What is up, my cranky crew? We did a real great gameplays and today we are playing a game that I just found on Steam called Left On Red. Apparently it's a, I was about to say a dating sim. It's not a dating sim at all. It's a narrative game that follows two people who just left college that are going home because of coronavirus. So very topical, select day, options quit. Okay, so let's just play and let's see what happens. It's gotten some good reviews so far and there's multiple different endings. I'm probably just gonna do one or two this round but maybe I'll come back.  Is it about to get real emo up in here? Day four, March 16th, 2020. This is the day that I started quarantining. Hey, hi. Hey, how was your flight? Wait, how do I, whoa. It's a platformer? That's cool. How was your flight? Red, 612. Crazy, everyone was wearing masks. I was so scared. That's insane. Yeah, everybody is totally overreacting about all this. Nah, dude, that's insane. Glad you made it home safe. This is really cool. Red, 612. Thanks. Yeah. Where did you go? When did you go home? Saturday night. This is a really cool way of doing this. Can I jump onto the bubble? Nice. Them good old one word answers. Love it, love it. What, now what? Oh, did your parents make it home? All right, this is very much. Yeah, they did. My sister is coming home next Monday. Oh no, whoops. Gotcha. Red, cool. Oh, oh. Really trying to keep the conversation going. Have you seen any of your friends yet? I wasn't sure if this was people who were in a relationship or not. It might have said in the description, but I can't remember. No, not yet, but my friend Sam and I have plans on Tuesday. But how? But how are you supposed to be quarantining? That's great. Awesome, are you, what are you guys gonna do? Sam a gyro girl, ooh, being suspicious. Suspicious. What are you guys gonna do? I don't know yet. I'm getting the feeling that they don't really wanna be talking. Shit. Oh, just nice. Oh. Oh, and it's awkward. It's awkward, it's getting awkward, dude. I'm gonna go to bed now. Good night. Not even a full good night. Just the GN. Why so early? Forgot time zones are a thing. Ha ha. Good night. Oh, hit with that just the heart reaction. Day seven, March 19th, 2020. What's up? Hey. Oh, it feels so awkward. Hey, with the two Ys, wow. Haven't been hit with a hey with two Ys in a bit. How's it going? So bored, you? Oh yeah, we know about that board quarantine life. Me too, this is getting nuts. Crazy. I don't know. We just gotta stay at home order. Oh, this is just the beginning. Oh my God, we don't have that yet. Yeah, every single restaurant is closed. Yep. And then the normal stores, everything. Wow. Got anything more to say? Or just wow? How was your thing with Sam or holy shit? Let's go, how was your thing with Sam? How was that? Ha ha, we didn't end up meeting up. Bummer, dude. Probably for the best. Oh, I'm sorry, what happened? Let's go probably for the best. You know, with everything going on, probably not best to hang out with people. Kind of sucked. Oh, maybe that was the wrong thing. Yeah, social distancing is whack. That's social distancing, real whack, dude. It feels so awkward. I'm not sure if it's intentionally supposed to feel awkward. Am I being left on red? Oh no. Hello? So anyway, oh. So, oh boy. Oh, oh, it's awkward. Oh, it's awkward. Oh, it's so awkward. What if the triple dot goes away? Oh man, I gotta help my mom with something, talk to you later. Okay, damn. These awkward convos, dude. So I guess there's a lot of anything because, well, maybe that's probably not an end date, day 18, March 30th. Not even into April. You see, we're doing a lot of the reaching out here. How you doing? It doesn't seem like we're being reached out too much, huh? Why do I always have to be the person to reach out? Nobody ever texts me. I always have to be the one texting. Doing good, so bored, what about you? Just chilling, dude. Just trying to keep busy. Just, you know, keep it on. You know? What have you been up to during quarantine? You also just been chilling, like me.  Lots of movies. Not really much else that you can do. Nice. Seen any good ones? It's so awkward. It's so awkward. It just feels so forced. Yeah, so my god, just saw Parasite. It's so good. I love Parasite. The cinematography is so sexy. I don't, all right. I don't know if I'd describe it as sexy. I mean, it's wonderfully shot, I don't know. Okay, I'm a sucker for rom-coms. Gotta love a good comedy.  Horror, out of all these.  Can we go back up top? Oh, we can. Horror is too much for me. Yeah, I get that. Some of the classics aren't too scary because the special effects are so trash. Bad. It's not for everybody. But you know, now during quarantine is the perfect time to get into a new genre. Did you go to the movies a lot? I miss the movies. I miss the movie theater so bad. God, I miss the movie theater. One of my favorite things to do is go to a movie and I really miss it. No, not really, wish I want more. Yeah. When, well, when they open back up, we'll go together. Whoa. Oh. Well, hopefully they'll open back up. Could've gone for it. Could've gone for it. You know? Damn. Damn, damn, damn. That would be so sad. Yeah. I hope movie theaters are okay after this. Who knows? Who knows?  I'm actually having a really great time. No, not! You pressed space at the wrong time. I wish I could go back. But when you send a message, you cannot do it. Oh, is that the end? Oh. JK, ha ha ha, JK, just kidding. I was a joke. One of my friends is calling me, talk to you later.  Not even a reaction anymore. April 1st. Damn. April Fools. Mm. Ah. Oops, I didn't mean to say. Oh, I mean, oh, oops, why not? Why not?  So, you know, you know, not great. Ha ha. Hee hee hee, ho ho ho. Hee hee ho ho, funny jokes. Who is that supposed to go to? My mom, she's big and a muscular cat. One of the boys. Just joking. Another girl I'm texting. Oh, dude. One of the boys.  So, you wouldn't, you probably wouldn't get it because you're not one of the boys. Oh, lol. Yeah. Just kind of a funny boys joke, you know? Ooh. Anyways, what are you up to? How have you been? What are you up to today? What you doing? Tell me about your day-to-day life. Any fun things going on?  I can't stop thinking about you.  Sorry to hear that. Why do you keep changing these messages? Say what you feel. Express your feelings. Why not shoot your shot, 2020? The world is ending anyway, so just, why not? The global pandemic, it's not like you could see them in, ooh, since when? Interesting. I'm here for you if you need anything. She didn't sound super excited when she said it, so I'm gonna go with this one. Are you dastardly dandy? I forgot it was April Fool's Day. That was really sweet, though. Yeah, I'm a pretty funny, sweet guy. That was really good. We'll go with that was really good, I guess. I mean, harmless, a harmless yoke, I guess. Harmless yoke. I'm sorry, I had to get somebody. Well, you did a very good job, Loll. Glad I could do that for you. Let's go with you did a very good job, Loll. You really got me. You really had me on the ropes there. Cause I was like, whoa, have you been fooled by anyone else today?  