from San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, extracting the signal from the noise. It's theCUBE covering OCP US Summit 2016, brought to you by OCP. Now your host, Jeff Brick and Stu Miniman. Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Brick here with theCUBE. We are live in downtown San Jose at the Open Compute Project Summit 2016. It's the 30th year theCUBE has been here and this is really where the cloud is. I mean, it's actually out in data centers, but these are all the data center people with the hardware, the guts of the cloud, and really the Open Compute Project. It was Facebook's early project to kind of share best practices in hyperscale computing and this is what it's grown into. It's a pretty amazing thing. Stu Miniman from Wikibon is here and we're really excited to have Mike Shutz, the GM of cloud platform marketing from Microsoft. Or is your first short, I should say. That's right. Thank you, yeah. Thank you so much, great to be here. So you just tell us a little bit off camera. You have been on the road talking cloud all over the world. So tell us a little bit about that project. Azure is there, everybody kind of knows it. It's kind of still kind of under the Microsoft banner, not under the Microsoft banner.  Talks about the tour and kind of what's going on in Azure right now. Absolutely, so we're doing kind of a 25 city cloud road show and it's really, because customers really wanted us to get out there and explain to them more about the real hard benefits they can see and then honestly how to get started and what to do. Everybody's got their own unique journey to the cloud. Everybody's talking cloud, but the customers are really trying to get down to brass tacks around. Okay, how do I really take advantage of it? And so this, we've done a series of events around the world. I was in Europe and Eastern Europe last week. Just meeting with customers, having great dialogues just like we are here at OCP and really just helping them kind of develop their own cloud strategy. And so it's been a blast. So Mike, I think back to the last 10 years and we've been talking about this whole cloud thing. I remember the Microsoft ad, to the cloud, all my friends and family, they're like, isn't this the stuff you've been talking about for a while? It's like, yeah, but hybrid cloud is really, we've said we didn't love the term because there's multiple things. There's companies that are using SaaS. Microsoft's got Office 365 and lots of SaaS apps. There's public cloud, you've got Azure. There's private cloud, you guys have Azure pack. So how do you talk to those terms to customers? What's resonating with them? Where are they trying to figure out as to what goes in what buckets and where? Because it's usually an and discussion for the customers we talk to. That's a fantastic point. And because cloud is such a big conversation, a big term, I think you've got to break it down into chunks to help people understand it. We've been talking to customers about, first, why? Why cloud, what we're real seeing customers that are using it in significant ways, seeing a number of benefits. The first around efficiency. You think about the way that you can pay as you go. Just use what you need. The fact you can spin up and down applications or virtual machines on demand, high levels of efficiency. But it's not just about cost savings. We see a lot of agility benefits to it. And so customers can move faster. IT has been kind of the department that has to say no a lot because they frankly haven't been able to keep up with the needs of the business. And so the development organizations have been going around them and swiping a credit card and going to the cloud. And because they need more agility. And therefore the cloud provides that level of flexibility and agility to do things on demand. And then differentiation. With big data and IoT, machine learning, advanced analytics, a lot of these higher level services that are now in Microsoft Azure and in other clouds. Organizations can do things and differentiate their businesses in ways that have never been done before. You think about a company like Tissencrop. They make elevators and escalators. They've been able to fully instrument all of their assets throughout their organization. Thousands and thousands of elevators and escalators. And you think about, that's not a very high tech firm but they're using IoT and machine learning to predict when an escalator in the mall in San Francisco might be having an issue.  And before they have a stoppage. And so you think about, and that's all in the cloud. And so really enables them to differentiate from their competitors. And so kind of efficiency, agility and differentiation are really key to it. That's funny to just follow up on that. There was a great, I think it was a Splunk Show we did where the data from the elevators was actually a leading indicator as to the health of the tenants inside and potential vacancy in commercial buildings. The opposite of a health truck. Yeah, who knew, right, who knew? But then the other thing is open source and I thought it was interesting in the keynote today Mark talked about his lead statement was, why is Microsoft here talking about open source? So it feels like cloud has had a big part of that because it's not a closed system anymore, right? So talk about Microsoft's position in open source and how that's really benefited from kind of your play on the cloud. Absolutely, it's really all about flexibility and choice. And I think the notion of a platform for us has changed. Azure is the new platform. And so therefore, you know, when we think about flexibility and choice, we want an organization, whether it be a developer or a serious set of developers or a complete company to basically be able to run whatever apps they want in the cloud. And a lot of those are going to be Linux and open source and that's great. We've got about a quarter of all of the virtual machines running in Azure today are running Linux. That tends to surprise people. And so, you know, open source plays a huge part in our strategy up and down the stack not just the operating system with Red Hat and Ubuntu and Linux, but you think about things like Java, Node.js, PHP, all the open source frameworks, Docker, we've done a ton with Docker and the container ecosystem. And so, we're really benefiting from the community and like to believe that we're contributing in a meaningful way as well.  You know, there weren't many of us that raised our hands. It's like, you know, look, I've seen what you guys have done not only with Linux, with Docker.    This is the company that brought us, you know, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. You know, not the company that you think of as the keynote. It was enable, integrate, release, and contribute.  You know, are they asking you to be open source? Is this something that's been driven on high?  You know, the perceptions are tough to change, so. Well, I think it's been a big shift for the company, but it's been one that we've been on for about 10 years. You know, I think Mark talked about kind of the journey we've been on from an open source perspective. But I'll absolutely say that with Satya's leadership that it's been tremendously helpful and empowering to go out and really embrace the communities. Right now, we've got some 5,000 developers that are, you know, empowered to go participate in all these open source projects and are actively participating in almost 2,000 open source projects. And so, the activity is extremely high. And we're seeing great benefit from it. I think we're seeing more and more customers use open source on Azure. The conversations I'm having out with customers really are, we're having, able to have a different dialogue with us as a more strategic vendor for them because they're able to address more of their estate, more of the things that they use as opposed to just siloing us off in the Windows world. And so, it's been really empowering and great, but it happened at the grassroots at the developer level in the organization as well as Satya as a great leader really helping us to chart that course for helping customers and leveraging the best tools that are out there, whatever it might be. So, can we talk a little bit about OCP here?   