Okay. Recording is on. Let's take a moment to pray and we'll get started. Can I please ask somebody to pray with a glass? Then we will get started. Go ahead. Anyone? Just pray together. Pastor, can I pray? Go ahead, please. Publicious Father, we thank You and praise You, Father God, for this wonderful week which are given to us. We give You all the glory, honor, and praises, Father God, for everything. Lord Master, Your mighty plans for each one of us, Father God. We pray that Father fill us with Your spirit of wisdom and understanding to receive every word which is going to come out from Your servant's mouth. Let these words should not be vain words for us, Father God, but let these words be life and let we be able to use these words of Father God in our person, ministry, in our personal life of Father. We pray and we ask You, Father, let Lord Master, let Your Son receive the word of revelation from the throne room of Yours so that every word which is going to come, let it carry the power and Father, Father, let it carry the spirit of God. I thank You, Father God, let it defy us of Father, let it build us of Father, let it build our faith, let it be productive for our ministry and Father God so that we can be able to stand together to build the kingdom. We give You all the glory, honor, and praises, and since it's going to be true. Thank you, Father. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Okay. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to BC 309, Urban Church Planting. So today, the last class, we covered all the way till the sharing the notes here. We talked about urban church planting and missions. In Acts, we are now going to get into our next section, which is we're going to talk about practical aspects, get into the practical side of planting a church or engaging in urban missions. How do you engage the city as you try to bring the gospel and the message of the gospel to them, right? So we're getting into practical things. I'm going to share just, you know, the things that we can do. Some of these things may be directly applicable in situations that you may find yourself in. But some of these things may need to be tailored or customized to your local situation. So please understand that, you know, not everything I say can be applied directly. Some things may need to be customized or tailored to your specific situation, but it will give you ideas on what need to be done. So how do we get started in church planting? Now, your personal preparation as a church plan term, somebody's going to pioneer a work. I purposely left it to the end because before you kind of, you know, so we would discuss that having understood what goes into the work. Okay, now how do I get ready for that work? So I thought it was best to talk about it towards the end of the course. So we purposely left it there. So we'll come to it, you know, what can we do to prepare ourselves? But let's get to understand, you know, what goes into it? What is the work involved? What goes into starting a pioneering a church or any kind of Christian ministry? What goes into it? And here are some things to, we can think about and share. So the first thing, you know, we were talking about is a core team. Sometimes God may use you as an individual. And we have examples of that. For instance, when Philip went to Samaria, you know, he may have gone alone. He may have other people may have gone with him. We don't know, but he's the only person mentioned there as preaching in Samaria. So Philip goes to preachers and he's called from there to go into a desert place called Gaza, where he is given the opportunity to interact with Ethiopia. From there, he goes on to Caesarea. So as an individual, we see him moving. And God is using this man Philip as an individual. And Paul, when he begins his ministry, he goes along with Barnabas or two of them are there. But thereafter, we see that Paul always ministers as a team, a church planting team, an apostolic team. When he goes out. So we don't rule out the fact that God may use you as an individual. But it's always good if you can have a team of two or more people to be involved in this work. Right? So the church planting team. Now this could be you and your spouse. Or it could be you and your spouse and some other people. Or it could just be two of you as friends who have known each other. Well, you know, the team can be any kind of composition, meaning it, you know, different, different. And so over the years, in the kind of teams have worked in have been very different. So when I was in school and college, it was me just initiating the work and then other people came alongside and we were all just students and we work together. And we started different things in the area of the college campuses that we were. Later on, after I got married, Amy and I, along with another couple, we pioneered together bilingual church in New Jersey, an English Spanish church. So in that case, there were two married couples working together as the church planting team. And then other people came on alongside us to help us in that work. Now when we move back to India to start all people's church, which is Amy and me came. And then we started from the very first day. Another couple came. And they were, you know, Georgie, who was he was a school friend of mine. And we used to do ministry in school days together. But now, of course, both of us were married. So Amy and I and then Georgie and his wife Joyce. So from the very first service belongs, they came. And so we were there two couples. And initially, we started the work that way. So you know, God would orchestrate this whole thing.  But it's important, I would say it's important to have a team, you know, just so that's not you alone as far as possible. But you and your spouse or maybe three or four of you make that team. Now, some of the things to keep in mind when you know, about the team is the members of the team are very important. It's, you know, the people in the team should have a healthy relationship with each other. There should be trust, support. No, there's not competition, you know, so if you have three or four people are trying to be better than each other and competing with each other, that's not a good team. You should also be united, theologically and spiritually, one heart, one mind. This is also very important, because otherwise, later on, there will be those kinds of problems that what you teach and preach and so on. Another thing to look for in the team is, can you compliment each other's gifts and skills? You know, somebody can minister to the word, somebody's good in leading worship, somebody's good in prayer or, you know, other areas evangelism, administration. So if you have complimenting gifts and skills, that is very useful. Right? Another important part of the team is that you need everybody to be committed to this vision of the church plan. Yeah, so nobody is coming along just because, you know, they're just occupying a spot or they're not really committed to the vision, then that's, that's, that's pointless. So your team must have people who are really committed to the vision of planting the church or pioneering that work in that place. Right? And it's important that you have a leader for the team and everybody supports that particular leader in the church planning team. That means because the leader is overall responsible. He is the vision bearer. Others are part of the vision, but there has to be a clearly identified person who's going to lead. Otherwise, everybody will pull the work in different directions and there will be chaos. So it's very important that the church planning team have a clearly, has a clearly defined identified leader. So getting your core team together is very, very important before you get started. Right? Or, like I said, in some cases, you may start to work yourself alone, but sooner or later, you need a core team. You need a few people that you will, that you can identify will become part of this team so that together you're going to get the work done. Right? It's, don't try to continue on this work alone for too long a period of time so that church planting core team is important and God will bring the right people and you need to hear some things you think about in terms of having a really good core team. Now, in our own experience, what we do here at All People's Church, so initially, like I said, when we started one location, then we started other locations and so on, over time what happened was, within the church, people were being nurtured, people are being trained and they're learning how things are happening within the church and so when we wanted to plant out new locations, and I'm especially thinking about our fourth and fifth location in Bangalore City, it was very easy for us. You know, I remember actually when, you know, at this time, I think we, this was somewhere in, I think it was 2012, and by the time we had three locations in Bangalore, in our city and yeah, I may have got the year actually wrong, I'm not very sure, but somewhere around that time, 2012. I remember once, one day, one of our young men, he had met for an accident and so he was in the hospital, so I went to visit him in the hospital and when I went there, there were already some of the other young men there, you know, they were there just to be with him and so on and so while I was there, and we were in the hospital's room, they were all surrounded and he was one of our young men, he'd met an accident, he was there and we were just talking and at that moment, in the hospital room, it was like God just, you know, asked me a question, what are you doing with all these young people? Young man, what are you doing with all these young people? You know, so I'm there, I've gone to visit somebody, if you're in the hospital, there are about, you know, six, seven young men around and the Lord is speaking to me, what are you doing with all these young people? And the next thought that comes to me is with these people, you plant a new church, so right there in the hospital room, I asked them all, I said, hey guys, you know, it's a very strange location, it's a strange place to say, talk about church planting, but this is what actually happened. In that hospital room, with all these young men around, I said, hey guys, would all of you be ready to go and plant a church in Bangalore East, that is, you know, Whitefield in the name of the area? Would you be ready to go and start a church, a branch church there? And right there in the hospital room, they all said yes right, so that was the core team of people, then I said okay, and one of our young men was not there, I said, you know, I'm going to ask him to lead this work and we will get the team together and we will launch. So after that meeting, I spoke to the other person, I said, hey, you know, people are ready, would you be willing to lead the team and we'll go and start this new location, church in this new location and you know, within, I think within a month or two, we actually launched our fourth location in Bangalore and the core team was these young men. Now it was easy for us because they satisfied all these criteria, you know, they were already in good relationship with each other, theologically, spiritually, we're all flowing together, we're all part of the same church, they had different skills that complemented each other and they were committed to the vision of the church plan this, yeah, we'll do it, you know, we'll go and they already knew what all needed to be done and then we were able to just quickly launch, we started the church and you know, that's how the fourth location and in the same way, you know, similar way, we launched our fifth location, just spoke to a few people, are you ready to go and start here? They all said yes, the team was put together, they went and started. So from the main location, we got a team to go and start fourth location, fifth location and it was very easy but the point I wanted to make is, you know, the core team, you know, these things are very important, the relationship, the being of the same mind, theologically and complimenting each other's gifts and being committed to the vision and having a leader, if you can get that together, you can have a core team that can go and get the work done, right? So this core team is important, let me pause you to see if there are any questions on this before we move forward, are you all with me so far? Okay, all right, any questions? So that's the first thing, try to get, you know, getting a core team together is important, let's go. Next, you start preparing for the church plan, right?  