Just daily life. Nope. But now my day can be fulfilled. So thanks for that. Damn, that was a good goof. Pretty good goof. The acting was superb. Gotta go eat dinner. Okay, talk to you later. Any reactions this time? No, nothing. Day 46. Wow, we jumped. We jumped almost a month. A month without talking at all. Again. Hey, how's it going? Again, I'm the one reaching out. What if I want to be reached out too? Let me know that you're thinking of me. It's going good. What about you? Not so good. It's fine, I guess. Living life. Just living. No response. Oh, so you don't want to help me with my baggage. I'll help you with your baggage all the time. Okay, sure. Ooh. Ah, yikes, actually. That was like kind of a joke. But now are they just gonna talk about themselves after I'm just said, hey, I'm not doing very great? We're going on hikes. It's really nice. Cool. What about my thing? Let's just say cool. What if we just had cool period? When you end a sentence with a period, it's like, oh, nice. Yeah, thanks for being worried. What about you? Better up to anything exciting? I just said that I was doing bad. My harmonica came in the mail today, so I've been doing a lot of piano, man. I've got big plans. Huge plans. Huge stuff going on for me. I'm thinking of going on the road. If only I could play a show, but during quarantine, that's actually so cool. Do you really think that are you just trying to please me? Can? Can I ask you something? Oh boy, big question. Do it, do it, do it, pussy. Come on. Can't believe we're not on the last week of school. Jeepers. We're sophomores now. Yeah. Well, not yet. Crazy doesn't feel right. Express your feelings. Ask them the question. Can't wait for next year. I feel like we're not ready. Oh, whoops. Sure. Can't wait for next year. The worst part of life is waiting unless I have something worth waiting. You almost said someone worth waiting for. When will you express your true emotions? When will you express your true emotions? Our class is going by the way. This meaningless conversation, you're saying nothing. Just speak your truth, dude. Come on. Just say it. Just say what you're feeling on the feeling inside. They've been going all right. I haven't been going to too many of you. I've lost all motivation. I've been going to a lot of mine. Except like one. Do you think school's gonna be online next semester? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah, dude. Hello? Am I allowed to answer? I think I would actually lose my mind. It's impossible to tell really. As of now, yeah, probably. Probs, TBH. I don't even know your name. Do you even know mine? You know? Damn. That would be the worst. Yeah, but don't worry. I spoke with the CEO of Coronavirus and we agreed that that wouldn't happen. Let's just do with, yeah. It would be. Not really the time for jokes, you know? I mean, sometimes, but not in this conversation right now. Anyway, you're just gonna leave me unread for the rest of the night, I guess? This is conversation over. What are we doing? Sorry, I gotta close. Always, always. Talk to you later. Day 50, May 1st. Dude, we're getting close to the present. Hey, are you up? They're texting me! No, I'm sleep. Let's just go with, yeah, what's up? It seems serious. What's up? I don't know, just feeling extra sad tonight is all. Oh, we all got those days. Yeah, I feel you same here. I'm sorry to hear that. What's got you down? Let's ask the questions, you know? Just be like, hey, I'm all ears, baby. What you thinking about, mate? What you thinking about?  No, say it, just K. Are you sure?  What's up? What's up? I just feel so alone. I like, I talk to people every day, but I feel like none of it's real. Yeah, yeah, I don't know how much longer I can do this. I think we all sort of feel like, just really, really alone, you know? I feel like everybody sort of feels like that, where it's just like, damn, how long are we just gonna do this for? Because as long as we can, I guess, it's just, let's go with, I'll always be here for you. You know, everybody's going through tough times with this, like, it's just, it's tough. It's tough, because like, even if you're talking to people, it's still, you still feel pretty alone. It's really hard to deal with. I just don't know how much longer I can do this. What do you mean by that, though? We're in this together. We just gotta stick it out, because everybody's sort of in that situation where it's just, we're doing the best we can.  Hey, and that's okay. And having bad days is okay, especially right now. We're going through a global pandemic, you know? Cut yourself some slack. Don't be too hard on yourself. Do you feel the same? Yeah. Yeah, dude. Yeah, totally. Say more than that, though. Don't just say yeah.  Yeah, I feel the same way. Communication is 93% non-verbal. Let's just go, I feel the same way. It's like torture. It's calling the phone. I mean, it's not that much better, but at least it's not just text on a page and you get a little bit of a person, you know? So what do I do? We're all on the same boat. We just have to get through it. I don't know. Then everything will go back to normal, or we'll create a new normal. I know. You're right. I'm gonna try to go to sleep now. All right. I'm sorry that you're feeling so bad. Good night. Good night. Little heart. No! There you go. There you go. It is tough. It is tough. May 3rd, 2020. How've you been feeling about everything? Little better, thanks. Glad to hear. This is two days later, I think. I think this is the third. And we talked to them originally on the first day. Do you remember the night of Jackson's party? Oh boy. Do I, you know?  And that's how sight happens. Man, air filled with smells. And you. Were there. I remember it. We got bored and went for a walk. Oh yeah, a walk. I remember. We laid down under that big oak tree and looked at the stars through the leaves. It's pretty romantic, TBH. That sounds like a lovely eve. Did something else happen? Did we shock? You told me about your childhood and I told you about mine. Some deep convos were happening and now look at us. Yeah, I remember. Sure, what about it? Hmm. Let's go with yeah, I remember. There's some feelings about to be spilled. It was really nice. Remember just interacting with those people? Think about that a lot. Me too. I wish. Me too. You should have left the triple dog. Left it open. Sharing your feelings. Why aren't you sharing your feelings? Is that where it ended? May 18th, 2020. Hey, can I ask you something? Why do you abbreviate? Just say something. Of course you can. Are we gonna have an option? Oh, I meant to jump. But can I ask you something first? I meant to jump, but are we actually gonna ask? Sure.  I really like you. And every day I regret not asking you out before.  I mean, it seems like that's the thing. Let's do it. Not even, not even editing that text. I thought I was gonna edit the text. Don't leave on red. Don't leave on red. Oh boy. That's not really a question. More statement. Hello? Hello? Oh, these dots. These dots, these dots give me so much anxiety. Nothing. That's really sweet. Butt. The butt. Oh, the butt. Oh, the butt. Why did you ever ask me out? I didn't wanna screw things up. I was just about to. I didn't know you felt that way. I didn't wanna screw things up. Oh, I see. Well, I really wish you had rats, dude. Me too. It's my biggest regret. Well, at least you have something to look forward to now. I'm sorry. Let's do the top one. I think. Oh, oh. Was that what you were gonna ask me? Question mark. Ah-ha. Ah-ha, cool. Just know I think you're really great. Oh, I think you're really, really great. I'm gonna lose my mind. Let's do that. Okay. Sure. This definitely is very like high school-ish. Flirting. Oh, just like. Thanks.  