Hi and welcome Hello We're watching Veronica's bot flood the chat room. Yeah, it's a little delayed Yeah, I don't know what's going on there She'll have Bell Bot, but have no idea if the best is bot. It's very poetic. Yeah, she is we have you thought about Publishing a collection of Bell Bot's poetry That would be good Little chat book. Yeah Why is it called a chat book does anybody I don't know what a chat book is what's a chat book? That's like a thing with we're What I know to be chat books is people like putting out little small collections of their writings So most of the ones I knew were poets putting out like small collections of their poets. Oh interesting I Just said the thing that she says all the time Yeah, I Don't understand. Okay, but I know that I like anonymous What does it mean when the bot that whose language I've programmed starts when I start saying the things that she says, right? Who's programming whom right? Programmer has become the programmed Apparently bizarre briefing won an award yesterday Oh, yeah, or did they or did they? Mmm, that's not how I'm supposed to drink out of this water bottle. I just went Yeah Well, how are you supposed when you tilt it back the straw doesn't get the water because it's a straw.  I had a coffee And he just make his own coffee and he just had a coffee at the coffee shop and He had this was my half. We had a carton of ice coffee And he drank half this morning and then I took the other half So he's looking at it here It's still part of the carton which we're sharing but I he already had his half. Yeah, but he's like but you haven't finished yours So obviously for me, so now it's their ability to each according to their needs You have the ability to give him coffee. No, that's baloney. He's being marxist. It's below Kna Marks balona Okay, well, let's do this show. Shall we? Oh shoot TV Zgon was at politicon yesterday. I missed him. Are you at politicon? I was actually met up with Roger Chang nearby for a little snack And then I went over to politicon said hey to Teasdale and jury Fun they were flogging the contender Good That means they were they had a booth where they were selling their card game the contender good I hope they sold many many copies They were doing all right. They were doing all right Getting free buttons. Yeah, I saw him sell a couple boxes right while I was there. So nice Okay, here we go. Let's do this The Daily Tech news show is brought to you by me. Oh Thanks, me if you also wish to bring it go to Daily Tech news show comm slash support That's Daily Tech news show comm slash support This is the Daily Tech news for Monday June 27th 2016 I'm Tom Mara joining me today. Ms. Veronica Belmont back in the saddle on a Monday How's it going Veronica back at it again with those tech news stories We're gonna take the tech news out behind the shed and teach it what analysis is of it Is that that no no, no, okay? I won't say that again We are going to talk about education, but don't stop the show Because there's some really interesting stuff that Google is doing and there's some don't stop the show With with blocks like it's called tangible program You can program with blocks with building. It's really we're gonna talk about that We're gonna talk about Amazon trying to help teachers out with free stuff, but what are these companies get out of it? It's all coming up. Let's get to the top stories Twitter launched stickers for photos posted through the Twitter app you can now add emojis props accessories to your photos a mere five years after Line started doing it or something like that when viewers tap on the stickers They'll be taken to a page of other photos that use the same sticker features coming over the next few weeks to Android and IOS if you don't see it yet, just wait a couple weeks You'll eventually be able to put a smiley face on the photo. You're uploading to Twitter I don't know why I like doing this in swarm and snapchat, but the idea of doing it on Twitter annoys me Why is that because it's changed right snapchat? Didn't always have these but it feels like something they added as a natural part of their growth Twitter adding it now because it's so old and you've used it in a certain way for so long feels like a me too totally I was a hundred percent about to say it feels like a me too Yeah, and and I also feel like there's gonna be a lot of people gaming the sticker system Like putting stickers on things that don't actually have anything to do with the sticker So when you click on the sticker to search for those stickers, it's gonna be weird stuff I just don't trust it. I don't like it. No, sir. Don't like it. Well, I've okay I'm an iconic class when I what I'm about to say I don't expect anyone to agree with me on but I don't like hashtags I Find I find them useless. I'm like you can search for words. Just search for words. Why do you have to put a hashtag symbol? Yeah, back when there was no Twitter search that was a more interesting way to be able to find stuff But I don't see that it matters now But Twitter has incorporated it into its system and that's another reason I don't like hashtags is because people game them right you put a hashtag in because you know people will click on it And then maybe they'll see your tweet too and it's the same thing you're talking about with stickers We got to have Chris Messina on the show to change your mind about hashtags the inventor of my mind changed Duck in the past with the hashtags in the IRC channel right now are pretty amazing. Oh my gosh It's making my eyes bleed The telegraph the telegraph UK reports its sources say that Google is in discussions with carriers to release a Google design Smartphone by the end of 2016 in an interview last month at the code conference Google CEO Sundar Pichot I was I was there. No, you had it. That was it, right? Yeah, if you had just kept going I would have been fine Okay Stated that the company was investing more effort into phones But that Google would still continue to work with OEMs as well now most people are pouring some cold water on this report today Because it doesn't make sense It doesn't make sense that there's a lot of credible rumors out there that there are new nexus devices in the works And and Google Having to go to the extent of designing Even though they've got Rick Osterlo from Motorola, you know in-house now It's just I I don't Say that Google won't do this I find it unusual that we would see this before the end of the year and that's what Places like the Verge and others are saying that just this just doesn't ring true But then the telegraph usually is is pretty good with its sources So if they have sources telling them this then those sources obviously believe they're telling the truth 26 the end of 2016 is is closer than it seems. Yeah, it's only six months away. Yeah, right and Do you think Google should start doing this in case anybody doesn't understand? This is like Google doing what I what Apple does, right? They design the phone and then they have somebody like Foxconn assemble the phone what Google does now with nexus is they say Hey HTC design a phone for us We'll have some input into it and put our name on it and make sure you do stock Android But you're making the phone and you get to put the HTC brand on yeah It seems like I mean if you have unlimited money and resources then I guess why not give it a go But the nexus phones are already great people love them I'm not really sure why they would feel like they have to own the whole animal Yeah, and and it would be another confusing line, right one would assume they wouldn't call it nexus Right, they would call it pixel or something else. Well, they should they should have some conversations with Amazon about how that went And see how if that changes their mind I do think Google probably has less of an uphill burden because they have Android, right? It makes more sense. Yeah, I guess the Seattle Times reports that Terry Goldstein of Sausalito, California successfully sued Microsoft for $10,000 after a failed Windows 10 upgrade left her system unusable for several days Goldstein says she never authorized the upgrade and and remember there's lots of people who say that even though they technically did Because Microsoft had that horrible situation for a while where when you clicked the red X That was taken as tacit consent to the upgrade probably what she did. I know it's what other people did The $10,000 she gets reflects the estimated lost compensation and the cost of a new system She she runs a travel agency She basically couldn't run her travel agency for a week until she replaced the system Microsoft couldn't fix it for her She says Microsoft denied any wrongdoing, but they dropped the appeal to avoid further expense of litigation I guess they figured giving her the $10,000 was cheaper than continuing to fight it And this is all coming Less just over a month from the end of Windows 10 being free Windows 10 stops being a free upgrade July 29 I wonder if this will lead to anyone else coming forward and saying that they had this kind of trouble Or if anyone else has already put out cases for it Well, that that's usually why you fight these things as a company is you you want to discourage other people from coming And trying to get their $10,000. Yeah, they just kind of they they didn't settle though I mean her her suit was successful, right? So that's a different that's a very different kind of thing and and that that will encourage a lot of lawyers anyway to say to people Yes, let's go Get our lawsuit in front of Microsoft because apparently they don't want to fight these things and maybe we can we can get them to settle out Of court. Yeah, I should have I should have sued them after they blue-screened my remember my my gaming PC over Again, yes, but I lost valuable Witcher hours you guys You can't like you you deserve damages like like pain and suffering Exactly, exactly I'm one of these people look I want to the Microsoft fans and employees in the audience I want to say like I have had no problem with Windows 10. I like Windows 10 I've done three Windows 10 upgrades and they've gone swimmingly for me So I know this isn't all of the Windows 10 upgrades But I also know Veronica Justin Robert Young Joey image and and I don't know Ms. Goldstein, but here's another one I know plenty of people who've had their computers become