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But before we talk about all the numbers, let's talk about numbers, okay?

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And I asked Bruce, I said, I really want to address this because I feel like I had, coming

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into this space, I had some false humility and some wrong beliefs about numbers that

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I don't even know where they came from.

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I don't know if it was just a defense mechanism for me, but the Lord had to break those off

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of me as I continued to be okay with saying, this is what I want to do.

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I want to reach people at scale.

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And so again, like I talked about with the choice that he gave me, do you want to do

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it with people?

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Do you want to just focus on your channel?

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The worthiness was in his partnership with me, me partnering with him because I'm in

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him and he's in me and we are one and we're in this together.

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That's the worthiness of it.

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I have friends that are so fulfilled in reaching their local neighborhood, like they are giving

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their life to that.

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I have friends that have moved into apartment complexes, moved into certain neighborhoods,

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just like this is our mission field.

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This is where we're planting ourselves and they are so fulfilled.

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It's probably less than 50 people that they're reaching and nothing's wrong with that.

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It's the desire of their heart.

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I have friends that speak to stadiums, like in-person conferences.

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They speak to large groups and there's nothing wrong with that.

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It is the desire of their heart.

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It's how they're partnering with the Lord.

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And I think that for so long we've seen, we've measured fruit by numbers, big or small.

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Some people think it's so worthy to reach, like, hey, don't forget the one.

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Give yourself to that.

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And they make, they kind of make jest at the people reaching stadiums, who are they really

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discipling?

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Are they really getting into people's lives or just like blowing into town, blowing out?

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And I've seen the opposite happen, where people look at the people who are not, who are reaching

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less than 50 or they're reaching five and they're saying, well, if you were really doing

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something for the Lord, you'd be reaching more people, right?

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None of that, we don't do any of that.

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That's not kingdom at all, because the worthiness is in the partnership.

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And I want you to hear that because I'm guessing that the reason you are here is there was

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something about reaching stadium-sized audiences, and we were very specific about putting that

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in the tag that has drawn you.

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Maybe not the only thing, but you're like, there's something about that that I want to

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talk about.

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And that's because it's a desire of your heart, and that is okay.

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I go back often to Psalm 37, where David is writing, delight yourself in the Lord and

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he will give you the desires of your heart.

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I've heard sermons saying that means that the Lord is going to give you what you want.

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I've heard sermons that people have said that means the Lord is going to plant new

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desires in your heart.

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Wherever you land, whatever you believe about that verse, here's what I want you to catch

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tonight.

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The creator of the universe is intimately involved in the desires of your heart.

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That is closeness.

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That is oneness.

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That is union.

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That he would be so intimately connected with the desires of your heart.

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Let that capture you tonight.

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You are not alone in this, and maybe there's things that you are wanting.

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I want to reach a lot of people.

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I don't even know why.

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It's just something I've always wanted to do.

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I want to do ministry at scale.

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But you feel like that's not humble, or you've been told that you shouldn't want that, that

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it's fame-seeking, that it's narcissistic, or whatever it is.

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I want to break that off of you tonight.

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I am someone who, for whatever reason, I don't even know because it feels even anti my natural

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nature as an introvert, but I have always resonated with wanting to reach a lot of people.

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I would go to conferences, and I'd be like, it would be so cool to be on stage someday

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sharing my message.

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Or I would hear a pastor teaching to a large stadium, and I would just be like, I would

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love to be having that amount of impact.

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It was just something in me.

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And I realized that was a desire that I shared with Jesus.

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There's a commingling happening based on what my calling is and my purpose.

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But the worthiness is not in the outcome.

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It's in me saying yes to the partnership and being on mission with Him.

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And so I wanted to take some time just to address that tonight because I don't want

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you to, if you've been fighting it, don't fight it anymore.

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Give your yes.

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You have a choice.

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You've been given a choice.

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You can say no.

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You can say yes.

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But I want to encourage you, if this is something you've been desiring, say yes.

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Say yes tonight.

