Hello, I'm Lynn Bonderant, your host for our series, 25 Years of Progress. During this 13-part series, we see some of the highlights of NASA, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, since its official founding on October 1, 1958. What is happening in other American science and medicine the year before NASA is born? Well, 1957 is the year the American Cancer Society reports a high correlation between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. And New Element Nobellium 102 is disclosed by the Argonne National Laboratory in Lamont, Illinois. And overseas, on October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. The Soviet launch is for the International Geophysical Year, or I-G-Y. The Geophysical Year is 18 months from July 1957 to December 1958. More than 70 nations and as many as 30,000 scientists cooperate to investigate the world and its environment. Sputnik 1 concerns Americans because of far-reaching military and technical implications of the launch. Less than a month after the first Sputnik, the Russians launch a second Sputnik which weighs about a half a ton and carries a dog as a passenger. The second Sputnik causes even more concern in America because of the large size of the satellite. During I-G-Y, the United States plans to launch a Vanguard satellite which weighs just a little over three pounds. The attempt to launch the Vanguard on December 6, 1957 ends in failure and a ball of flame and wreckage. T. Keith Glennon is the first administrator of NASA. He has asked why NASA was formed. That's a fairly easy question to answer. Sputnik on October 4, 1957, as I recall, the Russians launched a fairly heavy object into orbit and that caught us really by surprise. A Vanguard project had gotten underway in 1955, as I recall it, part of the I-G-Y program, International Geophysical Year program. But it wasn't anywhere near ready. They had, I think, scheduled some launches late that year, that is, in 1958, but it wasn't clear that they were going to be able to fly them. There was another competitor which had really never been recognized, and that was the Army, with their Jupiter, which together with some upper-stage solid rockets developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, finally was the vehicle which launched a satellite for the U.S. early in 1959. And the satellite was called Explorer 1. Let's go back to after Sputnik's success and Vanguard's spectacular failure. When Major General John Madaris and Dr. Vernevon Braun and their team at the Army Redstone Arsenal are given their long-sought chance, I'll go ahead to launch an American satellite. They will use their flight-proven Jupiter-C rocket launcher. We are at Cape Canaveral in late January, 1958, as the covered satellite has placed atop the Jupiter-C poised on Pad 26 for firing. Explorer 1 is to be about 30 pounds in orbit. Severe winds aloft force a two-day postponement. Then on January 31, 1958, the United States answers the Soviet challenge in space. Explorer makes a major discovery, a radiation belt around the Earth. Dr. James Van Allen of the University of Iowa identifies the region. The discovery of the Van Allen belt is an important finding of the International Geophysical Year. During a satellite television program broadcast in 1978, Dr. Ernst Stullinger, Director of Science for Dr. Vernevon Braun, makes this statement about the launch of Explorer 1. It was a gate that opened into a new land. We hoped at that time that we will make progress and achieve many more things in space beyond launching a small satellite. I want to be honest, though, and say that at that time we did even not think it possible that 20 years later there may have been 12 men walking on the moon and coming back to Earth in good shape. Many of the dreams which we had at that time were fulfilled, but many other dreams which many achievements were accomplished which we even did not dare to dream at that time. However, when we look forward now toward the next 20 years, I have the feeling that the best is yet to come. The United States space effort before the launch of Explorer 1 is fragmented. Navy, Army, Air Force, National Science Academy, and NACA. President Eisenhower appoints James Killian to be science advisor just after the first Sputnik launch. Keith Glennon recollects the writing of the space act which forms NASA. My recollection would be that Mr. Killian, who was the president science advisor, had been appointed almost immediately following the launch of Sputnik. And PSAC, the president science advisory committee, and I suspect Mr. Lyndon Johnson on the Hill did sort of a cooperative job in putting together the space act. They had as a model the Atomic Energy Act, and indeed if you compare the two you find a good deal of similarity in many of the clauses in the two acts. What were the major implications of the space act? They simply said that we were to pursue the development of activities in space for the benefit of all mankind. We were to do it as a civilian agency. We were to be responsive to the military in the sense that if we found in our developments some gadgets, some information that would be of value to the military, we are bound to give it to them. And that was really the thrust of this act. We were also told that we should pursue international activities, and this is, I think, an extension of this for the benefit of all mankind. The space act is signed into law by President Eisenhower on July 29, 1958, and on October 1, 1958, NASA comes into being. Glennon recalls Eisenhower's feelings about space. He was not a space cadet, he used to say, as you look over at the shoulder and say, you know, Keith, that moon's been there a long time, it's going to be there great many eons yet, and we'll get there one day, but it is necessary we break our necks and break the budget to get there now. Okay, what about congressional support at the time? Congressional support was really very good. As a matter of fact, they were pushing us. I don't think in my 20 months there that I ever had a budget proposed to them that they didn't want to add something to. My stock answer was I have studied this, we have presented you with a budget which is what we think we can usefully use. If we need any more, you may be a certain outcome right back to you. That seemed to satisfy them. Before NASA is born, Keith Glennon is president of Case Institute of Technology and former commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission. Then Eisenhower nominates him to be first NASA administrator in August 1958 with Dr. Hugh Dryden as deputy, and NASA is formed from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Glennon explains. And we did inherit the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics operation, an ACA as it was then called, of which Lewis laboratories were one. There were four or five such laboratories, three big ones, Ames Langley and Lewis, and one at Wallops Island in Virginia and one out in Edwards Air Force Base in California. But we had 8,000 well trained, loyal, dedicated people in NACA, and they formed the base on which we erected NASA. So we were very well endowed. NACA was formed in 1915 to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their practical solution. NACA was required to direct and conduct research and experiments in aeronautics. The committee was responsible for many of the advances in U.S. aviation through 1958. Some space type research is done in later years, but emphasis was on airplane research. Again, Glennon tells us what happened in NACA space research. NACA had been doing development work largely at Langley, as I recall it, on the shape of a capsule that might be used in an up-and-down flight like actually Mercury started out to be and finally into an orbit. The problems of trying to get adequately capable people in a variety of fields meant that we had to look other than in NACA, and it became apparent very early on that our real limitation was in the launch vehicle business, the booster rocket as we then called it. We really didn't have any. We had been using sounding rockets, small things that went up, accumulated information, and telemetered it back to the ground, but we didn't have anything that really would lift very much with any degree of surety. So I guess it was probably in November, might have been late October of 1958, that I made a trip to Huntsville with Hugh Dryden, my deputy, and one of the very, very great men in this space program, his name cannot and will not ever be forgotten. We came back. It is clear that Van Braun had a real strong team there, very capable. We did try to get that laboratory or part of it. I didn't want the whole thing. They had work going on for the Army. The Pershing Missile was in development at the time, and they had as their really scientific support, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by the Caltech out on the West Coast near Pasadena. Dr. Glennon is successful in his effort to continue the job of building the new NASA organization. Officials transfer JPL, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena to NASA, and the role of the California Institute of Technology as JPL manager continues. About a year later, officials transfer a large segment of the Army operation at Huntsville to NASA, and workers build it into the Marshall Space Flight Center. Only a week after NASA comes to life, Dr. Glennon approves the first U.S. manned spaceflight program, Project Mercury. Scientists