Can you talk about, you know, involvement with OCP, what that means for the partnerships?  So, OCP and the partnerships, what does that mean to Microsoft? Absolutely. Well, part of it goes to this flexibility and choice message that we've hit on, but really what brought us to OCP is, you know, we're spending billions of dollars on our own data center infrastructure, rollout, Azure at scale, and all of our cloud services. We've got some odd 200 cloud services and so that infrastructure requires, obviously, a lot of servers, a lot of network and because we learned a lot building out this, we felt like it was an opportunity for us to help contribute, participate, and influence the designs of a lot of these servers and now it's in the networking as well. And so, we joined OCP, as you know, two years ago in January and that was when we contributed the open cloud server spec and we've had just an awesome reception of that and it is our primary design now that we're bringing into our data centers. And so, it's really been phenomenal to participate in OCP, to see the vendor and the community really rally around these designs and then you've seen here how it's, you know, two years ago, three years ago there was a conversation about the server, mostly, right? And now, networking and storage are kind of taking the forefront of the dialogue because a lot of the server innovation is catching steam and there's a lot more work to do in networking and so, that was part of what we did here this week is we open sourced our Sonic, the software for open networking in the cloud software and then are proposing that for contribution to OCP and so, it's been a phenomenal journey so far. We couldn't be more pleased with the participation and reception we're getting and we're looking forward to doing it more. Yeah, I mean, the Sonic piece is really interesting, kind of leaves the discussion of what's happening on the networking side here.  You know, how does that translate into kind of deep relationship with your customers and, you know, adoption in general of Azure? Well, you know, you mentioned Azure Stack. We have a lot of conversations with customers about hybrid cloud. So they want to know what we do in the data center so they can make their data centers more efficient and this, what we do here at OCP is a big part of that. We talk about open sourcing our server designs. Well, ultimately that'll benefit us too because we can then consume those servers in our data centers in thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of volume. But we also want to be able to work with our partners like Dell and HP and the Chinese partners here as well that really help build out those servers because we think that we can start to help the broader set of customers do that in their own data centers as well. And then we marry that with the software like Azure Stack that was born in the public cloud that lets customers consume and deploy Azure services out of their own data center. And I know you were at Dell World and we talked a lot about cloud platform system there. Absolutely the same design point in terms of helping customers in this hybrid cloud world say and not or. And so that's absolutely a big part of our strategy.   So, you know, Kudo's there.  You know, what are kind of some of the big things that, you know, white space, where do you think there's still a lot of opportunity moving forward to improve the customer's experience? Well, we see a lot of customers embracing the cloud. And they are running their existing infrastructure. And so hybrid is really what they're looking for. In the public cloud, infrastructure as a service is where they're starting. They think about starting DevTest in the cloud, starting to move some workloads, where those be Windows workloads or Linux workloads. And then we start to see organizations start using our platforms of service offerings. This is really all about agility from a developer perspective, getting things done faster and developer productivity. And so we start to see organizations as their own journey progresses, go from infrastructure as a service, platform as a service. A lot of them start with software as a service like Office 365. And so it's that breadth of offering that we have across infrastructure, platform and SaaS that organizations can come to us as one place to go across all those cloud offerings and also have that hybrid cloud solution as well. And so a lot of the conversations we're having now are moving toward these higher value services. So think about big data, advanced analytics, machine learning that builds on what they've already started in the cloud. But now it's instead of just moving compute from on-premises to the cloud, it's how do I get more done? How do I really take advantage of those cloud services at broader scale? So Mike, we're getting close to the end of our time. Unfortunately, I'm just curious, you've been at Microsoft for a long time. I wonder if you could share just a little personal perspective as to how things have changed. We always thought of Microsoft making a lot of money on the OS, obviously, and Office and server. Some really core products that had huge market penetration drove a lot of business. And now this kind of transformation, he said it started before Satya got there, really accelerated with Satya on open source cloud and really being, I don't know, you guys are always part of the community. I don't want to overstep my bounds, but not really embracing it as aggressively now to open source all these projects. How's it been kind of sitting on the inside and watching this transformation? And was it a hard thing to do, or were there some old stalwarts that finally came around? I wonder if you could share some insight from the inside. It's honestly been a blast. I think that we've had successful products all throughout that journey. There were times where we always wanted to do more for customers. And some of the things that we're now able to do in the open source community really enable us to do that. Coming down here to the valley wasn't always a lot of fun for somebody from Microsoft, right? And so, and today, I've got a great team down here in Mountain View, right on Moffitt. And it's a fantastic time to be at Microsoft. Our customers are embracing us like I've never seen. Personally, it's just so fun to go talk to our customers because of the conversations we can have now, enabling them to do more. And so, I've got to say, I've been there 14 years and there's never been a better time to be at Microsoft. Awesome. Not to mention just the tan with cloud and big data and mobile and just the opportunity, the reinvention of the technology world just continues to roll along. Well, Mike, thanks for spending a few minutes with us, appreciate you taking the time. Thank you so much for having me. Absolutely. Mike Sheep from Microsoft, I'm Jeff Brick. He's Stu Miniman. We are theCUBE and we're live in downtown San Jose at the Open Compute Project Summit 2016. We'll be back with our next guest after this short break. Thanks for watching.


