okay okay so we should be we should be all good now should be no issues for us
going forward now and let's try this
hey hey hey boom okay Jane good to see you everyone I think let's just do a
thumbs up I think that should be better I think we should be all good boom yes
we are we are cooking on gas now my friends and sorted out that problem
nothing like a little bit of troubleshooting problem-solving so we
boom there we are this is good whatever was going on before it is sorted so I'm
very happy about that yes good to see all of you beautiful faces thumbs up man
what that is great I feel like we're back online so boom great to have you
tonight I hope you got that prayer it was a good prayer I got I got blessed
and blasted from that so sweet that we are back on live we are going to have a
great night and tonight is really about connecting with each other starting to
get to know each other a little bit more and starting to set a bit of culture in
the family so welcome welcome welcome everyone welcome it's great to have you
yes so just say hello everybody we want to we really want to start building
strong connections so if you're there whether you're there right now or
whether you're there later it doesn't matter every time you say hello everyone
gets a notification to see your comment to hear what you said to say hello back
so welcome welcome welcome and why don't you say hello to everyone that's
beautiful Jenny I want to start I want to start by sharing hi Janet good to see
you now who's just give me a thumbs up everyone said it was all good before I
just got a comment there that said there was something some challenges but give
me a thumbs up if it's going bang and now I think everything should be sweet I
think we've sorted out all the issues yep so we should be good all right boom
we are good I think everything's all sort of on my side we want to start
investing into a culture of divine family choice I see those thumbs up boom
we are smoking we're cooking on gas which is awesome so we want to we want
to start setting culture and connecting and I want this to be a really really
authentic and genuine connect that's awesome good to see it's all charging
ticking along great so I really want to invest in a genuine authentic experience
of divine family or even on this online group we can create an amazing dynamic
of divine kingdom family we can actually create here right now in this
community and authentic expression of heaven on earth and that's what I love
to do like my heart burns for that to create authentic expressions of heaven
on earth one of the reasons why I love to create authentic expressions of
heaven on earth there's so many so many reasons why you would want that because
there's nothing better than heaven on earth so that's a good thing there's
nothing better but for us as well there's no better growth environment for
us to experience than an authentic expression of heaven on earth hey it is
so good by the way just have everyone joining in from all over the world I see
Germany saying I see South Africa I see India popping up and all over New Zealand
popping up so choice good to have everyone representing from all over the
place but how could we build is it possible I want to ask you this question
do you think it's possible to reproduce authentic expressions of heaven on earth
there you go there's a question is it possible to reproduce an authentic
expression of heaven on earth what do you reckon give me a thumbs up or a yes
or a no no way you couldn't have an authentic expression of heaven and a
fallen world or could you so what do you reckon do you reckon boom thumbs up
if you think it's possible yes Sarah thinks it's possible to create an
authentic expression of heaven on earth
so thumbs up or a yes or a hallelujah or a something fun or uh not not at all so a few
few yeses a handful of thumbs up a bunch of thumbs up okay we're getting a lot of people
saying yes it's totally possible definitely people are pretty fully persuaded about this
whoa oh my gosh people are pretty persuaded uh that they can create an authentic expression of
heaven off whoa that's awesome so okay so that's awesome let me ask you then why don't you put in
a few words what do you think why don't you choose maybe three words um by the way just
so awesome to be here with everyone why don't you put your top three words that describe what you
think heaven on earth looks like what does that look like to you what are your top three words
that describe what heaven on earth looks like for you uh for me um i would say
yeah i would definitely say divine family and i would say unconditional i'd say it looks like
divine family and that would that for me would look like unconditional love and delight in one
another uh it would look like what sonship looks like which is an unbroken cycle of divine love but
for you guys oh blissful explosion of joy dominion peace love yeah these are great things what else
do you think uh what do you what do you think heaven on earth would look like unconditional
acceptance great what do you think an authentic expression of heaven on earth would look like why
don't you even take a moment now just to in this moment um oh come on dean yeah uh flowing in a
river of love and joy absolutely peace love harmony peace joy friendship that's awesome even even as
you're sitting there why don't you try and imagine what it would look like to experience the fullness
of heaven there we go love joy peace love power joy hi wilson from uh india ords family love peace
whoa encouraging love vulnerability oh that is awesome come on no sickness death or disease
that's fantastic margaret everybody loved each other whoa come on uh this is amazing genuine
considerate powerful unity glory expansion peace joy love beautiful whoa that's awesome um man fully
alive in the glory of god come on grace peace love oh guys this is awesome um truly connected
with the trinity no fear beautiful beautiful beautiful now this is all um this is all really