develop the Mercury capsule shape through tests. Workers do wind tunnel tests as small and large scale models, covering speeds from 0 to 18,000 miles per hour. Researchers fire small models of the capsule in the supersonic pre-flight ballistic gun range. The gun sends the one inch model down a 30 foot instrumented range of recording stations. The model goes 10,000 miles per hour as a model speeds down the gun range. Photographs and shadow graphs are taken. This shadow graph shows air flow around the model. Workers develop boilerplate versions in the Mercury Capsules for tests. This first test is a parachute drop test from an Air Force C-130. The capsule slides out of the plane's cargo door on a sled. The sled releases. A charge ejects a drogue parachute. Not only is NASA working on mid-air vehicles, but it also does the same thing. The Moon is a manned space travel, but from early on, scientists launched space science probes. Workers launched the Pioneer 1 probe toward the Moon about a week after NASA comes into being. A lunar TV scanner is aboard. Because of an error in burnout velocity, the probe does not reach the Moon, but reaches an altitude of almost 71,000 miles, and the craft re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the South Pacific on October 12, 1958. Glennon remembers that first pioneer. I guess we sort of broke our pick on some of those. I recall, those were the pioneers, as I recall, and I recall how overjoyed we were when we could talk to that little bit of a thing that's about this big. 200,000 miles out in space and get the information back. It never did reach the Moon or go into orbit around the Moon. It failed and fell back to Earth. But at the same time, the Soviets could never talk to their birds more than 10,000 miles up. So we were beginning to get a little sense that we were doing things right, that we were getting better all the time, and that was indeed the objective of NASA in those days. Push the state of the art as hard as you could, but don't waste your muscle. The United States tries 37 satellite launches by December 1959. Less than a third are successful. As a result, NASA begins to instill a new sense of rigid quality control to check and check and check again rocket components, wells, valves, pumps, materials, and so on. Over time, the quality control program works. In other areas of science and engineering, the first domestic jet airline service begins between New York and Miami on December 10, 1958, and in August 1959 plans to explore Antarctica in 1959 and 1960 are announced. In September 1959, Severo Ochawa and Arthur Kornberg received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for chemical heredity work. Meanwhile, the first seven U.S. astronauts are chosen. Early in 1959, NASA selects a team of seven engineer pilots for Project Mercury. M. Scott Carpenter, L. Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Charaugh, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slaton. The astronauts prepare for flight. After two hours, the astronaut comes out of a mold used to make a flight couch to fit his body shape. Early on, veteran test pilots look down on the role of the pilot in Project Mercury, but the Mercury pilot plays an active role. He controls the capsule's attitude in pitch, roll, and yaw, as well as operating navigation and communication systems. In all Mercury flights, the pilot proves to be essential to the success of the mission. He operates all primary flight controls and initiates retro rockets to fire, beginning the descent to a landing. Whirling in a centrifuge cab, astronauts learn important lessons about how they react to the G-loads of emergency aborts. Meanwhile, workers test an escape system for the early Mercury capsule. The pilot must be able to escape from the Mercury launch site in case of an emergency. In this unmanned test, a 16-foot tower with a solid rocket sends the capsule safely away. During this test, a rhesus monkey is aboard. At more than 1,300 miles per hour, pressure-sensing devices start the escape. Extensive Mercury program research and development continues. Workers launch a Big Joe Mercury test capsule nearly into orbit to test reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. An Atlas booster carries the capsule to an altitude of 100 miles and nearly to orbital speed. From the recovery ships, the capsule appears as a flaming fireball as it streaks back into the atmosphere. Patrol aircraft fly to the impact area and pick up the capsule's recovery signals. Two destroyers race to the area. The Navy ship Strong makes the pickup. The capsule survives its reentry in excellent condition. Other areas of the space program are successful in 1959. By August, 10 of the 17 launches are good. Also in August, NASA launches an Explorer 6, which functions well in all respects. Explorer 6 detects a large ring of electrical current circulating the Earth. During this first program of our 13-part series, we've seen how the launch of Sputnik in late 1957 encouraged the birth of NASA in October 1958. Early NASA projects continue through 1959. Lessons learned from early difficulties lead us to ever more successful performance. Next program we pick up the NASA saga in 1960 when goals are still being set. I'm Lynn Bondurant, your host of our series 25 years of progress. During this second program, we cover 1960 and 1961 national aeronautics and space administration projects. To set the perspective against other scientific and medical U.S. history in 1960, the Navy submerges a bathyscaf to a record 24,000 feet in the Pacific Ocean. And in May, the U.S. atomic submarine Triton travels submerged around the world in 84 days. A NASA highlight is the launch of the first U.S. weather satellite on April 1, 1960. Called TIROS-1, it produces almost 23,000 pictures of Earth's weather. This TIROS-1 experimental weather satellite provides dramatic pictures of cloud formations, including spiral formations associated with large area storms. TIROS-1 works in a useful manner for 78 days. It's the world's first successful weather satellite. And ever since then, weather satellites help in weather prediction, save lives and property through storm detection. Meanwhile, in the MAN program, astronauts continue training for their space flights in the Mercury capsule. Astronauts practice with a space flight simulator at Lewis Research Center in Cleveland. Strap firmly, the astronaut spins around first one and then all three axes. They do exercises in bringing spacecraft under control. A spacecraft in orbit travels at a speed which balances very delicately the pull of Earth's gravity. To simulate weightlessness in space, a pilot flies an airplane. The plane descends, begins a steep climb. As the aircraft decelerates, it eases over the top in a parabolic arc. For short periods, its occupants are weightless. Another first for NASA is the launch of ECHO-1, the first passive communications satellite. Workers launch it into orbit on August 12, 1960. ECHO-1 is really a big balloon. From it, radio signals are bounced, relaying signals between distant locations on Earth. Millions on Earth see ECHO as a moving pinpoint of light in the night sky. T. Keith Glennon, NASA's first administrator, recalls. ECHO was a 100-foot in diameter inflatable balloon which was encased perhaps in an aluminum casing of about, I suppose, 30 inches in diameter perhaps. And that case was exploded open when it reached a particular height, and then the balloon inflated. And it stayed up there, just circling the Earth as a matter of what we call injection velocity, when it was injected into orbit. And I can recall going up to home to an old New Jersey where they had a new type of antenna, a horn antenna. You can now see them on towers around the country. And we talked to the satellite and we took pictures over that satellite, and I still have one on my desk. ECHO is just the first of many communications satellites. Later communications satellites are much more complicated. They are active, not passive. Carry antennas, receivers, transmitters and other equipment. Modern satellites receive signals transmitted up from Earth and retransmit an amplified signal to distant locations. News, sports, entertainment television, telephone, facsimile and other communications are now routinely transmitted via satellite. Satellites began a communications revolution. And 1961 is a year of other scientific advances as well. The National Geographic Society announces that the fossilized skull of an early humanoid discovered by Dr. Louis Leakey is 1.7 million years old. Jack Kirby of Texas Instruments invents the integrated circuit. On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human being to orbit the Earth. His Vostok-1 spacecraft makes one orbit. Gagarin lands safely. Again, the Soviet Union accomplishes a first while the U.S. is preparing for a suborbital Mercury manned space flight. The Mercury Ground Tracking Network includes 18 stations. Bermuda Station continues undergoing intersystems checkout. Bermuda duplicates the control center on the mainland. Workers complete and ready the station for operation during April 1961. Other workers complete the final two stations. Cano Nigeria and Zanzibar. Scientists simulate orbital flights for training. In 1961, this unmanned test shot is ready for blast off. But the escape system works, raising confidence for later manned flights. In the systems with which I am dealing and will have to deal in flight, that's in