unusable after a Windows 10 upgrade for whatever reason And I had to go back to Windows 7 right Windows 7 Not even Vista just like straight up whatever. So there's there's something going on with that and Maybe that's just the normal like brand new operating system doesn't always work And you guys could just got caught on the wrong end of the percentage there but that combined with this aggressive campaign where they were I Don't think literally, but they were accidentally Tricking people into upgrading to Windows 10. You don't you don't make closing the dialogue Window be the answer of yes, you make closing the dialogue Windows saying okay. No action was taken I keep saying that I yeah, I know 7 came after Vista. I got confused for a second whatever the 2 back I had to go 2 back. It's been a while. My brain is kind of Fred 2 back. Yeah 8 to 7 yeah, or if you want to count 8.1 is another one But yeah, it's true Andy Greenberg has an article on wired describing the risks of using SMS as a second factor for authentication Greenberg describes examples of social engineering where attackers convinced phone companies to redirect text to a new SIM card in their possession fake cell phone towers like sting rays can also intercept texts and hackers can exploit the SS7 protocol to spoof a change to a user's phone number Services like authenticator apps or physical keys like you be key are suggested as stronger alternatives Yeah, this is this is a good article to read it and Andy Greenberg does a good job of not being scare tactic He's not scare mongering. He's saying hey Yeah, if you're dealing with a company that only does SMS sure It's better than not having a second factor, but you should know that it's definitely not as good as an authenticator It and with any security issue. We're always saying it's a matter of degrees. There's authenticator apps aren't foolproof either There's all kinds of social engineering and other things you can do there But they're better than SMS for several reasons one is there's no connection between your authenticator app and the server So there's nothing to be intercepted and that's the big vulnerability with SMS is Information is being sent to you so it's possible in these many ways you describe for people to Intercept that information and then have your second factor. I I wish more people would Allow for authenticator apps or things like physical keys on more services that we use day to day It's pretty regular in the enterprise world But we don't really see it in in regular things like like Dropbox for example, like can I get a physical authenticator for Dropbox? You can get an app authenticator for that. That's great. That's pretty close But it would be nice to have something that wasn't at all Yeah Well and authenticator apps aren't connected, but they are on your device, right? Yeah, it's this subtle shades Yeah, and somebody in the chat room who was it? Peds just said damn it. I just changed a bunch of logins to use SMS If you weren't using any second factor before that's better like it's better to have the SMS than not Because it's another roadblock in the way But it if you have the choice to do something else like an authenticator or you be key or something like that Then you should probably change to that if you can Wall Street Journal reports that Amazon will add dozens of new brands for its dash button devices And Amazon is gonna drop the $200,000 buy-in fee if a company wants to produce a dash button instead They'll charge $15 per button sold plus 15% of the sale Slice analytics estimates that less than half the consumers that ordered a dash button have actually used it to place an order I think Scott Johnson's the only person I know who both got a dash button and because his son clicked it Actually did order some toilet paper With it and it they knew he had clicked it when it arrived at the house. So Can someone explain to me? Dash buttons and why I want that like I cannot think of anything I mean, maybe if I had a kid and I had to reorder diapers like every three days Sure That is like the only use case that I can think of where I would need to be ordering something enough to have a physical button in my home Here's the here's here's I don't use it because they don't have the things I want right But I would definitely use it if I could get a Scott tissue I'm just gonna reveal way too much about myself here if I could get Scott tissue Ordered in the the big 24 pack because we have two bathrooms of one upstairs one downstairs and I have to keep an eye on the one downstairs because we're not at it often enough to make sure we didn't run out downstairs If I could just have a button so that when I notice it I just push that button and I know more is on the way that'd be great But you know what this reminds me of when I was a kid We had a home security system and my mom had like a panic button in her bedroom That was like above the nightstand. It was a little button. You had to you could push it And it would automatically dial 9-1-1. Okay, when I was a kid. I thought that button was hilarious And I pushed it That's horrible and so swatting wasn't a thing that I was like three years old And so for me that these buttons are just like asking for trouble like why are children not all over the country? Pushing these buttons with abandon. Are there safeguards in place? Like if it gets pushed multiple time it won't order multiple items and every time it is pushed an email is sent So that you can say oh wait a minute that was pushed in error And there's a bit of a grace period there the thing is I think Scott when it happened to him just didn't notice the email So that is one of the perils of it. I just it feels like such an unnecessary thing It just seems like a physical thing in the world that nobody would ever need and it sounds like people are not really using them Okay, it says less than half consumers ordered a dash button have used it that you could also read this Almost half the consumers that have ordered a dash button. I'll still not very good metrics. I'm sorry. That's still not not yeah I don't know about that one. I think this is a weird experiment and that I don't understand Which means it can't be good right if I don't understand it that means it's the Scott tissue button arrives I'm in that's all I'm saying. Okay Toy race car maker Anki has a new car called Cosmo with a body similar to the Pixar character Wally a face like Pixar character Eve and a Mechanical arm that can move things around Anki worked with Pixar to design the robot and the toy has a built-in computer vision software to help recognize people and get better at Games an AIS DK will come at launch for developers to create more activities, which is rad a Cosmo launches in October for $179 I will admit for a short Split-second. I got excited thinking Cosmo the moped delivery from the dot-com era was coming. That's that's a K Yeah, Cosmo with a K Cosmo with a C What do you I mean? This is cool that they worked with Pixar. I love that yeah first I'm like, oh, how did they get around and like oh they didn't they actually just went to Pixar and said we want to make Wally But then part of me is like well, why didn't they just make Wally and Eve? But I guess they started with this because I don't know It's cool though. It's a toy. It's really good. Apparently. It's very pet-like It feels like kind of like having a little pet around what I like this better than Wally. I mean not Wally Which I never use anymore like BDA was gonna be my little bro, and I never take him out anymore So I think that'd be really fun to have this could do a lot more than me Already like fun like like chatbot things that you could do with it That'd be great Robert Monty by the way on Twitter pointed us to a dash button on Amazon That's a Internet of Things button. It's a limited release programmable dash button that you can connect with other IoT devices So that would actually be a dash button that I could that I could get behind program it yourself Yeah, make an order Scott tissue, right? So I would I'd be into that. All right The dash button has been saved. Thank you CNET reports the House of Commons Petitions Committee said Sunday It is investigating whether signatures to a petition for a second vote on the UK leaving the European Union was created by bots The allegation is that 4chan users got together and created a bunch of bots to sign the petition They are noticing IP addresses from Vatican City Antarctica North Korea a spokeswoman said seventy seven thousand signatures have been removed so far Petition had three point seven million signatures over the weekend I first I got excited when I saw this story thinking that somehow they had programmed bots to cast fake votes for Brexit And I was like, oh my god, do they have to do a recount like did bots like inflate the yes Original vote that was all physical votes, right? Like you had to do a card So there weren't no online online voting for that particular vote But this this is you know an online petition for a second vote Which will probably not happen, right? Are they gonna let them do another vote? No, it's so close. I mean, it's all close I shouldn't say never I can foresee a series of very unlikely Circumstances that might come together to allow a second vote. In fact, I was I was texting with Allison Sheridan about this last night Kind of running wild speculations. Well, what if they did this? What if this the best but really, you know, not to get too much into world events here outside of technology But the European Union is saying no, we're not gonna talk to you But until you trigger the exit with with article 50 at which point it's too late So, you know, I just I really do doubt that this is gonna change this petition is gonna change anything and it's really a I Don't want to say it's unfortunate, but for people who wanted this petition to be Honored it is unfortunate that people got in and made it look fake because I think it has even less Chance of being taken seriously. Yeah, less less credible now Hey, thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit submitting stories and voting on them at daily tech news show That right at calm it helps us very much with in fact cool aunt SV submitted the one about the woman winning her $10,000 judgment You got stuff in here from Loki Robert SP Sheridan another J Martin