priceless and really precious um of what you think it would look like i'd like to ask you another
question now as well oh great stuff christians walking in divine radiance transfiguration i love
that uh oh my gosh effortless explosion of receiving expressing love seamlessly uh perichoresis
yes the divine dance uh and fun of course so much fun absolutely and divine creativity explosions
of divine creativity everyone rocking a hundred percent of their potential uh people exploding
manifestations of heaven uh like the more amazing sounds and colors and creativity than you've ever
seen uh more amazing expressions of love more like the baking would be phenomenal the creativity
would be just next level phenomenal living in total bliss yes and yep fun fun fun like crazy
delight on steroids oh guys this is awesome so what i want you to what i want you to consider
right now is if you had to choose one value if you had to choose one value oh that's awesome jane
worship like never before totally just everything would be worship i actually think that uh on that
note i don't i think that the greatest expression of worship is delight i think that there's no
greater expression of love of worship and love and delight look at that love unlimited bliss
throwing away the box that's so good guys that is awesome so here's what i'd like you to do
in a community like we're building a community now and one thing that i know is that um for
for us to get to where i want to go in the sense of family that i want to create uh one of the most
uh important significant uh things that we need to be able to create
is we need to be able to create a sense of safety um so
i have this beautiful picture right in my head of a snail okay so just think about
Think about a snail right now when a snail is feeling safe right and it's
just having a great day it's got it's it's got its headphones in it's got it
it's got its beats going bum bum bum bum bum snail is cruising along right it's
a sunny day all is going well that's snail is just it's having the best day
of its life it's like bum bum bum bum it's charging along and you know when
that snail is in its in its safe place in its sweet space you know it is fully
extended its antennae are right out every part of it is stretched out it's
fully exposed it's like every part of it's just fully revealed but the moment
that that snail feels unsafe the moment that there's even a glimpse that its
safety is in danger that snail just goes you know it just sucks itself it
sucks itself back into its shell no Sandy's asking if I've been watching the
movie turbo I don't think so but that snail it just retreats completely
retreats within itself the moment that it's not feeling safe and the truth is
we do that all the time you know when we when we go places we're looking to get a
gauge on is this a safe place to be to be real is this a safe place to be or
authentic is this a safe place for me to be me and the reality is that a lot of
the time when we we go go to places or we experience relationships we we find a
lot of unsafe behavior all around us and so we find that we actually have to put
these guards up and so every time we you know every time we feel like we
can't trust people or every time we feel like it's not safe or every time we feel
like we're in a dangerous environment we actually put guards up and and those
guards are always about protecting ourselves and when we feel like others
aren't going to protect us then we we take that role on ourselves and we
protect ourselves and unfortunately the the default setting that we usually use
is to protect that protect ourselves by creating creating a maybe a wall of some
sort or covering ourselves in some way but we what we end up losing that
process is we end up losing vulnerability but the opposite is true
as well the moment if we if we come into a place and you start experiencing a
sense of safety if you start experiencing unconditional acceptance
if you start experiencing this the sense of total safety and if you start
sensing unconditional love and unconditional acceptance and
unconditional delight then oh my gosh all the walls start coming down all the
facades start coming down then all of a sudden you're free to be you in that
sense that it's like wow I feel so safe to totally be me and that's what I want
to create right here is that place where we as ourselves we can be like those
snails that come right out of our shells we're totally feeling totally safe it's
like man this is such a safe place this is such a safe community there's so much
unconditional love there's so much unconditional acceptance there's so much
unconditional delight there's so much grace towards each other there's so much
forgiveness towards each other there's so much compassion towards each other
and there's so much honor towards each other if we can create an environment
like that that's the that's the environment where people begin to thrive
and excel like never before and I think that's what heaven looks like I think
that that's what it looks like to create divine family I think that's what it
looks like to reproduce authentic expressions of heaven on earth yeah
totally it's yeah so great comments coming in guys I love those comments so
here's what I want to ask us as we start this journey together here's what I want
to ask us and I want to come out of your hearts is I want to ask you what do you
value in in community in relationships what are your top three values let's go
with that what are your top three values what are the three things that you want
to see protected more than anything else if we're going to create the sense where
you really feel safe in this family then we need to know what makes you feel safe
and when you let us know what makes you feel safe we can be really intentional
about protecting those values and when we protect those values you're not going
to have to put up that barrier you're going to feel
safe to be
You so let's check those out right now. What do you what do you think of your top three values there?
