition. We'll send out two songs for you to sing or for you to play on an instrument and what not. At the so-and-so date, at so-and-so time, if you meet the parameters of the auditions, of being part of the team, then you'll be selected. If not, there are other teams in church that you can serve. And we say that very politely. Stay away. There are other teams that you can serve in. So please be part of the team. So having the right people at the right place at the right time, if that is not right, then it's going to be a lot of trouble. It's very easy to add to a team than to undo a team. Okay. Can I say that again? It's very easy to add to a team than to undo a team. Okay. It's like adding someone to the WhatsApp group and then you realize, oops, okay, should this person really be in this group? It's just a WhatsApp group, but then we all make it a big issue out of it. And then you remove the person. That person removed me from the group. How can they remove? Have you ever been part of that drama? Well, that's what it is. In conclusion of this chapter, each time you transition into a new level of growth, there will be new kinds of challenges. So be ready. Okay. Each time you transition into a new level of growth, there will be new kinds of challenges. So be ready. Tap into God's wisdom. Don't let short hindrances stop you from growing. There's an example that's mentioned here. You are pushing your congregation to move in the prophetic. So there can be two extremes kind of people. I'm talking about the extremes in this spectrum. So you've just finished a series on teaching on the prophetic. One end of the spectrum is people just don't believe in that. They just don't want to move in the prophetic. And the other end of the spectrum is there can be one person who will use the God's name, the Lord's name in vain is saying, thus says the Lord for everything. The Lord said, I have to eat only this flavor ice cream. This is an example. They might use that thing. Okay. The Lord said, the Lord said for everything and can be a very bad example, most case, right? But that's a challenge. But a challenge like that should not stop you from pushing your congregation to move in the prophetic. As you deal with that situation and you move on. Right. So in conclusion, overall, leading a local church through various stages of growth and development is challenging. But also it should be extremely exciting. Okay. It should be extremely exciting to just go through this different ages and stages of the church. Because you've already envisioned this as a leader, as a pioneer, you've envisioned saying, okay, hey, my church, I wanted to be this way. I want them to be strong in the prophetic ministry and the healing and deliverance ministry. I want them to be strong in the word and whatnot. So you have this goal, you have this vision and then you keep setting out every different missions. Okay. To get from point A to point B, we have to do this. And I'm not going to compromise on that. When I say not compromise, that doesn't also mean it's partially stubborn, but for a good thing. So you don't give up easily. That's why I'm saying, all right. So I hope this chapter was helpful in a way that it helps you understand the importance of growth and development of a church by using two church as a case study from the Church of Jerusalem and the Church of Antioch and going through the different stages of the church. And none of these stages can be compromised in the journey of a church growth. Okay. That's about it guys. Any other questions or anything that you want to add before we close? Okay then. All right. Well, thank you for joining today's class. Have a lovely weekend. I'll see you all again next week. God bless you guys. Take care. Thanks. Thank you pastor. Thanks guys. We're very informative. I've shared the PDF on the stream section. Yeah, we got it already. Awesome. Take care. Bye.


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The best way to deal with big business, because I know some of you out there are new to all this and don't know all the arguments against anti-trust But the best way to deal with big business Is to let the market work? If big business becomes unproductive inefficient the market will Or competition will arise in the marketplace People will compete them away just as Thomas Edison competed away the The dominance of standard oil in lighting just as Google competed away the dominance of Yahoo Just as Facebook competed away the dominance of I forget the name of the social media company So this idea and of course we live right now. So we think all the big companies today. They're gonna be big forever Not necessarily if they fail To provide a superior product if they fail to live up to consumer Expectations if they fail to treat the employees. Well, then they were If you want to ask questions use the super chat Plenty plenty of opportunities to use the super chat a pretty low dollar amounts. So you can ask questions that way Yes, and by the way ask questions I'm not gonna be able to get to all the questions But if you want me to answer a question right now 20 bucks and I'll answer all the 20 plus dollar questions Today and some of the others but if you want to get in my answer Then you get it in the you got to ask the question in the super chat the marketplace deals