myself. In May 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard prepares for the first U.S. manned space flight with a Mercury capsule. The craft is to rise over 100 miles into space in this suborbital flight. Officials schedule the launch for the early morning of May 2, 1961. Weather postpones the launch. On May 5, Shepard goes to the launch complex. It is just two years and seven months after the start of Project Mercury. As countless millions watch and listen, the astronaut manually confers his craft and has almost continuous communications with Earth. The Mercury Redstone 3 travels 300 miles and reaches an altitude of 115 miles. Shepard enjoys about five minutes of weightlessness. About 16 minutes after liftoff, the spacecraft is found. A helicopter picks up Shepard and then his Freedom 7 spacecraft. The Mercury suborbital flight is a success. But the Russian Gagarin has orbited the Earth and in a heavier spacecraft. President Kennedy says, quote, we are behind. The news will be worse before it is better and it will be some time before we catch up. President Kennedy asked Vice President Lyndon Johnson to head a study of what is needed to beat the Soviets in the space race. NASA's 10-year plan calls for a manned orbital flight around the Moon. The question is, can the U.S. be the first nation to orbit a man around the Moon? The technical answer is maybe not. So the proposal is made that the goal be extended to the surface of the Moon. On May 25, 1961, President Kennedy speaks before a joint session of Congress to define a new national goal. Now it is time to take longer strides. Time for a great new American enterprise. Time for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth. I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal before this decade is out of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project in this period will be more impressive to mankind or more important for the long-range exploration of space. As one author writes, NASA is exhilarated but odd. To land a man on the Moon and return him to Earth is perhaps the hardest technical project in the nation's history. The Mercury project to orbit a manned spacecraft around the Earth is, by itself, a demanding program. But facing the challenge, NASA begins to work towards the assigned national goal. NASA decides that a two-man Earth orbital spacecraft called Gemini must be developed as a step between the one-man Mercury capsule and the Apollo craft, which is destined to fly men to the Moon and back. Project Gemini is to learn of man's capabilities during longer periods of weightlessness. And Gemini is to help train astronauts to maneuver and rendezvous spacecraft during flight. The two-man spacecraft continues under design. Acquisition of the Titan II rocket for Gemini from the Air Force begins. Gemini is the intermediate project between Earth orbital and manned lunar space flights. By October 1961, NASA is already receiving proposals for a three-man spacecraft for Moon missions. Officials evaluate proposals. Engineers and scientists of Project Apollo meet with industry people to discuss design and building of the Apollo craft. Companies present their models. On November 29th, officials select the North American Aviation Corporation of Downey, California to be the prime contractor to produce Apollo spacecraft. During 1961, NASA puts four successful unmanned scientific satellites in orbit. Other NASA satellites are only partly successful. There are two good orbital tests of the Mercury capsule without a man on board. One of the flights carries a chimpanzee. And there are two manned suborbital missions, including Shepard's flight. Workers launch Explorer 10, March 25, 1961. The 79-pound satellite gathers facts about solar wind, Earth's magnetic field, and its reaction to solar flares. In April 1961, NASA launches the 82-pound Explorer 11. It detects gamma rays from cosmic sources and maps their locations in the sky. This is the first try of that kind of satellite space astronomy. Scientists and engineers put another successful Tyros Weather Satellite in orbit. And in August 1961, NASA launches the Explorer 12 satellite into a highly elliptical Earth orbit. Explorer 12 investigates solar wind, interplanetary magnetic fields, energetic particles, and the Van Allen Belt. The second manned suborbital U.S. spaceflight with astronaut Virgil Grissom aboard is a success. But the spacecraft is to sink in the ocean. Grissom experiences one and a half Gs. The flight surgeon closely watches the test pilot's condition during flight. Grissom's vital signs are okay. At engine cut off, the spacecraft makes its turn around, and the astronaut is weightless. The retrieval helicopters are within two miles of the landing point. Grissom says he's ready for pickup. As the lead helicopter moves in to hook the capsule, the side hatch is blown off. Grissom leaves the rapidly filling spacecraft. The recovery helicopter struggles with the almost submerged craft. The helicopter is overtaxed by a thousand pounds. A second recovery helicopter moves in to pick up the astronaut. Grissom has trouble staying afloat. After four anxious minutes, Grissom struggles into the horse collar. The lead helicopter's motor apparently malfunctions. The spacecraft drops. Project Mercury continues in high gear pointing toward a manned orbital mission. On September 13, NASA puts an unmanned Mercury into orbit. One test objective is met early in flight. The Atlas releases the spacecraft into proper orbit. One hour and 49 minutes after launch, the spacecraft lands 200 miles east of Bermuda. Enos, the chimpanzee, makes a Mercury flight in November 1961. The chimpanzee arrives at Cape Canaveral from Holloman Air Force Base. Workers put the chimp in a special couch with testers and a pallet and water feeder. He is 39 pounds. During pre-launch testing, Enos is connected to the spacecraft's environmental system. Fitted with numerous biosensors, the primate does tests. Later, NASA launches Mercury with Enos aboard. About an hour into the flight, the spacecraft passes over Mouchay, Australia. Then five minutes later, the Wumara Australia tracking station confirms that all systems are green. A 16-millimeter camera gives a periscope eye view of the cloud formations and the island-dotted Pacific on a condensed time film. Going into the second orbit, tracking stations report steadily rising spacecraft temperatures. Midway through the first leg of the second orbit, Cano Nigeria reports the spacecraft is reporting intermittent roll and ignore signals. A slight rise in the chimp's temperature concerns flight surgeons. Officials decide not to fly the spacecraft into a third orbit and they order retrofire. The descent, landing and recovery are all normal. That afternoon at a press conference held at Cape Canaveral, NASA officials say that they are pleased with the flight. Astronaut John Glenn is test pilot for the upcoming first manned orbital Mercury mission. Astronaut Carpenter is back up. 1961 is coming to a close and Enos the space-faring chimp returns triumphantly in December to the Cape. Meanwhile, the Mercury capsule undergoes further tests. There are two water landing tests in December 1961. And so 1961 ends and in that year NASA begins to work on the big job of sending men to the moon and back. During our next episode we see film of John Glenn making the first U.S. spaceflight around the world in 1962. And we continue the saga of NASA during 25 years of progress. I'm Lynn Bonderant.


And first of all, thank you to Pitch CMO Summit for inviting me to give the keynote address at this 14th edition of this forum. I didn't thought which I put together in the light of the theme, which is the agile market here, is the journey of the most iconic brand that we have, which is Raymond, the complete man. As I put together in my keynote address today, I think Raymond as a brand has all the characteristics depicted over the last 97 years of its existence, which is being agile. And agility in my mind means three things. One, obviously, which we all know is speed to market. The second is agile enough to have the pulse of the nation of the consumer. And that is something which is very important. And the third, and which I say is the most toughest one to follow, is the agility to know that you've gone wrong and you need to course correct. It's a tough one to swallow. And I think as human beings, as brands, we will come across moments where all three are very critical. And when I look back at the journey of the Raymond brand, I think the one of the biggest features, and what is why it's such an element brand even today, is that it's been a very agile brand. If I look back, one of the biggest things which gives me satisfaction about this brand is that brands tend to over a period of time let go of their DNA. They let go of their core with changing society, changing culture, evolution of cultures. I think the most important thing for the brand, a great brand rather, is not to let go of its core and its essence, but evolve its core and essence in line with the cultural and societal changes. And I think, as I've shown through the journey of Raymond over the decades, this is something which Raymond has been very true to, and that I think is no mean feat, whether it's our products, whether it's our good market strategy, whether it's our communication, whether it's our digital approach, I think we have been very true to the essence of the complete man. So thank you so much.