Okay, bye. Sorry for bringing this up. I just wanted to know how you felt. I wish you didn't. Ooh, no worries at all. I was just meaning to ask you. No, don't be sorry. I'm glad you did. Let's do that. Very glad. Cool. Gonna head to bed now. Good night. Send that heart. Do it, dude. Send that heart. Oh. Oh. Oh. Dude.  It's 7.30. What are you doing? Bed at 7.30. The heart has its reasons. Of which reasons? No. Of which reason knows nothing. You might be thousands of miles away, but I've never felt closer to anyone in my life. That's nice. He's 69.  And then we just stay here for four hours. Cause they weren't, they were asleep and they did not hear the phone go off. Yeah, what's up? Just bored, been thinking a lot. Got something to tell you. Let's go with this. How many, what was the day before? What are you thinking about? I've been listening to a lot of music recently. Let's go with you. You, baby. Just you. But I've been thinking about how you smell really bad sometimes and maybe you should bathe more. Song I'm listening to right now reminds me of you. But what song is it? Is it the question? What song? Falling for you? Juicy? Somebody like you? Wouldn't it be nice? Falling for you. What's falling for you? Is that, is that the emo song that's actually stuck in my head right now? Hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait. Falling for you. Oh, no, it's not. I thought it was The best thing about tonight is that we're not fighting. Could it be that we have been this way before? No, you don't think that I am trying. No, you're winning me down through the car. But hold your breath. Tonight will be the night that I will fall for you over again. Don't make me change my mind. I won't live to see another day. I swear it's true. I miss yours too. Do you maybe wanna call? Hey, isn't that a nice, you can call them. Hear your voice, dude. Achieve an unlawed, I miss the sound of your voice right now. Yeah. Hey, day 72. Hey, bro, what's up? Y'all have iMessage? Using an Android, all right. Just playing some rank to you, oh my God.  About what? Ah, fuck, dude, what's up? I just feel like texting is so shitty, you know? It's just like words, words. What do they even mean, you know? Think about that a lot. Oh, I got you. Yeah, I don't know, just words. Man, listen, man, she's totally into you. You just gotta stay strong. Just to know how to get to the next level without actually being there physically. I just don't know how sustainable a relationship over text is. I think this is the one. So this is hard. Especially like long distance relationships are really, really hard. Just gotta wait it out and remember.    I hate that. Wanna play a quick game? Yeah. Yeah, dude. See you in the World of Grouch Field. Achievement unlocked, bro. Day 80. We're catching up to real life. It's June 11th right now. Yo, hey, forgot to ask. Got any summer plans? Other than staying inside? Who am I texting right now? Cause it seems weird that we'd started with yo. I did. What happened? I wonder what happened? Sorry. Sorry, mate. Just wanna see my friends. You will soon. Enough. What if we had a little, is this the same person? Been watching any good movies? Is this the same person? Same girl from before? Seems very different. I mean, time has passed, but my dad took away my Netflix. Why? What'd you do? During quarantine? No Netflix. That makes you go, oh man, be sad. Yeah, big, big sad town. Yeah, me too. Been up to anything else? I gotta go, sorry. Is this the same person? This is no fun. Damn. June 18th, that's a week from now. Bra moment. Hey, hi. Hey. Did they turn off their reed receipts? They turned off their reed receipts. Do you miss me? I can't even tell if this is the same person. Wait, the reed receipts are back on. Okay, sure. Same old, same old. Been outside much? Everything feels so awkward. Is this the same person? Not really still quarantined. It is the same person. Still going on hikes?  Not as many as I'd like to. Do you think? Go back to normal with us when school, when we get back? Dude. Really asking how the weather is? This is rough. Not as good as the weather back at college, of course. I gotta go. July 4th, it's just gonna be, hey, oh. Painful, painful. It's painful. Anything? I meant to ask you to help. I meant to ask to help you with your bags when you're moving. Wait, no, I wanna know about the moving out thing. Oh, this is where we get left on red. Maybe not. The triple dot no text. You ready to go back? I feel like this is the end. Will there? We still got a long time, though. It's so awkward. Aren't you excited? The yep. So awkward, dude. This is painful. Well, especially because it just went from everything's great, we like each other, hey, whoa, yay, and then to this. Worried about what? What are you worried about, huh? And then it ends. Oh my God. Day 160 August, oh my God.  How much more pain? What are you up to? Just finished unpacking all my stuff. Now that we're back, wanna grab something to eat? Is this the first time that everyone's back in real life or whatever? Oh, okay. Hoo ha, hoo ha. She thrills me with just a smile. That took a turn with the whole world crumbling. I picked the right time to fall for her. This since means so little when someone means so much. I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything. Interesting. Well, this is really cool. This is a really, really interesting game. Don't wait. You never know when you might be too late. Well, a realistic mode unlocked. Well, that's gonna do it for me with this game. I know that the world might seem really uncertain right now and things might seem really weird and crazy and stressful, but just know that with time we will get through this. We might not go completely back to the way that things were. I'm sure that in the future we're gonna take different precautions and stuff like that and I think we might have to find a new normal, but we will be able to interact with each other again and spend time together physically. It might take a sec, but we just gotta be patient. We gotta just take it a day at a time. I know that it's really hard. And yeah, just stick in there. Reach out to people as much as you can. Talk to people, whether it's through text on the phone, FaceTime, whatever, and just be there for each other. And remember to cut yourself some slack too. We're going through so much stuff right now. 2020 has really been a wild year, but specifically with this, we're going through a global pandemic. Cut yourself some slack. If you don't feel like you've been as productive or you feel like you've been lazy or if you're worried about your own self-image, like you haven't been working out as much as you did or whatever you might be feeling, just remember to cut yourself some slack because no one's really ever gone through this before and nobody really knows what's the right thing to do, what's the wrong thing to do, but give yourself some credit because this is a hard thing to deal with on a day-to-day basis and it's really weird to have all of this suddenly just shoved onto us and then we just have to figure it out and deal with it. So cut yourself some slack. I hope that you guys are doing okay. So thank you guys so much for watching. Hope you enjoyed it. If you did, make sure to slap that like button right in the face and I will see you guys in the next video. Love you all. Stay cranky. Bye.