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They're going to have to be discussed soon or later, and it might just as well be now. We must do something to stop this ridiculous war against the American colonies. For three years we've been spending money and manpower that England cannot afford to wage. You'd better lower your voice, Edmund. Men have been accused of treason for treason. Treason? Is it treason to believe that in fighting the American colonies we are merely killing fellow Englishmen? And I tell you, Carville, if the Tory party doesn't realize the urgency of this situation then our government is in danger. But why worry about the Tory's yet, Edmund? Our own Whig party is against you. Not against me. You're merely not yet united. Quiet. Lord North, the Prime Minister himself. And am I supposed to tremble? But he's been watching you, Edmund. I don't trust him. Because he's a Tory? No. Because of the thing I heard today. What was that? He said that a certain element in the House of Commons was practicing treason. He reminded several of us that treason is punishable by death. Edmund, I don't think there was much doubt that he was referring to you. I don't fancy talk about stopping the war where the colon is. Well, there's the things you've been telling your friends. It's treason against the crown, I say. That's what it is, my own business. Did Lord North send you to warn me? I... I never heard of any Lord North. You've never heard of the Prime Minister. Speak up, man. Answer me. Let go of me. Let go of me, I say. Tell whoever sent you that Edmund Burke doesn't frighten easily. Tell them Edmund Burke was born in Ireland and knows the meaning of freedom. There. Now go. And tell them. But at night are very strange that I've been followed. Followed? Seems indeed. What possible purpose could following me serve? Perhaps they think I'm recruiting men for the Americans, Edmund. I believe I know why. When Lord North made his remarks today about treason, I think he realized something. Then what is that? I think he realized that he'd need more evidence. You can't convict a man of treason for discussing political ideas with a friend. Go on. But you could convict a man for holding treasonous meetings. Meetings? There have been no meetings. What about tonight? It'll be our own conversation. Surely no one, not even Lord North, could call this treason. But don't you see, Edmund, before Lord North can make his accusations public, he must have some evidence to support him, even if he has to manufacture it. Edmund, I'd... I'd say you were in serious trouble. It's a great deal worse than we thought. On the contrary, gentlemen. It is far more encouraging than I realized. You're not serious. Don't you see, my friends? This tells us something we ourselves didn't know. This tells us we are stronger than we realized. You think Lord North would go to all this bother if he was sure of winning? Don't you realize the mere fact that he had me followed tonight, the fact that he is desperately searching for any evidence with which to accuse me of treasonous acts? Is proof that he's becoming afraid of the game? Perhaps you're right. I know I'm right. There's no need to wait any longer. We're going to act now. How? If North must go to these extremes, it means only one thing.  But not even we wigs are completely behind you. Are you suggesting that we recruit supporters from the Tory party? Yes. Not just any Tory, gentlemen. Well, who there? Lord Pitt. Surely you're not serious, Edmund. He's an old man he retired from politics years ago. He may be an old man, Carville, but he enjoys the respect of wigs and Tories alike, and the respect of the King. Hmm? Oh, now you're really dreaming, huh? Best Lord Pitt? Then the King himself? 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You'll find them at any fine store that features Hallmark cards. And now, Lionel Barrymore brings you the second act of our true story of Edmund Burke, starring Mr. Herbert Marshall. Problems ever facing a member of Parliament. He had to oppose his country's war against the colonies and prove at the same time that it was good for his country. Crisis was approaching. A move had to be made. To make this move a dangerous one, more support was necessary. And Edmund Burke, the wig party leader, sought this support from one of the most important leaders of the Tory party, Lord Pitt. Mr. Burke, will you forgive my receiving you among all these pills and potions? This isn't too much of a strain on your health. Talking with you is a pleasure. You're one of the few men who could induce me to discuss politics since my retirement. I'm flattered. But I hope the issue was of greater inducement. Very perceptive. I wish we had you on our side. I am on your side in this. But if I support your position, I am a general without an army. I have some loyal followers who would go where I go. Majority. There's something I can get you. Rooking green fluid a bit up to here, sir. And then that water to stale me. Perhaps we can talk another day. No, no, Mr. Burke. At my age, I can't afford to postpone anything. You're a very courageous man. It isn't difficult to be courageous when one reaches my state of life. But for a young man like yourself to risk his career, perhaps much more. That takes a great deal of courage. What's more important, do you think I'm right? I want to hear you state your position. England must halt her war against America before we are destroyed. How can that happen? We are winning. We were supposed to have won in a few weeks, but now a few years. Each day continues in whites attacked from France and Spain. They are just waiting until we are weakened enough. Another reason. Englishmen are fighting their fellow Englishmen. Still another reason. Our self-respect. The most important reason. But once you make this a public issue, you are in terrible danger. A petition to the king keeps it a private matter. First it must get passed to prime minister. Can you do that? I would risk it. If Lord Pitt would sign his name to it. More water, please. With all the elixirs and potions the doctors have invented, there still isn't one to give a man knowledge enough to be sure he is always making the right decision. Excuse me. What is good? I will sign the petition. And he did sign? The petition on behalf of the weak part. Half of England? Nonetheless it is a tremendous victory for you, Edmund. You should be very proud. Aren't you forgetting something? Lord Pitt's signature is important, but it becomes meaningless unless we can show the petition to his majesty. Yes, and in order to do that it must be first presented to the prime minister, huh? Lord North has the power to decide whether our voices shall be heard or not. Not quite.  Perhaps we're underestimating the prime minister, Edmund. I think he knows a great deal more about parliamentary procedure than to be trapped so easily. Suppose for example, he would recall for a vote of confidence in his present policies. If he received it, your petition would be worthless. There's too little time. And the gamble would be too great. Edmund, running's not good at your aid. What is it, Weldon? I've just come from the prime minister's office, Edmund. His secretary advised me Lord North would like to see you. He addressed this office for? What makes you think so? To bring Lord Pitt out of retirement. To intercede in your behalf. He did not speak to defend me, sir. I don't need anyone's defense. Perhaps I misunderstood. He said he wanted me to listen to your petition to the crown. Did he say it was mine? I believe he said... He said ours. Because we are his magistrate's most dutiful and loyal subjects. Until it might be proved otherwise. On what basis? You defy the government. Me defy the majority, which is only part of the government. Then you defy the crown. We submit to his majesty everything except our honor and our reputations. You make it sound like politics. It is. It is a war for the survival of our nation. Civil war. Give it its full name. War the Americans started. Or where they provoked them to start it. They were not asked to do more than any other colony. From Stamp Act on, you tried to dispose of the property of a whole people without their consent. I have done my duty, sir. By employing foreign troops to fight England's battles? There was no choice. You've employed savages to murder women and children. I never gave such an order. No, but you employed mercenaries who would do it. You knew they would. Then you turned away while they did their terrible work. Even some of our own troops begin to relish the practice. I employ troops for the crown where I can get them. And why can't you get them in England? Why the Hessians? Is the war such an unpopular war among our people? Old war is unpopular war, Mr. Burke. Few men love to kill or be killed. Then why do you persist? I told you I am here to protect the crown. I have no choice. Then let our petition reach the king, let the crown decide. Then I am here to protect the crown, even from itself. I beg you to make some offer of peace to the Americans. The time for that is gone, if there ever was a time. Then consider the consequences. A military government is set up in the colonies which ignores civil liberties. English soldiers are trained to have contempt for popular assemblies. We cannot suddenly develop a love for liberty just because they return home. An ocean trip will not do it.  We should hold to our position. End our possessions. But what if we win America or the empire of the world? And then lose our own liberty? The bill will be submitted to parliament tomorrow. What bill? I've heard of no bill for tomorrow. The bill will be submitted by His Majesty's loyal supporters, calling on all true Englishmen to support the crown. I support the crown. What is this? What are you planning? Calling on all parties and all men in parliament to give unanimous approval to the policies of the government, including the war against the revolutionary colonials. What? Never. We should never submit to that. Then be named for what you are. We'll fight you. There is no we. If you dare to speak against the bill, then you stand alone and be prepared for the...