So today, a lot of preparation can happen remotely, because we are able to gather information online, we could survey an entire city online, you can gather information about the demographics and what's going on in the city, just online. So you could actually do a lot of preparation from a distance but 20 years ago, it wasn't so easy, right? So I, when we were getting ready to come and start All People's Church in Bangalore 20 years ago, now we couldn't do an online survey or, you know, 22 years ago, couldn't do an online survey and all that stuff. So we actually wrote letters to some pastors asking them for information, asking them for some suggestions on, you know, where to start the church and so on and so forth. But today, things are very different, you can go online, you can look at Google Maps, you can survey a city, you can read up a lot of information online, you can really understand the city from a distance, you can study its natural and spiritual dynamics from a distance. So part of the preparation is trying to understand the people, what is happening, the natural and spiritual dynamics that we spoke about, you know, study and take some time to examine it or you may be already living in that same city that makes it a little easier or you may be in a different place and you're planning to go to a certain city to start the work but you can really, you should take some time to do some preparation, right?  And so you can share those thoughts with each other, listen to what the Holy Spirit is speaking, he may give you some ideas, strategies as you are preparing from a distance, you may be preparing for it. Another thing that can be done, if possible, is develop a contact list. That means you may already have some people that you know in the city, friends who've moved into the city, so you reach out to them and say, hey, you know, I'm planning to come to this place and I'm planning to start it's a church in this area, but you know, you share the vision with them, they may be able to help in some way, right? They may be able to give you information on what's happening in the city. They may suggest places where a church blunt is needed. They may connect you with other pastors in the city. They may be able to provide support in terms of just the practical things that need to be done, but also keep in mind that if they're part of a church in a city, don't ask them to leave. You know, don't tell them, leave your church and come and join me. That's not a nice thing to do.  Unless God directs them to do it, that's different, but don't ask them to do it. So as part of your preparation, you know, you get to know, okay, get to prepare yourself, understand the city, if there are people that you can reach out to do so, get to know the pastors in the city, get to know people who are already working in the city, build relationships with them, let them know you're coming and what your intent is, and so on, right? So now over here, and we will be talking about this again a little later on, you know, it is very likely that in any city that you're planning to go start a church or a ministry, there is already some Christian work happening. There may be other churches, there may be other Christian ministries already in that region or in that city. How we enter and how we relate to these churches and pastors is very, very important, right? Do it very humbly and do it in a way that doesn't make them feel threatened that another church is coming and starting. Now, this just is, you know, the situations and the scenarios can vary. Usually in my case, when some young person comes and tells me, hey, I want to start this church in a city in Bangalore City, you know, for me, it's like, hey, that's amazing. Let's go do it. I'm here to help you in a whatever way I can. Let me know and I will help you and help you start. And some of these young people in Bangalore City, they come and they talk to, you know, they spend time with me learning just how should they start their church? How should they go? And so, you know, so that's my approach. It's like, I'm all for it. I'm not in any way threatened by it or intimidated by it. I just do the best I can to support them, help them, encourage them. But that may not happen in every city. Like, you know, maybe if you go into a city somewhere, maybe there are people who may not like it, like the fact that you are coming to start a church or you're coming to plant a church or start a Christian ministry. They may not like that idea, you know. And so, I'm talking about other pastors and other leaders. They may try to interfere, they may try to discredit, whatever. But from our side or from your side, as you are going to plant a work, the best, do the best you can to maintain good relationships with the pastors or with leaders of Christian ministries that are already operating in the city. So the one thing I always suggest is, go ahead before you start your work, at least the ones who are in the near and nearby to where you're going to start the work. Let them know that you're coming. Let them know that, you know, you don't in any way are going to interfere in their work, especially, you know, people of the same kind. That means if you're planning a spiritual church and there are other spiritual churches in that area, you know, try to establish good relationships with them, with the pastors and, you know, make it very clear, you're here to compliment what's already happening. You're not here to compete or distract from their work. All right. So maintaining good relations. We'll talk more about that a little later. So once you've done your preparation when you can prepare from a distance, of course, the next thing is to go on site. So at the right time, make the move.  But before you make the move, it's important that you plan on when and how you would go about this. You go through a survey phase when you're on site. You prepare, we'll talk about each of these phases. You launch and then you copy on that. Now I'm giving you all of these thoughts and ideas. You know, this is not a rule book, right? This is not the 10 Commandments of Church Blunting. It's not that. It's just ideas. This is how you can work with God. The most important thing is to follow God. You know, God may do something differently and that's perfectly fine. God may lead you differently. That's perfectly fine. But try to make use of these things. But these are common approaches that generally many people have used in planting a church or starting a ministry. But remember, these are not the 10 Commandments. I mean, this is not the only way God works, right? Now these are just ideas or suggestions or approaches we can take, right? So getting back to this. So relocate.  We'll talk about these three. Part of going on site is to plan for your finances. How are you going to fund the work? This is a big thing because starting a church, starting a ministry will require money, right? You may need to rent a hall. You may need to do some promotion work. If you're going to start a church service, you need to buy equipment. You need to buy chairs. You need to... So many things that cost money. So how are you going to fund the launch of the church or the ministry? Now if you have different options, one is you can work for a period of time and from what you earn, you can start your work, start the ministry. Let me see the Apostle Paul and his team. They did this in Acts. When they went to Corinth, Acts 18, they were in Corinth and they were making and selling tents while they were also involved in planting a church and a good strong church in Corinth was splunted. When Paul was in Ephesians, he spent more than three years there. That was a longer period of time he spent. And it's most likely that he worked there while he was in Ephesians because he talks about it in Acts 20. He says that he worked with his own hands and he provided for his own needs. So Paul was working for three years in Ephesians while he was also establishing that church and nurturing leaders. Same thing when he was in Thessalonica, he and his team were working. They were doing something, most likely building tents. And he writes about that in Thessalonians chapter 2. He says, I've worked with my own hands, our team, we worked with our own hands. We were not a burden to you. As they planted the church in Thessalonica. You may choose to do something like that. You may choose to work and plant. That's what the apostle Paul did. And keep this in mind that just because Paul was working and planting a church, didn't take away from his apostolic anointing and calling. He was still an apostle. Just that he was working and planting a church, but he was still an apostle of God. And he planted these churches. And then he moved on. So you can take that same approach if the Lord leads you that way. And you may continue to work professionally and raise up other leaders, or you may at the right time transition into just overseeing the church and when the church is able to support you financially. There are other, so you could basically fund the church plant through your personal finances. Or there are other ways you can raise support. If a church is sending you out, then the sending church will probably help you financially until you can become self-sustaining. Or you could get help from other people who want to be part of your work. And so it may not be the sending church that supports you, but you could get money through people who are behind the vision who may support you. But the point is, you need to think about this, pray about to see what God wants you to do as you plan for the church plant because it does cost money. You have to pay your own bills. If you have a family, you've got to take care of your family. You've got to take care of your church planting team. And you've got to pay for all the other expenses that are involved in doing a church plant. So think through this, and you definitely have to do whatever the Lord is leading you to do, and God will give you a clear strategy. And part of this is also planning for other needs.  So think through on all these matters and have a plan, how you would address these needs. Okay, let me pause you. Any questions so far? You all with me? You okay? Let's move on. I'm assuming all of you are still following me. Some other things to think about in the preparation phase is get to understand the legal, administrative, and regulatory matters that are involved. So wherever you go, understand that when you start a work there, it's not just about doing the ministry. It is, there is a responsibility you have towards the government, right? Because you're not working in an empty space. You're working in a city, you're working in some region. All of that comes under the government that's there, the civil authorities. So it's important to understand the legal side of things. What are you allowed to do? What are you not allowed to do? So on. It's important to put in administrative systems in place. Like you got to have a bank account, you got to have some accounting happening for the money. Otherwise, the whole thing could get into trouble. And you also need to have follow government regulations. They may want you to file a professional income tax for yourself, for the people who are working, so on, so forth. So be familiar with these things. Get to get the right help when you go into a city. Think about these things. Okay. Now we are talking about these things in the other course on church, ministry, administration. So all that you're learning in that course comes into a play right here. Right? So as you go into a city, ask the question, how do I form a legal entity? What are the regulatory compliances that I need to adhere to? What are the administrative systems I must have in place to make sure everything is okay?  But then, if you're violating some laws, the police can come. You know, people can come, people can take this up in a legal sense and then unnecessary trouble begins to happen. Right? So just keep this in mind that part of church planting is you got to be in compliance with the legal administrative regulatory requirements of that particular place where you're going to start the work. Don't violate it. Otherwise, all the good work that you do spiritually can suddenly come to a halt if any of these problems arise, right? So try to prepare yourself with this. Ask the questions. You can research online. Ask people what in that city to guide you or ask the church that is sending you to give you the guidance on these matters and they will prepare you and you should be ready, okay? So that's so far in terms of preparation and overview of how you prepare. Let me just run through it very quickly. You know, think about a church court team getting the work started. You can prepare from a distance do some research, plan to relocate, get on site, plan for your finances, plan for other personal needs and plan for the legal administrative regulatory matters that are involved. So now part of your planning is you need to survey the city so we have done your preparatory planning from a distance. You've gone online. You've looked on Google Maps. You've read about the city. You've got all the background information. That's wonderful. Now you're on site. You're in the city. Now you've got to try to get a feel of the city. What is the city like? So you survey the city. Take time to get a feel of the city. And there's a sample towards the end of this document. Of course it was done some years ago for our own city, but something similar. You try to understand the demographics and what's going on in the city. If you survey the city, go around the city. And it's very interesting when you look at how Paul worked, how the apostle Paul worked. Let's take some time to read both of these passages. Let's