TM204 and more get in and help make the show better daily tech news show dot reddit calm That's a look at the top stories All right We can go a little deeper in these, but let me just summarize the three big initiatives There's two from Google and one from Amazon today. I'll start with Google Google project blocks is the most interesting because this isn't a retail program. This is just something they want to get out there as reference design for people to make Blocks to help kids code It's for ages five and up and if you're like wait a minute what it how is it a block they? Combine three pieces. So there's a raspberry pi zero based board called the brain board that kind of sits underneath Then there's the baseboard which in which it passes instructions to the brain board from something called a puck Now the puck kind of confuses you that it's called a puck I'll be honest, but the puck is basically a device that does one simple instruction So it's could be an on-off puck which is an on-off switch. It could be a switch puck, which is like a left and right This is you know a little dial thing. It could be a turn left Puck which is just an arrow that when you press it will turn left And and so you've got this and simple instruction set that you can combine with each other To create ways to control stuff because the Raspberry Pi board is just going to broadcast by Wi-Fi to either software Or a robot that can control the Lego we do or the Miro bot for instance. So that's cool It's teaching kids coding. All right Google also Adding some new features to Chromebook Chromebook has sold more than five million devices to educational institutions in the US last year So they've got cast for education So that the students can share their screen by casting to the teacher's computer and the teacher's computer could be OS 10 It could be Windows. I'm sorry Mac OS or Windows And and then the teacher approves it so they can't hijack the screen, but it's a way to easily share There are quizzes now integrated into Google Forms so they can do instant grading and the VR expeditions the field trips VR field trips are now open to everybody and finally Amazon Inspire is a new platform for people freely to share their Their instructional materials with other teachers and educational institutions around the country So you can upload stuff you can download stuff for free And there's also some third parties like the Folger Shakespeare Institute or the museum in Washington, DC That are putting materials in here as well for you to use for free So this is all good, right Veronica like there's nothing to worry about. It's all just huge tech companies with huge valuations Generously helping our children, you know, I was gonna say yes, this is all good But the way you put that now makes me concerned. What are you getting at Tom? Are you are you saying there's some nefarious plan happening? Okay, so Amazon does this for free for now, right? Maybe they start to charge for things down the road, which wouldn't be the worst There are other companies doing this like test.com or teachers pay teachers.com which do have for-pay materials There's nothing wrong with that But there's also the idea that what Amazon wants to do is keep providing these for free in order to sell Amazon web services to schools or to get schools to buy fire tablets for the children And maybe that's not a problem either But I'm always trying to dig in behind and say, okay, what's the real motivation here? I the Google project blocks is the one where I don't Obviously see anything behind because they're like we're not gonna make it a retail We're just making this as a reference design, but Chromebooks is obviously meant to sell more Chromebooks I mean, that's that's yeah very obvious I mean there's some interesting, you know money figures and in terms of the the most money made in educational Arenas Apple is very far ahead just because their devices their laptops and tower computers or whatever are much more expensive But in terms of sheer numbers Chromebooks is killing it because they are less expensive They're very easy to take care of an update and now that they're integrating all these other kinds of tools that teachers can use For you know, pretty cheap That's going to make them a big standout in that space as though they weren't already Amazon jumping into this into this already relatively crowded field Also makes a lot of sense because they have the resources they have the the infrastructure to back it up and I think people know the name and trust the name so there's there's a lot of interesting stuff, but I think it's really great because You know, these are huge companies that have a lot of resources and money to put into this stuff And you know schools are always struggling to to find the tools to to help kids get that leg up in terms of being able to learn How to program or just to have computers to do their homework on So I think they are that they are jumping in here and making it easier for teachers is really wonderful Yeah, I I get what you're saying, which is this will have a Positive effect on the ability to learn it has a positive effect on cash strapped classrooms for now But does it open the way for these companies to have too much influence over? educational materials so for instance if Chromebooks become dominant Does Google have more influence over what gets taught? No, I don't think they can control what software is compatible with the Chrome OS I don't topic topic wise. I don't think so. I think this is just the infrastructure. This is these are just the tools I mean being able to use Google Forms for a quiz on Online with your teacher in your classroom doesn't have any impact on what that lesson has to be about It's just the tool that the teacher is able to use that makes their job That Google, you know says it's not collecting.  Yeah, I'm just trying to poke into this and see because because yes on the face of it Like oh, these are great tools. Chrome OS is very affordable It allows kids to you know It allows some classrooms to actually have laptops for kids when they wouldn't be able to afford it before because like you said the max Are so expensive But not every classroom can still afford these sorts of things the the downloadable Classroom instructional materials. I think is better. I guess what I would prefer is if it were an independent maybe open source organization Providing the backbone for this rather than Amazon, which can change their mind someday start charging for things shut down the program I mean Google's very famous for just like a we're bored with this now It doesn't really work for us shut it down and leave people in the lurch. Yeah I mean that is definitely a concern But I feel like Google at least is in this for the long haul they've been they've been doing stuff for education for for quite some time and I In my brain as you're kind of nagging on this I'm like, what if Google's just grooming kids to be like Google automatons. That's the fear That's the that's the real fear I think what we're talking about here is that we just are concerned that they're indoctrinating the youth of America to work in their Google brain farms in in 15 years Well, well my wife who works for Google and I will retire to the Google Moon colony where they go old people Yeah, I don't know. I don't know that I'm saying these are bad ideas I'm just trying to come up with the questions and I'd love to hear from any teachers in the audience if you're like, no This is great. We absolutely need this of or if you're like, yeah, I'm a little skeptical too Or whatever feedback at daily tech news show calm. I do want to dial it back a little bit I think it's excellent that any company is wanting to do things to help the educational system and on the surface all three of These the Chromebooks probably the less of the three but Amazon and spy and project blocks very directly Help the consumers for nothing, right? Yeah, the consumers the students if you like if you like at Google blocks as JJ in the chat room also recommended little bits is another fantastical fantastical. They're not fantastical. They really They're a company Female founded company that create have created a tangible programming tools for kids And you can buy some of their kits as well for for home if you want to just teach your kids how to do it It doesn't have to be school related, but you should check them out Yeah, go check all of this stuff out tangible programming itself whether it's blocks or not is Really interesting the idea that kids could be able to just play with blocks that do things And make like a little country they can make their own little dashboard for a robot that they can then use to run the robot And it's something they put together. I think it's a fantastic idea All right, let's get to our pick of the day. Comey writes regarding the topic of covering your computer's webcam Remember Mark Zuckerberg's a little fun poked at him for that said I'm using a product called spy shutter It's spelled SPI shutter for my MacBook Pro. We'll have a link to an Amazon place where you can buy it It's 20 bucks. So it's not cheap But comey says it's basically a strip of thin steel plate with a hole in the middle of it And it sticks to the magnets embedded next to the built-in camera of all MacBook models You can slide it sideways to cover and uncover the camera easily and it blends in very nicely. They do you buy it in different? Different different colors to make sure it fits yours I'm checking this out on the Amazon page. Yeah, it's 20 bucks on Amazon That's kind of me a coma even pointed out you could build this yourself But if you've got 20 bucks to spare, I guess then you don't have to mm-hmm Send your picks to us folks feedback at daily tech news show comm and you can find more picks at daily tech news show comm slash picks The emails that came in regarding the car B. Oshie maru Episode from last Thursday and our bonus conversation about it between Justin say car B. Oshie Yes, because it's the it's the unwinnable situation for a self-driving car, right? That that was the whole idea is like what happens with a self-driving car gets in a situation where it can't not kill someone Does it protect the passenger or does it protect the others? And if the others outnumber the passengers should it still protect the passenger? There was a survey where