At this point, you too might be feeling really excited and figuring we should just throw all the old-style drug design overboard and focus on new advanced design. There are lots of companies doing that, but there are some caveats. This is an example of such a modern design. This is actually two proteins. This particular part is a CD28 receptor on our T-cells in the human body. This particular drug was developed by a company called Teginero. It had a development name called TGN1412, very common. They're not marketing it yet, so it doesn't need a fancy name. The idea was to create a drug that would kickstart the immune system to help fight tumor cells, for instance. If I could target certain receptors on the T-cells, maybe I can get those T-cells to work more. Very smart idea. What they did is that they took this antibody and literally replaced residues here to get this to match perfectly with the CD28 receptor. If this works, we should then be able to have the entire immune system kickstart it if we just adapt the dose correctly and get at least a five or tenfold more killer effect than the T-cells. The T-cells will then hopefully primarily kill the tumors. Really smart idea. When they developed this drug, they took it through the normal preclinical test, animal tests, and everything, and then they were ready for phase one trials. In phase one trials, you usually have students or other volunteers come in. They get 50 pounds, and you normally start with a very low dose, say a factor 100 or even 500 in this case, lower than the dose you expect will have an effect. So that if you see any side conditions, we will start to see those before we crank up the dose. But in this case, the company Paracel did this test in March 2006, I think it was. When they started to inject the first dose, what happened after just a few minutes is that the test subjects pretty much fell over. They had very severe reactions in their immune system. Their own T-cells went berserk and started killing all the leukocytes, and they had multiple organ failures. Their hands swelled up. Their heads swelled up to almost twice the size for a few of them. For out of a miracle, none of them died, but several of them lost limbs, such as their fingers or so. Obviously, the phase one studies was canceled immediately. I think the entire project was canceled. As far as I know, the generic went bankrupt. But what happened? Well, it's not entirely easy to perform a postmortem on the product, because these things were not shared entirely publicly. But having looked a little bit at that, this might have been related to this design. Because remember what I told you. They designed a project, a protein here, to perfectly fit the human CD28 receptor. But then all the actual tests here, they were performed in mice. And the mouse CD28 receptor only has something like 60% residue identities of the human one. So that's not going to be a key that fits the lot perfectly. In fact, you probably have to use quite a lot of force to activate the mouse immune system. And by force, I mean a relatively high dose. And now we adjust the dose until we get the expected response from the mouse immune system. And then we believe that that is a safe dose, but that is an excessively high dose because we didn't have a good fit. Now we reduce that by a factor of 500, and we think it's a super safe dose and inject that in humans. But what has rather happened now that in humans, every single receptor is going to fit perfectly. We will activate this on all cylinders to 100% and the immune system will go crazy. So instead of a factor of 502 low dose, we probably rather had a factor of 10,002 high dose. And that's likely what led to the leukocytes dying and everything. That we can't continue such a project. But that particular feature might very well be possible to rescue in a future drug. The important take home message here is not what went wrong, but that as we're doing new types of drug design, we're going to start hitting new types of problems, errors, challenges, side effects that we've never seen before. And this was, of course, one of them. As always, the danger is not the side effects we are aware of. But for each such effect like this one, there are probably in the other 100 new effects that we're still not aware of. So beware of this. If you start working on protein design, there will be completely new pitfalls that I have never thought of and neither you likely.


At Alice Brigham we take ski testing really seriously and this involves two different ski tests. The first one is done early in the season. Everything's put through its paces and compared we make the decisions what we're going to stock. Later on in the season we bring staff out to Austria. Here the staff test all the skis that we've decided to go in the range. This means we can make sure we've made all the correct decisions but it also means that when you come into any of our stores the staff there can give you personal advice. They know exactly how the ski skis because they've been on them. So this Atomic Backland 95 is 95 millimeters under foot. It has an 18 meter radius on it. It has rocker in the tip and rocker in the tail. It also has something which we call horizon tick. That's a horizontal rocker in the tip on those deeper powder days to give you more flotation out in that fun stuff. In this Backland 95 we've changed the tail of the ski. We've given it a bit of a narrower pin tail and more rocker and that's allowing you to release the turn easier when you've got some deeper snow conditions and really adds a fun flavour to the ski to me. I personally prefer it with the shift because I'm putting a lot of power down through the ski. The ski is a strong ski with a poplar and Karuba wood core. It also has carbon fibre backbone in it as well so you can really put a lot of power down and we know from Atomic we have great edge grip and performance with a very lightweight ski so it's working all over the mountain whatever touring conditions you decide to go out in. The comments that we get it's a really confidence building ski no matter what snow surface you're on you can ski as hard or as cautious as you want and it gives you the confidence to go into something steeper something more challenging and the other comments so that's from a hard snow perspective and from a soft snow perspective the fun that that pin tail the release of the ski is so easy it flows so well now and you can't stuff the tip the tip stays above the snow so you've just got the biggest smile when that deep snow day does come. Hi I'm Simon from the Four Williams store I've got a pearly this morning I went for a tour in the backland 95 had a really great morning it's really light with the pin binding on as well super easy to use and a great kind of skin up really just yeah easy it doesn't really matter if you've never been touring before if you've done quite a lot of it it's it works really well and then on the ski back down it skis way beyond this price and it's it's really kind of engaging on the edge you can get a nice carve in it really kind of floaty yeah just a lot of fun like we've got a lot of snow out here at the minute and yeah just really playful I think with the backland 95 being that kind of middle between the 85 and the 107 it's it's a really versatile size you could go for a full pin binding on it or you could go for something like the shift it's it's very capable yeah you could do a really long day touring on it or kind of ski a bit more off-piece and have a great time