brilliantly With competitors and people say the barrier is to answer Not in a free market But it costs a lot of money to compete. Yeah That's why you have venture capital. That's why you have investors willing to take on massive amounts of risk That's why you have investors Willing to invest in companies. They'll take on the big guys They're constantly new social media companies being created Constantly new search engines being created right now There's a bunch of search engines that promise you promise you privacy and you can switch from Google to duck duck duck duck Something duck duck something which is promises you privacy. You can switch from Twitter to Paula you can have Many many options particularly intact because tack is so cheap to crease duck that go. Thanks duck that go duck that go duck duck go is a search engine browser a search engine Sorry, that is private They don't track you they don't track your searches. They don't serve you advertising and there are others There's a bunch of others. It's not you can't eat the duck. It's a search engine Man, all they've got on their minds is food If a company grows large enough so it abuses its power vis-a-vis consumers The market deals with that market is unbelievably efficient might take longer than you would like It might not happen with the speed that you would prefer and The product that replaces it might not be the product you prefer, but that's freedom government has no rule in the economy and In a true free market. There is no such thing as car is monopolies the real danger are Monopolies that government sanctions the government protects indeed. That's where the word comes from Monopoly was monopoly power granted to a business by government to dominate a field where no competition was allowed Wait government prohibited competition the East India Company for example Was a company was a monopoly that the government granted and Nobody else was allowed to deal with East India trade other than this country company That was in great, but it was actually granted by the king That's a monopoly to fear Generally government involvement in economy government choosing winners and losers government dictating the terms of trade That's what we should be faring What we need today, but I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think Meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect Not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations Any man or woman who values his life and who does not give want to give in to today's cult of despair cynicism and impotence and does not intend to give up the world to the dark ages and to the role of the collectivist All right before we go on reminder, please like the show. 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I'm sorry, dude, I, sorry, Neil. Is Neil here? Am I, oh, okay, sorry, Neil. Really sorry, Neil. Is that it? Your other question is about the dead guy also? Well, you get one question, it's okay. You made me feel bad.  Right? Right? Do you know who Donald Nuth is? Have you read Donald Nuth?  And software is no different than anything else, than news or books or anything. And the trick is, I'll tell you, as an older guy, is just to keep learning. So when you're hitting a, you know, even if on a single project, if you're hitting something that's just really pissing you off, or you're forced to work with somebody who's just writing garbage, like give it a break, work on something else, some other part of the system for a minute, learn something else. I have in the past, I was taught a trick by a guy called Doug Church, who's one of the, he works at Valve now, I think, wherever he is, but one of the first architects of real 3D in real time. Doug would just switch languages. He'd be like, okay, I'm gonna do this in Aida now.  All right, you've had enough answer now.  Oh, I would say MIT. Yeah, but that's just, that's just regional pride. That's so there's no, you know, the thing is that the standardization of open software licenses is one of the greatest gifts that we were ever given. And so, you know, I think that, yeah, I can't say enough good stuff about that. So yes, but it's MIT for sure. And this goes on, I've used a lot. I forced Microsoft to use it too, which was a trick. Conferences like this, obviously. No, this is really cool. I was, I was, so I was distracted by my son. What? I'm sorry. What's your favorite way, or what's the best way for software developers to meet one another? Conferences like this. Okay, there you go. Okay, sorry, that's a cheesy answer. I was, so I'm gonna hold my son again. He's the only person you'll ever meet. He gets into like Berkeley and MIT and goes to art school, which is true, he's badass. He was like, what are we going to? It's a UNIX, what? And I explained to him what was going on.    Somebody from you.  I've been trying to avoid like this guy all night. All right, go ahead. What do you got? What do you got? So what do you say to the entitled user that keeps unanswered for more and more shit? There's a great story about this and you can use this story, okay? There's this legend at Microsoft and I met all these guys at Microsoft for a long time who helped to get Xbox approved because they're really senior, right? And they saw in the spirit of that project like kind of how Microsoft was before Antitrust and all that. Because it was very exciting and cool place when they first started it out. And they would tell the story of that guy. And so the user you're talking about is that guy. And one of the huge mistakes that was made on Windows was servicing that guy. And you can tell, like in Office and in Windows, it's like this weird thing where it's like mistaking options for value. It's like you could do everything every way and that is not increasing the value in any way, right?  