They can't decide to come trust honesty respect. What do you think are your top three?
Values of things that you want to protect things that you want to see demonstrated there we go trust honor
What do you want to see unconditional love? Yeah?
What are those things you want to see these things in the community in the atmosphere? We've got honesty not just non-judgment
Trust honesty acceptance honesty no judging trust honesty dignity respect for one another
Integrity commitment trust these are phenomenal honesty communication not judgmental Wow come on
Acceptance appreciated encouraged grace come on. That's massive
Totally open authentic wall and vulnerable wow that is ultimate
Come on integrity. That's great stuff guys great words
Wow
Love honesty and integrity beautiful beautiful trust
confident
Confidentiality honesty inclusion. Oh, man. What great words. That's powerful guys. That's so powerful
Yeah being heard respect yeah beautiful respect kindness acceptance guys
This these are phenomenal things nurturing each other
Nurturing each other okay, so I reckon why I want to run this past you
In terms of this process of building family here we go acceptance patience love more stuff powerful communication respect man
These things are absolutely
Fantastic so
What about what about this? I want to run this past you because I've spent so long
This is like my life right on a grace acceptance on a trusting respect. Yeah great things
They just keep on coming more and more goodness flowing out of you guys so
For me. This is actually what my my life is just all about this constantly everywhere. I go working on creating
Authentic expressions of heaven and to create these places of authentic expressions of heaven
I always take it back to the Trinity
I was like just about everything I take back to the Trinity because they're the model for everything that a model for our
Identity they're the model for what heaven actually looks like and when we look at the Trinity what we see is an
unbroken cycle of
Divine love each member of the Trinity receiving divine love perfectly and each member of the Trinity giving a perfect expression to divine
Love it's an unbroken cycle of divine love and that is not like a low intensity love
It's not a casual love that love is off the charts. That is an intense
radical of
fire-filled
Dynamic extreme measure of love it's like in the face of the Lord is the fullness of joy in the face of the Lord is
The fullness of delight and in that fellowship of the Trinity there's extreme absolute maximum joy
Maximum delight expressed towards one another and it's just it's popping. It's synergistic. It's explosive. It's dynamic
It's the divine dance. It's all over the place. It's just wild. It's extravagant
It's death. It's definitely never reserved. You know the love of the Trinity
It's like someone who've got a massive stereo and they crank that bad boy up and then they room
Then it just got stuck on maximum volume
That's what the love of the Trinity is like just always always always stuck on
Maximum volume maximum volume of love for you maximum volume of love for me and like whoa
Imagine that we imagine if our delight in one another got stuck on maximum volume
How good would that be? How good would that be if we're in a community where?
We weren't we weren't orphaning out. We weren't living out of love deficits. We weren't so
Consumed with our own internal inadequacies and insecurities and emotional
Deficiencies and
Overwhelming negative feelings imagine if we weren't overwhelmed by all that
But we actually stepped into our sonship stepped into a place where we could
Receive divine love perfectly because we received divine love perfectly. We lived in a love baptism
We lived in a love overflow and it changed a lot of defect fault settings from a love deficit to a love baptism a perpetual
love overflow of delight stuck on on full volume and we're constantly
Perpetually like wow love on full volume love on full volume love on full volume. So I
Try to kind of analyze this
Someone saying Michelle saying the cha-cha dancing inside out. So I try to imagine this try to ask myself
well, what would that look like and what I
what I always come back to when I'm working with our tribe is is
Heaven on earth looks like love
Love.
And that's what the fellowship of the trinity looks like.
The fellowship of the trinity, they set the atmosphere for what heaven on earth looks
like.
They set the atmosphere for it.
And everything in heaven, the whole atmosphere of heaven flows out of the fellowship of the
trinity.
It flows out of the fellowship of the divine dance.
It flows out of this maximum volume love that's perpetually playing on full noise.