read Acts 16, 11 to 15. I think it's very interesting just to see how Paul did his work. Acts 16, 11 to 15. Somebody could read it for us, please. Okay, go ahead. Shall I read first? Please go ahead. Acts chapter 16 verse 11 to 15 says, Therefore sailing from Troas, we ran a straight course to Samuthris. And the next day came to Neopolis. And from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days. And on the Sabbath day, we went out of the city to the riverside where prayer was customarily made. And we sat down and spoke to the woman who met there. Now a certain woman named Lydia heard us. She was a seller of purple from the city of Teatera who worshipped God. The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. And when she and her household were baptized, she begged us saying, If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay. So she persuaded us. Now think about this. So Paul and the steam, they come to the city of Philippi. Now it was a new city for them, right? They're just Paul and the steam, they're just moving from city to city proclaiming Jesus. They did not have a course on urban church planting. They had none of these things which you and I have today, right? So then somebody said, why should we do this course? Because to whom much is given, much is expected. God has given us much. He's given us all these resources. So he's expecting us to make years of these resources. In Paul's day and time, they didn't have all these. So God just worked with them, with whatever they had. But always remember the law of God is to whom much is given, much is expected, right? So don't take, Paul just randomly went and I also randomly go and God expects us to be responsible. All right. But going back to Paul's scenario, you know, Paul and his team, they just come to Philippi and notice what it says here. They, verse 12, end of verse 12, they were staying in that city for some days. And we don't know what some days is. Was it three days? Was it seven days? Was it 10, you know, or I don't know, right? Some days, maybe it was three days or four days. Well, how many of our days leading to that particular Sabbath day, right? So they were there and we can just assume that they must have been going around the city asking, hey, is there any religious, is there any prayer meeting happening, anything going on?  You can go there.  Prayer is because there's a prayer meeting happening regularly by the river side. So they go there. That's verse 13. And they start talking to the people. Now here it was a women's prayer meeting. It was the women who were meeting there. And there was a lady who was a businesswoman. Her name was Lydia. So she was a businesswoman. She was part of the prayer meeting. Now, when Paul and his team come, they start talking to these people, these women's prayer meeting, right? And they start telling, obviously, they're preaching to them about Jesus. Now, this women's prayer meeting, they must have been Jewish, I think, and they're just talking about whatever they knew. But now they're paying attention to what Paul has to say about Jesus Christ. And notice what happens in verse 14. The Lord opened her heart, just beautiful. Then God opened somebody's heart as Paul is preaching. And then she says, hey, come to my house. And from there on, we see how the things that happened, in Philippi, and demon-possessed girl is set free, and the jailer is affected. And there's the things that happened that they'd established a work in the city of Philippi. But how did it all start? Paul and his team came there, and they stayed there for some days. They were just surveying. They were spending time in the city. They must have asked around. They got one contact. Go by the riverside on the Sabbath day. There's a prayer meeting. So they went there. And from there, the doors began to open. Very interesting. So that one contact, which they would have obtained as they surveyed the city, opened the door. God just led them that way. So when we are on location in the city, just be open to what God is doing. As you are saying, God, I want to start a church in the city. I want to plant a church here. How do I do it? God can give you that one contact or somebody who is going to, in that city, who's going to open the door, who's going to welcome you, and the ministry can get started that way. In Chapter 17, Paul and his team, they continue. They're on their missionary journey. They're planting churches. They're starting work in different areas. In Acts 17, they come to Athens. And very interesting, once again, to see how they went about church planting in Athens. So can we read there from Acts 16 to Acts 17? Sorry. What's the 16 to 23? Can somebody read that for us? Go ahead. Is that Ashar? Congratulation. He resists the Jews. I am with the Prince. For the first in the marching place, daily with those who have been to be death. Then a Korean and a Stoic philosopher encountered him. His son said, What does this babbler want to say? Others said he seems to be a proclaimer, foreigner of foreign gods, because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. And they took him and brought him to be Arafakas saying, Maybe note what this new doctrine is of which he speaks. For you are bringing some strange things to our ears, therefore we want to know what this thing means. For all the Indians and the foreigners who were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new things. Then both the international thing, Arafakas and Sajma say then, I perceive that in all things you are very religious. Whereas I was passing through and comparing the objects of devotion, I will come in also with this inscription. Through the unknown God, therefore the one whom you worship without knowing him, I proclaim to you. Okay, so thank you. Acts 17 verses 16 to 23. So Paul comes to Athens. What does he do there? Now some of his team members of, he sent Silas and Timothy, he sent them away. So he's kind of alone there in Athens for some time. What does he do? He kind of goes around the city. So you can just imagine Paul is surveying the city. He must be just praying around the city and saying, seeing what's going on. He sees a lot of idols in that city. He's going around the city. And then he also starts engaging with the people. He's starting to talk to the people. Hey, what do you do? He's trying to get the feel of, what are these people all about? So verse 17, Acts 17, verse 17, he's reasoning with the Jews and the Gentile worshipers in the marketplace. So he's in the synagogue. He's also in the marketplace where, you know, a lot of people interacting, buying and selling, he's talking to people. He's listening to them. He's having conversation with them. He's asking them questions. He's letting them ask questions. And of course, in all of these conversations, he is presenting Jesus to them. So then they realize that Paul is talking about something new they haven't heard of before. And so what happens?  I mean, we haven't heard about this. It's something new. So what do they do? Verse 19, they take him to Aeropagus. Aeropagus, otherwise translated as Mars Hill, was this elite group of people, maybe about 12 to 24 people who were like the elders of the city. They were the highest intellectuals of Athens. So Athens itself was a very intellectual place, but they had this special elite group called a group of people who sat at Mars Hill. So Mars Hill was an actual location. It was a hillside, but this group sat and they would, if anybody had a new idea, a new philosophy, they would come and speak to this elite group of people. And they would decide, you know, whether this is worth discussing, worth talking about or not. So Paul is invited to speak to this group, the Aeropagus on Mars Hill, so this group of people. Now, so what an opportunity?  You know, so Paul comes and then he starts talking to them. But it's very interesting how Paul speaks to them. He's, he starts telling them, look, I see that you're very religious. So he's done a survey of the city of what these people are involved in and then he starts with that. You know, this is what I know about you. In fact, as you read his sermon, you find that he also read some of the literature, you know, and he quotes from some of their own poets. And he says, you know, one of your own poets has written this. So that means in that time that he was there in the city of Athens, he surveyed the city. He conversed with people. He learned about their culture. He learned about even what their poets have written. And he used all that in order to communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ to this elite group that he had the opportunity to stand before, right? And this Act of 17 eventually tells us that some of the people in the Aeropagus believed. That means he, you know, he preached Jesus to them and these, some of the people, elite people believed. And it's most likely, you know, a church was established in Athens and then Paul moved on. But the point I want to bring across from both these passes in Act 16, Act 17 is Paul took time to understand the city, understand the culture, understand what was going on. He surveyed the city while he was on location and then God orchestrated his path. And I just imagine in Athens, and I'm just getting ready to close here, in Athens, you know, one day when somebody would come and say, Hey Paul, I got an appointment for you with the, with the Aeropagus, at the Aeropagus. Tomorrow they want you to come and talk to them. I mean, that's a divine setup. God set that up for Paul, right? Because otherwise Paul was a nobody in Athens. But for him to get an opportunity to speak to the highest elite group of intellectuals in Athens, it was amazing. But Paul was doing his work, surveying the city, having conversations, understanding the culture, and then God set up an open door and he spoke to the highest group of people in Athens and some of them even believed what he presented. So, surveying the city, understanding what's going on. That's something important to do, right? We'll stop here for today. We will pick this up tomorrow. We'll continue from here. Any questions? Any thoughts? Hope these things are being useful to you, all right? We're just getting into some practical, integrity things, what need to be done when we go about learning the church. Maggie, you have some questions. Go ahead. Yes, sir. Concerning Act 16, when Paul head back to it, there was a prayer meeting going on in a certain area. Does that mean that there was a church planted there before Paul arrived, or it was just a custom Jewish custom to do that to go there to pray? Yeah, good question. From what we can understand, it was more of a Jewish prayer meeting. Like, for example, they had the synagogues where people would meet for prayer. The Jewish people would meet. So this was an extension of that. So these were the Jewish women who just met by the riverside for prayer and singing and whatever they would do. So Paul was directed towards them. We know that it was not a church because they had not yet heard about Christ. It was God who opened Lydia's heart to the message of Jesus Christ, and she welcomes them in. Salvation came and so on. So that's what we can infer from what we read there in Act 16. Yeah, okay. Sri Kumar. Thank you, Master. Master, I just have a doubt regarding to know what you discussed about Paul, that he used their literature to convince the people about Jesus and even they used their poems and the songs to focus on Jesus. Now, this is something which recently happened maybe a few months back. So regarding to that, the people started quoting the scripture and that's why I just want to know how the people are using this scripture. And I will tell you what was that. That recently in India, one of the famous worship leaders used the Bollywood songs to preach the gospel. And later he said that Paul did the same thing when he was in that particular location. And he also used their songs to preach the gospel. So how can, is that the right thing what he did? That is my question. Thank you, Master. Interesting. That's a good question. The reason I'm laughing is, we shouldn't take things overboard. Right. So exactly what you were saying, there was a time in the United States where pastors were spending so much time watching movies. So in order to prepare for Sunday sermon, they'd be watching movies so that they can take things from the movies and use it in their Sunday sermon in order to appeal to the congregation.  