So that guy became a curse, right? And then Apple comes along and does very concise user interface stuff and windowing systems stolen from elsewhere. And... That's what it is. And suddenly the world sees the value in actual value.  Aren't you using this software for something? Why don't you do your...  Okay. Yeah, yeah, I should never be in PR. Well, yeah, I do. And I had to deal with a little of this.  And what you're gonna do is you're going to go and mine for examples of places where open software made other companies money. And it's often not obvious. A lot of companies have made a lot of money with free software and open source software because they have delighted their users and they've created economies of developers who make the product stronger. There are also cautionary tales that are really useful to use of companies that did not like choose an open architecture that got crushed and became road pizza. Okay.   A special effects software has a couple of examples of these. So go to those and find the one that matches your company best and say, here's the bad case. And it's the good case is we can get a ton of people doing free work for us by just opening this up. And a lot of it is just getting people over this fear. And again, you know, this is the divide culturally between the people in this room and the banker dudes is that we feel okay betting on our future selves to make more value. In fact, we have to. This is where we're going to pair our rent next month and next year is that we keep on writing more code, right? So you trust yourself to do that. Those guys are playing a zero sum game. They're always thinking about a zero sum game. So it's like what we own now is what we have to exploit it. And so you're pushing them into a different mindset where they realize that the value of their company isn't the code base they have right now, but it's the team that made that code base that will continue to work on it. And that's really the arguments you need to find a way to make. All right, we have like maybe two more questions. Did everybody hear the question? This is a question about the inner source and other types of open source theater that's going on right now in large companies. And I think open source theater is exactly what it is, okay?  But it's a step because when cultural change needs to happen, like I was telling this gentleman, that these guys need to get over their fear that the code they have right now is the value and realize that the team riding in the new code is the value, right? If they see that enough that the PR people are starting to do messaging about that, that's a step. All right, one more, the guy in the back. And if you yell, I don't have to repeat the question which is awesome. Only, well, where are you in Mexico? That's really, it's a question. DFA, okay, I'll go to DFA until I'll say anything in DFA. Just to get some proper DFA tortillas and to get some proper DFA quesadillas. Por supuesto, hombre, sin dudas. I would do this in Spanish, pero no hay nada que se puede hacer, okay? All right. All right, I think that's all I'm gonna do for now. So thank you very much. I'll see you guys later. Hello, everyone. Oh, this is loud. Thank you, Seamus so much. One more round of applause for our opening keynotes. We liked them so much. We gave them a two night gig. So next up we're gonna be transitioning into upscale which is our lightning talk series. We've got some great content for you. We're getting set up, so that'll be in a minute. If you missed the first round of drink tickets, my friend Luis in the back has them. If you haven't already gotten one, he's about to get mauled. Please be nice to him. And there are still lots of snacks. So grab a snack, get your seat and we'll begin in a few seconds. All right, everyone, we're ready for upscale. So please take a seat. If you're still waiting in the bar, just wait quietly so we can have our first speaker start. All right, if you're in the back standing up, we'd love and appreciate your silent talking or slower talking. Do we get slides up? Your slides disappeared. Move the chair too, so you can move around. Good. All right, so without further ado, I'd love to introduce our first speaker. This is Solona. She's gonna be talking about the unconscious gatekeeping in tools. So give it up. No one told me I was going to be following Seamus. All right, so first of all, what is gatekeeping? I love this word because it's accurate. It is basically obstacles that you put up that keep people out. And I'm mainly going to be talking about unintentional gatekeeping, not all the other types of gatekeeping that go on. In fact, in regards to gatekeeping, why does it exist? It's because of actually what Seamus was just talking about. This whole scarcity versus abundance on a lot of these different things, but we do still deal with scarcity. And on