So what you have, what I think an authentic expression of heaven looks like is it looks
like love.
And all of those beautiful values that have been coming out, I mean there were so many
beautiful values that were just being poured out as we were asking what do you value, what
do you think heaven on earth looks like.
Well all those values that you were pouring out, they're all expressions of love.
In one way or another, all of those values are a derivative of love.
They're all a dynamic way of expressing love.
So for me, the question that I ask our guys in the process of building divine family is
I say look at our values.
You can sum up all of our values by asking this question, what does love look like?
What does love look like?
So I want to ask you the same question but in a different way and see what response,
see what answers we get to this.
So how about now, why don't you chuck out what does love look like for you in community?
You might get the same answer, that's fine.
If you might get different answers, that's fine.
But what does love look like in a community?
What does that look like to you?
How about you chuck down your top three things of what do you think love looks like?
For me, love looks like delight.
To me, love doesn't look reserved.
Love looks extravagant.
What about you guys?
I want to hear your thoughts.
No, not judging, forgiveness, caring, compassion, kindness, yes, come on.
I think love looks like people, when love matures in the context of community, receiving
the other just as they are.
I think love in the context of a community also looks like people operating in their
fullness, being authentically me, caring and sharing, beautiful, generosity, absolutely,
generosity, compassion, come on, alive, joyful, hopeful, beautiful, celebrating each other.
Yeah, Dean, that's massive, celebration.
I think celebration is off the charts, oh my gosh.
Looking out for one another, overflowing, accountability, mutual trust, championing,
togetherness, kindness, fearless, yo, come on, these are massive, these are amazing.
Eyes that light up when they see me, yes, being authentic to oneself, oh my gosh, these
are amazing.
Yeah, party for everyone, oh, come on, oh, yeah, joy, laughter, unity, oh, come on, that
is amazing stuff, mercy, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, excitement to be together, yeah,
come on.
I absolutely agree, I think this is what heaven on earth looks like, heaven on earth looks
like love, all these vibrant, continuous joy, wanting others to grow, giving, true potential
realized at total rest, yes, this is what love looks like, what heaven on earth looks
like, come on, that is amazing.
Wow, bright eyes, wide smiles, open arms, come on, that is amazing, what great feedback.
Now I want to change, I want to transition a little bit, right, because this is a real
process, like everything that we're doing is process, everything is a journey.
Who thinks that a community that is like an authentic expression of heaven on earth,
who thinks that is just like, boom, overnight it's just going to happen, whoa, transparency,
beautiful.
Do you think that, do you think, just give me a thumbs up, or a yes, or a no, or a maybe,
but do you think that an authentic expression of heaven on earth is just going to pop up
overnight in a community?
What do you think?
For me, I don't think so.
For me, I don't think that authentic expressions of heaven just pop up like that, and I think
that it's a real process actually, a real process to try and build trust, a real process
to establish safety, a real process to...
Come to this place where I'm really, really happy to be vulnerable with you.
I'm secure in my sonship, I'm secure enough to be vulnerable with you.
Yeah, so this is a real process, just like our transformation journeys are a process,
it takes time to actually step into our sonship, it takes time to transition from the orphan
illusion into the bliss of sonship, you know, that's a journey, for us so many of these
things are a journey.
Now I'll tell you what, one thing that I do notice is, if I'm in a group of people, if
I'm in a group of people who know who they are, if I'm in a group of people who are actually
walking in sonship, now it's a different story if I'm with a group of people who are walking
in sonship, because if I'm with a group of people who are walking in their sonship, it's
instant, it's effortless, and it's perfect.
The issue really is, the thing that, you know, because, let me share with you again my definition
of what sonship looks like.
Sonship looks like an unbroken, mature sonship, when we're walking in mature sonship, it looks
like us receiving divine love perfectly and giving perfect expression to divine love.
So if you've got like a hundred people who can receive divine love perfectly and give
perfect expression to divine love, boom, for that group of people, for sons, it's going
to be totally effortless, right, and that's where we're heading, that's where we're going,
that's why we're running a school of sonship, an online school of sonship, schools of sonship
all around the world, school of sonship in Te Anau, school of sonship everywhere we go,
that's why we do a school of sonship, because we're dreaming of this day, we're dreaming
of getting it to this day, where we come to the place where it's effortless, you know,
where the whole, there's a viral outbreak of sonship all over the world, and people
are walking in the fullness of their sonship, so every time the sons gather, you have effortless
expressions, effortless and authentic expressions of heaven on earth.