Well, thank you folks. What a joy to be with you Pastor Lee Jane. Thank you so much for your leadership Folks, I hope you do not take it for granted What it is to have godly leaders with spiritual authority Can you just give them a round of applause? They've made so many sacrifices They pray for you. They love you Do not take it for granted to be under good leadership The Bible says that those who teach and lead well are worthy of double honor So I hope you're not one of those churches that Complains and emails them. I hope you're a church that prays and blesses and honors because they really really are some of the most significant Spiritual leaders here in the US. So I'm grateful for the invitation to come and share God's word with you And they've given me acts chapter 2, which is like Come on. I mean, that's like a preacher's dream Acts 2 is about the birth of the church And the reason I think this is an important text is because we're in a moment right now Well, the church in the Western culture certainly is in crisis Around the world the gospel is flourishing but here in the West it is lagging this year over 1 million young people Will walk away from the church and the number one reason will be because it is not compelling It's not going to be sociological issues. It's not going to be theological debates It's not going to be apologetics problems. It's going to be they just don't find Jesus compelling And so we've got to get back and recover the heart of what the church is supposed to be and acts chapter 2 is One of the things that we see it gives us a blueprint of how to move Ford and so I want to talk about just two ideas from acts chapter 2 today I want to talk about power and I want to talk about practices because to me This is the key of what we need to recover in the church. So let's look at acts chapter 2 verse 1 power When the day of Pentecost came they were all together in one place Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire That separated and came to rest on each of them All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the spirit Enabled them now, you know what has happened they Jesus has risen from the dead He's appeared to his disciples and this is what he's told them do not try the kingdom mission on your own Peter I appreciate your heart, but I do not like your follow through I see what Peter can do with the kingdom of God when Peter's in charge He's like you're gonna need some power to accomplish the ministry that I have so go and pray and wait for this outpouring And what God's going to do in this moment is he's going to shift from an external reality of the power of God To an internal reality of the power of God and this is going to be the birth of new covenant reality The old covenant was primarily external and distant God was there God was on the mountain God was in the temple and the law was something you had to live up to it was defined by you shall and you shall not But there was a promise of a new covenant where it would go from out there to win here The fire that fell from heaven ends up being the fire in our very spirits by the presence of the Holy Spirit And this is what we see in the passage fire comes on everybody and so instead of it being you shall God says in the new covenant I will I'm gonna put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my commandments and to keep them I will cleanse you from your idols, and I will make you clean. I'm gonna write my law on your heart It's not something you live up to in your own strength It's something you live out with my power and this is the moment where that happens together And this is a fundamental chef a shift from the omnipresence of God Which means God is the you know Yahweh is the true Lord of heaven and earth But we're not quite sure exactly where he is or how he's manifesting his presence To a tangible presence, and this is where God is in the room showing up Now the omnipresence of God, which is basically what has been happening In the inter-testamental period before the book of Acts and before the Gospels God's been there But he hasn't been flexing very much He hasn't been showing people what he's capable of doing and so when Jesus burst on the scene Jesus is bringing a Revelation of the tangible presence of God called the kingdom of God, and he says the kingdom of God is in your midst The omnipresence of God it's biblical. It's real. It's true to God's nature. God is everywhere. It's theological It's available to everybody. It's universal. It's passive. It's impersonal and it's abstract Which means we all know theologically God is everywhere. You know the book of Psalms. Where can I flee from your presence? God is in every place but holding the wicked and the good. We know he's there But it's the difference between having a millionaire show up to your church and being in the back pew and Then having the millionaire pull out his phone and take seven seven nine seven seven Like there's a difference of like being in the room and then showing that you're in the room Well, the omnipresence is God in the room, but the manifest presence is God showing you that he's in the room This is what's happening with the birth of the church. It's biblical. It's real the manifest present It's true to God's nature, but God has perceived locally. He's here It's transformational. It's not just theological. It's particular not general It's personal it requires a pursuit and a hunger It's covenantal, which means it's deeply relational and it's specific and this is what's so important to see This is the shift in the birth of the church When God initiates the new covenant, it does not happen in the temple in Jerusalem It happens in the people The place the presence of God is now manifest is not in the old covenant system. It's in the hearts of the people of God Which means when you show up with the people of God? This is the place where you should find him amongst his people and this ultimately leads us to a sense of encounter if It's personal if it's manifest that means that you and I Don't need a special system of priests and leaders and sacrifice to access to manifest presence of God It can happen right here. It can happen right now.  This is the good news of Acts chapter 2 God answers with fire and that distant fire becomes a personal fire It's up on the mountain in the Old Testament and the people fear But in the New Testament, everybody gets a flame on their head God is present and real and this is one of the most important things that needs to happen in our moment is a conscious shift From acknowledging the theory of a theological reality of the presence of God to the experiential reality of the presence blaze Pascal one of my favorite writers and thinkers and He was an inventor. He was a philosopher and he was a theologian but towards the end of his life all of that brilliance in his mind Melted into a personal encounter with God and on one night This is what happened in his again This is the point the general idea of God became a radical encounter with God And this is part of what he wrote in his testimony God of Abraham God of Isaac God of Jacob not of the Philosophers and of the learned Certitude certitude feeling joy peace God of Jesus Christ my God and your God your God will be my God Forgefulness of the world and everything except God. He's only found in the ways. This is literally called thinking in tongues This is a philosopher having an encounter with the presence of God Granger of the human soul joy joy joy tears of joy So he has this radical encounter with God and you know what he does which is key for us When he died they found that he had taken this encounter with the Holy Spirit and he sewed it in his coat So it always covered his heart He said I want to take that experience and I want to convert that into a lifestyle I don't want that just to be a memory of my younger years. I want that to be a living reality in my life Richard on Robert says this the sobering truth is that the greatest hindrance to the growth of Christianity in today's world is The absence of the manifest presence of God from the church Imagine showing up to church and not meeting God What a concept That's the very thing you should be doing is meeting God and encountering his presence in the Old Testament Moses said if your presence doesn't go up with us, we're not gonna leave and then he asks a question how else Will all the nations know That we're your people well, I've got an idea how about circumcision How about like a very very strict and different diet than everybody else? How about it? How about an ethical code? How about a way you organize your family? There's a million ways sociologically you can distinguish one group from another With human culture, but he realizes that's not the secret the secret is the presence if if we are not presence People we are not your people. This is what we see in Acts chapter 2 Then ultimately that encounter that's in veil available to us leads to the empowerment of God's people To do his mission verse 4 says this All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them This is amazing Peter goes from somebody who denies Jesus When a teenage girl's like aren't you his follower and he swears no, I don't know the man To somebody who's willing to stand up in the same city just a little bit of time later and preach to the religious leaders You killed the Messiah What happened? Peter didn't get a little pep talk and then get a good night's sleep and have some kale and then feel like no I'm good now.  