people said I want it to protect the most number of people in Abstract but if I'm buying a car and I have the choice. I'm going to buy the one that protects the passenger at all costs Lots people are like this is a silly question It doesn't mean anything a lot of people just wanted to avoid the question like yeah But it can always find a way not to kill people and it's like well wishful thinking But Kevin I picked Kevin's email to represent most of you and he's in fest happy Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Sounds really fun I work for a major medical device manufacturer that may or may not have two letters in its name When we evaluate failure modes one of the questions we ask is what is the likelihood of the occurrence? I think that needs to be considered in the who should the car kill discussion if we have self-driving cars The likelihood of this situation happening should be much lower than it is today I assume people are answering the survey as if the accident rate will be that of today But if they knew this would happen say twice per year across the entire United States would they answer the same Just food for thought I'd be okay if my car made the kill the driver decision But I think on the whole will need legislation to ensure that universally The kill the driver's decision Yeah, well because some people said look I I totally understand the answers I had several people point out like if you're asking me What should that car do and I might be on this on the either side of the equation? I'm gonna say it should protect the most number of people But if I'm if you're asking me, okay, you're going to be the passenger Do you want it to protect the passenger that you're gonna say yes protect the passenger? That's just human nature, right? But now we have a study that shows it the other thing that people were saying is I don't understand a situation where this would happen There will always be a way to not have to kill anybody So I looked around there's there's lots of examples of this problem But just for those of you who couldn't imagine the situation here it is You're in a self-driving car that's following a big truck with a heavy machine on the back of it For whatever reason that heavy machine comes loose And it's going to fall on your car and it is big enough that it will kill the passenger inside one passenger in the self-driving car Two motorcycles each with a side car. So there's two people on each motorcycle You don't need any special sensors the car knows that there are two people in each of these motorcycles You as the self-driving car will either have to let the thing hit the car and kill the passenger or Swerve to the left or right to avoid it thus ensuring the death of the two people on the motorcycles What do you choose? Yeah, I don't know. Do I have to answer this? No, you don't have to answer that the self-driving car will though And as our programmer friend wrote in last week We may not know how the self-driving car answers it We could run simulations, but you may answer that question a different way than another question GKO in the chat says has nobody explored the have the car kill everyone option You know, I don't think anyone would go for that but it for complete a sake He's Giko's right for fairness really. I mean, it's about fairness. It is another scenario. So it's about fairness in car-killing journalism Self-driving cars. 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Going to show bot TV and seeing if there's a title that looks good to you And it's voting for my SF Giants with the all-star game. Yeah. Yeah. No, no the not the all-star game Yes, the all-star game palette. Yes Not the all-star game Tom the all-star game. I'm sorry. I know I was mistaken. Oh Everything's about Twitter stickers.  I like that one Yeah, that one was that one was funny Tom hates hashtags a lot of hashtags Feel the learn Fantastic Cal Veronica is not dashing what? Oh mean title I don't remember what's stuck in the past is about the hashtags being stuck in the past not liking hashtags I said that about myself I like feel the learn feel the learn All right, let's go with that. That's me. I like that one too So I guess there's some drama with the podcast awards.  Yes, they're they're what happened um I okay So to to explain I wasn't up for anything. So no, I have to yeah Well, I was up for cord killers cord killers didn't win which is fine. I don't love awards shows You know this about me. I yeah On the same time. I don't want to appear ungrateful Like I the podcast awards honored daily tech news show with an award last year and I'm very appreciative of that I also am incredibly appreciative of what the diamond club audience the chat realm audience did With the voting campaign. So so don't take my apathy about awards in general to be Unappreciation, but yeah, so I didn't really watch the awards last night, but I guess Uh, as soon as the awards were done They put up a note saying we are aware that there was a Cheating allegation against this website and they put t2 t2s website up What? Uh the heading the system and so then I don't I don't go I don't really remember all the things But they kept changing the notice so we're the scandal so the scandal was that like The feeling is that because of hadding the system the t2 t2.eu slash hadding the system site The The shows involved had an unfair advantage over smaller shows that don't have That kind of technical expertise Hmm, okay, and so once again, they're going to change things next year To reflect that this year. They changed things by disqualifying everybody who won last year from winning again I all I they say diamond group. I think that's where the confusion diamond group You know the diamond group. Oh the diamond group Uh, that sounds like an insurance company The diamond group ensuring quality Liabilities since 1834 Uh, anyway, like I get it too I I get why people who are like well, I don't have an awesome group of people to code me a website But my show is still good. It should still win like the idea is like everyone should just vote for that What they think is the best show and I and I get that I get that But um, and this is just a slate. It's not a hack. It's a slate. That's all it is It's a slate. Yeah, but then it becomes the then The the feeling is Because it's a slate then it's it's basically based on who can organize people better. Not what's the best show Gotcha Drama yeah That's another reason why I don't like the other words Yeah Because they always they almost always cause drama Anyway, I hope that the folks behind the podcast awards can figure out a really good way Maybe talk to the hugo people hugo people have had to deal with even worse Right actual hostile takeovers of their awards The system so, you know, there's there's ways to do it. I hope they hope they're able to figure it out Because it's one of those things we're like well the rules permitted you to do this So, I don't know A lot of spirit of the awards versus the letter of the law Conversations happening. Mm-hmm. Gotcha Anyway, you did I don't know that you realized you were opening that bag of worms But that's that's those are that's what the worms that are in that bag Yeah, I just saw like Scott and some other people tweeting about it And then when I was clicking through the podcast awards page, I'm like diamond group diamond group Oh It me You know The diamond group Since 1837 Crazy. Yeah, and people are like well, it's they'd put it up to a fan vote on the internet Wait is Todd is oh Podcast awards is Todd Cochran. Isn't it? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah buzz out loud was nominated I think we buzz out loud even one one like way back in the day. Maybe Hmm fascinating podcast world is tearing itself apart You're tearing me apart podcast awards Listen, if I felt stronger about awards shows I'd probably make an impassioned plea for everybody to like try to understand the other side and work to make this work for everybody So that impassioned fan bases Can support their shows just do what mlb does build the same system have Have to sign up by your email address and you can vote every day every day is what they did That's what they did Oh Okay So it sounds like just Okay Okay This is silly I get it though. I get it. I get it. I do because I get being upset. I also get like I don't know Well, the it becomes a popularity contest no matter what you do. Yeah, it always is and that's why I hate this The people who are upset or we're like, hey, I want it to be a thing where even if my show isn't as well known People can listen to it and go. Oh, that's a really good show and vote for it And I might win because I have a really good show that is the ideal Yeah, but when you have a slate then that's why I feel like I like stuff by committee like like the uh like parsec awards because it's I don't know. I mean, maybe that's even less fair.  We need awards shows that appeal to the better. Oh my website really is down franticabalmont.com is down Oh, no, that must mean sordid lasers down to square spaces having trouble square space down Let's see. Nope sordid lasers up still Oh, mostly well, that's weird. Maybe it's different. Well, like one server is down, but not a lot Weird no no my site's back up. Okay. They're fixing it. Well. Yeah, that's probably what it was probably just down for a split second I'm pivoting professionally. I haven't seen I didn't see this since you changed it. Yep I like that you are literally pivoting in the picture Signed up for my newsletter I don't know. Wow five people signed up for my newsletter. 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I'll go over to hotline monday. We're almost done That's hotline bling It's still what I think about every time I hear the name of that show Yeah, me too I don't know that that's a bad thing. All right. No, I don't think it's a bad thing. It's just a thing It's a thing tom. It's a thing. That used to be a show That used to be a show that used to be a thing that used to be a thing It's not a thing right now. It might become a thing again. I'm not gonna say never I'll win that hotline thing Is archive not working still? It wasn't working this morning Field to learn Anyway, a politic on they had this woman selling political buttons like classic political buttons So I got myself a richard daily for mayor button I got a uh mcgovern button and an anderson for president button And one that said chap aquatic is just water under the bridge Oh, I got my carthy button too I guess uh, they were pretty cheap too. 