But in the process, in the meantime, while we're still working out our junk, you know,
when we're still dealing with our own sense of inadequacy, when we're still overcoming
suicidal thoughts, when we're still overcoming shame, when we're still overcoming all of
this junk that we're processing through, and we're stepping into the bliss of sonship and
out of the orphan illusion, when we're in that process, every now and then, you know,
every now and then, just sometimes, we don't quite express love perfectly.
Every now and then, we don't quite receive love perfectly, and every now and then, we
don't quite express love perfectly, so every now and then, when we aren't walking out the
reality of our sonship, we experience a love deficit, and we might lash out at someone,
we might do something that is less than love.
So in our family, one thing that we are really, really honest about is mess.
Our family, it's like, our family's like an ecosystem, you know, like a forest.
Our family here in Te Anau, our church family, our revival school family, our school of sonship
family, it's like a forest.
You've got big trees, you've got some people who are really mature in their sonship, and
those ones are like, they're like this constant manifestation of love, you know, nothing that
you do to them is going to cause them to lash out at you.
If you cut them, they're going to bleed love, just like Jesus when He's on the cross, the
perfect demonstration, the perfect expression, the greatest moment that sonship was ever
put on display, the greatest moment that the Father was ever revealed in the full extremity
of His love.
You cut Him, and He bleeds love.
So we've got, you know, we've got in our community some people who are like tall, coldy trees,
big trees, and you cut them, and they bleed love.
And then you've got other people who are just beginning their journey, and, you know, they
can sometimes have, like, anger issues, and sometimes we've got, you know, offense creeps
in, and sometimes, you know, just different things happen in the community, and we make
mess.
Put a thumbs up, or put one of the things that you think are the most common types of
mess that we make in Christian communities.
What type of mess do you see all the time?
What type of things are, like, cyclical messes?
You've been a part of a church split, or you've seen a pastor do something crazy, or you've
seen a, you know, one of your leaders do something crazy, or you yourself have done something
totally crazy, you've orphaned out in church.
What are some of the big messes that you've seen?
What type of actions, behaviors, addictions, wounded souls, offenses?
Offence is massive, judging each other harshly and falsely, offence, yeah.
What are these other things?
Yeah man, offence is coming up big time, offence is like hitting the top, judging people, man
that's so common, yeah, dishonour, yeah, more offence, it's like people are almost addicted
to offence, yeah, lacking in love, control, yeah, manipulation and control is off the
charts, yeah, boom, Dean, you nailed it, manipulation and control is huge, yeah, insensitivity,
more offences, yeah, gossip, you know, all of these things are an expression of mess.
Now I want to get a little bit more vulnerable, yeah, verbal backlash and unloving, I want
to get a little bit more vulnerable, I just want to ask you who's been like me, who's
been like I have and who has been the cause of that before?
I'm definitely saying yes I have, if I'm going to type in the comments on this, I'd be definitely
saying yes, I have been the cause of this, this time, you know, on a number of occasions
as well, there's, I don't know how many times I've judged people myself, I don't know how
many times I've taken offence myself, you know, if I look back through my life, the
amount of times where I've actually been the cause issue of, yeah, of unforgiveness,
I've been the root issue of judging people harshly, I've been the root issue of gossip,
I've been the root issue of bitterness, I've been the root issue of all of these negative
things that you've been sharing up there, I'm like, oh yeah, totally guilty, like that
is me, and yeah, not so much right now, not so much, I'm making some real good progress
on that, but like absolutely, I have been there, I have done that, this is not about
some other person, some other churches that don't have mess, some other people that don't
have mess, I'm like, whoa, like I think I've caused most types of mess that you can cause,
so I've totally done that, now, who's made a mess, who's made a mess and then been on
the receiving end of grace, who's been on the receiving end of grace and forgiveness
when you have made a mess, yep, I just wanna, you know, like, hands up, thumbs up, say,
I have received grace, why don't you just put that down and say, I have received grace,
I have received forgiveness, I have received mercy, if you have received that, then why
don't you put that down in the comments as well, saying, yep, I have totally received
that, oh man, I have received that, I've been on the receiving end of grace, when I've made
mess and that has been a massive game breaker, game changer, oh my gosh, receiving grace
from one another, receiving forgiveness is like, oh my gosh, thank you everyone, not
just grace from God, I mean, we've absolutely all received grace from God, but grace from
each other, grace from God is awesome, but I mean, it's like, God's really good at giving
grace and, but when you receive grace from other people, that's when you're kind of not
sure, you know, like, I'm pretty sure God's gonna extend grace to me in my failures, but
what about the people in church, oh my gosh, what about the actual people that I upset
and offended, like, oh my gosh, how are they gonna respond to this and are they gonna have
mercy, so I think these are all like, massive parts to the process of us building a family
here together, who wants to, who wants to build a family, who wants to build a sense
of, who wants to work with me together, to co-labor together, to run together, to build
and to create, collectively together, an authentic expression of heaven on earth.