Terry Nevers, Tee, come here Tee, I'm 20, I'm on the left, I'm on the right, behind the shark, I say Neymar. He's my dad, you know, he's boring but he's alright, I'm not quite easy. How's it? My first professional goal? Yeah, I know you just want to walk up, but I must stick with Mariah and I on the top island. Not fancy yourself on Strictly or anything though? Nah, I ain't got the two-step thing. Let me love you, but I'm married, so that's for another day.


Yes. Yes. All right. Sorry. Good morning, everyone. Sorry about that. I think my cursor just went there. Okay. Let's begin this time with the word of prayer. Anita, can you lead us in prayer, please? Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus, Father God. Father, we bless your name. Give you glory for this beautiful time, O Lord, Father God. Almighty, O Lord Father, as we have gathered together to hear from your world, to learn from your word, O Lord Father, that will be a salt and light in this world, O Lord Father. Father, Lord Jesus, open our hearts and mind to Lord Father to receive every word, O Lord Father. Almighty, O Lord Father, we pray, O Lord Father, becoming faster into your hand, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, that each word that he speaks, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, would be from your wisdom, from your knowledge, Daddak. Almighty, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, that whatever he speaks unto us, O Lord Father, Lord Jesus, would bear fruit unto us, O Lord Father, for your glory, O Lord Father.  In the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Anita. Okay. So yesterday we started with the chapter on workplace relationships. And we looked at quite a few aspects. We look at how in the workplace, there are certain principles that you and I must follow. The first one was walking in love, which is the greatest principle that the Lord Jesus Himself gave us. Maintain love in relationships within the office. We also looked at how we need to be sensitive to people's feelings, be sensitive to their country and backgrounds, their religious backgrounds as well. And we also saw the importance of good manners, meaning saying, please, thank you, sorry. And very important was to know our boundaries in corporate socializing. And that's where our true character, our true strength comes into place. Because in the corporate sector we can very freely do many things. And we may feel that people are not watching us or nobody is there to question us. But we, as believers, are to set certain boundaries when we are in the corporate setting. Then we also looked at honoring our boss, both the good bosses and the harsh and the rude bosses. It's very likely that we tend to say, okay, this boss is not good. He's doing all this against me. But we looked at that example of David. When King Saul was filled with jealousy, he wanted to kill David. But David took a stance and he said, no, I'm going to honor the king because God has anointed Saul to be king over me. And that was a door that opened a greater blessing for David. And God was pleased with what David did. And so we stopped there honoring the boss. And then we also looked briefly at the point of when the heat is on, behave wisely. So we'll start from there again. So when the heat is on, behave wisely. Let's read 1 Samuel chapter 18, 13 to 15 and verse 30. 1 Samuel 18, 13 to 50 and verse 18. Sorry, verse 30. Yes, could one of us please read? 1 Samuel 18, 13 to 15. I think on the notes we are on page 87 if you're tracking along. Right, is anyone there or should I? Yeah. 1 Samuel 18, 13 to 15, 30. Therefore Saul removed him from his presence and made him his captain over a thousand. And he went out and came in before the people. And David behaved wisely in all his ways and the Lord was with him. Therefore when Saul saw that he behaved very wisely, he was afraid of him. Then the princes of the Philistines went out to war. And so it was whenever they went out that David behave more wisely than all the servants have saw. So that his name became highly esteemed. Amen. Thank you, Christopher. Now, as we were just mentioning, right, I like that word. David behaved wisely in all his ways. Not only was David a man who was brave. We saw that he overpowered Goliath.  Not only was he full of wisdom that God gave him, but he was wise in all his ways. Not only at home or with his brothers or with the king, but in all his ways. And when Saul, the king, saw that David was wise in all his ways, what happened to King Saul? King Saul began to fear David. Now it goes on to say that David behaved more wisely than all his servants. And so there will be times when people will be treating us indifferently. People may ignore us. People may, you know, may say wrong things against us or things that are false accusations against us. It's very easy to turn back and, you know, immediately say, no, I didn't do that.  But as believers, we must learn to walk in wisdom. When the heat is on, when there is a heated argument or a heated situation, walk in wisdom. Right? So like I also mentioned, right? Say if you're in a team meeting and your boss is really upset, maybe some things didn't go right in the entire month. That is not the right time to stand up and say, you know, this is, this is because, you know, most of them in the team are like this or, you know, the team is not working in unity. That won't be the right time. Right? So in every, like if you take even in the family situation, right, if there's a heated argument in the family, the wrong time would be to pick up all the things that happened in the past and bring it during that time. Right? And during a time of a heated moment, behave wisely. Right? Whether it's with family, whether it's at work, whether it's in the ministry. Right? Next one, stay clear of meaningless arguments. Proverbs chapter three was 30 and 31. I'll just read that. Don't argue with others for no reason when they have never done any, done you any harm.   It's a lot of collaborative work in the workplace every now and then, you know, you get together even in the ministry, right? You have the pastoral team and then you have the second in line team, maybe the life group leaders teams and volunteer teams. So you have meetings. Right? There will be times when discussions can go into a rabbit trail. When I say rabbit trail, it means that the focus of the discussion is maybe productivity, but then suddenly the discussion may go on into, you know, something else, right? How to start new programs or something. Right? So it's going away from the main topic that has been decided. Right? And then sometimes, you know, discussions may get into arguments. Right? I'm sure we've noticed these debates that happen. You know, between Christians and Muslims and we have these debates that happen and a lot of them are posted online. There are times when those debates turn into arguments and you can easily see the frustration on the other person's face. Now during that time, there were times when, you know, during a discussion, people may get personal, people may get aggressive. They may have something, a personal vendetta against you. And so they'll try to put all the accusation upon you. And so during those times, be clear and stay away from meaningless arguments. What you can do is you can just tactfully defer the discussion or if you're, if you're not facilitating the discussion, you can just, you know, probably say, hey, I think the discussion is going somewhere else. Maybe we can take a five minute break and come back and start a discussion. So it's very, very important to do that. You know, and it also happens in small group settings. Right?  And then, you know, you say, okay, testimony time.  