But it was true. It was happening. So they spent more time watching movies, talking about just generally secular movies in order to see what they can take and put it into their sermon on Sunday as part of their sermon preparation. That was ridiculous. So that's pushing this idea too far. Right. So what I would say is there is a right way to do things. You know, and then there is a misapplication of truth. So the right is, okay, of course, you know, if there are things that we can, you know, you read something in the newspaper, you hear some news event, and you're using that and saying, hey, you know, look, you're using that as a point of discussion or connection. It's fine. But as people of God, you know, we have to spend time in the Word of God and in prayer. That's our preparation for administrative people. And then, yeah, you do read, you do take your information and use it, but it shouldn't go overboard. And secondly, it should not distract either us or our audience. So in the case where you're talking about, you know, using music from, you know, the film industry, Bollywood, Vera Baricicular, and using that to proclaim the gospel, personally, I think it's pushing this truth too far because the Bible says the gospel is the power of God. Right. That means our dependence is on the message of the gospel. That's where the power of God is. It's not in, you know, quoting, you know, referencing secular music or that's not the power of God. That's not where the power of God is. The power of God is in the message of the gospel. Now, if somebody wants to use one point of reference for people or a point of connection, it's okay. But we shouldn't go overboard with it. Our dependence is not on the secular music. Our dependence is on the message of the gospel. Or it's not on the news. The news can be used as a point of reference. So, for example, if you listen to some of Billy Graham's sermons, it's quite amazing. In many of his sermons, in his big crusades, he would reference one or two current events that are happening. So the audience knows that, okay, he's talking about this event or this one. But it's only that that's not the main message. The main message is the message of Jesus Christ. But he uses those points of reference to address problems in the people saying, look, this is happening. So there is a problem. This is happening. There's a problem. But the answer to the problem is Jesus Christ. So then he preaches the gospel. So it's a very nice way of, you know, of the way he presents the message. But the focus is not on the current event or the connection he's drawing. The focus is on the message of the gospel. And even in Paul's preaching, Acts 17, he does reference, you know, he takes a quote from one of those poets, but the focus comes back to the gospel of Jesus Christ. So I think to answer your question, it's okay to reference cultural points or current events and other things, but that itself shouldn't be the focus. We should come back to the gospel because that's the gospel is the power of God. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thaisha, please go ahead. Good morning, Pastor. Good morning, everyone. You said, preachers before, that we're using movies to preach the gospel. But were people being saved through this method? That's a good question, too. You know, they were able to entertain their audiences. They were able to maybe keep the attention of the audiences for, you know, that 25 minutes, 30 minutes. But that whole thing eventually died out. It was actually part of what was called as creative church movement. This was kind of on the forefront, let's say, and the early, the first decade of the 2000. It was called the creative church. And so part of that, people were doing all these things. But it has died out because it didn't really produce the kind of results. You know, the life transformation was not happening because like it's the gospel that changes lives, not these stories from movies and so on. You know, yeah, good question. Okay, Pastor, thank you. Okay, let's wrap up. If there are no more questions, can we ask somebody to pray and we'll dismiss and we'll meet again tomorrow? Somebody can pray and dismiss us, please. Reverend and Father, we thank you. We thank you for this study of this morning. We thank you so much for the knowledge of God and for us to know your truth and the true church and set us free and we thank you so much that we know your power and nothing else can do your work. Nothing else, even from the secular world, can do or replace your Holy Spirit and the work that you have done in the ages and through the ages and will continue to do because you are the supreme ruler of the universe. You are the most that God and we thank you that your gospel will not be diluted. Lord God, even if we want it to cannot be, you will rise up, your people empower them and send them out right in the olden days. So we thank you, Lord God. We thank you so much for this study and we thank you so much for your church that need planting, Lord God. We say the harvest is ready, but the laborers are few. So Father, rise up the laborers as you keep us to go. Thank you so much for Pastor Ashish and the favorite team that organized this course. We thank you so much and we give you thanks for their health and strength and continued protection on each schoolmate's father in their own respective countries, cities, states, father, wherever they are, all over the nations, you are imparting them with knowledge to impact their communities and the world in Jesus name. Amen. Amen, amen. Thank you everyone. Enjoy the rest of the day. I'll see you again tomorrow. God bless you. Thank you. Bye now. Thank you, Pastor.


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Sorry kind of getting down a little bit right not like attitude wise. I'm just totally getting down with this, right? You know the descending Descending baseline really it was funny brilliant. It really was funny. I think it was funny Yes, when the deed then when the trend in your baseline shows a decreasing trend It's just laughter like the laughter that's happening right now from the audience. Yeah Just kind of when a joke falls flat and it happens over and over and over again Yeah, poor comedians sometimes they really they get going they think they're great And then the whole audience just gets quiet and try another joke and gets quiet again And then to get joking just gets quieter and eventually get down to that absolute silence when everybody's looking at you And it's like all you've got left is the aristocrats and you just don't want to go there Because you just don't that's just not a joke you tell I promise so I don't understand why later. Bye. See you


What's up everybody, Jayce here for jaspyscasebrakes.com. 2023 hip rate, football just sold out. Autograph, limited edition, series one, dual case break, round on team number two. And again guys, 20 total spots, 32 teams. Everybody gets a round on team in the NFL. Each box contains one autograph card that says how does Ruggies, NFL Stars, and Hall of Famers. There's some of the potential big hits you can get out of there guys. And of course there's a dual case here, so 20 total boxes guys. Here's the die-stroller, let's roll. Five and a one, six times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six. Six times, six. David Dolly, down to Matt Smith. Six times, one, two, three, four, five, six. Jets, down to the Raiders. Raider, all right, six times, six. So David, you have the Jets, Joshua K with the Colts, Barry, Swisher with the Cowboys, Tyler with the Browns, Eugene with the Panthers, Michael Robinson with the Packers. Joshua Butler with the Lions, Sean Duke with the Broncos, Reg with my Eagles, David with the Jaguars, Adam with the Falcons.  Niko with the Dolphins, Matt Smith with the Bears, as well as the Rams for David Dolly. Giants, Michael Robinson, Chad with the Saints, Tristan with the Patriots, Niko with the Texans, and Matt Smith with the Vegas Raiders. All right, now, if anybody wants to make any trades, trade window is open. I guess not, Daniel. Let's just close it then. So remember, there is another two cases left, so we can do number three as well tomorrow if you guys want. One a day keeps the doctor away. I have a feeling you're gonna be seeing some Kenneth Walker in here at watch. Seems like a perfect candidate for like Seahawks. All right, guys, here we go. We have Rod Woodson starts off with the Steelers. Daniel, last but not most of them, there you go. It's a 99. We have Bo Jackson, 31 out of 35. That's Raiders, the Raiders that is Matt Smith. I don't know if you're behind, Charles, or which hip rate you're looking for, but I'm doing football right now as I speak. Baseball we did earlier. Counter-Aston, it's a 99. That is from Black, RPA there, from the, four of these, sorry, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Brian Bunce. I don't understand what you mean, can I still get in? What do you mean by that? Nice, AJ Brown, 16 out of 25.  I should have ever seen this card before. Proving ground, interesting. And we have a Saus Gardener, that looks gold, right? Out of 79, 27 out of 79. Jets, Jets, Jets, David Dolly. We have Dakota Prescott to 25. That could have been Auto Pen, guys. Of course, that's Mississippi State, which of course still at Dallas Cowboys, that's one of the Dallas Cowboys Barry Swisher. All right, four more boxes in the first case. And then we got a Plexical Burris, 10 out of 25. And it's a dual autograph with a dub back in junior. It's one of those passing the torches, nice. Very nice. Giants, that's Michael Robinson. And Nick Chubb, rookie titanium, to 125. Cleveland Browns, Tyler. Yeah, that one's pretty sick, right, Michael? That's awesome. We have a Justin Jefferson Pen Pals, rookie auto. Usually gold means something, I don't know if it's lower numbered, but I remember if the pen color's different, it could mean it's lower numbered, parallel. That's a nice one there for the Vikings, going to Karen Steele. And then last box, did we even have a cell street here? I feel like we might have hit one already, but I think Nick only put up like six or seven of them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Yeah, he'll put up seven, so there's other three that potentially we could have hit. Let me pull up Hit Parade's website. Oh, actually, the Justin Jefferson's a cell sheet hit. So there you go, nice. So that's the biggest hit in here. All right, cool. Last box here, guys. And we have absolute legends there of Jonathan Taylor, number to 15. Indianapolis Colts, Joshua K. So there you go, guys. That was the first case, but wait, there's more. It's a dual-caser, thankfully, right? Still not hit list, yeah, guys. One more case. Your lagging Charles or what, but yes, Hit Parade football is sold out, number two, and I'm doing it already. So if you asked if I can get into it, of course you can't, it's already sold out. So you can get into Hit Parade football number three that we'll do for tomorrow, but you can't really hop into a break when it's already sold out and breaking. Unless you're confused with something else. I think you might be delayed, I don't know. You have Jalen Waddle, Raider Rookie. That is going to the Miami Dolphins. And we have another one up, but you have to buy your spots, obviously, in the break so you can get into it either that or in the pack for there. I don't know, probably go off tomorrow. We'll be doing one of these a day more, since we got them, so. And we have about little Danny Millions, all right? Not Danny Dimes, he's making a lot of money now. 19 out of 25 for the Giants, fabric to the game. New York Giants. Michael Robinson, there you go. About a little Jalen Hertz. Fly goes fly, Rick Savage with that one. A little playbook autograph, very solid. Michael Thomas, 2017 National Treasure Signature Materials to 49. That is technically a rookie there. Nice one there for the Saints, but a chat-tucker. All right, one more box, and then we're halfway through the second case. It seems like we're getting a little bit different teams. I think at least I feel like it. Probably been a one or two repeat hits already, but hopefully there's not that many. And we have a nice patch there, that's called a physical, to 18 Mike Evans, and that is from 2014, which is a rookie. Nice Mike Evans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That is Brian. All right, halfway through here, guys. Pay Manning, absolute heroes, four out of five. Nice one there for the Colts. That is a sell sheet hit. Indianapolis Colts, that is going to Joshua Koch. There you go, man. Nice hit right there. I have four more to go, guys. We have a purple patch autograph to 25. That's a Kenini redemption. Ramon Dre Stevenson. Patriots, going to Tristan. We have a Stefan Dix for the Vikings. Upper echelon to 99, on card. Looks like on card. Yeah, on card. Minnesota Vikings. Karen Steele. Two more to go, guys. Here we go, two more, two more. And a Breece Hall. Triple relic and autograph there for the Jets, Jets, Jets. That is going to David. All right, guys, here we go. Terry Bradshaw for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Steelers are going to Daniel Anderson, last spot module of the patch, autograph number to 25. And that's from 2011. Absolute football. Very nice. Ooh, nice, Josh. Colts on, and you got randomized to Colts.  Congrats, man. I love Pay Manning, man. I still vouch for him to be the best ever. Who cares about Tom Brady's rings? All right, well, there you go. Pay Manning here, of course, was the case hit there. And like I said, we had a lot of nice stuff popping out of here in the first one here. And then, of course, the second one as well. Justin Jefferson was the case hit there. AJ Brown, solid stuff right there, guys. So again, we do have another two cases left, so we can run it back one more time for tomorrow, guys. Get it going, Jaspyscasebrace.com, guys, thanks.