I don't care how godly you are I don't know. I don't care how well you've walked in the gifts of the spirit in your history We as a church don't have the power we need for the cultural moment that we are in we need that power We need that power When I became a Christian, I grew up around the church and I made a very conscious decision at age 13. I just remember thinking okay, so let me get this right non-Christian sin and they enjoy it and You sin like hypocrites and you feel guilty. I Think I'm just gonna like bypass the guilt route and just go straight to enjoying my sin Thank you I was surrounded by all these hypocritical kids and I knew him from school and then I saw him at the parties and then That invite me to church and I was like, why are you going? This is making you miserable And then I got invited To a Pentecostal youth group now I didn't know anything about Pentecostals except that they were a cult Okay, so when I show up and the lights are off and everybody's praying in tongues and they're swaying in the dark I was like, oh, no, it's actually true. It's a cult. It's a cop But when I stepped in the room something happened that I never anticipated I encountered the presence of God and it repelled me and It attracted me all in the same moment I wanted to fall on my face and I wanted to leap through the roof and I did not have language to articulate The experience that I was having These were kids who were getting up at 4 a.m. To pray for revival before they went to high school This was a wild culture of encountering the presence of God and they said because of Pentecost you can meet God anywhere. I Was filled with it.  I dropped out of high school I was working in a meat factory as a butcher and just didn't like the idea and I was like, okay, God if it's you meet me in my life One day I'm in the meat factory and I'm like, okay, God I'm having a showdown with you if what they say is real I want you to meet me right now and I tell you like a lightning bolt from heaven Filled that meat freezer. I felt like a river that I could not control of language erupt from my stomach and I was speaking in tongues Involuntarily at the top of my lungs in a meat freezer I'm telling you Power was available. Now. Here's the just so like I'm like I believe it I would start praying in tongues and get these prayer burdens So I would have to pull my car over and pray for 20 minutes I was so overwhelmed with a burden and I remember thinking to myself The power of Pentecost is in my life But then I came to America and I went to seminary And I got mentored by some of the smartest pastors in America And I learned about technique and I learned about programs I learned about church growth and I learned history and philosophy and theology One of my mentors came to see me in New York We planted a church, grew to 11 locations, thousands of people, big church in New York City One of my mentors from those glory days came to visit me And the church, it was a great night at church You know there's like good nights at church and there's great nights at church It was a great night And you know, when you're a preachy you have those moments where you just hit flow And you're just like I am preaching And I was preaching And afterwards maybe with a little bit of pride but certainly with a desire To please someone who had spoken into my life and saw me in the early days of my faith So we go out for dinner after and I said What did you think of the service? And he said, wow man, America's been good to you in many ways He's like, man, you got a real mind I never knew that He says, you're a real leader It's amazing to see what God's done He said, but I've got to tell you something, man You have lost the power of God in your life And I was like, what do you mean? He's like, there's no power, man It's performance, it's technique, it's leadership dynamics But the anointing is gone I was like, oh okay, thanks Praise the Lord It put me on my face And it made me realize how much you can get done in the modern church Without the power of God But we are coming to the end of that right now We've hit a generation that doesn't care how good church is If God is not there One Corinthians 4.20 says the kingdom of God is not a matter of talk But it's a matter of power And so this started me on a journey of deep repentance Lord, I've somehow lost the fire over my heart I've got to get that back So I want to say to you, you need fresh power You need fresh wind What got you here is not going to bring you into the future God has for you We need another Pentecost I need fresh fire coming through the roof I need another river of language coming out of my life I need fresh prayer burdens, how about you?  He says, if God manifests His full glory right now It would crush you You do not have the discipline or character To sustain a move of God And what he's telling you is You need to prepare, not just encounter Now, why am I sharing this? Here's why I'm sharing this This is now my second point, okay Point number one, Acts chapter one There's power Sorry, Acts chapter two, there's power But do you know what happens at the end of chapter two? Look what goes on They take all of that power And they build it into tangible practices So they can use That power for the mission of God Look what it says, verse 42 They devoted themselves to the apostles Teaching and to fellowship To the breaking of bread and to prayer Everyone was filled with awe At the many wonders in science performed by the apostles All the believers were together And they had everything in common They sold property and possessions to gift To anyone who had need every day They continued to meet together in the temple Courts, they broke bread in their homes They ate together with gladdens and seer hearts Praising God and enjoying the favor Of all the people and the Lord added To their number daily, those who were Being saved here, so this is fascinating The wind and the fire Was poured into shared Discipleship practices in the church In essence, they had the power But they didn't have the container To sustain them And so all of the wind and fire Had to be turned in a teaching And fellowship and breaking bread And prayer and generosity And miracles in the local context So the idea of the power Could be translated into a community That could handle the power This is important Because you know that over the course of time Much of what has happened In the Charismatic and Pentecostal church Has been power tools for toddlers And that is always a dangerous thing When that happens When you've got more anointing Than you have character A disaster is very, very close And so we've got to have The kind of discipleship That can handle the power of God Ultimately the church's call Is not just spiritual experiences Though I love those And I honour those And they are sacred But the ultimate mission of the church Is that those experiences are translated Into maturity and health and into discipleship Neal Cole says this Ultimately each church Will only be evaluated by one thing It's disciples Your church is only as good as its disciples It does not matter how good Your praise, preaching, programs Or property are If your disciples are passive, needy, consumerist Being in the direction of radical obedience Your church is not good This is so fascinating to me Because we have so many programs In the western church today So much content and so Little transformation Because of it We need these practices that we see In the early church teaching fellowship Breaking bread and prayer Because we need lifestyles That can sustain the power Of God without it blowing us up And so Part of the weakness of the charismatic church Glory, gifts, fire but no character Dallas Willis says this The general human failing Is to want what is right And important but at the same time Not to commit to the kind of life That will produce the action we know to be right And the condition we want to enjoy This is the feature of the human character That explains why the road to hell Is paved with good intentions We intend what is right To avoid the life that would make it a reality And so we don't want to just think Hey, the gifts of the spirit Are a substitute for holiness They are not And we don't want to say the power of God Poured out in gatherings is enough For personal devotion, it's not We need teaching because we live In a culture of lies And so we need truth to reveal who Jesus is And to debug us From the cultural programming happening in the world We need fellowship and learning to love One another because we live in a time of cultural division Where we're villainizing and deeming One another and demonizing one another Instead of loving one another We need to break bread together And open our homes to get rid of the cynicism And the hostility So we actually learn to love one another Like Jesus said that we would And we