So, as we've talked about, Socrates is trying to answer this question. What is the relationship between religion and morality? And to do that, he gives a person in the dialogue, his name is Euthyphro. He gives them two possibilities, the dilemma. Either what is moral is moral, because it's commanded by the divine, or the divine commands what is moral because it's moral. For what it's worth, I'm using the Greek god Ilios. Ilios was the Greek god of the sun, and while Greek classics are not my specialty, as I understand it, he was later considered to be Apollo. And since Socrates' career basically began with the Oracle of Delphi, Apollo's Oracle, I thought it appropriate here. But to be clear, Socrates thinks these are the only two possibilities. And each possibility has a consequence. This is a dilemma, not in the sense that there's some tough moral decision, or he knows what's right and has to do it anyway. It's a dilemma in the sense that there are two possibilities. Each possibility has a consequence, so you must accept at least one of the consequences. So let's look at the first horn of the dilemma. What is moral is moral, because the divine commands it. So the idea is we have the divinity, who, by proclamation, makes what is moral. The consequence here is that if all there is to morality is something that the divine commands, well, the divine could have commanded just about anything. Could have had something really easy going and light-hearted for morality. And a piece of cake to fulfill. It could have been something as simple as, make sure you wave and say hello to your neighbor, and ever once in a while, give somebody a flower. Morality could have been something very dark and disturbing, requiring blood sacrifice of one's favorite pet every three years. If morality really could have been just any of these possibilities, because morality is just what's given by divine command, then there's no reason for whatever moral code we have. Morality is arbitrary. It's worth mentioning that there are people who take this possibility very, very seriously. It's called divine command theory, and it states that what is moral is moral simply because the divine commands it. Well, that's one horn of the dilemma. Let's look at the other horn. The divine commands what is moral because it's moral. The consequence here is that morality exists, and what it is, its nature, is independent of the divinity. It's outside of the divine's command, or it's any kind of proclamation. Indeed, it's an interesting question of what we need the divinity for. In theory, we can learn about morality all on our own. We would need a divinity for this. So this is the standard approach to understanding the utipro dilemma, and indeed, even the standard approach to teaching it. Socrates concluded, and again, most people agree, that if these are the two possibilities, then either morality is arbitrary, or morality is independent of the divine, for what is worth Socrates took the second horn of the dilemma and set about trying to understand morality independent of divine revelation. It's also worth noting that quite a few people have considered this to be some sort of proof against any sort of existence of a divinity. So theists are certainly not happy with the results of the dilemma, and atheists and agnostics seem to be pretty content with the dilemma. But a word of caution. There are more consequences to follow each horn than you might realize. The first horn tells us that what is moral is moral is simply because of divine command, and the consequence of this is that morality could have just been anything, and morality is arbitrary. Well, the further consequence of this is, well, there's a divine. If there's a divine command, there's a divine. The second horn tells us that divine commands what is moral because it's moral, and this does indeed have the consequence that morality is independent of the divine, and we are free to investigate morality on our own, but it also still has the consequence that there is a divine. Whether we choose to investigate morality along with the divinity, there is still a divinity. So this is what we might call the other dilemma. Theists are not pleased with the results of the Euthyphro dilemma. Well, atheists, agnostics are not pleased with the result of the second either. Atheism claims that there is no rational justification for the existence of the divine, and agnosticism claims there's no rational justification whether there is a divinity or not. In contrast, this argument concludes that there is one. Okay, so nobody is really pleased with the consequences of the Euthyphro dilemma. If we're going to reject the consequences, then we have to reject at least one of the premises that resulted in those consequences.  If you're an atheist or agnostic, then you want to reject either five or six. Well, that leaves us with a question. Can anybody reject either two or three or five or six? This is what these premises look like rejected. Can we reject any one of these and make sense?


How you guys my name is Brittany and welcome back to my youtube channel you guys in today's video I'm going to share my April homeschooling update So if you guys are interested in hearing about all the things that we got up to in a month of April Then stay tuned for today's video So you guys like always I always love to introduce myself again just in case I have any new viewers here So if any of you guys are new here to my channel, I'm Brittany I am a homeschooling mom to three girls ages 10 4 and 2 and I am finishing up my second year of homeschooling And I'm going into my third year of homeschool you guys. I'm really excited about next year But before I can really continue to think about next year I really need to focus on wrapping up this homeschooling year But you guys one thing I can say is that April really has been a good month for us I have some highlights that I want to share with you guys and some like a little life update to as well I want to share with you guys that has happened in the month of April But you guys honestly, I think this month of April may have been my favorite month that we have done thus far in Our homeschooling year for this year. So Yeah, let's go ahead you guys and get an alt get into all like the details and the highlights and everything like that So first and foremost, I love to share all the books that we've read each month And I'm gonna go ahead and start off with the books that my daughter has been enjoying because I think in the last update That I made in my March update you guys I forgot to share with you what Brielle was like reading for her independent reading But you will see soon my daughter has been enjoying the Sophie Washington series and I got her the first three books you guys of the Sophie Washington series for Christmas and Every like every other week. She's been asking me like mommy. Can I have one more book mommy? Can I get the next book in a series and Over the course of two months now Brielle has all of the books in a series She really enjoys the Sophie Washington series It really is about a ten-year-old girl named Sophie and it just talks about all like the adventures that she gets up To with like her friends and at school and each of the stories you guys are adorable. They're so cute She loves them some of these Sophie Washington series books series you guys she has like read in a day Um, I was I was recommended the Sophie Washington series or I seen it on Morgan's channel from life of the Tillman's one of her daughters actually was reading the Sophie Washington series and she shared it in one of Like I think her library halls or one of her videos So that's what made me go ahead and bite the bullet to buy like a couple of the books from the series So this was really a good recommendation from Morgan So I definitely if you have any like young girls, this would definitely be a good series for them to read and my daughter She has thoroughly enjoyed this one and of course she has all of them in a series because Brielle is a series junkie So you guys the last book that we've read or are read aloud. I should say we finished off this Month has been on the banks of Plum Creek and because Brielle had to write a book report for her English curriculum I wouldn't had and I use on the banks of Plum Creek for her book report So here is Brielle's book report that she did you guys Brielle did an awesome job on this book report I told her all she had to do was write What is it three paragraphs and she ended up writing six paragraphs? Because she told me she really enjoyed on the banks of Plum Creek I will say that on the banks of the Plum Creek. It did not disappoint me in the little house series This book was hilarious. I love seeing all the things that Laura and Mary got up to and this book you guys It really showed and it depict Really how hard it is on the prairie in pioneer life, especially as they were selling into their new home They had a lot of ups and downs in this book and I've really liked a Brielle seeing that and she also Enjoyed it of course because like you can see she has written a lot in her book report along with her book report She did a beautiful watercolor painting depicting like One of the scenes from little house in the prairie when they were Describing like how the prairie was with all the wildflowers and their new cow and everything like that So Brielle she really got into on the banks of Plum Creek So I'm really happy that I took an opportunity to go ahead and utilize a read-aloud to do a couple of things art book reports So I was able to get a lot accomplished by finishing up that read-aloud and it was really really cute you guys Another read-aloud that we completed this month was charlotte's web you guys I really feel like since I started off my home schooling journey with Brielle She started off in the third grade a lot of classics and things that I didn't get a chance to read with her I really am taking this opportunity to pull them back out. We've read two books from E.B. White this year We read trumpet of the swan and this is the second one charlotte's web and it did not disappoint We watched the live action charlotte's web movie after we finished reading it and Along with the series. I actually printed off this literature guide from Scribe Scribe has like a lot of documents and literature guides if you have like the audible scribe membership So I printed out this literature guide and you guys I'm not gonna lie Um, I was kind of disappointed in a literature guide because it seemed to be a lot of busy work within These literature guides and I'm not too sure if I'm like a literature guide type of girl now that I have Experience with it But one thing I will say I love the vocabulary and the discussion questions that was in this literature guide So we would just go over the vocabulary words from Charlotte's web that Brielle didn't know We will figure out what the meaning was based off of the context clues using the literature guide And then we also did the discussion questions orally So that was like really really cool because you know when you're reading books with your kids or at least for me Like sometimes like I don't really know what to ask or what to ask after we finished a chapter So using the literature guide was really