If you're like, yeah, boy, I'm in on that, I want to build an authentic expression of
heaven on earth, then just be like, just, yeah, I'm seeing lots of thumbs up and loving
going on, but just like, boom, just say, yeah, I'm in, just type in there, like, I'm in on
that, I'm in on that, yep, we've got some thumbs up, just say, yep, I'm in, I'm in,
I'm in on that, I am in, me, I'm in, I want, and I'm so happy to be doing that with you
guys, it's like, yes, what an ultimate crew, whoa, what an ultimate crew to be with, to
be building heaven together, come on, that is awesome, so, whoa, come on, we are in,
so that's just, that's amazing, I mean, there's so much agreement, I'm getting so much agreement,
so much buy-in, so much.
Heartfelt agreement on this desire to collectively work together to create an unbroken cycle
of divine love.
To collectively work together to bring heaven to earth.
Now bringing heaven to earth is not actually a matter of signs, wonders and miracles.
It's definitely not a matter of big buildings.
It's definitely not a matter of big numbers because you can have big buildings with big
numbers and even signs, wonders and miracles full of orphans and full of these love deficits
and full of the inability to receive divine love and the inability to express divine love.
But if we want to bring heaven to earth then what we have to be able to do is create a
context, a community.
Bringing heaven to earth happens in relationship.
It happens in this place of divine family where I express divine love to you and you
receive that expression of divine love and you express that divine love back to me and
back to the others and so we have this unbroken cycle, this divine dance happening among us.
Not just among the trinity but actually an authentic expression of the divine dance reproduced
among us.
You and I dancing.
You and I perfectly expressing divine love.
You and I mirroring.
You and I mirroring, mirroring, mirroring, mirroring, mirroring, mirroring.
That is such an ultimate key word.
It's you and I together in our relationship mirroring what the trinity are putting on
display for us to reproduce, to replicate, to recreate, to mirror.
We're called to mirror an authentic expression of heaven which is an unbroken cycle of divine
love.
It's mirroring the divine dance or perichoresis.
It's mirroring the divine dance in our relationships, mirroring the divine dance in our relationships
and that is a process.
That requires a journey and that's such a high bar.
That is a high standard.
You can't get a higher standard in a community than saying, okay guys, the standard is what
does love look like?
And for us when we've got, actually I've got some here, one second, I'll chuck this out.
But here for our church, right, our church we have this thing here, it's called our DNA
and if you flick through this book here of our DNA, you see some pictures, hey, there's
our guys and then it says our values, look at this, let me just read this, our values,
our values, it says this, the source of our values is our image of God.
We believe that God is love, God is good and God is a trinity perfectly united in love.
As a result, our core value is love.
We regularly ask ourselves and train others to ask this question in every context.
What does love look like?
Whatever love looks like, that's what we value.
The value of love acts as a compass to us, always giving us clear direction for our next
step in the midst of many dynamic situations, challenges to overcome and people to relate
to.
So for us as we're going forward as a family, this is what I want us to kind of base our
value on, to base our culture on, is on this belief that the trinity is love, God is love.
1 John 4, God is love.
Boom, God is love, the trinity is love and our image of God, it becomes our value, that's
what sets up our values and so for us going forward in this process of building heaven
or bringing heaven to earth, it's this process of asking what does love look like and I don't
think that there could be a higher standard in a culture or in a community than what does
love look like.