And life and as a leader, you're not able to do anything. But remember that if you are in leadership, there are times you have to make decisions. You have to say, okay, we need to stop this whole testimony time. Let's move on to the next person. Now we do it tactfully. We do it in a way that is not disrespecting, but, you know, in a very humble, very polite way, we do what we have to do. Yes. Say he has raised his hand. Not sure if he has anything to say. Say. I was going to just text it. Okay. I can say it. I just to contribute to that. I think they can always vet those testimonies before they even come up so that you avoid any, any confrontation or anybody being hurt, you know, or feeling bad that they were given opportunity to talk so that that way you understand what you're coming out, the practice coming out to say to the believers, right? That's the way I feel, I feel we should actually carry out such things. Testimony should be vetted, listen to before they're being brought up over to the body to listen because at the end of the day, it's to encourage not for anyone to show off or try to show everyone that, you know, they have done something, something that well has happened, but to encourage the believer to give glory to God. That's where it goes with that. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. That's that's that's a good thought. Say thank you for sharing that. There are times when, you know, so for example, we in ministry, we may get too busy and we may not be able to verify every testimony that comes in. There are times even after verifying testimony, there will be people who will want to, you know, just keep sharing, you know, we may know what they want to share, but they sometimes go on and on and they may want to say, you know, just pick up different kinds of thoughts that come into their mind. And so yeah, but say as you said, it's always good to verify it, you know, make sure that things are, you know, okay, this is what you're going to share. Give them a timeframe as well. That will really help as well. So yes, so in line with this, stay clear from meaningless arguments, right? Now, I'll go to the next one. I'll skip the next one. So feedback, like feedback, pay attention and play close attention to it. Now, Proverbs 27, 21 says, the refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold and a man is valued by what others say of him. Can one of us read Proverbs 26, 16? Any one of us, Proverbs 26 and verse 16. Let's go ahead, Samuel. Samuel, I think your voice is breaking. Can you try reading that again, please? Proverbs 26 and verse 16. Proverbs 26, 16.  Thanks Samuel. So pay attention to feedback, right?  Feedback and input that come from experienced people is extremely valuable, right?  Now, what is it lining up towards? Does it, you know, does the songs focus towards the glory of God or the power of God and, you know, how to choose songs, how to create a set list and when you go up, how to exalt the congregation. It's not about just coming, singing and going. How do we exalt the congregation? How do you get the congregation involved in singing?  The reason is when people who are experienced give us feedback, it only means that we are willing to learn, we are willing to develop, we are willing to change and getting feedback from individuals who are experienced is a wonderful thing, right? It's wonderful. So when you may be in the workplace or at the ministry, if your boss who has been, you know, giving you, pouring into your life and spending time with you, helping you grow in whatever area that you're doing, you know, take those feedbacks, work on it, it's going to help you. Don't try to defend your shortcomings. Many times we try to say, no, no, because of this, I was not able to, you know, do this work or this task could not become, or because of that, or because of this. Yes, there could be some genuine reasons, but for most cases, avoid, you know, defending your shortcomings, right? When we do that, what happens is like, it's like we're saying, we're not valuing the feedback that is coming, so no, your feedback is good, but because of this problem, I could not do this, right? So it changes the whole scenario. So always try as much as possible, not to defend your shortcomings, but to take feedback, apply it into your life and it's going to surely, you know, enable us to go to a higher step as well. Always receive correction with a good attitude. This is key. Now there are people who want to correct you, there are people who care enough about you, who want to see us grow, develop and become a better person. Now when they give correction, there's a right way to take that feedback, right? Take it in a good attitude, take it in a positive attitude. Now remember that those who give you feedback only want to see you grow. Those who don't give you feedback, they don't really want to, you know, it doesn't really matter to them, but remember those who are giving you feedback, they're taking the time, they're taking the effort to help you and to see you grow in whatever area you're doing. So, you know, build a rapport with them, continue to take input. Sometimes in ministry, right, what we do is we think of, you know, hey, I'm 10 years, 15 years in the ministry, so now, you know, I'm ready to give feedback, but not take feedback, right? And sometimes when we are really matured in the ministry, we feel like we're so used to giving feedback and giving counsel to people, and when time comes when we have to receive it, we just step away, we say, no, no, no, God only will speak to me, you know, only God can tell me what to do. Those are wrong attitudes, right? So we must be willing, no matter how high we go, to receive feedback from people, right? One of the things that we have in ABC is we have a, you know, we have a big team where, you know, some are in media and technology, some are in music and production and all different kinds, a lot of business-oriented people in our church and so what happens, what we do is we take inputs from everyone, right? Those who are really good in the field that they are in, experienced, we take feedback, we take inputs from everyone and what is applicable, we try and apply it to the organization as a church which eventually helps build the church. So receive correction with a good attitude, right? Now, I want to be careful here. There will be times that people will say things and try to correct you, but it doesn't really, you know, they just want to, you know, say something, right? It's not the correction is done very harshly or it's done in a way to condemn or to bring you down, then you got to think twice about that, right? So there will be times when, you know, people come and say to you, hey, there are some things I don't believe, I don't subscribe to some of your beliefs, right? And why don't you do this, this, this? Now, you need to be careful, right? So we cannot say, okay, now because this person said brought correction, so I have to agree with whatever he says, no. We need to see, okay, is it in line with God's word, whatever he's speaking? Now, if it's something that is not in line with God's word or with something that is not in line with the organization, don't take it, right? But there's a way to, you know, put aside those things.  That would be the wrong way. Sometimes you just take it. If it's something that is good, beneficial for you and for the organization, receive it. If it's not, just put it away, right? Especially in ministry, you'll have a lot of people coming and giving a lot of, you know, advice and a lot of, you know, corrections that they want to make, which is suitable for them. But if it is something that is not in line with the organization, you don't have to, you know, take everything that they say. But if it is, if they are people who are in ministry, who are really care and they give good positive constructive feedback, constructive correction, take it applied in your life and in ministry. The next point, be careful before you stand as a guarantor. Now, this is a very strange point. But this is very, very, very important in terms of corporate settings. Let's read Proverbs 11 and verse 15. Proverbs 11 verse 15. Proverbs 11 verse 15. Proverbs 11 verse 15. He who is surety for a stranger will suffer, but one who hates being surety is secure. Amen. Thank you, Samuel. You know, yesterday, a couple of days back, as I was preparing and all of these, I was just thinking, the book of Proverbs, Solomon has, he's touched every single aspect of life, meaning everything, even as simple as standing as a surety. So there will be times in workplace relationships where we make good friends, close friends in the workplace. And then there will be times when some people will say, hey, why don't you stand as a surety? I'm going to probably, for example, I'm going to take a loan and why don't you stand as a surety for me? Now, because they're friends, maybe for many years, good friends, you trust him. When you say, okay, I'll stand as a surety. Now, has what the Bible teaches us, right? He who is a surety for a stranger will suffer, but he who hates being in surety is secure. So, all we want to say in this matter is be careful before you put your name down as a guaranteeer for anyone, for any financial or legal implications. Right? Be very careful. You know what? Because, you know, I've heard of people who have stood as surety for a home loan for, you know, their friends. And those guys didn't pay the EMI's monthly installments and, you know, they eventually absconded. And what happened? The person who was the guarantor was, you know, the bank officials came to their home and said, you know, you have to start paying the EMI because you're the guarantor. He said, no, I can't. I'm not even in my house. It's my friend's house. So where's your friend? He's absconded. A friend maybe who was, you know, 10 years close to him, very close to him, gone. Right? Absconded. Now, he's paying the loan and he can't even stay in that house because the house is under the bank.  