good for that But other than that the worksheets and all the type of stuff that was in it I really you know just skipped it I really just used it for the discussion of the vocabulary and the discussion of like the plot the setting all that good jam So it was fun using the literature guide, but I just really don't know how I feel about them. So yeah Some other books that we really enjoyed this month was books that we've read from our amazing Africa that we're doing from the Here just mom blog you guys I talk about it every month because I really feel like This amazing Africa pack that we're doing right now. It has been you know, so much fun My daughter really has been enjoying reading all of these beautiful picture books that Amber has selected in this amazing Africa Pack and it really has been a great year Reading all these picture books about all of these amazing countries within Africa and I'm really happy that I took My time on this amazing Africa unit study I had plans really to just do it for the first semester and the second semester That we're in right now to start American history But I'm so happy that I stretched it out throughout the course of the year because I really feel like this has been a great Highlight for Brielle and she's really been enjoying this. I've been enjoying it as well So the two books that we've read because now we are actually in South Africa We've read the her boy, which was a beautiful told story You guys I love this story. It was amazing. We also read Terana's world and this was about a picture book about all of the children within manna gas car because again, like I said You guys we are finishing up this story and the photographer who did the pictures in this book It's beautiful you guys and I loved a real looking at all these pictures and of these of these kids from Manna gas car seeing how they live what they eat where they go what they do for everyday life And it really was a cute picture book as we went over the country of manna gas car within Africa So this is definitely been a highlight along with that. I forgot to bring it upstairs Is that we are actually reading one of the who was books right now? We're reading who was Nelson Mandela again because we are in South Africa So you guys this week we are going to be completing amazing Africa And I cannot wait to give you guys like a overall full on review of this curriculum I can't wait to share with you guys the picture books that we've read with it All the activities and the extra things that Brielle did along with amazing Africa So I will be making that video really really soon because I have so much to say about this and it really has been a Great great great unit study that we have done in our homeschool this year Okay, so now let's go ahead and talk about My toddler so from my last update you guys you remember what I was saying is that my middle daughter Leia who is for She was really resisting school. She didn't really want to do anything I mean, I'm not requiring much of her But just the small things that I was doing like her letter sounds singing ABC's a little calendar work things like that And also we were doing playing preschool at that time Brielle, I mean that Brielle Leia was not enjoying it for the month of March So for the month of March you guys I literally just let Leia just play and do whatever I wasn't forcing any type of you know curriculum on her. I was just letting that baby be free. However By me doing that last month this month you guys Leia has been saying I want to do school mommy do school mommy So now she's had her break. She's like I want to do school and it's really really cute Seeing her being very enthusiastic about school all over again And some of the things that she really has been enjoying has been Preschool math at home you guys I really love this tool It has been really amazing one of the activities that Leia She really enjoyed was this one right here where she was able to feed the stuffed animals and in the activity Pretty much all you do is you just gather some stuffed animals around your house If you have a girl like me you do have kitchen sets and I Put the kitchen set with the plates and then on the plate She had to use like either teddy bear teddy bear counters or some type of counter And I would say Leia all of your friends want one piece of candy or one piece of whatever And she had to put one piece of candy on each of the teddy bears plates And it was a really really good exercise teaching her one to one corresponding all the way up to five And she really enjoyed this we're actually moving kind of fast in this so we're on a second chapter right now And this has really been a fun way to do hands-on math at home Leia has really been enjoying math, and I cannot believe this little $16 book has been such a great asset in my home school I definitely recommend this to you guys this right here The author did say that it was intended for kids four to five however if you have a three-year-old They can start off to if they are you know really interested in math But I really can see how this is for like four to five year olds because some of the concepts in the way that the Chee is approaching the mathematics skills. It's really amazing and I have been really enjoying this resource Along with that you guys I decided to go ahead and start our gentle and classical preschool I was gonna wait till August to start at you guys But I was so excited because the gentle and classical preschool actually Goes along with preschool math at home and what a gentle classical preschool is is pretty much I use it for like Leia's Bible and memory work So this is one of the first memory verses you guys that she has learned and it's so cute because we Use like all of the music that goes along with it So she actually is singing the memory verses and she really has been enjoying Doing like all of the memory statement cards and it's just been so amazing Amazing seeing her growth as far as like her memorizing like little nursery rhymes She memorizes like a manner in hygiene's card This one is really cute because it says I can do hard things doing big heart things It makes me grow stronger and when I look back later on I won't be scared any longer So these are like really cute little rhymes and this is something that I have added within my Bible morning time for Leia and she really has been enjoying this one of the ones that's really cute that she does is She actually learned this one right here, which says who made me and then she'll say God made me and it's really really cute how this program is laid out and like I said before I am only doing the Nursery rhymes the manner and hygiene the math, which is the preschool math at home I'm doing the all of the memory work with the With the like memory verses with the character cards And I am also doing the all about me section where I am teaching Leia Her name her address her telephone number all those different types of things and it's been so cute You guys it has taken me like three weeks just to teach her like my name It's so crazy how kids they just call you mommy But they don't realize like what your name is and it took me three weeks to teach her that my name was Brittany and it it has been so cute because she's been saying mommy and Finally she when I asked her you know Leia, what's my name now? She can say you know Brittany and it's so cute and you know for safety reasons It's good for her to learn these skills next. I need to teach her my husband's name I don't know how long that's gonna take because it took her three weeks to learn mine but I'm really happy that I have went ahead and started a gentle and classical preschool and You guys this teacher guide right here on a gentle and classical preschool site is completely free I'm going to link it down below So if you want to check it out and just do the memory statements with your kids you can I actually purchase the Cards for 1699 and I printed off the teacher's guide So that is how I'm using the curriculum for right now and so far It's been great and it's really been helping her with her speech with memorization and she's been loving it I have been loving it and I'm so happy that I went ahead and I started this one off now I'm not letting go play in preschool because I love playing preschool She does too. However playing preschool. It does require a little bit more from her And I am going to pull back out playing preschool in August Okay, you guys now on to Brielle So we have been reading and enjoying using the marvels of creation This is the mammals unit that we have been reading Throughout our Bible time so in the morning for Bible time will do like her scripture our devotion And then we will read about a different mammal and then we would do our poetry for our morning basket time And this book right here. I got it from master books website. This is actually a part of their morning basket They had a flash sale and I was able to get like all three of the sets for I think it was like either 299 or 399 each and this has been such a sneaky way For me to sneak in science and it has been so much fun adding this in to our morning basket time So you guys I have been loving it My daughters have been loving it even my younger two toddlers when I we show them a picture of one of the animals It was just a good way for them to see live pictures and we'll say cheetah and even though all the other facts about the Mammal, they would not know or memorize They still will be able to identify the picture of the different type of mammal and it was a really a great way for me to Incorporate science not only for braille in our morning basket, but for Leah and alana, so I have been enjoying these we finished this one Right now we are starting reading about the birds in the morning. It's not as interesting I should say as the mammals have been but my daughter still has been enjoying learning about all different types of birds Now that we're on that one Okay, you guys now for I guess uh one of my dilemmas that I'm going through in my life update So you guys like one of my biggest dilemmas that I am like struggling with and I'm trying to figure out Is for my oldest daughter brie or of course my only one. I'm technically homeschooling right now, but um My dilemma with brielle is is that brielle? She will be 11 in december She always has has straddled in between Grades even as she started off um school in a public school system. She's always been like way ahead and I think that's typically what happens when you have a kiddo with a late birthday and um Ever since bringing brielle home to start in our like homeschooling journey. Um, she's always been like ahead I've always been trying my best to stay up with her As far as like her skill set making sure that the things and the information that i'm giving her is not too easy Um, and i'm finding right now you guys that my daughter She is very very bored when it comes to english So we're doing rodent staff building uh christian english series and she loves this curriculum However, she keeps on complaining that oh, this is too easy. It's too easy and you guys we are at the end We have like 12 more lessons and we are going to be complete with this um rodent staff english 4 and I'm like so debating right now. I'm still trying to figure out what