It's like that's the highest standard that you could get and if you've got a high standard
like that, if you've got a high standard like that, then you're probably gonna like every
now and then stuff it up.
It's just possible, it's just possible that every now and then you might operate, you
might do something that is just marginally less than love.
Now, if we've got a community that the standard is love, our value is love,
if we're all protecting that, right?
If I'm protecting that standard, if you're protecting that standard,
if we're all working hard together to protect that standard,
the standard of love, then what we get is we get a safe place.
And the moment that you've got this safe place,
the moment you've got this place of unconditional acceptance,
unconditional love, unconditional delight,
we create the context, the family
that where we can thrive and excel like never before.
And I just want to say to you like this is what you need to be the best you.
To be the best you, you need divine family.
This place where you can thrive and excel like never before
in the context of divine love,
you are going to thrive and excel like never before.
So what about this?
What if we were a community that made a commitment?
And so whether you're watching this live
or whether you're watching this in delayed coverage,
then what I want to suggest to us is that this should be,
this should be the standard for us.
And I want to ask you and I want to actually kind of make it a bit of an appeal now
and just say I appeal to you, would you?
And for a lot of us that's what we already,
it's already the desire of our heart,
but I want to ask you would you make an agreement?
Would you make a commitment to the standard of what does love look like?
And if you are willing to make that agreement,
just I just want you to say I'm in or like I agree.
Just say I commit anything along those words.
It's like or sign your name.
You could put an autograph to it.
But what I'm really hoping to get is buy-in,
is buy-in to build this family together.
To me what we're doing here at the School of Sonship is about way,
way, way more than just a couple of like some interesting teaching.
You know, I want this to be way about way more than just interesting teaching.
I want this to be, I really want to build Divine Family
and out of Divine Family I want to see giant slayers raised up
who can shape nations and write history
and influence the seven mountains of influence in the nations.
I want to see unprecedented revival breakout of this place of Divine Family.
I want to see a viral outbreak of Sonship breakout
that changes normal on the face of the earth forever.
Out of this context of Divine Family,
I want to see a viral outbreak of dreams that literally shape nations.
Come on guys, thanks so much for your buy-in.
Thanks so much for your agreement.
That's amazing.
So whether you're watching it live or whether you're watching it in delayed,
I just want to encourage you jump on board this.
Come on, that's amazing.
I'm in, me personally, I'm a hundred percent in
to this process of building Divine Family.
And because I'm a hundred percent in and I'm a hundred percent committed to the value,
I'm going to do something else as well.
What I'm going to do is if I stuff it up,
if I mess up the standard,
the standard is so high.
The standard is what does love look like?
So, you know, if you're feeling insecure,
the standard is what does love look like?
If you're feeling backed into a corner,
the standard is what does love look like?
If you're having a bad day,
the standard is what does love look like?
If you're feeling not so good or if your attitude is not so good
or if you're feeling grumpy or feeling angry,
the standard still remains,
what does love look like?
So what I'm going to say is, you know,
if I drop the ball in this process,
if I stuff it up,
if I'm like, oh man, I like I messed that up,
I dropped the ball,
my actions there, my words there,
that was less than love.
I'm going to do something.
Okay, here's what I'm going to do if I stuff it up.
If I stuff it up,
I'm just, I'm just going to say sorry.
I'm going to say sorry.
If I stuff it up, I am going to say sorry
and I'm going to ask for forgiveness
because in doing that and asking for forgiveness
and saying sorry,
I actually restore the standard.
So that's just such an awesome key for us,
you know, because in the process of,
in the process of building,
building family,
in the process of going after Heaven's finest,
in the process of dreaming for nations
and dreaming of writing world history,
in the process of dreaming for a viral outbreak of sunship
and a viral outbreak of dreams
and dreaming for the wildest things that we can dream of,
in that process,
Every now and then we stuff it up and personally as a leader, I live with the sense of failure
all the time.
Now, it doesn't define me, but I think when you are always doing new things, when you're
always trying, when you're always having a go, when you're always chasing crazy dreams,
when you're always jumping out of the boat, when you're always extending yourself and
go, I'm going to try and do the impossible, you stuff it up.
You feel like you fail.
For me personally, I feel like I'm apologizing a lot in my life and that's okay.
The reason I apologize a lot is because just the reality is I just make mistakes.
I make mistakes.