And he went through a terrible time. I remember this man was coming and saying, you know, I never thought this would happen to me where I myself don't have my own house and I haven't taken my own home loan but I stood as a guarantor for somebody else, a very close friend of mine absconded and now I'm in trouble. And the best part is both of them were good believers. Right? So, when the Bible says something it always, you know, there is a reason for it. Now, I'm not saying that you must not do it no matter what.  But be careful. Look at all the aspects. Look at what it is involved. What are the stakes involved? And be very careful in this point because many lives have got ruined because of this, standing as guarantors. Right? Next one, avoid astrologers, horoscopes, fortune tellers and palm readers. Let's read Jeremiah 10-2 says, Thus says the Lord do not learn the way of the Gentiles do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven for the Gentiles are dismayed at them. Now, during a time where there is you know, a lot of all these, you know, astrologies, horoscopes, fortune tellings you know, palm reading and all of those things as believers we must take a stand against it and I trust none of us are in that, you know, we are guessing we are all well assured in the Lord and you know, we don't personally involve in this astrologies, horoscopes because these are all occult practices the source itself is the enemy but there will be times when you know, people may in a workplace may say, hey, why don't we you know, go to these horoscopes of fortune tellers and find out what is going to happen in our future as a company or future as our team or in our personal lives. Let's find out now, as believers we may initially feel hey, let's try it but no turn away from it gently excuse yourself and run away from that place right I'm reminded of what Joseph did when sin came knocking he ran away he didn't linger around there right, when Potiphar's wife came he didn't say, okay, let me stand around let me just go here, no, he ran so run away from all of this, turn away from it right, now do it lovingly, do it with humility and not adequately, right, not in a manner like a self-righteous manner now, the mistake that I've made is I've many, many times I've said you know, palm reading is all you know, it's all rubbish and horoscopes they don't even know what's happening in their life and astrologers don't have a clue what they're doing and so the many times I have spoken off against them of course not in the pulpit and not while teaching and all of that but among friends and among people that I know of, that I realize that even if they are people that I know and people that are close to me I should avoid it because you know, it's talking arrogantly about other people's beliefs and so I don't want to involve in that, right so stay away from it if people in your organization say we have to do this then just step away, just walk away I'm reminded of this this young man this happened last year he called me he's not a believer but he's a very hardworking man and he's working abroad and he you know, his parents are in India he used to send money to India and told his parents let's build a nice house so that later on after the house is ready I'll also come to India and I'll get a job there and work there so he began to work really hard he used to send money and he couldn't come every now and then to look at the progress but he would come but just once a while and then everything was done, he built a beautiful big house where he and his parents could stay and after building the house somewhere in between the family called the priests they're not Christians they called their their leaders and they came after doing certain prayers they said this house is not made the right way the word we use in India is vastu which means there are certain things that has to the kitchen should face east or I myself don't know but the main door should face this way and the kitchen bedroom should face this way and all of those things so the guy said the house is not planned the right way and it's not going to be a blessing there's only going to be curses in this house and all those things and without the son's knowledge the parents got really scared and said okay we will rebuild the house and they demolished the whole house and they said the son was so sad about the whole thing he said why did you demolish the whole house I spent so many years just saving up and the parents said we will just rebuild it in the right way so that there's no curses and then he spoke to me and he called me and he said what is this what do I do now and he was really heartbroken he was really crying a lot of hard work over the past two years working double shifts, sending money now just because this person said this and he was just so broken right so sometimes falling into all these things are just traps that the enemy uses right so let's avoid it better in the organization I'm sure in our personal lives none of us follow that but in the organization even people that may ask you to be involved in it step away, stay away from it and trust in the Lord is the one who will do the right things for us, he will open the right doors for us right so we complete this chapter chapter 9 any questions on this chapter the next chapter is very very important chapter any questions chapter 9 workplace relationships any thoughts everything okay shall we move into the next chapter chapter 10 planning and execution okay alright so let's move into chapter 10 again this is a very very important subject very very important topic that we can discuss because planning and execution is something that all of us do in our personal lives in our family lives corporate in the ministry so all these points can be applied to us right now we've heard this statement execution is key we can plan and make plans after plans after plans but the key is execution we may have this wonderful whole thing okay I'll do this this this and then strategy and activities and how to you know strategize how to plan all of this now if you don't execute it all those plans all those strategies are of no use because you're not seeing the goal accomplished right so planning is important but execution is even more important right imagine as a imagine a family that says okay I plan to move to another city I'm just giving an example I plan to move family plans to move to another city right now if they don't put that plan into action they're not going to end up in another city mentally we can't say okay right now I'm in this city and then next week I'm in the other city no there is execution there has to be something done to it we need to moving a home is not a small task there's a lot of planning lot of execution involved same way in our lives in ministry planning is very important execution of that plan is the key right and so in this chapter we look at insights on planning and strategy execution right let's look at a few points first one determine the council of the Lord right Proverbs 19 21 says we humans keep