I want to do for next school year I have both rodent staff five and six rodent staff is like a mastery-based program so each year they go over the eight parts of speech through eight chapters and I'm trying to figure out if i'm going to just skip five and just go ahead and put her in six because english is her strong subject and Uh, she's bored with it like you guys like I don't know this is my first time Homeschooling and in this type of dilemma So I really don't know should I just go ahead and do five just because that's the next one or Should I listen to my daughter as she's complaining about the easiness of the curriculum? And she's bored with it and just go ahead and give her a challenge and move on to six One thing that I do love about this series. Like I said before is that each year They do go through the eight parts of speech. They go over the sentence structures nouns verbs adverbs adjectives punctuation prepositions conjunctions adverbs adjectives and at the end they typically go over like some type of Dictionary skills the source skills like studying type of skills at the last chapter So, um, I know if I do skip her to six, she still will get everything It's just gonna be on a deeper level than five will give her so You guys like I'm really thinking about just going ahead and have embryo do Six great grammar for next year And if I have her do six great grammar you guys if you haven't seen like my curriculum picks video Um, she will be pretty much doing all six great, uh curriculum next year and I'm kind of sad. It's like Uh, do I just say she's a sixth grader now? Um, I don't want to because I I'm still trying to hold on to this like last year of elementary school, but For the sake of giving my daughter a challenge for not having her be like grumpy when it comes to doing school because she's bored I think I really need to give her that challenge give her that um I guess what I'm saying is like give her that challenge give her um, I guess more of a responsibility when it comes to Learning harder and challenge or challenging things and for areas that she's strong and especially grammar I probably need to just go ahead and you know skip her So you guys let me know if you've ever been in a situation where you had to you know skip What did you do? Did you still do the uh, great five or did you go straight to six? Just let me know I'm new at this. I don't know And I'm really gleaning on some of you guys, especially you guys that are like a long time homeschooling families I really uh, I'm looking for some type of advice in this situation because I really don't know what to do I want to keep up with her but at the same time, um I know it comes to a point where you do have to give them a challenge and I can't if I'm keeping her In a certain grade. I'm doing exactly what she will be getting in the public school system Where they're just keeping her at a level based on her age not necessarily her ability. So um Yeah, now as far as like a life update mini life update you guys I have been doing so well with getting out with the kids Weekly, we've been going to like the grocery store. We've been doing like a little fun Friday We've been going to the library and I have been doing so much better with actually Getting the kids out to the park two places. I really feel like kovat has like Really kept me at home and has gotten me very comfortable. I am, you know wholeheartedly an introvert I love my house. I love my home. I love the comforts of my home But for the sake of my kiddos, you guys, I really need to make sure I continue to Get out there and get more comfortable getting out there I never really had to Pack up both of my toddlers unless you know, I just had to I've really been utilizing like the luxuries of our modern day world You know grocery pickups and you know, all of the things Where I'm really not placed into situations that is going to make me be uncomfortable But I need to force myself to be uncomfortable to continue to practice that skill of Getting all my kiddos out by myself without my husband on the weekdays and you know, pretty much adventuring with my Kiddos, so that is one of like my personal goals that have been working on so far so good I really hope that I can continue with this as far as Getting the kids out of the house doing experience doing and experiencing life with the kiddos Especially as we get into next year because I do have like a lot of fun field trips for us plant and My husband may not be able to go with me on all of them And I do need to get comfortable with taking all the kiddos out by myself.  I can I can do this But you guys pretty much that is like my update when it has come to like our home school and everything that has happened This month of april like I said, we have had a really good month and um, hopefully we can end off our last three weeks We have 15 school days that I have to count Um, hopefully we can end them off strong and I cannot wait to come back to you guys with our End of the year or my last update for this homeschooling year. Um, so yeah, so you guys, thank you so much for watching this video I hope I wasn't too chatty and um, yeah, I look forward to seeing everybody in my next one. Bye


God is good, amen.   That you're able to be in this place this morning. Be a part of this vision to see God's kingdom come in every area of your life, amen. So every single person that is here that came into this event, if you are from here, or if you're maybe from a different state, or if you're maybe watching us online, we want to let you know that this is not just a three-day event that we want to make you feel better, or we want to make you cry or experience something. We want to make a movement to see God's kingdom come, not just in tri-cities, but in your state, in your city, in your generation, in your schools, wherever that you are, that God's kingdom will come to your place in Jesus' name. Amen. If you believe it, put your hands together for Jesus Christ. And that is our vision. That is why this conference is called Kingdom Come. We want to see God's will being done in every area of your life. And we believe that God has already started something last night. We know that and we've been hearing testimonies where people are sharing how they feel some chains are being lifted off their lives, how there's some addiction that they were struggling, they're being broken. And we believe that today also God will continue to move in people's lives. Amen, church. So let's this morning, let's just go straight into the word that's going to be spoken. I'm just going to take a few minutes of your time to talk to you about a topic called the power of the gospel. We're still going into the same conference of Kingdom Come. And this morning we're just going to take a few moments of your time to talk about the power of the gospel. So if you have your Bibles with you open to 2 Corinthians 2 versus chapter 5 verse 20, it says, Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ. As though God were pleading through us, we implore you on Christ's behalf be reconciled to God. We are Christ's ambassadors. You have to understand every single person in this place, we are Christ's ambassadors. We are not representing a culture. We're not representing a race. We're not representing color, ethnicity or whatever that you're coming from. We are representing God's Kingdom. We are Christ's ambassadors. We have to understand many times we as people think that, oh, just because I'm coming from an American culture, I need to represent that culture or Hispanic culture or Russian culture. It's not about culture, race or age. It's about the Kingdom of God. We are Christ's ambassadors. So whatever the Kingdom of God represents, that's what we represent. We are now representing saying, oh, this is the right thing to do. We represent what God's word says, and that is alone because God's word is our standard. We have to understand, number one point, if you have your notes, I want you to write down that we are Christ's ambassadors. We are not representing any other thing about what the Kingdom of God stands for. And I just want to go a few points and to address a few things. What is an ambassador and what did they represent? Number one thing is he's appointed by a king and he's not voted into position. He's appointed to represent a state or a kingdom. Number two. Number three, he's committed only to the kingdom's interest. And I want to stop on that one for a few moments. Remember when our pastor that spoke in English just a few moments ago, when our pastor first came to America, his heart's cry was, God, let your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. And you have to understand, when we first came to America, our pastor did not speak English. We did not have any money. We did not have any resources. We had no connections. And we had a couple of churches that were saying, hey, come join us. You know, we're going to come join the culture. Come join us Russians, Ukrainians, whatever that we were back then. Come join us and let's just, you know, do our thing, you know. Don't be too radical. Don't go all crazy. I know you're coming out from this, from Russia, whatever you were doing, but just come join us. But our pastor was always saying, we want to see revival of God happen in this city. I know we're coming from a culture. I know we're coming from a background. I know maybe we were taught something, but we want to bring God's kingdom on this earth and try cities in whatever city that we want to see the kingdom of God happen there. And we know as our pastor was rejected by many churches, our pastor was saying to other people, we're just saying that, you know, it's not going to happen.  Nothing's going to work out. What are you just talking about? Just sit down, relax, and let just things happen. But our pastor was an ambassador. He said, I'm here to represent the kingdom of God. I'm not here to just sit and just do two hours of church. I want to see God's revival happen in tri-cities. And remember that we as a family, and I'm pastor's son. I remember our pastor, my dad, just going through that time of rejection where people did not understand the vision.  Nothing's going to work out. You're going to open a church. It's going to be shut down. You don't have any money. At that time, we just had only few families, and all those families were working construction just to make ends meet. So we didn't, we were talking about getting our own building. We're talking about having our own TV show. We're talking about reaching, you know, tri-cities for Jesus Christ. Yet we were small. But an ambassador knows that it's not about what you have. You are representing the kingdom of God. You're not coming from a place and to be able to bring that place to here. You're coming from the king of kings and the Lord of lords.   And our pastor knew that. He knew that, look, I know I might be small. I know I might be Russian. I do not know how to speak English. I know I might not have resources, but God has sent me to this place to represent the kingdom of God. So this morning, I want to encourage you, wherever that you're coming from, maybe you're watching online. And that is your heart's cry. You're saying that God, I want to represent your kingdom.  