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Because as you continue out on the digital landscape, wanting to reach large amounts

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of people, wanting to reach a lot of people where they spend

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a lot of their time there's going to be some resistance and when there's resistance we

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have to hold on to that yes because what has happened in the past for me when I faced resistance

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is I just assumed it wasn't meant to be and I let go of my yes and I didn't move forward

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because I thought well if it's meant to be it's just going to happen and what's more

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unfortunate about what's most unfortunate about that scenario is I was not trusting

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in the partnership and I wasn't engaging and experiencing the beauty of the partnership

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I just kept backing out of it because I was weighing everything by a measure that the

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Lord wasn't even measuring yeah that's good that's good we are we have been given the

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fullness of Christ you have been given the fullness of Christ you're full now we get

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to experience how full that we get to discover and experience how full that fullness really

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is the religious spirit in the political spirit hate this by the way be prepared the religious

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spirit hates it because they can't measure it because the religious spirit can only measure

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the external it's looking at the external what are you actually doing for the kingdom

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show me show me your fruit prove your intimacy with Jesus by the fruit of your life that's

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the religious spirit the political spirit hates it because it can't control it because

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you can't take away from fullness and you can't add to it and therefore your only source

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is the one who's given you the fullness in the first place and you're not looking to

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any other system organization person leader for that filling I love it so good and it's

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something that I think when we can go about ministry sometimes especially this online

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because things can scale quite big quite fast and we want to be more humble than Jesus right

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like even Jesus preached to the multitudes right he's brings to the you know thousands

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and thousands and I think that's something where we don't have to be more apologetic

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yeah we can just be ourselves and that's what we're not trying to have you guys change your

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message change whatever it is we're just trying to give you the tools and equip you to share

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that message online and to believe that this is something that actually does make a huge

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impact and so to come back to the numbers here we love showing this slide as well because

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sometimes it's hard to visualize a hundred thousand people what a hundred thousand people

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looks like and so I think there's a hundred thousand people in this audience and so that's

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that's a lot of people so imagine like you know you standing in the middle of that stadium

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sharing your message and not just sharing it once but being able to every week every

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week hit publish and this many people listen to what you have to say and these are people

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that have voluntarily followed you voluntarily watch stuff you know they're showing up to

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consume content so it's a it is it is real like sometimes we forget you know the numbers

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we see a number yeah it's people we want to show you this as well so because Lindsay said

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she launched her channel but we felt like we wanted to help kingdom messengers like

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you launch and grow their own channels we have a goal to reach a million people a week

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so we want to reach 10 of these stadiums every single week with the gospel and we have three

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stadiums we're almost at three stadiums worth as a community and that is just there's about

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60 members we have in our in our between our roadmap and membership and that you know that's

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that's just that okay sure yeah 60 people this is mind-blowing to me still this never gets old

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60 people reaching almost 300,000 people every week yeah this is the multiplication effect of

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the kingdom yeah and i feel like the lord for such a time as this is highlighting technology

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as a tool to do that absolutely yeah and so the way we again the way we're getting on mission

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for that is like we we want to resource you guys so we're thinking we need a hundred people it's

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math right 100 people with an audience of 10,000 each to 1 million so it's so doable exactly and

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i think that's yeah and we talk about this and i want to give you guys this reference point we'll

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come back to this a little bit later in the in the presentation but this is what 10,000 people

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look like and so when we say reach a stadium size audience this is the size audience that we're

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because we want to get a hundred of you over 10,000 and we have had kingdom messengers break

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that and go well past that and uh we have some that are close to some closer breaking it so

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um yeah so that that's just something i want to give you guys that visual as we're talking

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imagine like this size audience and imagine if this was a church like this would be a

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mega mega church right at this scale so just be thinking big we want to kind of help take those

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limitations off if you just need permission if you just need permission this is the mission

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field we're talking about um we know that social media is a powerful

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ministry tool and it's massively under-leveraged by the body of Christ right now. There are

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there's so many content creators that are leveraging this who are either in the world or

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or they have worldly agendas yeah and and it's working because it's a way to reach people but

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there is a way to what we say is leverage the digital landscape um and disciple nations to

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disciple nations and there's a way to do that um so it this is exactly we just want you guys to get

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this one thing tonight that this is possible that you could have an online ministry that could be

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reaching 10 000 people or more and and it is a landscape like no other and so we're going to

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jump through and we're going to talk about three keys to actually leverage it so we're going to go

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through three of these tonight and we're going to dive deeper so everybody good if you guys want to

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