It's me, John Park. It is time for JP's product pick of the week. I have a cool product pick for you So thank you for stopping by to check it out and also maybe to get yourself a big humongous discount on this week's product pick So first thing I want to do in fact is send you to the product page So if you go to this URL or to this QR code right here, however you like to do it You'll end up on this week's product pick page and this show is actually Embedded right inside of the product page so you can watch it from right inside of there if you like that virtual shopping mall Barker type of situation experience and The cool thing is you don't need a coupon code all you got to do if you want this week's product pick is throw it in your cart And it's gonna be on a big humongous discount I'm refreshing my page in the background here to check it out because I believe it's yes 50% off on this week's product pick. So if it's something you're interested in check it out. Oh Hey, thanks John Milton John Milton pointed out a typo in my Is that in the YouTube that I put the wrong date? Let's see if I can fix can I fix that? I don't think I can while it's running. Let's find out. Yeah, sure. I said it was the fourth. I'm not Encouraging time travel. So let's let's correct that here we go. Oh save. Okay, that should update. Thank you John and hey, thanks everyone for stopping by over in the various chats I see you over there in YouTube. So hello Jeff Hunt and Paul Curry old aesthetic Quinn man 16 As well as John Milton. Hello. Thanks for stopping by the YouTube chat if you're somewhere else and you're wondering, hey Who's he talking to? Where's the chat? You might want to check out our discord which is over at a to through dot it slash discord and you can look for the live broadcast chat Channel right there and that's where some people are hanging out. So hello see Grover and Debo dog And blitz CD DIY. Hey, Liz. Hey Jeff. Hey thin man. Hello Jim. Hey Gavin, thank you for jumping in here and hanging out today All right, so this is Perhaps the shortest new new new video from Lady Ada that I have ever experienced so I'm gonna play you a 16-second New new new video from Lady Ada. She will just introduce it a little bit But then I'll give you a lot more detail on this week's product pick. So very briefly take it away Lady Ada.  Oh technical difficulties. Hold on you get to you get to Hang out here for a second while I Add the right video in all right. It's gonna auto play. Oh, it's our tft shield reborn like Phoenix from the flames This is one of the oldest boards. It did not make it through COVID slash part shortages slash tft pricing Inflation it's been a journey. So The AD 5693 we've had requests for more bits on the DAX People always emailing you. You know the email you get over the day. Where's my Where there's all that more bits we're 12 bit back now the 16 bit deck coming soon, but we got some photos taken The AD 5690. Yeah, I probably should loop it. It's so short Okay, let me give you a proper introduction because if you blink you'll miss it Here's Lady Ada introducing this week's product pick and that'll give you some more details. Here you go The AD 5693 we've had requests for more bits on the DAX People always emailing you. You know the email you get over the day. Where's my Where there's all that more bits we're 12 bit back now the 16 bit deck coming soon, but we got some photos taken The AD 5693 we've had requests for All right, that's enough looping of that. Yes. So there it is. There is my product pick for this week It is the AD 5693 are 16-bit DAX breakout board This has stem a QTE so it's really easy to connect up over I square C See I've got a little cutie pie plugged in here And then you can wire any kind of plug or terminal screw or combination of those things out or use the pins Put little pin headers on there put it into a breadboard or perma proto and you can send out Analog voltages. So this is digitally controlled DAC digital to analog converter It'll take your digital commands, which you can program inside of What can you program in it? You can program it in Arduino. You can program it in circuit Python Now you can also run it in Python using Blinka on our Raspberry Pi or similar computer and this will send out really really highly accurate Voltages so this is great for any case where you want to send out voltages anywhere from zero to three point three volts If you're using three volt logic or zero to five volts if you're using five volt logic And it has a very stable internal 2.5 volt regulator, which is also temperature compensated And so you can tell it to send really accurate really fine-tuned fine grained voltages. So let me Let me plug this back into the demo. We're gonna do in a second and I'll show you a couple of Nifty things about this, but before I do that, let me jump over to the Page here's the product page for this. So this is it's the 80 56 93 R breakout board. It says 16-bit DAC I square C interface you use that with STEM a QT quick cable And if you take a little scroll down, you will find a link to the learn guide so this is a pretty new board pretty new learn guide and Here it is. Thank you Liz for putting this together as well as the library and some examples for this So here's the product page. You can see beautiful picture of it right here notice right there at the top you have a little Optional this doesn't come with a terminal block But optional for one of the terminal blocks that we sell or you can just solder connections wires right onto it and You can use STEM a QT from the little JST ports on the side or you can solder in the header pins and put that down onto a board This is a let me let me grab my notes here because I want to give you a few little facts about it. So Here we are. So you've got 16-bit precision You can use up to two of these on one I square C bus There's a little jumper you can see it on the back there if you solder that shut you can Set the second address so you can you can talk to two of these on one I square C bus if you want And like I said, you can use this with 3.3 volt logic boards and get up to a 3.3 volt output or you can use this on 5 volt boards get up to a 5 volt output You can use gain settings inside of it to jump from the 2.5 volt reference up to your input voltage level up to the the 5 volts at max and We've got libraries for this so if you take a little scroll down head to the pinout page You can see what each of those pins are used for Let's see. Yeah, we'll talk about this for a second. Okay, so voltage in that is a Broken-out pad that you can use if you're plugging into a breadboard or protoboard Or that's the voltage coming in over your I square C So that'll be essentially your your maximum voltage depending on the type of board you're using V ref that's the voltage reference pin. So You can I haven't tried this But I believe there's there are cases where this works better than others where you can feed it a reference voltage Or you can pull that 2.5 volt reference off of there If you want to test it for some of the reason or use it elsewhere in your design And then we have the common ground pin. We have the I square C logic zero clock serial data There is the DAC output. So those are those two terminal block Positions that you see up at the top there as well as two other broken-out pins and that gives you your voltage And then there's the address jumper there. There's also a couple extra pins is the LDAC pin, which you can use a belief to set More permanent settings on to the chip things that you might set in your setup in your code You can have it boot with those settings It's also possible to give it a voltage level that you want it to always send as soon as it gets powered on So it doesn't just drop to nothing until it gets voltage once the the code starts so you can give it a Voltage setting that it'll always use and then there's also a power LED built onto there So as far as code and libraries go if you click on this circuit Python and Python link This will show you a nice little fritzing diagram How to set it up what all the pin assignments are? Either through the I square C Stem a qt cable or through the I square C pins as you see here with this example with a feather And then also how to set it up on your Raspberry Pi or similar single board computer and Then talks about the driver. So we have the library AD 56 9x and that will That covers a few different similar chips, but that's the one we're going to use for this one Which is the 56 93 And then it gives you some example code here and we'll go over some examples in a second. This is a nice one which Sets your I square C bus to a high speed Since this can use a higher frequency I square C bus Initializes the DAC and then in this case creates a little sine wave 100 sample sine wave which it'll then loop so you can see the essentially the full range from zero to the to the maximum value and there's a nice little image on a oscilloscope with the sine wave coming out of it and then of course we have Arduino for it as well So similar setup for how to plug it together and get your libraries ready to use with this Arduino sample code so let me Take some questions in the chat actually so the Question from Tyeth how would this function for synthesizing audio? So this is a great question This is not since we're running over I square C. We're not going to run really high frequency stuff So we're not really going to get into audio rates Unless you have really good hearings we can get into like the 20 Hertz kind of range pretty low low frequency But it is excellent for creating voltages that can be used to modulate things and synthesizers So in fact a demo or show you'll hear some Synthesized sounds which are made with a proper audio rate oscillator, but we can use this DAC to Send either pitch information, which is a volt per octave for pitch or just modulate things to essentially Twiddle knobs for us with the with the DAC So, oh hey Cripnip Cripnip said they just got their first 16-bit bit DAC in the mail today. Whoo way to go Uh Pete Curry in a hurry says three octaves of quantized one volt per octave should be possible then yes And I'll demo that we'll be able to do three octaves of pitch information with this And you get up to five octaves if you used a board that's at five volt logic like an Arduino. Okay, so How about some demos? Let's jump over here to Demo land okay, so you can see here in fact, let me let me give a full view Of the board So you can see here. I've got the DAC board 16-bit DAC board I have it plugged into a QT pie over stem of QT and then output I have the screw terminals going to a little stereo or actually a mono jack a little 3.5 millimeter mono jack and that's heading out to three things so we have a Scope little oscilloscope here. We have a multimeter here showing the voltage and then I also have it plugged into a Synthesizer, so I'm gonna just set my Offset on this oscilloscope to drag the center line down a bit so we can see it so it's already doing stuff here So that's the setup. Let me Show you some things in code and I'm also gonna turn on a little audio So I'm gonna take a moment and just see if anyone