Our pastor knew that I'm representing God's kingdom. I'm not coming just by myself, but I have God backing me up. And that is, I was a pastor's vision, just committed only to see the kingdom's interest. And the next thing is that if you are ambassador for the kingdom of God, you are totally covered by the kingdom. This is, for some, it might be hard to believe, but for us as a church, we lived it. When we first started our church and our pastor said, you know, we're going to have to get our own building. And many churches around us, they existed for over 20 years until then, until now, they still don't have their building. And our pastor says, we need to get our own building. We only had three families who were just working in construction. So everybody was like, you don't know what you're talking about. What do you mean? Just go, just lay low. Don't make so much noise. You're embarrassing everybody. Just come down, you know. But our pastor's like, I want to see revival happen in tri-cities. I want to see the will of God come to tri-cities. And we had an opportunity to purchase this building, the very building that you're sitting on today.  And we did not even have church registry. Our pastor was not even licensed. We didn't have a church bank account. I mean, can you imagine? We had nothing. But when you know that you're an ambassador for Christ Jesus, God says that whatever that you need, I will provide. God says that, look, heaven and earth is mine. The kingdoms, gold and silver, that is mine. If you want to represent me, I got your back. And the very building that you're sitting in right now, it was the miracle the way we got it. Because in just a short amount of time, we're able to gather the finances until this day on. We're not paying a penny for this building. Somebody else is renting out this facility and they're covering all the utilities bill, all the payments, all the mortgages. And today we're basically sitting in our own building at no cost. Come on, put your hands together for Jesus Christ. This is just to show you one thing. If you are going to be an ambassador for Jesus Christ, if you are going to represent the kingdom of God, God says, I got your back. I will be able to support whatever that you need. If it is finances, I'll be able to provide it. If it is to learn how to speak a different language, I will give you the grace to do that. And if you've even seen this morning, a pastor is preaching in English. I mean, it's only been a couple of years that our pastor had to relearn English. And I remember even when our pastor was starting, and many people that live here for 30 years till this day, they still speak their own language. But our pastor had a vision, I want to see the kingdom come. And God has given us our pastor the grace to be able to learn the language. And even some of the words our pastor says, we're like, Google this. You have to learn the words that our pastor is saying because when you are representing God's kingdom, God says, all the resources that I have, you can tap into it. You can have it. If it is that you are seeing you're in a city where there's so many drug addicts and you say, God, I want to see the kingdom of God come to that city.  I'll be able to help you provide the rehab center. I'll be able to give you the resources for the drug addicts to be set free. If you're in a city or if you're in a place where you see people who are sick, God says there is grace enough to see healing happen because you are representing my kingdom. You are no longer by yourself. You're no longer representing a culture, but you represented the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Amen, church? Come on, put your hands together for Jesus. A few more points is that you are totally protected by his kingdom. Next point is that you never become a citizen of a state or a kingdom which he's assigned. Also, has access to all the nation's wealth for the assignment. And like we talked about this building, it's just a miracle that you're sitting in a building that is which is being completely, completely paid for somebody else. This to show you that you represent God, God has your back. When you take care of what matters to God the most, God will begin to take care of the things that matter to you the most. This is just a proven fact and this wants to be, we want to be an encouragement to you this morning that wherever that you're coming from, whatever state that you're from, whatever city or church that you are in, if you represent the kingdom of God and what kingdom of God stands for, you'll be able to have God behind your back and say, I got you every step of the way and we will see revival happen in your city in Jesus' name, amen. Also, Ambassador is the one who never speaks his personal position on any issue, only his kings. Also, his goal is to influence the territory for his kingdom. The will of God is to see revival happen in our city. The will of God is to be able to see revival happen wherever that you're coming from. Maybe it is just you have a home group. God's will is for you to have the kingdom of God come. How do we do the job of the ambassador and the greatest example that we can see is Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ comes on this earth, he begins to represent the kingdom of God. And what was the kingdom of God? What did Jesus begin to do? Jesus became and stepped on this earth. He did not try to blend in. He did not come to Pharisees and say, hey guys, fill me in. What was happening for the 2,000 years? What's the latest tricks? How do we win people? How do we talk to people? How do we pray? How do we sprinkle the blood? How do we cut the calf? He sees the captive and he begins to set them free. He sees the sick. He begins to lay hands on them and see them being recovered. He sees those who are being afflicted and he prays for them and he sees their bondages begin to come up. Jesus Christ is the greatest example of the kingdom of God. It's to see those who are broken being healed.  Those who are bondage being set free. Those who are in prison doors released. And that is the kingdom of God. Jesus Christ is the greatest example to set the standard of the kingdom of God.  You cannot change the world if you're in the bondage to the world. And in John 17, 16, it talks about Jesus says, there are not of the world even as I am not of it. Jesus clearly says that look, you cannot change this world if you are trying to blend in. You cannot. Simply, it's like two blind men trying to lead each other. You cannot change a blind person if you yourself is blind. And how do we change the world? How do we begin to change the world? We begin to accompany their needs. We begin to do things that if people are in bondage we begin to serve those people who are in the bondage to see them set free. To see people who are sick we need to begin to pray for them. We can't be a people who when they come to church just begin to entertain people oh please do this. We cannot concentrate on not to offend people so they don't leave the church. We need to preach the gospel. We need to preach the kingdom of God because that's what people need. Jesus did not come and didn't try to blend in with the Pharisees and Sadducees. He came. He knew that he's going to offend people. He knew people were going to reject him. He knew people were going to call him names. He knew people were going to say oh you're casting out demons with the demon or whatever. He knew that he was going to get criticized but he knew one thing. The kingdom of God needs to come because there is a world that is suffering. There's people who are in bondage. There's people who are crying out. There's people who are cutting themselves. There's people who are committing sin. I need to bring the kingdom of God to this earth and we see that Jesus Christ changed the world and since that day it has never been the same. Amen church. Come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ. We tried it all. I'm telling you our church we tried it all. I mean the things that we have done to try to blend in you guys don't even imagine. We had fear factors. You guys know fear factors yeah. We made people eat worms. No joke I'm not even joking. You can look at our archive you can see. We had fear factor we said like we try to bring people in. We do like okay you eat this worm and if you win we'll give you an ipod and after that they went to the hospital hopefully the ipod covers your bill I mean remember we had this construction board that was just like this long construction board that if you try to walk on it it becomes very wobbly and to be able to pass it. So we had this one girl who was like I'll do it and go for it and she got up down you know. So we did so many things that you try to to just try to become to appealing to people but it did not work it did not work because you cannot change the world that is blind if you yourself are blind you cannot begin to entertain people those who are hurting what can you say to a person that is in cancer what can you say to a marriage that is falling apart what joke can you tell them what encouragement speech can you tell to change the life you simply need to bring him the power of God to be able to change the situation and that's how you change people come on put your hands together for Jesus that that is the power of the gospel it's not entertainment it is not make you feel good it is somewhat offensive it is somewhat radical it's somewhat on the crazy side but when you are suffering and when you are in need and when you're crying out for help you do not need a joke you do not need to power of service you need an answer and that answer is Jesus Christ and he is the only one who is the solution to all fundamental issues of life and his name is Jesus Christ who is the king of king and the lord of lords and man church put your hands together for Jesus Christ I remember one instance when we were here and we were here just the beginning of our ministry we were getting to know the demonic world of people being possessed and people being set free and I remember one girl that came here and she was doing worship she was just like being she was being like shaking like crazy she was like falling on the floor and she was kind of shaking and some pastors like that's the power of God let her just shake and our pastor saw that he's like no this girl is demon possessed she needs to be delivered this girl needs deliverance and a lot of them are like let her Jesus wants to set her free so you need to help her and you know a lot of pastors are like well this shouldn't happen in church shouldn't be praying for demons in church let's just there's this hype everybody's jumping everybody's clapping if you're gonna start praying for this girl who's demon possessed you're gonna ruin the presence Jesus Jesus not gonna be happy with you but our pastors like no this girl needs deliverance this girl needs help she's she's suffering so they begin to pray for that girl and that girl is just being finally the girl was set free and we started talking to the girl and she said that she went to a movie she watched this horror movie and since that just this fear came upon her and then since since that every time she comes to worship or to pray she just begins to be tormented she begins to be in