this talk, I have scarcity in regards to the fact that I'm not going to cover accessibility. There's a lot of stuff out there. There's a lot of, these are all open source tools. It's y'all's responsibility to get out there and find that out. So what I wanted to talk to be was more like things like role diversity. We need more than just developers in open source. We need all of these other roles out there and we need to be more inclusive towards them. We also need to watch out on language. We end up excluding so many people when we don't allow the multi-language capabilities in regards to the tools that we create. Please remember to bring those in. And then also time zones. Don't depend on everything being synchronous. Think asynchronously. Try to introduce that in some format even if it's not always as friendly to your tool or gathering. Also, cultural. Do you want to explain to this woman why you call things master and slave? Maybe it might be okay if you insert a BDSM joke, but for the most part we've got some cultural gatekeeping that we have to take care of and we need to look deeper at. Also, meritocracy is a myth. We do not all start out equal. And so we have to make sure that in our tools we don't assume that either because we end up blocking a lot of people from participating. Money. It's another unintentional gatekeeper. Yay for scale being $90. Oh my God.  Also age. You know, we got the gray beards in here, but we've also got the youngsters. If you don't have training materials that are in video, they're not going to participate. You have to go where they are and you have to bring those different things in. And then lastly, well not lastly, I got some more tribal knowledge. I think this is the biggest one. You know, here I've got the jargon thing going on. Also the acronyms thing. Also all of these other different assumptions that we make in regards to people's knowledge that keeps people out. Also, security theater. We really don't need all of those password rules. There's other ways of doing security. There's other ways of doing things of that nature. This isn't the way to go in regards to doing that. And you do keep people out, especially like elderly and such. Also, we have a lot of inertia. Why was QWERTY invented? To slow things down because these things jammed. We do so much of that in technology where it's always has been the way that it's been done and we keep people out. This hurts, like for example, disabled people. Learning styles. Lots of people learn in lots of different ways. If you don't address those, you lock people out. There's a ton of people in trade school who could be coding right now. If you actually took the time to make sure to bring things up on their levels. Also, privacy and encouraging spy versus spy behavior in your environments. We don't need that kind of behavior. We don't need the 4chan world and we don't need the world where people don't have privacy. And you need to go out and get people, okay? You can't just sit back and wait for it. If you fish in a goldfish bowl, you will only catch goldfish. You've got to get out there. So I'm going to disagree with Seamus on that one, not just your friends. You got to get out there or you got to get some of your other friends involved. And then I know I'm forgetting some things. I came up with one just a little bit ago in regards to idioms. There's all these other different ways that we unintentionally do it. And so you have to think for it. So the next thing you have to look at is sit there and say how much of this in a weird way is intentional? How much of this is accidentally driven by ego or selfishness or insular natures? Get out there, work with other people, go and talk to the designers. To prevent a lot of this, remember you need to have the spirit of mentorship. You need to go to other people and outreach to them and bring them up to the top of the mountain. You don't get to sit there being the guru, all right? That's not what we're doing here. And then lastly, fixing it. You have to listen and you have to give them lots of different ways to give you feedback so that you can help them. And if you don't do that, then you're never gonna get to where you can actually fix it and fix it in a way that they can work with you. Thanks, I'm Solona Bonewald. Find me on Twitter. Big thank you to Solona for opening up upscale. Upscale is surprisingly hard gig to talk at because it's five minutes, which seems like it should be really easy, but you have to cram in as much time as possible and as much content, and your slides auto advance every 15 seconds whether you want them to or not. So if you're seeing some interesting timing, that's part of the fun and we wanna keep cheering our speakers on even if their slides are a little bit off. It's what keeps us a little bit entertained here tonight. All right, so with that, I'd like to introduce the next speakers. I think this is actually the first duo we've had. At least since I've been hosting Upscale for five years. So let's welcome our first speaker duo, which is Dr. John and Seth and let's give him a big round of applause. Thank you very much.  