can Let me know how the audio levels are I want to make sure that you can hear That sound as well as my voice still I want to yammer on too much happy. Here's this time. Thank you so much All right. Yeah, let's go forward. Okay, so what I'm gonna do. I'm just gonna I've got this Plugged in and ready to go. So I'm gonna resave my code Okay, so now here's what we have I am telling the DAC right now to send out one volt so That means that I'm seeing one volt show up on my multimeter here And I'm seeing essentially a steady line on the oscilloscope and this is at the one volt level and you're hearing that the One volt is being used by my little synthesizer off to the side to tell it what note to play So that's our sort of baseline Now you can see the way this is set in code is this DAC value So if I set this DAC value to let's say it's maximum number which this is 16 bits so I can do 65 five three five And I'll go ahead and save that Okay, so that's that 3.3 volt level And in fact, we don't even need to go that high at 3.3 volt with gain times 2 which is more in the weeds I want to get But that is giving us the sort of top Voltage that it can do let's lower that because that's really annoying. I'm going to go to octave zero So I had some things Pre-saved here so octave zero is sending out zero volts Which you can see here on my meter and on the scope So if I go up to octave one, this is sending this 16-bit DAC command of set the value to 13 120 which is What I calibrated to be one one volt so pretty typically when you're taking a digital to analog converter If you're trying to get really precise so that pitches match then it might not be mathematically Exactly what you expect and in this case we're dealing with I think 15.4 bits because of the 3.3 volt DAC or rather input reference voltage that I'm using so we're setting that 2.5 up to the gain 2 which brings us up to 3.3 So this is nice. We can go and send it individual values and then we can loop through stuff Which is what you heard at first so I'm going to go ahead and uncomment this and what I'm going to do is tell it go from one octave to two octave and let's Just increment one Of the 16-bit values per loop and I'm going to take this delay out of here So it should sweep really continuously and smoothly so listen to this See we get a really nice smoothie and hear it better than you can see it on my multi meters It's a digital meter Now I have it stepping down so those steps you're hearing by the way that's that that smooth thing That's the DAC performing beautifully at giving really precise voltages When I'm stepping down, I'm actually telling it to move in semitones. So again through some math plus Some real calibration. I came up with 1093 as a semitone step for this so Let's look at a different example here and what I'm going to do is instead of adjusting my Turn the volume down instead of adjusting my pitch with this I'm going to say okay We'll leave the pitch alone, but let's twiddle a knob. So here's what our starting point is so I'm gonna Okay, so I've unplugged the DAC Output so this is just my my little synthesizer doing its thing and if I turn a knob Let me go to a different. Yeah, this is busier. You can hear there's a Sort of wave-shaped change that's causing some harmonics So instead of me turning that knob by hand now what I'll do is let's just plug the same Same wave we had going Out from I'm gonna grab a cooler sketch for this which is sort of a low-frequency oscillator designed for This type of output this in here Now watch my scope. So I'm doing a fast sine wave Then I'm doing this kind of stepped wave and then I'm doing a much faster So I go to a different type of effect with it. You can see we're sending out some really cool stuff And we have the precision with the 16 bits to it's if it's a sound if it's a modulation This can do it and it's just plain fun to watch that on the scope there So Let's see. Oh cryptic says I have a fun synth you can use oh man There there there are so many fun uses for this sort of thing and and just look at this You can package up a nice little teeny thing here Especially if you put this together on a little board maybe added a battery to it You can have yourself a fun little DAC that will give you really precise precise results Which is which is really terrific? Let's see. What else did I want to show you? Here's some here's some lovely product pictures of it by the way so you can see a little more clearly some of the outputs there that we're using and Let's see what else did I did I miss anything someone asked by the way in oh, yeah Konstantinopoulos asked in YouTube is there a discord server and they found it so for anyone else who didn't it's at a to Fru I t slash discord and you'll get an instant invite and then look for the live broadcast chat channel and welcome Yeah, miss. Thank you for stopping by Let's see any other questions in the chat let me know He created a hurry. Yeah for some of that I was doing a chromatic Semi-tone sort of quantized so I was sending it those increments, and then you heard when I was just sending it free Free values that weren't quantized any musical values See anything else Is it also meant to drive an LED he says ask Sam J. Ohio. Oh, let me bring up the discord chat By the way, that's an excellent question. I don't know what the current Output is on this. Let me see if that's a an obvious thing to find on the product page And if anyone knows let me know we might need to look at the data sheet for that as well I'm not sure what kind of current This is capable of so I'm not sure about driving LEDs. Oh, thank you type says 20 milliamps. So yeah one LED It's a it's a lot of it's a lot of DAC for for dimming an LED So you you may be better off with other strategies like our current constant current drivers or even just PWM Because you're really not going to drive more than one LED from this Right so What else anything I missed Let me know those were yeah, those were the code samples I wanted to show And and if you look actually let me let me go back to one other real simple example here Let's jump to this view right here, and I'm gonna Copy and save that onto there So here is The basic setup of this all you need to do is import the drivers or the library Adafruit ad 56 9x Set up your i-square c bus you can see in this case. We're going up to the high frequency and then To create the DAC object you simply say DAC equals Adafruit underscore eighty fifty six nine x die Adafruit ad 56 9x on i-square c And then you can feed it a DAC value so any number up to sixty five thousand five hundred and thirty five It'll send out that voltage This one right now. Let's Let's adjust the code here We'll set it to the max This should give me two point five volts that restarts It is not why is it not what did I do wrong is that really running yeah, that is all right Let's get disconnected. What have I done? Do one Quick change here. There we go. So there's something going on. Liz actually is working on the library I think I had a sort of unofficial version running on here So it was not it was setting the gain to zero. I think if I didn't specify So this DAC gain allows you to set either at false It'll use the internal reference two point five volts if you set it to true It will attempt to essentially do a 2x gain So if you have five volts logic and five volts coming in it will go to the to the full five volts on the Three-volt logic it'll go up to three point three as the maximum But you can see here at the reference. This is the two point five It's giving me two point five when I put that up the top if I Let's say have that We should get one point two five you got one point two five volts So it's very easy to set just give it a number and out outcomes your voltage And then you can really have fun giving it different input different types of knobs and sliders sequences Some randomization anything you want Let's see Peacry and hurry says if I chain to the DACs with two addresses, how do I get both of them? I haven't tried it So that's a great question. I would think you're gonna set the address Equals For one of them, maybe call that DAC one and then a second one address equals whatever that second address is I believe that'll that'll work and I think there's an example of some of that code in the In the learn guide also DJ Devon 3 said a multiplexer would allow you to chain them Yeah, I'd be another another way to do it with the same address and you could get more of them on to onto one micro controller Alright, I think that's gonna do it. So before I go remind you head on over here this is The page for our lovely little DAC here and you get it for five dollars 48 cents It's a really nice really nice DAC high-quality 16-bit DAC that you can get for quite a bargain here today maximum of 10 So if you have big big plans, then this is a great time to Snag yourself a bunch of DACs and go to town with those Alright that is gonna do it then let me unplug this pull that out of there and That is my product pick of the week this week. It is the AD 5693r 16-bit DAC breakout For Adafruit Industries, I'm John Park and this has been JP's product pick of the week and I'll see you next time. Bye. Bye


over the years, as I said, we got a great program. John, why don't you say a few words and then I'll introduce George. I want to thank everyone for coming. Really appreciate it. One of the things that we've been doing here, certainly a big data NYCR event, has been we've been at every Hadoop world, it's our sixth year, mostly on site and now we have our own event. But our focus is to get the data to you guys as fast as possible out on the network, programming live videos, tweets, research, and specifically getting high quality research for free out there. And really sharing that data with everyone. I think our focus is live in the moment, get that in real time out there. And I think, I'm really proud to be part of that Wikibon team and lead that effort with Dave because it's just a really needed service. People want to know where the signal is. So it's a lot of noise and our goal is to extract the signal from the noise. And it's really fun to do. I love what we do and we're glad to share. We really appreciate it that you guys have come tonight. So thank you very much and we're gonna enjoy the presentation. Some new information being shared and then a party at seven, so thanks for coming. Okay, George Gilbert, one of our newest analysts, not our newest analyst, but on the chairs here you see his systems of intelligence, his sort of platform foundation, his version of a manifesto. George is gonna be sort of giving an update to that today, sharing his ideas, getting your thoughts. So without further ado, George, George Gilbert. So just as a matter of, by way of context, Dave said he wanted me to review the presentation with him before I gave it and he wanted to review it like a week ago. So I showed up and I had 45 slides and I said, I can't do it in one minute, less than three hours. And he said, you have 20 minutes. And I was like, well, that doesn't really work until he said your end of year bonus is gonna be inversely proportional to the length of your