brainstorming options and plans but God's purpose prevails that's the message translation I like that version we humans keep brainstorming options and plans but God's purpose prevails you know many a times we plan a lot of things you know the regular NIV version says plans in a man's heart but it's the God's will but it's God's will that prevails right so we plan a lot of things but it's very important to get the council of God God is this the right step that I'm taking is this the right door that you are opening for me is it the door that you want me to go into now or should I wait for some time or God is this the organization that you want me to be in I have different options I have three doors open in front of me three different companies are calling me there are interviews what should I do should I stay here should I look at this company should I go to that company and sometimes in our mind we feel this is good this is good that is good but it's very important to determine the council of the Lord what does the Lord want us to do and when we are in the will of God in the council of God in the plan of God God will open doors perfectly for us I'm sure many of us can testify I prayed God opened this door and everything around was perfect God opened this right school or God opened the right company for me, gave me the right place the right city and right kind of environment for my children everything was just sets in perfectly because it is the council of the Lord and it's very important in the ministry I want to focus on ministry now on this point to get the council of the Lord for example as a church you're planning to do worship evenings and you plan worship evening on Saturday 6 p.m now you don't need the council of the Lord in the sense that God should I do worship evening you can do it it's not like you need the council of the Lord but there will be times in ministry you will need to sit down and pray and prayerfully make decisions in the ministry especially when they are critical ones when it comes to moving to another city moving to another nation or when it comes to your children, education or your own job critical ones determine the council of the Lord get thoughts from people who are well meaning who can help you in that area as well and then stir your plans on how you will execute that now when it comes to planning get the right people involved in planning now let's focus on the corporate and ministry side of it Proverbs 2018 says form your purpose by asking for counsel then carry it out using all the help you can get now when you have you can either plan alone or you can plan with a team but here's the thing when we plan with a team you get different inputs right now at APC what we do is as a team we plan so for example there's Good Friday and Easter coming up so we all meet pastoral team the volunteer leaders what do we do Good Friday the regular things always stand especially since the church has done it for many years but then we get involved we say okay what do we plan so we get key people involved in a planning process people who can contribute to the discussion people who will take responsibility and be involved in execution so don't just find people who will just give us ideas and thoughts and then say okay go do it no they need to be involved in the execution of the plans share the plan with your extended team as well the other people in the team also needs to be involved it's not like the higher team first you know only they should know the plan now what we do something at APC is we have a high level planning team so the pastoral team the volunteer team leaders we plan and then after a certain decision is made we e-mail it to the entire congregation say okay this is what we're going to do this is how our Good Friday service will be and this is how our Easter Sunday service will be these are the plans for the next academic year for the Bible college these are the plans for the e-learning courses whatever is planned after the discussion we share it with everyone and Tarun's been there on many of our discussions as well and so it's good to do that because we get inputs from everyone have a good high level team now in the corporate sector maybe you're a manager or a leader and you are in a position where you can get people involved in the corporate so for example you have three people who are discussing a topic get people from your team if you feel that this person can contribute he may be very insignificant he may not be a manager or he may not be a team leader he may be just somebody who's new to the team but you feel that this person can add some value or give some inputs so give people opportunities when you're getting the right now when you give people opportunities we will realize God will lead us you say okay maybe I need to give him some more time maybe after six months let me call him let's try somebody else and then the Lord may minister to you and say okay get him involved get his thoughts as well I remember when I joined APC and during the Bible college while I was studying in the Bible college pastor would say we're having a pastoral team discussion you also come and I used to wonder why you were there they're all pastors they're in the ministry for many years but what kind of input can I give I felt really out of place but I realized that it was all a process of leading people and making people grow from one place to another so getting the right people involved is key while making decisions next point look ahead preempt the unexpected let's read Proverbs 22 and verse 3 yes could any one of us please read Proverbs 22 and verse 3 Proverbs 22 and verse 3 Proverbs 22 and verse 3 a prudent man for his evil and hide himself hide himself but the simple pass on and they are punished amen thank you Mangi now part of a planning process is to be preemptive the word preemptive simply means to anticipate potential threats and challenges and execute plans accordingly right being prepared for future courses of events or certain challenges that may come up so when we plan we don't only look at what's happening now around us but we plan ahead in the sense that okay if any unforeseen situation comes up or a threat of any kind comes up or challenges come up how are we going to fight that how are we going to able to overcome those things right and continue keeping the organization growing so look ahead preempt on the unexpected right and now how does how does that happen a prudent man foresees evil meaning so he foresees when we are prudent we foresee things okay things way ahead so some of the things we do APC as well is you know we have like 10 year plans 20 year plans and I'm talking about not just you know plan okay do this do this no we're talking about high level 10 year plans high level so these are every aspect these are certain things we want to see our church ahead right the moment lockdown hit I'm sure most churches did this which is good but the moment you know the pandemic hit and we were under lockdown we knew exactly what to do go online push everything online everything just was you know very very well the transition was very comfortable for us because one of the things that we had decided somewhere in the early 2013-14 was to you know put our sermons online put our sermons so that people can watch it and also record with good equipment and record our worship record our sermons and put them online and also other things that we also plan was to get students from other countries also so we also many years back we thought about doing online courses so that people from other countries also can log in and look at joining our bible college course and we had that in our mind but the moment lockdown came so we knew exactly what to do push everything online so okay worship we knew okay we've done it before so we did the sermon recording done it before it was done and then bible college it was it wasn't done online but then immediately we got things done and then got it online so it wasn't really something that was of course there was a lot of back in work IT work but it was done because it was already something that was on paper we didn't think of lockdown we never even thought of it but it was on paper it was always on our mind you know one day as a bible college we will be impacting