Let's go into it. Glad I explained this. Just in case you're curious, who is who? Dr. John, I'm Seth. We both come from a company called Spiderbat. My background's all in cybersecurity. John's all in cloud and containers and he's gonna tell us a little bit about logging, which is our most fun topic. Yeah, so we've got a few types of logging. We've got kind of traditional logging, which is discretionary. We don't have to do it and ultimately bad people are gonna try and avoid that because they don't wanna log their exploits. We've got some mandatory logings of things like Audit D, which has been in the Linux system for a while. Audit D tracks basic stuff by default, so system booting, people logging in and out, that kind of stuff, SE Linux kind of escalations. And with additional configuration, we can log other stuff if you configure it the right way. Here's what you get. It's fun looking through this stuff. So typical Audit D kind of message that tells you who did what when at some level. Here's another example. And now we're trying to answer like, okay, so somebody did a pseudo command. When did they do it? Who was it? What did they do before this? What did they do after this? How do I stitch all this stuff together, right? Audit D understands containers, right? No, so unfortunately it's not container aware Audit D. It's been in the, again, in the Linux subsystem for some time. Won't tell you what's running in a container, what's running outside of a container. It was kind of designed before containers were really on the scene. And you're sad. This actually looks a lot like my, a cat I used to have called Mr. Pinky. It looks like he's got a little bit of a boo boo on his foot there, so he's sad. So Seth, tell us about EBPF. All right, so now enters the hero of our story, EBPF. We have got to go all the way back into the 90s when a couple of brilliant people from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory created a pseudo device in order to be able to capture packet data, specific packet data they want to filter on. And they essentially created a virtual machine in the kernel space. So we have a kernel with a privileged ability where we can now implement observability, security, and networking. In the 3.18 Linux kernel, we extended that, which allowed us to really create EBPF for any trace point in the system. What that allows us to do is create a bit code program that passes through from user space into kernel space through a verifier where we can now compile EBPF, essentially filter on any system trace that we want. Now here's an example, because what most people will do is pass that through an interpreter like Python. So you get your library, and now you're writing EBPF, you'll notice it's very much like a C-like program where I can now, in this case, I want execve in and then out where I'm getting execve information. Now, if you're not familiar, Brendan Gregg has a ton of BCC tools that you can use freely available and get examples of things like, how do I get execs snoop? How do I get open snoops? So you can go through his examples and we have links at the end of this presentation. There's also BPF trace, so if you don't want a Python interpreter, you can use an Ock-like interface to now write BPF so that you can pipe into your program's information that you want to pull from EBPF, which is great because you can pull it into your own data model very differently from Audit D. So now, go ahead, John, tell us more about what we could use EBPF for now that we know how to get it. So three use cases we'll talk with you. Networking, observability, and security. EBF sounds cool, what can I use it for? First up, networking. So there's another subset of EPF called Express Data Pass. So basically, we can intercept packets as they come into our interfaces, we can manipulate them, and particularly in the container space, folks are using this for like traffic control, network policy, firewalling, and so forth. Observability, we can get a very granular visibility of what's happening in our systems, our Linux systems, our containers, what they're talking to, what processes are running, what network activity's happening. Hell knows it's real difficult to understand what's happening in Kubernetes, this helps us try and understand it. And then security, so taking that observability, understanding at a granular detail, who's doing what when, who's executing what privilege is, who's moving laterally, exfiltration, we can get unparalleled visibility into what's happening. How can you learn more? EBPF.io is a great resource to just go to, tells you all about the EBPF project. We've got a few other links here, including a great webinar, just to explain the basics of EBPF and how you can use it. Some things we're excited about, so BPF LSM, so think SE Linux, App Armor, but now I can actually block specific system calls, service mesh, it's actually coming to Windows, believe it or not, and there's open telemetry. And finally, hey, is this company called Spider-Bat that can show you what EPF's doing and really help you visualize it? Thank you, Seth and John. All right, thank you so much to Seth and John. The next speaker up is Kim, and I hear she's gonna talk to us and teach us how to be nice. So let's give it up for Kim. We'll see, are you filming this year? Are we filming this year?  