presentation. So this is gonna be very short. You're clapping already. We're actually contributing to that phone. Oh, okay. All right. So just by way of context, 50 years we've been building systems of record. Many of you are familiar with the term from Jeffrey Moore and it's been associated with ERP and CRM apps but it's really gone on much longer. These are the main stay apps that we've been building really since the 1960s, whether they're mainframes with terminals or client server systems with Unix backends or even SaaS apps. They're all about automating business processes. Now, it's become kind of fashionable to talk about systems of intelligence or systems of insight. And I'm gonna do the same, but I wanna add five, what I think are different things. First, I wanna talk about what customers should be investing in. There's two analytic pipelines that are different from what we have in legacy systems. Second, there's some trade-offs that every customer has to take into account when they build these systems. And the trade-offs depend on your particular circumstances and I'll explain what that means. Then, as part of considering the trade-offs, your customer journey, it's not like there's one customer journey for everyone. The path is gonna be dependent on some of the choices you make when you start out. Then I wanna touch on industry dynamics, industry trends and competitive dynamics. And how they relate to systems of intelligence. And then sort of action items for users, which is what platforms should you be considering? So with that as a lead-in, I wanna start with looking at systems of record. On the left side, this should be somewhat familiar, the ERP systems, the operational data, what's kind of new or the new channels of customer interaction. But still, automating business processes. The key things to remember are that we did, the analytics in systems of record were really about historical performance reporting. I'm showing a phone bill, but it could be a look at historical sales numbers. The key thing is it's backward-looking and the limitations of this type of analytics are sort of like trying to steer a ship by looking backwards at its wake. So there are two pipelines here, and I wanna point them out so that I can highlight what's different about systems of intelligence. The first pipeline on top, production ETL. These are hardwired to the reports and business intelligence visualizations that the end user organizations asked for. These are high latency. These take a while to crank. And there's no closed loop because the results come in so far after the fact that they can't reasonably feed back into the operational apps and improve them, for the most part. The second pipeline, this is when the end user organizations, they ask for new reports or new visualizations. But the production ETL pipelines are so brittle and hardwired to deliver just the data and just the answers that were originally requested that you kind of have to unravel the whole thing and start over. Not entirely, but the point is it's very brittle. And in terms of agility, it's pretty poor. Now, just to name a couple, companies and their old heritage in this world, we had the Teradata's and the Oracle's dominating data warehouses and Informatica's heritage was in the pipelines. But I want to use these as a stepping off point to look at what's new about systems of intelligence. Now, here, with systems of intelligence, I grade out what's the same. The operational applications don't really go away, but we modernize them by putting two new analytic pipelines on them. The first one is the production pipeline, sort of like the one that generated the reports. Only this one is about automated and high-speed predictions or recommendations. You might hear products relating to Spark Streaming, Data Touring, SAMHSA, Flink. The point here is you have very, very low latency, milliseconds to seconds, to make a recommendation or distinction. In this case, I'm talking about fraud prevention. So, do I accept this credit card transaction or do I decline it? You don't have a lot of time. The human is gonna move away. If you don't do it within a certain time limit, same with an ad, you have like 700 milliseconds round trip to get an ad bid in. The second pipeline is equally important. This is the pipeline that says, I'm gonna get better continuously at making those predictions or recommendations. So, this is like that last ETL design pipeline where someone wanted new reports. And here, it's again about agility, but rather than in the last pipeline where you had to take days, weeks, months to design new reports or visualization, here the predictions have to get better continuously, whether it's in seconds or in days. And it's together that when these are operating efficiently and fast, that's what equals competitiveness. Now, there's no free lunch here. Building these systems actually comes with a set of trade-offs. And this is really the heart of the presentation that I wanna talk about. I thought about describing this as a sort of systems budget where you had at the top line, the incremental revenue that you get from building a much more intelligent system. In other words, how much fraud you'll save, and then all the costs. But in thinking about it, it actually turns out that the knobs which are the accuracy of the prediction, the speed of the prediction, the agility, and then in the underlying platform, the operational complexity, the development complexity, and your existing infrastructure and skills, all these things are related. So like if you turn one of these knobs, it'll affect the others. Now, mathematicians have a way of describing this, but I was a humanities major, and so that kind of all went over my head. So all I know is if you turn one knob, it'll affect the others. The key thing is, so the top one, accuracy of prediction related to incremental revenue. Well, we talked about the speed of predictions and the speed of improving the predictions. Those were the two pipelines that we used to modernize systems of record. And then the choice of the platform is related to operational complexity, development complexity, and your existing infrastructure. So now with this guide of trade-offs, let's take a look at what this customer journey might look like. So now if you add up the knobs and trade-offs from the last slide, your journey really depends on two big factors. One is the skills that you've accumulated in your enterprise, your skills inventory. And the other is the progress or maturity of the technology platform. That's somewhat out of your control. You can choose which one you want, but your choice is constrained by your skills. So again, they're related. But partly what makes the journey up and to the right is that the trade-offs of today get progressively less constraining as your skills improve and as the technology matures. Now, I talked about the fraud prevention application in the lower left. Pretty popular, pretty mainstream today. This is identify spending behavior that's out of the norm. I wanna point to the intelligence systems management because in our research, we see a lot of people sort of gravitating to that as an application. But we know from many decades, and I'll get into this more later in the presentation, systems management is analogous to trying to walk through the Labrea tarpets. It's sticky. But where you would have an intelligence systems management working is that it would look at the network and the services that are operating on it and it would figure out what's normal or baseline behavior. And then when there's a failure, the key thing that's so hard about systems management is when something goes wrong, there's like alerts showing up everywhere because something upstream broke what the downstream components depend on. And in fact, sometimes that cascades back up. So it's very hard to figure out the root cause. And intelligence systems management, frankly, this is a research project. This is not commercial projects yet, but this is sort of what the vision is as we move up and to the right. It would do auto remediation for you and keep your system sort of in equilibrium. Now, in a few more slides, I'll explain why this is so difficult. But before that, I wanna dive into sort of the here and now of industry or trends and competitive dynamics. So with that, sorry. Now, I might not make some or I might lose some friends with this slide and probably a few more with a couple others coming down the pike. I wanted to divide this into two different categories. Hadoop 2.0, pretty much everyone agrees, once we had yarn, we had a multi-tenant platform. We could host multiple processing engines on one common dataset, whether on HDFS or HBase. But the application model for the most part was dev tool, engine, do your work, drop it in the storage, whether it's HBase or HDFS, hand it off to the next tool, it does its work kind of a sequential kind of chain. And I know chain is an overloaded term, but essentially it's a batch process. Now people can point out their storm and there are other tools in there that don't have to drop into storage. But the fundamental paradigm is handing off not as bad as MapReduce, where every step is going to the disk, but it's still fundamentally batch. Now, big data 3.0. This is not meant to say Hadoop is left out.  First, we need to dramatically simplify operations and development. It's a bit of a mess right now. I mean, anyone who's participated in this, our recent survey work, which we just got back actually last week, 300 practitioners showed that the average number of administrators on a pilot Hadoop cluster, which is about six nodes, required four admins. So the productivity wasn't exactly very high. Now obviously people are learning how to operate this, but that number has to improve. So the three principles we see happening. Storage is consolidating, where we don't have 150 storage or database managers. The next one is gonna be controversial, but I contend that we're gonna see more and more APIs, open APIs, as opposed to purely open source products. And I'll take you through a couple examples. And then the most controversial, and I put it up here just because capturing the nuance won't fit in the headline, but Spark is hollowing out some of the, a good chunk of the processing components of Hadoop. It doesn't mean Hadoop goes away, but it's using sort of Hadoop's management and storage infrastructure and maybe security. But a lot of the processing is being substituted for. So let me explain. I'm gonna skip over Hadoop 2.0. Talk about storage consolidation in Big Data 3.0. Where I say polyglot access, you're seeing more databases show up that support JSON, that support key value stores. Dave's giving me the signal. I can't tell if I'm six minutes in or six minutes left. Okay. Okay. Yeah, there goes my bonus. All right. I guess I got a little carried away there. Key thing is, all right, to remember, we've got storage consolidation. The thing that I do wanna focus on, the dev tools, this is about Spark. We have, we put streaming up there. Streaming has always been good about machine data, time series, but if you wanna do analytics, you know, up until