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As you look to this week, possibly not having Jones and Brown, how is your confidence level with Chester Rogers and his ability to step up and be a guide and help the guys out? Yeah, I think we have a unique set of circumstances around our position group there with the wide receivers and that we got a lot of work with those guys and Ryan in training camp. So got to see those guys produce throughout August and in September and certainly feel great about Chester as well as a number of other guys at that spot. If you do get Anthony back, what does that mean? I know other Titans have been involved in the passing game, but I guess is that a little bit more of a primary option for you if Anthony is out there? You know, his receiving skill set is certainly unique and something that we missed and so we're excited to see where he's at and see if he can contribute. I think he certainly could help us in a lot of areas. Roger specifically, what is it that he brings to the table to make him such an attractive option for Anthony? Yeah, he has a good skill set of getting open versus man coverage, lateral quickness and his ability to get in and out of cuts and he's seen a lot of football and can digest things on the move so he's a polished receiver that we're excited to have on our team. Josh Reynolds, this may be an opportunity for him I guess if AJ and Julio aren't available and kind of what have you seen from him to date? Yeah, Josh has been working hard, he really has and it's been a lot of different factors that have gotten us to this point but he's certainly a big part of this offense. Just his attitude, his approach, his demeanor. We've got to make sure that if he's able to go and contribute that we have some stuff in there for him I believe that he's a guy that can contribute as a different skill set than some of the other guys we've already mentioned. Has some length, has some smoother outrun and ability so excited to see where Josh is at and where we're at going into this Sunday. Drastically I guess that his role changed. I guess you could say this is about a lot of the receivers but when you guys signed Julio, how much did things change in the Josh Reynolds picture? Yeah, certainly a trickle-down effect there and I think that we've always preached here find a way to carve out a role and I think that that was hampered a little bit by Josh's availability through things also and so we're kind of still in process with that and I think that this week will be a big step to figuring some of that out. Not on the injury report or he was not injured during the last game Is there still any like after effect from the photo killies for him that he's still kind of coming back from at this point? That would be a question for the medical staff and for the head coach I just kind of wait until I see who's available out there and let him get rolling. There kind of laughs a little bit when we ask him about his workload I guess it's his OC, how do you kind of find a balance and want to get as much as you can out of him and you don't want to maybe wear this guy out in September? Yeah, the balance is wins and losses, you know, the balance is wins and losses so that's the scale that I'm trying to keep balanced doing what I can to put people in positions to help this team win. In the ball I guess that in your mind that gives you a better chance to win is that kind of... Getting Derek Henry the ball gives us a better chance to win, yeah. Look at the seven turnovers, they've come in a lot of different ways what sort of needs to happen to get that trend reversed? Yeah, everybody needs to take it personal, you know, we need to protect the football we've turned the ball over far too many times, that's not us, it's not going to be us it starts with me and emphasizing it every single opportunity I get and everybody needs to take it personal we need to protect that ball like we're protecting it for everybody else's family and kids and livelihoods because we are and that's an area of our offense that we need to get fixed quickly. You mentioned yesterday that he was adding a couple periods of practice for each position group to work on, I guess, you know, receivers, ball security, Tannehill with decision making, how did that go and what sort of the effect of an emphasis like that? I think it went well, the guys realize, you know, where we're at and how far it is from where we want to be in that department and so, you know, I think everybody took it very serious and very intentional and we got a lot of good work. Pressure is kind of lessened. Your decision not to have Henry on the field on the fourth and two in Seattle is it difficult to take him off the field in third and medium or long considering that defenses fear him probably the most of all? Yeah, I think it's a case-by-case basis for sure. You know, like the Seattle one that you mentioned we have already discussed we went from third and long and then went right on the ball into a fourth down play in a no-huddle scenario, so it was going to be difficult to sub him many ways without giving them a chance to match. You know, and then there are sometimes where schematically you're trying to take advantage of certain things, so you're going to want him in there and sometimes you're going to want, you know, Jeremy in there or somebody else, so it's, to me, it's a case-by-case basis. Tracy's development been like as a receiver. I know he's probably in there more for special teams but where things stand now, how is he progressing in terms of being able to be an option? Yeah, he has a lot of neat physical tools.  Rob's been working very, very hard with him just trying to get some of those techniques down and some of the things that we'll ask him to do here that maybe he hasn't done in his receiving past and I think he's coming along well. You know, we're excited about where Racy's at and above all else, his mindset to want to do anything to help this team, that's a great starting point. You mentioned it earlier, not just Chester last week with the number of guys who were able to step up when AJ and William went down. How good was that for them to see and what does it say about those guys writing this to contribute to the need? Yeah, it was great to see and it fits the culture that we've created here from the top down. You know, it's next man up mentality and I know you guys have heard that line a bunch. That's not coach speak or jargon or anybody trying to blow smoke. That's how we operate around here and guys like Nick Westbrook stepping in there and making some big plays. Racy going in, doing some things. Cam Batson all over the field, blocking downfield while other guys have the ball in their hands. Like watching those guys play without the ball in their hands, that's what gets me fired up is their commitment, their love for this team and trying to jump in and be ready whenever called upon. How does a baby receiver earn your trust and maybe how much does that trust influence how much a guy is out there? How much of an opportunity do you really give him? Yeah, if he can be where he's supposed to be when he's supposed to be there, that's a great place to start. That holds true in the run game as well as the pass game. We ask a lot of our receivers in the run game here. Obviously we're a run foundation offense and so they need to know who to block and how to block them and then they need to be able to fit into the pass schemes and I think versatility and interchangeability is a big piece of it as well. Knowing where to play in multiple spots so if someone does go down, we can throw any one of them in there so those guys have done a nice job of that over the last couple of weeks and excited to see what the future holds. Rabel mentioned Nick in particular in terms of playing all three positions seamlessly. Is that beyond the norm, like his knowledge of everyone's job and on every play? I think that's something that jumped out about Nick last year, was his ability to jump in and play different spots. He jumped into two minute drills and played the slot all the way outside and give Corey or AJ a blow and certainly we had games where guys weren't available and he jumped in and did well in those roles. He's just built on that since then. He's grown in his confidence. He understands and has command of this offense and all three positions at the wide receiver spot. So although I wouldn't say that it's something unique, it's certainly a characteristic that makes us trust him quite a bit. Mark is kind of right back on the level that he was so good in camp or will that take a little bit of time after three weeks? Yeah, he's coming along. I think anytime you're transitioning back into play, there's a knock in the rust off a little bit just physically, but he's been working really hard mentally and paying attention to meetings and I don't anticipate that being too long a process for him when he is ready. Do you think that you need to seek from him or is it more just about conditioning and kind of being back in the flow? I think the physical aspect of that stuff is up to different departments, where he's at physically and conditioning-wise and health-wise and all that for me. It's a consistency thing. Can he get back to where he was on a rep in and rep out basis without having any hiccups? And if I'm told he's available, great. And we'll go from there.