So I did not prepare slides, but you're gonna see a lot of cute dogs and we're going to ignore them while I do talk about community. Cause we've had some stuff going on in this community lately that hasn't been nice. Somebody does a tweet and everybody jumped on it and people just freak out and they attack and we just need to stop attacking. So, but what I do wanna say is this is my view. This is not, this doesn't have to be yours. This is definitely not my organization's view. This is mine and I'm gonna share a little bit about what I've seen going on in the community lately and how we can all build a nicer community. So they did not give me any notes. So we're gonna have to look here. Hold on a second. Enjoy the Paris cat. It is a Paris cat. So why we were here, we love open source and that's why we're here. It's transparent. Yes, thank you. It is transparent. We like to collaborate, wag our tails together. We like to be inclusive. We cooperate. We learn from each other. It's openness and it's engagement and it's openness and sharing and not leaving the puppy out, is it? But as I just mentioned, some of this stuff, hi David, is just not happening lately and I think it's time that we start, instead of blaming, we seek to learn and instead of shaming, we seek to understand and we try to do this without the screen of social media. So you'll see a blank screen here in just a minute and that's my shaming of social media. This is our seeking to understand and if you know me, you know both of those. So why are we all here? First off, it's the technology. We come for the technology, we love it. I'm from the cloud native side. We all have our favorite technologies but beyond that, when we build community, it's about bringing together our innovation and ideas and everybody kind of coming together and sharing these ideas. We love to talk to each other and share what we're doing, how we're doing things. The most fun I have is when I go to his conference and oh, this goes with, what is this one? Oh, poor Cole. He did not, the jumping cholla but I don't remember what this one goes for but that was my puppy. He was six months old and was a jumping cholla but we come to these conferences and we talk together on how to build community, on best practices and I will go to a cube con and I will be speaking with our competitors and we are competitors and we're talking on best way to build community because at the end of the day, that's how we are raising all of us, raising this tide above. This is technology, this is why we're here but when we get beyond that, it's time for all of us to just look at our transparency, look at how we can work together, let's stop shaming, let's stop hiding behind social media and slamming people when they do a tweet and let's come to these conferences and get to know people and have a good time and that's all I get, got, you get to enjoy the puppies. Thank you. All right, can we give it up for Kim and more importantly, Kim's puppy. Look how cute. We need a few more dogs. Awesome. All right, so. Some cute puppies. We're gonna. All right, so while we get a demo of some more puppies, I would like to introduce our next speaker, Jeremy, who's gonna be talking to us about DevOps. Yeah, so this alternate title for this is DevOps when I was an asshole, because obviously I'm not one now. All some of you can attest to that. Yeah, so when I was, we're gonna go like a time warp when I was probably two years old at this point, but about 30 years ago, 1995, I guess if we do the math correctly, I was working on an internet provider and started out doing support. I was actually building all of those nice little CDs you used as coasters that included things like WSFTP and Winsock, who remembers the good old Winsock days.  So in that company, we started to expand really, really quickly and grew three floors. The CTO, VP of technology, decided that we should run the cabling and then have the contractors go ahead and connect everything at the wall and they can handle it, we could just do the cabling, which really was not the greatest of ideas and he had a plethora of really bad ones over the years I was there. And it didn't really make a whole lot of sense. And then he came and said, you know, we don't know where any of those cables go. So you should grab a tone generator and go to all of those and figure out where they are and now mark them on the patch panel. And really, this was my thought, like really, and he really kind of said, like, you know, we should really do this, which really meant me was gonna have to do this. So I started figuring out, okay, we've now expanded about 80 new people, three different floors. I'm gonna have to take a tone generator, all of these, I didn't major in math, but I figured that was gonna probably take me eight to 10 hours or a couple of days and the 20-year-old in me was not amused at all.  And I'm sitting back and I was in the data center, I kind of look behind me and I look and I see all these patch panels. And I thought, you know, what if I unplug one? And this is very similar to the conversation, complete with GeoCities, Udora Mail, WinSockPop, you know, all of that, the Popcorn server, we all remember the Pop3. And so I said, you know, let me, let me see, what does it say there? What is the number? Kind of realized this was my opportunity to really do this really quickly. Plugged it back in, everything works. It was just pretentious enough, the whole building over the next hour, experienced intermittent network outages as everybody went down for a short period of time until they called me. So I realized at this moment, this was DevOps. This is what we do. We get everybody involved, whether they want to or not. So I started to understand all these different principles of DevOps. So I encouraged teamwork.  