people from different nations it was already in our mind and this whole lockdown came going online wonderful opportunity to touch people minister to people from different countries so a prudent man foresees evil he foresees he sees the things that are way ahead now how do we do that we pray we seek God's guidance and God really begins to speak to us he directs us remember point one determine the council of the Lord and we know when he will open the right door and so accordingly we can plan ahead as well right so let's stop here right we will continue from the next point from next week and I hope I hope these lessons are you know a learning for each one of us it's definitely been a learning for me as well I just want to apologize I mentioned that I'll put the you know the midterm assessment but I will go ahead and do that this week so I'll put the midterm assessment it'll just be for 50 marks and then the final assessment will be for 50 marks the marks will be collated together as your final grades right sorry for the delay I'll put that in maybe today tomorrow I'll put that right thank you so much let's just quickly close in prayer Mangi would you mind closing in prayer for us yes Pasta let's pray Heavenly Father we thank you Lord we thank you for equipping us Lord for empowering us with this knowledge Lord that we are useful and we are impactful and we carry your kingdom Lord in the way that places you in the way that places and bring glory to people we come in contact with Lord because we are called by your name Lord and we are called to present your glory Lord to be of ourselves Lord in the places and wherever we we find ourselves we give you all the glory and we pray just that you continue to work in our heart Lord so that we are prepared and we are ready Lord to go in any place that you call us to we pray all this Father in your mighty name Lord Jesus amen amen thank you so much Mangi thank you everyone have a great week ahead God bless you I'll see you next week bye


Okay guys, so today's topic is you better be crushing it and before we get into that I'm sure you've realized that ever since I made the video why I bought a Tesla every video since then has been Totally a hundred percent produced by me. I've been filming. I've been editing and I've been working on my craft It's a passion of mine and when I originally started my YouTube channel I was doing the videos in the beginning and then I delegated that task out To several really great teams and they've made a lot of incredible videos for me and it's it's great I love the videos that the the people that I've hired to do so have created. It's awesome However, now I'm getting to the point where I really love doing it myself even though it takes a lot of time It's something that I want to do and I enjoy doing it's something that is very Therapeuted to me to say the least and I have a lot of creative juices And I want to continue to let those flow and want to continue to make better and better and better videos for you today Very simple video just me talking and just sharing my thoughts with you. I Wanted to do that because next Tuesday. I'm actually taking my mortgage test And it's I'm doing a lot of studying so this week I don't have a lot of time to actually sit down and you know Do all the filming and edit and all that stuff I just wanted to do a quick video share some thoughts with you and that way you guys got some motivation for the week and we're ready to hit the ground running so The topic today is you better be crushing it and the reason I say that is because the market is so Incredibly great right now. We had last year six point four million transactions in the US the year before in 2020 we had six point four million transactions. It was dead even it was a little less in 2000 2021 but it was dead even it was right there at the same place. It was six point four nine in 2020 six point four four in 2021 now in 2019 it was somewhere around the five point five mark five point six something like that So from 2019 there was 800 extra thousand Transactions 800,000 added to the market from 2019 to 2020 and that's held true To 2021 we'll see what 2022 brings us But I'll tell you that inventory has dropped to Basically all-time lows. I mean as far back as you can see that they've collected data I don't think there's a time in history where we can see where inventory was as low as this in 2005 We see that there were over seven million Transactions, so we're not even to that point yet. Will we get there?  You have to be confident in what we're doing here We're here to help people buy and sell real estate, which is gonna happen forever People are always gonna buy and sell real estate and they're always gonna need someone to help them through the process I don't care what any of these companies say and I'm even taking it a step further because I've been through so many of These market cycles and then this is the second big market cycle. I've been through I'm really preparing in a whole different thing on a whole different level and that is this I'm getting my mortgage license to begin my journey of starting a mortgage company I'm preparing on the commercial in which I've never been a part of and I'm putting my ducks in a row to prepare for Possible downturn later. Who knows when that's gonna happen, but I'm preparing for this I'm building a team to handle my residential and I'm gonna ramp that up and have the entire squad ready Totally maxed out and then as the market starts to shift. I'm gonna be the captain of the ship showing these guys Exactly what to do to maximize and to take advantage There's gonna be so many opportunities and so I'm gearing up for this because I know it's coming It's going to come at some point the market's not gonna just continue on this path Condo still from last year to this year two hundred more thousand dollars from from five fifty to seven fifty I mean this this stuff still happening. We sold a property a Week or so ago right one point one million and I was selling those properties for Last year they were eight fifty. I sold several of those properties for eight fifty last year and the year before that They were in the seven six or sevens And we didn't even think this one was gonna go for one point one But it did it sold in ten days full price out for cash The market's still insane inventory still incredibly low. So it's very interesting I love this market actually and know what's so funny about it. I've got zero listings right now Every time I get a listing it sells and goes right under contract And so I have no active inventory right this moment as we speak which is fun to me I Understand how this cycle is gonna go I know where it's headed and I'm gonna be three steps ahead of it And I want you to be three steps ahead of it as well And that's why I'm doing videos like this to maybe help you build the confidence in yourself and the market that there's nothing To worry about in terms of markets crashing market cycles You know affecting your business if anything is going to affect your business in a positive way if You understand how the game works and you've put all your eggs into the basket of Helping people building your database building your personal brand Right and then as the markets changes from end users to more investor oriented because prices are plummeting And the end users can't really or they're scared to go out there and buy These big-time investors are gonna be eating it up And we need to have plenty of investors in our pocket which all of you do all of you have Dormant investors in your database right now and when the market flips over you call through your database and figure out Who's who those dormant? Investors are gonna emerge and they're gonna say hi Yeah, I would love to buy some properties at a at a very steep discount Right, and I don't know what kind of a what that means steep discount But I can tell you this it's gonna be fun. So get ready for the big ride This is my last video. I'm doing and in 1080. I bought a camera right here. All right It's the Canon EOS R6 and this shoots in 4k. So I'm really excited about this So the next video see after this will be shot in 4k and I'll see you guys then you guys take care and let's get it


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