pain she begins to be in affliction and every time she goes to church they just they just let her shake but our pastor was standing there and said let the kingdom come the kingdom come is for those who are bound to be for those who are sick for those who being pain to be we release from every prison from every door because that's what Jesus came and that's what Jesus done and since that day that girl has been set free the girls been worshiping God and that girl has been going after God and that is the kingdom of God church we're not gathering here for these three days or however many however time that you're coming here for just to entertain you we want to make a movement to show that you need to have the cry of God in your heart say God let your kingdom come in my city God let your kingdom come in my state let your kingdom come in my country let your kingdom come in my school that if those who are afflicted and I am around them the kingdom is going to come out of me because Christ is backing up every word and if I stand upon God's word God's word says that I'm watching over my word that it makes sure that it produces fruit make sure it does not come back to me void when you lay hands on a sick they shall recover when you cast out demons they will go I got your back and if I'm for you who can be against you come on church if God is on your side who can come against you God is all powerful he's all infinite he's everywhere present at one time he says that if you begin to become the ambassador for me if you represent me I'm gonna link I'm gonna partner up with you to make sure that the captives get set free those who are sick will begin to be healed those who are bound will be released and that is the kingdom of God Amen church second point I want to let you know is that the biggest miracle that we talked about is the salvation of person's soul the power of the gospel is in salvation of the soul prophet to be Joshua likes to say that you can be sick yet you can be a friend of God you can be bound yet you can be a friend of God but what's the greatest miracle is the salvation of one soul is when you know that your soul is eternally saved from the kingdom of darkness that is the biggest miracle and when Jesus came on this earth his main mission was to rescue to reconcile men to God that was his greatest mission he went around preaching the gospel to be able to see that those who are under the bondage are held to God so the biggest miracle is a salvation of one soul salvation is not an accident it is not a coincidence it is something strategic it is something that is organized it is something that is planned I want you to hear that again it is not an accident it is not a coincidence it is organized many times we hear these people saying that if a sinner wants to get saved let him come to church and just get saved it doesn't happen like that you have to plan for it you have to strategically know that you need to if your friend does not know God you need to strategically plan how do I invite him to church how do I witness to my friend if your family members do not know God you need to strategically pray for them God I want to see my family saved it is not something that you sit back relax and hope one day they come to know God it is not going to happen by itself and it is not an accident or coincidence it is organized and it is strategic in our church we do everything that we can to concentrate to bring those who do not know God so they will be able to come to church and receive Jesus Christ we even come up with videos common videos of how to just an evangelistic tool of how to invite people to church yes we tell you how not to invite but you should turn on your brains and figure out how to invite we do, we concentrate so much because we know it is not an accident our church existed for a while and we know one thing that people do not just come by accident this will only one time happen where somebody needed to use the bathroom and they went into our bathroom and only one time happened and ten years of existence only happened once the other times we had to do the job so you have to get as a church, as a people of God you have to understand salvation of people's souls is a strategy it is something organized so right now I want to give you six ways six ways practical ways of evangelism first one is confrontational and we see in Acts 2 where the gospel was being preached and there was preach that you repent and be baptized and come from your sin ways and accept Jesus Christ that is one of the ways you can invite people to church is confrontational two is intellectual in Acts 17 Paul was debating with philosophers and all that I am not a fan of that, I don't know much intellectual is not my strongest suit and confrontational that is not my strongest suit too when I start to confront somebody they say I am back to me okay fine you are right, just walk away those two are not my strongest suit but I just want to give you the six ways of practical ways how we can help somebody be reconciled back to God number three is testimonial in John 9 the blind man said that one thing I know I was blind but now I see testimonial is one of the most powerful ways to evangelize because you can share to them hey I was addicted to drugs God set me free and that is a testimony for people because people do not want to hear come to my church so you can feel good people have problems, people have sicknesses people have bondages they need to know hey if I come to church will I be able to be set free I have this addiction to cutting myself can I get rid of that I have addiction to smoking weed I am addicted to alcohol but when you share your testimony people will be able to believe hey if it's possible I want to get rid of it and we know that we listened to a testimony of Bryson yesterday he was delivered from addiction to pornography masturbation we have many people like Luis who was delivered from addiction to smoking weed my brother who was addicted to drugs for seven years and when they go to the gym when they go to school when they go to Starbucks when they share that testimony that is power that is just to show that God is alive yesterday today and forever and he's been it from me and he's not a respecter of persons he can also do it for you number four is relational go and mark five we see that people went to people's houses and they begin to relate with people they begin to tell them about God and what God has done for them number five is invitational we see in John 4 how the Samaritan woman where Jesus Christ ministered to her after that she went to the whole city and she ministered to the whole city and invited them to hear what Jesus Christ has done for her also number six is serving in acts nine we see that Dorcas she impacted her city by the act of deeds she was serving the city and that city come came to know Jesus Christ and these are the six steps we want to let you know however it works for you I do not know but live a lifestyle of bringing souls to the king of God live a lifestyle of bringing people to church when you are coming to church don't let your phone be be just passive be sending people text message through Facebook through Instagram be posting videos like we did and actually those videos are actually a strategic way to invite people to church this is I'm telling you we go to the gym you go to your gym and you ask people around have you seen the video how not to invite people to church and they'll quote you they'll quote things that you said in the video they'll tell you things oh dude this was so funny just do it you know all these things and you're like you're walking and you're like this is a perfect way to tell them hey come to church this Wednesday we got conference this Friday we have conference God's gonna do something and that already is an invitational tool to see people come to church you don't know what they're people going through this once I remember and nobody could come to my home group we were about to meet at a house and nobody could come to my house we said let's go to Starbucks nobody could meet at Starbucks and this guy just like I'm a home you know you can come to my house I'm like fine you know let's let's go to your house so we come to the house and there's some other people their friends were just hanging out cooking whatever and I we started talking about church we started talking about what God is doing people's life yet little dude we know there was a person in that room who was who was suicidal who was taking those depressing pills and as we were talking about just simply church we're talking about the things that we do this girl would start balling she ran out of the house so we didn't think anything of it so as we were leaving the place the girl ran up to us and please I'm at the end of everything I need help I need I need you guys to reach out to me I need you I need you I need you to help me I'm just I just don't know what to do so we from that we invited her to church she gave her life to Jesus Christ she got baptized and since that day she stopped taking those depressing pills come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ this is it's something that we do not know what your friends are going what they're going through many people they're not going to post on facebook oh I'm suicidal oh my mom just died oh my mom has cancer and all these things you do not know but when you begin to invite people to church when you begin to reach out to them Jesus Christ begins to touch their needs Jesus Christ begins to reach out deep begins to deal with the pains that hurt with the things that they're just somebody rejected them somebody abused them somebody hurt them and Jesus Christ begins to mend their souls and that is how winning is done that's how Jesus Christ begins to reconcile people from from from their addictions into freedom from their sickness into health and this is how we bring people to church we want to encourage every single person this morning you don't need to be a pastor to invite somebody you don't need to be a preacher you don't need to be on a worship team to invite all the things you need to do is just open your mouth say hey there's a God that heals there's a God that delivers there's a God that saves I can show you many testimony here's my testimony here's a video this this that we need to begin to offer people hope that God is the same yesterday he's the same today and he can do it for you in Jesus name come on put your hands together for Jesus Christ I want to salt right now to to rise up on our feet and and what we talked about this morning we talked about the power of the gospel what is the kingdom of God what is power of the gospel what is gospel represent and gospel represents those who are hurting being being healed those who are bound being released those who are under oppression being set free and that is the power of the gospel so this morning as as we share these practical steps as we share this vision we want to let you know that it is not just to entertain you we want to see your city being turned around for God we want to see your school being won for Jesus we want to see your family your generation those loved ones being turned to God and to be reconciled to God and that is the kingdom of God church amen