need prayer to be turned Not into an encounter but into a lifestyle Of seeking God where there's devotion And here's the key Power is good Formation is better And there is no formation without repetition Now look I am like assemblies Of God I'm like shaken, barking like Dogs whether there's no manifestation That is going to freak me out And overwhelm me And sometimes when you're in that transition Your answer is like well if you just got another dose Of the Holy Ghost it would fix everything Like we're witches casting spells That's not what we do We are people being formed into the image of Jesus This is a different reality Now we know this In every other area of our life don't we No one would come forward and say hey look I'm 150 pounds overweight Can you just like pray for me that the weight Would fall off in a moment Because if God doesn't address a vision of a healthy person All that's going to happen is you put it on again Slowly over the course of time It's the same thing with money We can pray God I need a miracle But if we don't learn to steward our finances And give us over the course of time We'll just go back into debt If we're always complaining we don't have enough time And we pray for miracles to happen To make up for our laziness What God may fix it because he's kind That over the course of time he won't Because he wants to develop us in a mature people We have to Are you still with me I feel like all of a sudden you're like yay for the Holy Spirit You're like oh this is Not the what is this We have to reject The zap view of spiritual growth That's what the Bible says We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit Keep on being filled with the Holy Spirit And it also says that we have to train Ourselves to be godly And so we need the balance Of both of these things We need to be disciples of Jesus And I was very very blessed to have A mentor who came along and he basically Was like John you're on fire for God But you're going to burn the house down man I'm going to teach you how to channel this thing And so he would come over to my house At four o'clock in the morning And he would say do you know how to read the Bible And I was like of course I do And then he'd say read the Bible in front of me And I was like this feels weird and awkward And there's an unhealthy power dynamic And I'm not comfortable with this And he'd say I'm here for you man Just read the Bible And I'd read it and he'd say okay Let me show you something Do you know what context is No I was like no He'd be like do you understand how to Cross referencing and I was like no And he said I can take this raw hunger And I can channel it with skill And he said let me show you how I read the Bible And I remember him like taking me through the life Of David and just I think I was like 18 years old And just saying to him that's a sermon That's not a devotion How did you do that And this was a man that taught me Not just to love the word To skillfully use the word And he said tell me how you do evangelism And I said well this is well I walk up to people really early And I give them tracks and I say read this You're gonna go to hell And I walk off that was my evangelism Fear of the Lord And he said hey man that's one way of doing it That God can use Can I show you some other ways Do you know how to answer people's questions Do you know how to meet them where they're at And so then he would begin to teach me And he would come to my butcher shop And he would say we're both gonna fast And I'm gonna show up at the front of your workplace And I'm gonna pray and intercede the whole hour When we're gonna believe that a door is gonna open For you to share the Gospel with one of your co-workers And I remember him like oh gosh He's there Holy Spirit You gotta show up man's out the front right now Like I need somebody Somebody in the name of Jesus Ask me And sure enough Steve one of the butchers is like Hey what do you think about evolution Because the butchers never asked me this And then God began to manifest his presence I'm simply saying this I remember going into the church And hearing expository Preaching for the first time And here's what I thought If you could take the power And you could combine this With the practices You would have a church That is an unstoppable force In the world Why is it Things tend to war with one another Why are these discipleship Practice driven churches are like You don't need all that experience And everybody else is like you're cold You've got no fire Why not put them together Why not have the best of both worlds The apostle Paul could preach philosophy To the leading intellects of his day The apostle Paul could walk into a meeting And see faith The apostle Paul could write the book of Ephesians Which is not bad theology The apostle Paul could raise the dead Seamlessly integrated And those are the kinds of disciples We need in our world today We need power but we need practices And they don't need to be at war with one another They need to be integrated That's the future of the church of the disciples Jesus Is trying to make Here's what power gives us Encounter Passion Anointing Breakthrough Shouts that are drawn in A movement and the gifts of the Holy Spirit And here's what practices give us Formation and discipline And faithfulness and Process and skills And sustainability Commitment and health and character And when you put power and practices together You get history shaping community History shaping community Our church is Pursuing the presence and power And outpouring of the Holy Spirit That it has, but it is more healthy and disciplined And sustainable in its pursuit We're seeking God in a way That's not damaging us But forming us in the way that we do it Power and practices History shaping community Now, I want to say this cautiously Do you know how rare it is In the modern American church To have these kinds of churches They are so Few and far between I think It's one of the enemy's great strategies Because he realizes if these things come together They will be an unstoppable force So he uses division He uses theological debates He uses dominant personalities He does everything within his power To keep these things from coming together Because when they do, they are potent And you know what You were one of those rare churches That is open and hungry To build this kind of community I don't say that lightly Why do you think you have a network Why a pastor showing up from around the world To attend your thing Because they sense that's it That's it But are you living in To the thing that your church carries Are you living into what's available for you I want to close by just telling you a story Just to inspire you It's a story you may know But this time I don't want you to think of these people Far away and unlike you I want you to think of them as People just like you In a place like this And these people are the Moravians The Moravians under Zinzendorf Were the most integrated Practices in power community in church history I know of Nobody else got this combination right And Zinzendorf, as many of you know Because your church cares about revival Was a leader A German noble who actually was inherited or bought from his grandmother A piece of land And in the 1700s there was all sorts of religious And cultural persecution And there was refugees who were fleeing And a group of them with all these different Theological backgrounds ended up On his land Sort of camping out saying hey can we Settle here and build a village And he said yes I'd be honoured to have you And so this was a person with tremendous Wealth and privilege in essence Doing a little bit of a book of Acts Of those who had needs But the community was tremendously divided There was Calvinist, there was Arminians There was high church people There was low church people They were all trying to live in a community And that you would think hey our persecution And suffering should power bond us But still the difference Between power and practices And theology fractured them apart And so instead of like bonding In their trauma like they divided Because of their theology And Zinsendorf was like in what way Is this honouring God Can't we unite on anything? So he went door to door Over a period of weeks pleading with each family A couple hundred people saying Can't we put aside our differences And unite in Jesus The fire of God will never fall On a divided older Let's unite, let's unite So he won the hearts of everybody in the community And they got together in August the 13th 1727 for a communion service And after everybody Had united their hearts The presence of God fell on them