recently, it was about as good as an abacus. SQL was good for joining and filtering and aggregating, but on time series, it was abysmal. And then machine learning was really powerful if you knew how to sort of clean up your data. So what Spark's doing really well is combining all of these. It may not be the best in each one, but the power of reinforcing them all together is quite remarkable. I do wanna say one thing, API to storage, Microsoft just announced something called Data Lake, which not the most inspired name, but it's got access via SQL, Spark, Hadoop. And, sorry about this, I'm a little new to PowerPoint 15. Anyway, it's got multiple APIs and it definitely represents an example of storage consolidation that's not open source. Now, I wanna race through, we talked about the knobs. There's operational simplicity. If you look at the left-hand side, this is a network operation center run by a telco. This is AT&T, single pane of glass. That's the ultimate in simplicity. If you look on the right, I've got probably half a dozen consoles. Every tool helpfully ships with a console. And I say helpfully because like, I just was running out of battery. If you put all of those together, it would probably fit in one square because in terms of operations, you have change management, availability management, performance management, security management, and then one for each level of apps, infrastructure, compute. And so all those, if you took all those consoles and you multiplied by six and that would like fit into one of those squares. That's complicated. Okay, same thing with development. The reason I showed Spark before, one of the things that's very compelling about Spark is that integration that they present comes through in a notebook where you can have access to the machine learning, you can have access to the visualization, the statistical analysis. If you tried to do that on your own, you'd have a bunch of different tools that would have to go together that you would have to stitch together. So now I wanna look at the more actionable parts of what all these trends indicate. I've got a chart with two axes, development simplicity which we talked about where I showed the spreadsheet versus a bunch of different tools, operational simplicity where I showed the network operations center single pane of glass. If you start at the bottom left, you've got a bunch of data managers. This is where you sort of pick best of breed because if you're an ad tech company, you have two milliseconds to look up a profile. And I'm dead serious. Your budget is two milliseconds. So in that case, you're probably not gonna wanna rely on Spark. If you go all the way up to the other end, you have the most integration, the most simplicity with Spark. Now, let me take a quick look before I get the hook from Dave. This is at the lower left where it's pick all the best of breed components. This is an amazing chart done by the 451 group. I can give them credit for segmenting this to the ends of time. I do have to add, I don't think there's a whole lot of actionable information in there. But the con here is complexity. If you decide to choose this, you're an ad tech company. You are responsible for designing, developing, integrating, testing, delivering, and operating this platform. All the components. It's not one component, it's all of them. So you are a software company. I may be dating myself. I don't know how many of you remember when Evil Can Evil tried to jump the Snake River Canyon on a motorcycle? Well, don't try this at home. And you know, not unless you're Netflix or Airbnb or someone like that. The most important part here is where we're looking at the Hadoop ecosystem today and then what I was calling Big Data 3.0 tomorrow. And what I didn't really highlight when we looked at Big Data 3.0 is Azure, Amazon, Google Cloud Platform.  This is where they design it, develop it, integrate it, test it, deliver it, and operate it to work as a unit. So they're the software company, not the enterprise. That's really important. Now, the point here is as you move up into the right, it democratizes access to this type of, the platforms democratize access to this type of application. To recap, I just want to look back at the knobs and the trade-offs. Systems of intelligence, they create incremental revenue or cost savings through automated, accurate predictions. But you can't really create a line item type budget for all of these things. They're all interrelated. As an example, you want to squeeze every last ounce out of prediction speed, like I was talking about AdTech. I'm getting the, and he doesn't have one of those hooks, so I'm getting the, he's gonna break my neck. So here, you have to build a custom platform from the best of breed components, and that means greater operational and development complexity. In other words, again, just a matter of trade-offs. So in the end, as technology matures, the spread of the relevant skills also spreads, and that democratizes access to these systems. I've given you a very brief overview. I've probably lost my bonus, but I will write this up in excruciating detail, and I'll probably get axed for that, too. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to the far more interesting panel that comes next. So no access here, but I have to say, so a typical cube crowd, they want to know when the bar opens, so we open the bar early, so feel free to wander over, help yourself get a drink as we continue. But before we do that, so we're gonna set up for another panel, so we'll have a small break in between, as I say, feel free to go get a drink, and the food will be out shortly. But I was wondering if there are any questions for George. I wanted to cut you off because I wanted some time for audience interaction, because that was a major big data injection. And so, questions? James. Actually, you know what? Can I get you the... I was intrigued by that last point. So you seem to be implying that the definition of agility is the speed of improving predictions. Is that your definition of it, or what is agility to you in the model? What is agility? I guess, think of it as if you took your historical data and updated your, use that to run through the machine learning, engine and update your predictive analytics or your recommendations. If you did that weekly or monthly, that's what I would call probably not very agile. If you're in the fraud business, those patterns or fraud prevention business, those patterns can change rather quickly. And so, agility there might be measured where with every transaction that comes in to accept or decline, you should be adding to your knowledge. That would be very agile. Does that answer your question? It seems to complicitly, I'd never seen it. I think it's an intriguing way of defining agility. It's all about next best actions as calculated by predictive accuracy and being able to always hit the next best action at every moment in time across every touch point. So I like where you're going with this. That was a good way of framing it. I agree with the next best actions comment. That is what I'm trying to say. Next best action is, authorize or decline. From IBM, former Forrester analyst. Thank you. Other questions, comments, please. Robert Novak with Cisco. Long time big data veteran, survivor, whatever you want to call it. I was kind of curious about your number of four admins to run a six node Hadoop cluster. Having deployed a number of them with far fewer admins like one, I'm wondering if that includes other groups within an IT operation, network security, storage, server deployment, politics, whatever you may have or where that kind of number comes from. Thanks. Yeah, you know, just to repeat the question, where did we get that number of four admins for a six node cluster? We're still cleaning up the data. And part of it is time series, like we did a similar survey last year. So we kind of tried to keep the questions, many of the questions the same. But I would agree that that sounds hefty, although I have heard maybe not four for every six servers, but it is labor intensive because there are a lot of different types of servers that are necessary. Yeah, Tyler Radke with Citi. One of the comments you mentioned was, I think you said Spark was hollowing out some of the processing elements of Hadoop. I just wanted to get your take on the new project from cloud era, Kudu, which kind of attempts to bridge the gap between like HBase and HDFS. Yeah, actually, Tom Riley was in here just doing an interview. That was the last one before we got ready for the panel. You know, I have to take a closer look at it. It has to do, the core of it has to do with that pipeline that reduces the latency between the operational system and the analytic system. That's ultimately what it's trying to solve. Exactly how it goes about doing it. I'm not sure I'm ready to tell you yet because it looked to me like it was a MPP columnar database that was sitting under an MPP columnar database called Impala, so I don't fully understand it. Anybody else want to comment on that? Anybody have thoughts? No? Do you even fill in the gaps? No, okay. Good question or a comment? Please, please do. George. George, George Chao from Simba Technologies. My reading of Kudo is that it seems to be the missing third because if you think about Impala, that's the query execution, but they built Impala initially to try to help it, but Impala's not enough because they really want the storage layer to do more and Parquet as a format is actually geared toward read-only access. So Kudo is actually, you can say, a read-write optimize, a balance implementation. Oh, so in other words, it's a substitute, would you call it a substitute for both? In other words, it's got the point query capability of HBase with the scan query capability of Impala. Yeah, that's why they say it's a balance. They say if you measure it against raw HDFS, it will lose because it's not geared toward optimal scanning. Right. And if you do the same against HBase, it's not optimized for right either, but it is a balance in the middle. So that's why they position it as operational analytic because it allows you to do both. Okay. So that if you have a mixed workload, that's why they position it as a better choice. So if you take a look at the timeline, when you look at it, they claim it's like three years of history, right? Which actually is exactly the same timeline as Impala. Because if you remember, Impala was announced October 2012. Yeah, but the development started when they announced Impala. Would this suggest that they would de-emphasize Impala? This is complimentary. This is complimentary. I mean, Impala is the query execution. Kudo is just the storage side. Okay. Which enables Impala to do better. Okay. Thank you, George. Appreciate it. Other questions, comments? Okay, we're gonna wrap. Great, George, thank you very much. And no, you don't get your bonus cut. You don't get fired. Thank you, great job. Really appreciate it, George, you're over. All right. We're gonna do a two-minute stage swap, right? You guys wanna take a quick break? Grab a drink? All right, and then we're coming back. So please come back.