I just want to share this verse, Proverbs 18, 21, before we pray.  In the Proverbs 18, verse 21, so here is this principle or truth which we see in many other places in scripture, but here is very clearly about the power of the spoken word. Well, the world is using it, they call it affirmations and so on. But we as believers, we see that it is the truth in scripture, that death and life are in the power of the tongue. So two extreme eventualities, two extreme outcomes, one is death, the other one is life, and this verse ties it directly to the fact that it's in the power of the tongue, it's in speaking, it's in declaring, and the second part of the verse says that those who love it will eat its fruit. Love what? Whatever the outcome is. And if you're going to be, if you want the outcome which is life, then we ought to be declaring life, and we will, it says where you will eat its fruit, which means that you will partake or you will have the pleasure of having partaking or being able to partake of that outcome, of that fruit. So let's just make some declarations today. I don't know if you guys use the church app, this has so many declarations based on the word of God, everything has its foundations in scripture. So we'll just make some declarations. Okay, so I mean, you just have your mics muted, but you can repeat it with me, right? So let's, here we go, right? Jesus has given me the right to use his name, to act on his behalf, to do what he wants done. In his name, I cast out demons and heal the sick. Jesus has given me authority over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will by any means hurt me. Here's another one. I have received power because the Holy Spirit has come upon me, and I am a witness for Jesus Christ. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, and he empowers me to heal, deliver and set the captives free. He who has called me and anointed me is God. The anointing of the Holy Spirit on my life destroys demonic yokes and removes demonic bondages off of people. Okay, here's one about blessing, right? I am blessed with every blessing that comes from God. I share and enjoy all of the blessings God has for His people. I am blessed in all that I set my hands to. The Lord teaches me to prosper and directs my ways. I walk in obedience to God and His blessings flow like a stream that never goes dry. Victory comes to me like the waves that roll on the seashore. Okay, last one. I am strong and very courageous. I am bold like a lion. God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. The Lord is my confidence and security. Amen. Praise God. Father, we thank you. We thank you for the power of your word. We thank you that your word is spirit and it's life. And Father God, we choose to speak your word. We choose to declare your word based on your promise here, Lord, in Proverbs 18, 21, that death and life are in the power of the tongue. So God, in faith and by faith, we have declared your word that we are blessed, O God, that fear has no place in us God. And yes, Father God, we have declared that your anointing breaks every yoke. We have declared that we are blessed with every spiritual blessing. We have declared, O God, that you're the one who leads us.  And yes, God, we thank you.  We pray that you would lead us by your word and Spirit. You let your word continue to strengthen us, Lord. Whatever seems to be weak, O Father God, in us, Lord, let your word strengthen, Lord, whatever's causing death in us God, whatever's causing, Lord, damage and decay and destruction in us, in the mighty name of Jesus, let it be removed right now, let it be broken right now, let it be pulled away, let it be taken away right now in the mighty name of Jesus. And I just speak, we speak life, we speak resurrection and life in the mighty name of Jesus for your word declares, Lord, that great is your power that is at work in us according to the power of the Holy Spirit that raised Jesus from the dead. Yes, Lord, we thank you in accordance with your resurrection power that is at work in us, Lord. Lord, we take authority and we declare your word over our own lives, God. We thank you, Father God. Thank you for leading us. We thank you for releasing life, Lord, into our lives, O Master. We thank you that you have come to give us life and life in its abundance, in its fullness. And so, God, since that is your desire, Lord, we make that our desire as well. We come in alignment with your will. We come in alignment with your desire and we say amen to that, Lord. We thank you.  We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus' matchless name, we pray. Amen. Amen. Okay, so let's continue with discipleship and small groups ministry. Okay, so last class we, I think we came to, let me just check. Yeah, we came to about life groups, the kind of life groups that can be there, the possibilities, the unlimited possibilities of cell groups. And that is what we looked at. And today we're going to continue with that. And we're going to look at, you know, some things that can help us in our formation of cell groups. So we, last class we ended with the unlimited possibility of cells. Let's just review that. And I'll just take a moment to put the notes up. Okay. So we can have different kinds of cell groups. And I think some of you have shared. I think Erin was sharing about the area cell group, the colony. So people living in the neighborhood, you know, that could be a cell group. And, and, you know, working, working, yeah, business place, maybe it's a workplace, maybe it's an office, you know, there can be a cell group there. And we heard so many, you know, so many good things that happen from these cell groups, which happen in the office, which take place during the, maybe the lunch break. It's a very short time that they meet, maybe, you know, half an hour is the maximum that they will be able to spend. But a lot of, a lot of good things, believers being edified, even people, you know, being curious, and coming to know the Lord, and also many answered prayers, and so on. Right. So, so here's a listing different kind of cell groups. So it need not be always people living in the same area, it can be a youth cell group, right. It can be only youth, maybe teenagers, maybe people in their 20s. It can be, it can be just guys, you know, just men, or maybe single women, right, girls only. And there's a lot more freedom that way to discuss challenges, to discuss issues, you know, maybe, because it's all guys, you know, you just open up and share, you know, this is, this is one area where I'm struggling with, and so on. So there's a lot more freedom to express, open up, right, and share. So, you know, maybe it's a guy, all guys, men's cell group. Maybe it's a cell group, just couples, right, married couples, and so on, like families. So we could have different types or different kinds of cell groups. And the thing is that it always helps us because these kinds of cell groups are very, very effective, right, because people are gathered together because they feel comfortable in that cell group, right. They are challenged, they are inspired, but at the same time, you know, they feel comfortable, right. So, and this is what the Lord Jesus also, when he commanded the disciples to go, the 12, to see, when he sent them into the towns, you know, he sent them with this instruction to go to the house of Israel, to focus, to concentrate on the house of Israel. He also told them, do not go, right, don't go in the way of Gentiles and so on. And so this is what we call as, you know, people group thinking in the sense that there is, there are people and they have certain commonalities in terms of culture, language, and so on ethnicity. And it's so much easier to bridge, to build bridges, right.  So it breaks down a lot of walls, there's a lot of commonality. And so in order to, even to understand, accept, you know, the truth of scripture, it becomes so much easier, right.  And it's, it's, we're not talking about, of course, the church, the body of Christ is definitely, you know, transcends culture, which means goes beyond culture, goes beyond language, and so on. But, but these are important factors, right.  And to, you know, to bridge that gap in a particular service, but you see that there is a certain commonality, right. So maybe two languages.  So you have multicultural, multi-ethnic churches, right. And so it helps if a cell group, you know, is gathered together with some commonalities. But of course, it is just a suggestion, right. It is, it should be to unite rather than to divide. Okay. So that's the thing. Always the unity of the spirit is to be kept in mind. And it's not to divide people, but it's really to unite people to make, make the cell group stronger, right. Okay. So some thoughts about youth cell group, right. If it's young people, again, we are saying that there are, there is the youth cell group will have 12 people, 12 youth, 12 young people. It's best to have, you know, girls meeting together, guys meeting together because one, there is freedom to be who you are. You're not trying to be someone else.  So it's best if it's this way. So here's a format you can go through it later. I'm just going to, you know, it's similar to the other format of the life group that we had, I mean, the cell group that we looked at, you know, there is a time to maybe there's some snacks, there's some icebreaker, you talk about the vision, then the cell topic, and then, you know, if there are unbelievers, then there is a gospel presentation and so on. So the all leaders need to be trained. Okay, that's, that's one thing that you need to under that we need to understand that. It's, it's good to train the leader and appoint the leader. It's important. Right. So that the training in the training, the leader understands the vision in the training, the leader understands what one should do, what one should not do. Right. What is the scope of the cell group, in the sense, what is the cell group really setting out to do, what are the boundaries, etc. Right. So there needs to be a formal training, a formal training, in the sense it need not be, you know, a very long training, but it should be something where the cell group, I mean, the potential cell group leader also is able to ask some questions, clarify doubts. Right. And they're clear about what needs to be done. And so, and there is a formal, you know, appointing that happens. So with this, you know, you avoid a lot of other problems. Okay. And the cell group leader need not come back to the leadership, not either the pastor, or each and every, every, every time, you know, what should I do for this? What should I do for that? No, the training will take care of that. And if there's some kind of a material or resource that is given, so that they can check, like a manual, then that will be helpful. Okay. So, yeah, youth leaders also, you know, the same way train them as well. Okay. So here's this cell health, you know, we talked about the cell group health, the health of the cell group. Okay. So we talked about it in an earlier session where we saw that a cell group needs to be a wholesome holistic cell group, where