During communion And they said for a period of like 12 or 13 hours They literally could not tell If they were in heaven or on earth The veil was torn And they felt like they were in the overlap Of the ages And just when they felt like it was about to lift Another wave of the presence Of God would come Just such a deep and overwhelming Special encounter And they began to ask the question Like God why did you do this And I want to say this I went on August the 13th To Hernhut, Germany To celebrate communion in the church Where this happened with my family And one of the weirdest things is like Hernhut is not a strategic location You're never going to go Hey you know what let's go to Hernhut You want to go to Hernhut You've never even heard of it And there's nowhere And there's not like a huge city nearby There's not like an economic engine It's not an arts capital But you get there And then you just see The very very simple principles That God comes where He's wanted Not where it is strategic according to human policies Hunger draws God in And the Holy Spirit came So they've had this massive outpouring Of the Holy Spirit and then they ask What do we do with it Let's do prayer And so they start a 24-7 prayer And literally they all just like Divided up the prayer sets By family and by individual They're like okay and they actually had a lottery And this is how they did it It's like okay I hope I get this 7pm set And it's like home boy you're on it 2am on Tuesday And they just divided it up like this Over the course of the week And I don't know they had so much power But they had so much practice To sustain this for over 100 years And any time it would begin to wane A spirit of prayer would come on the children And they'd say we've got to live By the call of God in our community And you'd hear the prayers of the children And you would just weep because they were so filled With the burden and the spirit of God Well then they had this prayer culture And they said well what's this for And then God began to speak to them And say we're going to be people who go And bring Jesus' message to the ends of the earth That's a time where new pathways Of travel were breaking out around the world And they said we live in a strategic moment Where we could get the gospel from Germany To the ends of the earth, let's go after it And so they heard about an island That was in the British Isles And in order to get to the island You had to be a slave Nobody else was allowed there And so two of the young men said We're going to sell ourselves into slavery To bring the gospel to these people And if you read the accounts it's kind of extraordinary You've got the community gathering They say may the lamb that was slain Receive the reward of his suffering And they just sell themselves into slavery They go on that island and they witness A staggering revival Over 2,000 people come to Christ And it becomes a model community There's a tiny little church Power comes But then they build structures to contain The power and then turn that power Into momentum Well as one of the communities Is bringing a missions movement To the United States They're on a ship and there's a terrible storm They feel like the storm's going to destroy the ship And there happens to be a passenger on the ship Named John Wesley And John Wesley is coming over to America To do missions and he said he realized On that ship that the Moravians Had something he did not have Which was peace with God And it haunted him and so he comes to America He's a total failure And he comes back to England And he starts asking what do the Moravians have And if you read about the conversion of John Wesley The conversion happens Where he says he's reading an introduction to an Epistle And his heart was strangely worn Who was holding the Bible study? The Moravians He goes to a Moravian Bible study Because they have power but they have practices Well the Moravians would do these all night prayer Watchers And at one night on New Year's Eve There was about 60 of these Moravian men Praying together And there was a young man there named John Wesley And George Whitfield is there And at three o'clock in the morning The presence of God comes down What we would call slain in the spirit They cannot stand in the presence of God And they're all filled with this fresh filling And then Whitfield comes over to the United States Starts preaching with power and authority And sparks one of the great awakenings In American history And that happened because 60 people hosted a prayer meeting William Carey Who is known as the father of modern missions Was actually trying to work against Aggressive Calvinism that said You do not need to get the gospel to the ends of the earth God will do it if he wants to reach the heathen And he keeps hearing these stories And reports of the Moravian So he goes into the Baptist society Throws down these Moravian reports And he says this, why can't we reach the heathens Like the Moravians So the modern missionary movement He goes to India And pioneers the modern missionary movement Amongst the Baptist And this happens because the Moravians have power To sustain what God's done in their midst William, I'm almost done They're quite a generative community aren't they William Wilberforce is in parliament Raging against slavery And one of the arguments they make Is nobody Can release the slaves because they'll just Turn and kill their masters And Wilberforce hears about an island Where 2,000 slaves Have come to Jesus in a revival And they're living at peace And working in their conditions In a God-honoring way And so Wilberforce is able to point To those 2 young men who sold themselves in a slavery And started that revival As a reference point in parliament To overthrow slavery in the British Empire So let's do a quick recap here A little church of 300 or 400 people In the middle of nowhere Germany Have an encounter with the presence of God But then they build a container To hold that presence They become disciplined people Of God extending that mission into the world They spark one of the greatest revivalists In history, John Wesley They inspire one of the greatest evangelists In history, George Whitfield They inspire one of the greatest missionaries In history, William Carey They inspire one of the greatest politicians In history who works the demolishing Of slavery in the world And all of this comes out of a tiny little community And here's the point I want to say to you Do you see how potent power and practice Is when it comes together in a community And I have one question for you Do you want to be one of those communities Do you want to be one of those communities They tell me this morning Kalamazoo means Boiling River Boiling River Oh, I love that In the middle, I don't want to be rude here I've never been to Kalamazoo It's a weird title Where are you speaking this weekend? Kalamazoo, have you heard of it? No A boiling river of a united church With the power of God flowing to the nations Is possible from you Do you want it? Do you want it? You've got to choose to say yes You've got to build a lifestyle Of discipline and discipleship That can carry the fire in such a way That it doesn't burn you out And you've got to not get so caught up in the discipline That you stop hungering for the power And think that you can take it from here Because you're organized This is a history shaping community You've got the possibility of being one And all you need to say to Jesus is Here is my life, yes, I'm in Why do you think he's put you here At this moment in history? Why do you think you are here now To slowly manage the decline Of the church in your region You think you are here now Just to be in culture wars About secondary issues You're here now for this moment Power, practice, outpouring You don't know who you say yes I don't know about you, I'm saying yes to Jesus I'm saying yes to this time It doesn't need to be big, it just needs to be potent That's what God's asking So let's just close by saying Here I am, Lord Here I am, you can use me You can use me So Father, we thank you for your word We thank you for the beauty of the book of Acts But Lord, we thank you that you're the God of history Not just the past Lord, we know you're moving in every generation You've put us here for a purpose So we say, Lord, use us Pour out your spirit Lord, we pray fresh wind, fresh fire But Lord, we also pray Discipline and practices to sustain it So that this can make it To the ends of the earth We love you, we hear your voice We respond to your word And we re-up with fresh conviction For what you want to do in our lives In Jesus' name, amen