Together, we solved those intermittent network outages. All of us together, teamwork. I also reduced the silos within the technology because all of a sudden everybody was together. It was not marketing over here, it was not sales and whatever the other teams do. It was all together. Also I live in Kansas, we didn't create any silos during that time. I think it was a win. Also systems thinking. It was everybody again together. We included the systems that were there available to solve those network outages. Systems thinking. This was also a picture of me at those days. I also learned from failure. I understood that the failure of the asshole VP that we should have just done it ourselves and been able to hook everything together and make note so that we wouldn't have to redo things over and over. We did that. We also communicated. Those of you who don't remember the 90s or weren't born then, we also used phones for more than just TikTok dances. We actually talked on them, which is a really weird thing. We'll talk about that later. I also accepted the feedback from every single person to call. They said, this doesn't work. And then I fixed it. And their feedback overwhelmingly was, you're awesome. So it was good. It was a good day. We also iterated rapidly. I started with one or two and then we quickly moved it up to five to 10 to 12 at a time and really just kept things going. It's kind of like when you're building a deck, which you don't want me to do. Then we automated. And really that automation came down to I just polled whatever I could and just continuously did that over and over and over. Everybody got, again, everybody was involved. It's really what you do with DevOps.  But I hope that you go out and check out Emily Freeman's book. It's a great way to get started and understand what DevOps is. And with that, I say thank you. Jeremy can make my slide decks any day. I don't know about you. Thank you so much, Jeremy. We've got two more speakers on deck for you. Next up, please welcome Arti and she's gonna be talking about where inequalities begin. So please give her a round of applause. Welcome her. Hey. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, hey, what do you know? Another room where nobody else looks like me except you. Yay. So I'm here to talk about Mind the Gap, where inequities begin.  I am an educator. I used to be a kindergarten teacher. I've taught special education, all of that stuff. And I've done DEI work. But as we begin this session, I'd like to start with three agreements. Please stay engaged. As a kindergarten teacher, I do not brook any nonsense. So know that you might. Let's make that you will experience a dense comfort. So let's start with an experiment. Close your eyes if you'd like. I'm gonna tell you a story.  And then you go to a restaurant where a couple is planning, celebrating their dinner. Who was the pilot? Open your eyes. Was the pilot a female? Was the CEO black, a woman, Latinx, Asian? Who were the couple? Were they two men, two women, were they trans? I'm gonna bet they weren't. So race plus gender plus class. They make interlocking power relations. The systems that oppress girls of color who are traversing what's called the pipeline. And these affect women's abilities and likelihood to enter careers such as STEM. So tech has had a focus on populating the pipeline with girls of color without actually taking the time to investigate. Where's the leak? Where are the girls of color? Where are the women? So this is what has resulted in tech not being able to hire or retain. So what is the case of the leaky pipeline? It begins in childhood, in usually elementary school, it gets far worse in middle school. In middle school, 74% of girls want to go into STEM.  So why is that? Because there's learned implicit bias in young children. As a kindergarten teacher, I can tell you that exists. In the 1940s, psychologists figured out that young black children as young as three, four, and five already had a clear preference for white dolls against black dolls.  The teachers had gender bias. They consistently underestimated the girls. They were placed in ability groups. They got a watered down curriculum. They didn't have equal opportunity to a high advanced curriculum. Why? And let's say they go to college. Let's say they get to college, but they are discouraged from STEM. Why would you go into STEM? It's so masculine. So what are the barriers for women, and especially women of color?  So let's say they go to college and they can afford it. They drop out of STEM majors. Cheryl Sandburg said there aren't more women in STEM because there aren't more women in STEM. Women apply to roles where they meet 100% of the qualifications. When? 60%. Women are 30% less likely to be called for an interview against men who have the same effing qualifications. Women face subtle but very pervasive doubts. Nothing that has to do with their actual performance. They experience sexual harassment, isolation. They are excluded from leadership opportunities.  