there is equal emphasis on community, fellowship, outreach, right, looking, connecting with God, right, in terms of prayer, worship, and so on. And also raising up leaders, the cell group multiplying, right, itself. So there needs to be an equal emphasis. Okay. So how do I evaluate this? Right. So here's a tool, here's a simple tool for those of you who are in life groups, you could even consider using this. This is quite an interesting tool. Okay. And it asks some very interesting questions. It tracks some of those things that happen in a life group to look at the frequency of it, you know, how often are these things happening? Are these things happening at all? So it will help us. It'll be really helpful. Okay. So this is developed by Randall Neyba and Jim Egley. So let's look at it. Right. So first thing is upward, you know, what is the cell group leader and also the group's relationship with God to evaluate that, assess that. Secondly, inward. Right. What is inward meaning? You know, first is upward, of course, vertically. So one's relationship with God, right. Inward, meaning one's relationship with those inside of the cell group, right, with one another. Okay. So in terms of fellowship, in terms of friendship, so it assesses that, evaluates that, you know, is it getting better? Is it getting worse? Right. And so we need to use some method to find out if it's getting better. It can't be just, okay, I think it's better. I feel it's better. Right. I feel it's getting better. Whereas it need not be. Right. It's just our assumption that it's getting better. Right. So upward, inward. Then outward. Outward is, okay, what is the life group or the cell group doing in order to reach out others and others who do not know Christ? Now, what is the passion level of those in the cell group towards the world outside? You know, because a cell group can actually get very, very comfortable with just with inward looking, you know, just looking inwards, community, building friendship and forgetting the great commission. So, okay, outward looking, then forward looking, meaning, okay, now, are we actually doing something in order to raise up leaders or people in the life group, are they interested? Are they taking that step to raise, to, you know, to become sons, to become fathers and mothers. Right. In order to lead others, are they growing? Are they maturing so that they can lead others as well? And can they can they can there be something to train them to raise them up to identify these other people? So why don't we intentionally do something to raise them up as leaders? Right. So, so this, this is the four direction, if you want to call it that, right, upward, inward, outward and forward. And it can be useful, a useful tool in a cell group. And I think it's, it'll be a useful tool for a church itself, because, you know, the cell is a small part of the church. It's like the term, you know, uses like a microcosm meaning that, okay, this is a working model of how a church should be in the smallest sense. So you have this. And then, you know, you can maybe use that to assess the health of the church also. Okay. Okay. So here's a questionnaire and then there's some, you know, you can go through that, you know, how, how to score and all that. Right. There is a score which is there for every response. The left most side would be start with one and the right most column would have scores of five. Okay. So, you know, upward connecting, for example, you know, it says how many days each week do you pray for other members of your cell group? Very pertinent question. How many minutes does your cell group spend in worship in its meetings? How many minutes do you spend in devotional time with the Lord on an average day? Okay, so this is individually. So it is there 20 minutes plus or 40, 46, 45 minutes plus. How many minutes does your cell group spend in prayer in its meeting? So one is individual, the other one is as a group, corporately. Then how often does your cell group see wonderful and miracle, miraculous answers to prayer. So the whole thing is focusing on relationship with the Lord individually and corporately. Okay. So, okay, so you assign some scores. You can say, okay, how many days do you pray for them? Maybe, you know, I don't pray at all. Let's say, you know, that can be a choice, which means the point given to that it's one. Okay. So based on that, here are some evaluations. Okay. I hope you can see this. So if the score is 17 or higher, okay, it's okay. Everybody's doing well. Keep praying, which means there is the prayer life of the cell group is pretty strong, right?  So it's strong. Okay. If it's below that, right, if it is 16 and below, then, you know, it is above the danger zone, but it could be higher. Okay. So which means that, you know, if they're, this is barely doing it, it's on and off, right, but it, they can always grow. There's always scope for growth. So this is what Jim Eagley says, you know, no prayer, no power and yeah. So this is, this is what he said, no, no prayer, no power, little prayer, you know, little power, lots of prayer, lots of power. Okay. So the importance of prayer, the importance of being with the Lord. And, and we looked at that, you know, like the, the reason the, or the Lord Jesus chose people calling them apostles, calling them as disciples is so that he can be with them, they can be with him and that he may send them out. Okay. We saw that was very clear. The purpose is that they might be with him and that he might send them out. Okay. So, so this being with him, spending time with him is very important so that he can send them out. Okay. Then, okay. So all this evaluation, so it'll help us. Okay. Maybe we need to make some changes. You know, we are spending a lot of time planning the food and, you know, get togethers and all that, but maybe we need to, it's time to increase our time together in prayer or our time alone in prayer, our time praying for one another. And we need to do more. So, you know, we can talk about that. We can encourage one another to pray more. So many things can happen. Then the second thing is inward, which means first we saw was upward. Second one is inward, which means, you know, building community, you know, building fellowship, friendship, getting to know one another in the group, you know. So, you can trust, you can share, you can carry one another's, you know, burdens. So, pray for one another and so on. Right. So, here are some questions again. How many times does your cell group meet? How many times in a month, you know, in a four-week time span? How many times does the cell group meet? It's a very important question, you know. Are they, they're not meeting at all? Just meeting once, once in four weeks. Right. So, the frequency of meeting also helps. Right. When we say frequency, we are saying how many times. Right. So, the frequency of meeting helps the group so that they can, you know, get to know one another at a personal level, understand each other's struggles, challenges, help one another, pray for one another and so on. Okay. So, so it's, it's, it has a bearing. Okay. Then how many fun activities, how many parties has your cell group enjoyed together in the past three months? And it's okay.  You, you learn certain things which you do, you may not learn otherwise, that you get to know about the person and inward looking is about getting to know, building stronger friendships and strengths, you know, interests. What is that person interested in? Right? What are the person's strengths? What are the person's weaknesses? Right? So you get to observe, you get to know all this when you have some activities apart from the cell group meeting, right? Like some of the cell groups that I've seen here at APC, you know, the minute someone's in trouble, especially during the COVID time, families just, you know, the entire family was unwell, right? Mother, father, children, they're all unwell, or there's nobody to help and then so the cell group, you know, came together to help them, came together to serve, came together to, you know, just provide food and so on. So this happened because they had a strong bond, right? They had a strong bond, they knew each other and so on. They enjoyed, you know, being with each other and they, so they helped one another as well. Okay, then the other thing, other question is how many times have you invited cell group members to your home or a restaurant for a meal the past two months, you know? So, you know, have you had a cup of tea with them outside of your cell group meeting? So these are things, these are small things but these are helpful things, right? And maybe, you know, this, so this would really help the cell group to become stronger. Okay, so we might think, okay, what is the, what is the big deal in this? There are some people who are very, you know, who are people friendly, right? They like meeting people, they like being with people, they enjoy talking to people.  Yeah, they do but, you know, for them it becomes a big effort to do that, right? So these are areas by which these are things that we can change, okay, say, okay, I need to grow in this. It's like, I don't spend that much time with the cell group members outside of the cell group meeting. So can I do something? Can I plan? Yes, you know, maybe time is rare commodity, you know, in the sense, you don't have much time, you have work and you have other things, crowding your life, you know, maybe there are young children and so you need to take care of them, all that is there. But can I plan and my day or week in such a way so that I can spend some time, you know, with the cell group members outside of the cell group meeting, maybe meet them for a cup of tea, you know, maybe have a meal with them.  