I think you can read a graph just fine. That graph has an effing mood. And also no one told me I could cuss.  Yay, woohoo, you're done, right? No, now you've gotta retain them.  Let's find out. Why do women leave tech? The culture benefits males. They perpetuate an exclusionary culture. It makes it really uncomfortable for women and especially minority women. There's a wage gap. It's about 52 to 84 cents to every dollar a man earns. They have a 45% chance of being sexually harassed. Second, only to the military. Women are more than twice as likely to leave STEM jobs because they're expected to raise a family, raise children. And guess what?  In STEM, do women experience more institutional culture barriers or stigmas more than men? Mm, that's about 98%. And what challenges do they face? I'll leave that up there. I don't have to read it to you. These are the supports that women need to remain and thrive in STEM. It's one thing to hire them. It's a whole another cup of tea to actually retain them. These are the things women need. They need mental health help and all of those things. Ultimately, race and gender continue to matter in very complicated, nuanced ways even today.  This is me. Contact me if you have any questions. Thank you very much. Thank you, RT. I guess next time I will tell everyone they're allowed to curse, but I love the forks. Thank you so much. Everyone's gonna work on mentorship programs and pipelines after that one, yeah? Yes? You did not warn me how emotional I was gonna get after RT's talk. You know, we've gotten the whole gambit of emotions tonight. So how about some poetry? Anybody else for some poetry? All right, to close out our talk for your whole rollercoaster of emotions for your evening, that's what we always promise for upscale, highs, lows, lefts, rights, all those things. Let's welcome Fatima, who's gonna give us a little bit of poetry. Yeah, sounds good. Awesome. Hi everyone, my name is Fatima. I'm a developer evangelist at GitLab. You can find me on the internet as Sugar Overflow. And this is a very special ode to technical debt that might get a little emotional thanks to RT. Do, do, do, do, do. Our story begins once upon a time in a land far, far away where lightning bolts strike. A legend now etched into this rhyme about a tool by which open sorcerers conquered the night, automated build tools, that old DevOps pipeline. And so arrived our adventurer at hand to maintain and build upon the tooling mentioned and found there was a mountain of technical debt, no documentation, no roadmap, no updated issues, only dread. Composer 2.0 was on its way, which meant that build tools too needed an update. So she gathered the council of open sorcerers in the land, but no one had the pieces of this mysterious roadmap. And so to the king she went asking for support for resources, for contractors, or from budget, from the court. Be gone, said the king, and go do your magic. You don't need a whole team, just you will manage. Our adventurer crawled through the depths of the code, configured, refactored, tested, and steered with some help from her peers, she persevered. Features, dependency updates, and new releases. She built bridges to connect all of the dots and the pieces. I definitely talk too fast for an ignite talk. And then came a wave of users, 4,000 and more. Issues were opened and reopened, bugs were reported, and there were edge cases inshore. And the high council of sorcerers met each week and noted that it was too much for just one person to upkeep. I'm sure we've all been there, expected to do five jobs. Our adventurer, she tried to communicate the tech debt to request resources and express the growing impact. But when the storm of issues and merger requests came, it was only her mentors and friends who kept her sane. To friends she spoke of a competence and dying hopes, of stress over this tool that the company didn't even officially support. They reminded her that it didn't reflect on her competence or self-worth. And having carried that mountain alone was a measure of how much she'd grown. Enough is enough, she realized one day, and couldn't come up with enough reasons to stay. The meadow she met, a delightful tanuki. Come with me, it said, to a land far, far away, where we'll value your expertise and you'll want to stay. And so from the crossroads of tech debt and burnout, our adventurer moved on. And on to you I pass her legend and legacy that moving on was better than carrying a mountain of tech debt alone. Thank you. Who is ready to buy the children's book? Yeah, I think part two is an order for a kid's book for growing technologists with diverse profiles. You know, we could work on it. It'll be a scale exclusive. All right, is Louise still here by any chance? No worries. Okay, that concludes our content for upscale tonight. Yes, seriously, speaking at upscale is super difficult. It seems really easy, but it's very hard for your slides to advance without you, whether you like it or not. So big congratulations to all seven of our speakers. Please thank them again, they did a great job. If you want to brave speaking at upscale next year, you can always let me know and I will put you on the nomination list. We might have a few more drink tickets lingering around. If so, try to locate one and grab a drink on your way out and thank you so much for attending.