And so this helps bond, build friendships. Then how often do your cell group members sit together in Sunday worship? So we see that, you know, some of the, you know, youth or the men, young men cell group. So we see that they, you know, they serve in church together, they attend church together and so on. Right. So this is also an indicator. How often do you communicate with cell members by phone, email, cards or letter in order to encourage them? So all these things help build community. Okay, so we may not have thought about it. We may not have. We may think that, okay, these are simpler things. I want to be, you know, spiritually on fire, you know, just share the word and teach the word and so on. Yes, very, very important. We should not let go of that. Also, this is very important. Right. It'll help build community. Okay. Third one, outward looking, outward focus reaching the loss. So, well, maybe the church, our cell group has upward focus, maybe the cell group has inward focus. What about the outward focus? Okay. So some questions here. How often does your group take time in its meetings to pray for those who do not yet know Christ praying interceding for others for the lost, maybe in as neighbors, maybe as friends, families, members who do not know Christ. So what happens when the cell group does that? So they become sensitive or they receive the heart of God. They realize the burden that the Lord has for the lost. Okay. And they get passionate about the lost as well. So praying for opportunities to share and so on. Right. So how many days each week do you pray for the salvation of unbelievers? How many parties, fun events has your group done in the past that were targeted to appeal to non-Christians? Like when a visitor attends your cell group, how often are they followed up with a phone call, note or visit? Okay. Does your cell group have a clear, dated goal for when it will grow to 12 members? Let's say, you know, there it is only the leader and maybe three other members right now in the cell group. You know, so the cell group, is there a plan? Okay.  Of course, it is, it is God who sets things up. You know, we can go visit other, we can do things in the natural, right? Visit, call, invite people from church to be part of the cell group. So is there an intention like that? It is there a desire like that? Okay. So that is the outward focus. Then the forward focus would be multiplying leaders. Okay. So how many people or couples are being actively trained as cell leaders? Right. So intentionally training them because there are people who are gifted or people who have a passion or a desire or have a heart to, to nurture others. Right. We have a heart to disciple others. So have they been identified? Have they been, or have they been invited to be trained? Is there a process for training? Well, these are questions to ask, right? Okay. How about percentage of your group members, do you expect to lead a group at some point in future? So there are 12 people in the cell group, for example, and how many of them do you expect to start other cell groups? Can all have the potential at some point, you know, maybe are they gifted in, in God's grace then so they can start a cell group on their own? Have you thought about it? How often do you, okay, what percentage of youth adults in your group do you involve in leading parts of the cell meeting? Okay.  Are you, or are you delegating responsibilities to others as well so that they grow? Okay. How often do you do your prayers for your cell include a prayer for the multiplication of leaders? And how many individuals or couples in your group do you expect to go through cell leaders training in the next year? Okay. So these are things which would help with the forward focus, multiplying leaders, raising up leaders, identifying leaders in the group. Okay. So you see it's a very wholesome approach, wholesome emphasis on connecting to God, upward focus, inward focus, community. It is also, you know, outward focus evangelism and it's also forward focus where it's leadership development, developing leaders. So it's a very helpful assessment, a very helpful tool that one can use in the cell group. Okay. So you see that it is, you know, we've looked at one section, we've covered one section. So you see that it's very different from maybe a care cell meeting or a cottage prayer meeting or a home group meeting. So we are here, there is individual attention, this individual growth and development to be a disciple, to be a leader. And so that is the intention, right, to build or to enable, empower disciples to become ministers and leaders. So that is the whole process. So so this next section that we are going to see talks about training the person. Right. So the first section was about, of course, introduction to cell group ministry, introduction to cell church, and what should be the vision, what should be the focus, you know, and some of the work, some of the details we looked at, you know, what can happen in a cell group meeting, how many people, what do we do, how long does the cell group happen, what kinds of cell groups, all that we looked at. So now the second session, second section is about preparing a person in the, or people in the cell group to be leaders or becoming a cell leader. So let's say a person has potential to be a leader, and the person has been serving or maybe taking turns to lead the cell group. Now, if we feel that, okay, this person has the heart, this person has the desire, definitely they can be groomed and trained to be cell leaders, so that they can start as a couple, they start their own cell group, or maybe as an, as a individual person can start his or her own cell group. So they need to be prepared, they need to be trained. So this section deals with that, preparing to become a cell leader. It has three steps, like some general instructions, and then preparing to be a cell leader and raising up, you know, disciples, reproducing. So these are the three sections, like I said, and then we are looking at the second section, step two, right, okay. So before we go further, just wanted to, any, any questions in, in whatever we have shared so far about cell groups, any questions, any doubts, or some things that you have, you know, maybe noticed in your cell group, some difficulties, challenges, we can talk about that, right. So anything at all. So, so what has your experience been in leading a group, you know, have you tried leading a cell group? Any, can you share any experiences, like some challenges faced or anything that, you know, some, some difficulties at leading a cell group. And from whatever we have shared so far, what has been your experience in it? Anyone? I think some of you shared that you were part of cell group, like Thomas, you shared that you were part of a, so you didn't have opportunity to at the initial days, we can believe you were, you were part of a cell group, right, or a, is that what you said? I forget what you were mentioning, whether you were part of a cell group or something you said. I said part of a cell group that time was a new in Christ, that born again time, as part of the cell group. Okay, so anything that you noticed, any challenges, you know, I know, I know you must have been taking it in all in, you know, whatever was being taught, but then looking back at, you know, these things, these characteristics, anything that you can compare and say, okay, maybe this was some challenge or this was not there or this was already in place, anything like that that you can share, you know, like maybe raising up leaders, you know, did the cell group help with that or, you know, in terms of building community, like building strong relationships and friendships, did anything happen? You know, it may not have been stated, right, but it would have happened naturally, or it may not have happened. So, so those are some things where you're able to identify some things. So that was my question. The thing is, the time, I didn't know anything, just going and listening to the words, 10 and 12, 11, 15 people, one house. So I couldn't notice too much, because we used to enjoy the world. We don't know the leadership, the hierarchy, anything, we don't know anything, just be going and sitting there, listening to the word, we weren't able to notice. But when youths are gathering, I can notice, they're more concentrated about the fun activities rather than the world. It's quite difficult to hand the world among the youngsters, because they like to be enjoyed the time more than loving something. So somewhere that has to be managed, that's what I noticed. Oh, okay. Okay. Thank you. And yeah, I think the other person is Erin. Erin, how is it, like in your life, in your cell groups, like these three or four cell groups that you're part of, these four things that we saw, you know, inward, upward, inward, outward, forward. Do you notice all four or some things that are not there? You know, some things that can, you know, that has scope for improvement. What is it? Anything that you noticed? I mean, you can put it in the chat also, like four different cell groups. So I think one cell group you said, the number is almost 40, right? Almost 40 people coming together. I forget the details. I don't know which one it is, like the colony cell group or the other one was a small group, which is your friends.  I'm sure each cell group would have a different thing, right? Maybe you're only in church cell group. Okay. So what is it that you noticed in the church cell group? Let me just put out those four things that will help. Okay. First, we said it was upward. Okay. So upward focus, prayer, focusing on God, inward, so that is community, friendship, right? Then we said outward, putting it on the chat outward. So it's evangelism, who preach, then forward, forward, which is raising up leaders, leaders from the group, right? Yeah. So, so you've put up, they are rooted in God's word, yes. That is great. But I'm just talking about these four areas. Mainly, you know, like, okay, so which means they are rooted in God's word. So, you know, that upward focus is there, right, when it comes to sharing the content and it's very strong. What about the other three? Like, in terms of friendship and fellowship, do people know each other? In terms of evangelism, you know, do people reach out? Is there prayer?  Or is the vision shared? Or is there encouragement given? I'm not finding fault, but I was saying, you know, these things actually are healthy for the self-group. So have you noticed those kind of things in the self-group? Okay, so rooted in God's word. So what you're saying when you say, I noticed only in church self-group is that, okay, you saw these elements in the, or these characteristics in the church self-group, but not in the other self-groups, right? Okay, fine. So we'll take a break and then we'll come back and discuss further, right? We'll take a break.


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