A lot of them are things that I'm not intentionally doing, seldom is it something that I've gone
out of my way to intentionally harm someone, but every now and then, even with one of our
awesome leaders in our church this week, I messed up, I forgot to do something, I said
I was going to do, I was like, oh no, and it was really important and I had the moment
to do it and it just slipped my mind and that mind I forgot to do it, I was like, oh no,
and it really hurt then that I hadn't done it, and I was like, oh, what a bummer, and
I felt this massive sense of failure.
Now, the good thing about knowing who you are and being secure in your identity is that
you know that that failure doesn't define you, you don't take failure as fatal, you
just take failure as feedback, it's like, okay, right, we can change this around, we
can shift this around, so for us going forward, if we, if we stuff it up in any way, what
I want to encourage us to do is be like, hey, let's restore the standard by asking for forgiveness
from one another, let's say sorry if we do that, and then at the same time, I think all
of us said we know what it's like to be on the receiving end of grace, so those are the
moments when it's like, yeah, I've received grace, you know, freely you have received
freely, good, so boom, we just, massive grace to each other in the process, massive grace
to each other in the journey, and I hope that that's going to be, going to help really set
us up for building just such an awesome, awesome sense of, sense of family and going
somewhere that, you know, potentially for some of us, we've never gone before in a level
of safety that you feel in this group and a level of vulnerability that you can have
in this group and a level of connection that you can have in this group because you feel
so safe, so that's what I'm going after, that's what I'm dreaming of, that's why I want to
just lay that foundation tonight of divine family, bringing heaven to earth through divine
family, that's what we're going after, and so, what I'd love us to do, you know, we're
just going to wrap it up, just going to wrap it up now for tonight, but give me a thumbs
up if that's been really valuable, if you like that, if you kind of like that way to
start the journey together, if it's been like, yeah man, let's go after divine family, let's
create a safe place, let's be people who commit, commit to the standard of what does
love look like, let's be those that if we stuff it up, if we fail in the process, we're
those that we go and we tidy up our mess, and we're not afraid of mess, we're not afraid
of failure, we don't have to hide mess, we don't have to hide failure, we can be totally
vulnerable about our mess, totally vulnerable about our failures, and we can ask for forgiveness,
we can ask for, we can say sorry, so I hope that's really valuable for you, for me I've
implemented this process over and over again, and it has been like the number one thing
that is basically the number one catalyst for radical transformation and accelerated
transformation that we see as this divine family, in Māori, in New Zealand, the Māori
word that I use is whanau ngatanga, it's like the core of our, it's the core of our
community, it's the core of it, so whanau ngatanga, it's what we're all about, and that's
the Māori word, and we're all about whanau ngatanga, it's just like how our culture,
it's what our culture is founded on, it's what our family is founded on, it's what we
spend all of our time investing into and building into, so if you're feeling safe, and if you're
feeling like yeah, come on, I want to do this, I want to really ask you to get a little
bit vulnerable in the group, I want to just challenge you as well, hey how about you step
out in that level of vulnerability, and how about we start to get to know each other,
start to let the facades down, start to kind of open up our hearts, start to be courageous
in letting people see our hearts and seeing who we are, so one thing that I'd love to
do, just to start that is, how about you jump on
do a short live you know maybe like a three minute live a live video so it's
pretty easy to do a live video if you haven't done one of those before you can
just grab your phone and at the top of the the comment section where it says
there's an opportunity to give a post you can you actually it says make at the
top it says make post or a photo or there's the option is like a little
video camera it says live video so you can just boom click that fella there
live video and you can set yourself up for a live video what I would love to
see is I would love to see see us sharing maybe like a three minute entry
so it's a little bit deeper than we do in a 60 second intro that we that we
normally do but maybe a three minute intro to you and I want to spice it up
I want to kind of be a bit of an icebreaker as well a bit of a funny
thing where you let's maybe talk about some like some embarrassing moments
right maybe why don't you talk about an embarrassing moment that's just going to
get like a bit of icebreaker stuff because that's pretty funny I think
people love laughing so many values so many good reasons to laugh so why don't
you jump on and do a live that introduces yourself and in that include
you know an embarrassing story not one that's going to leave you in shame or
anything like that but just something that's a little bit of embarrassing
that's going to be pretty funny everyone's going to get a bit of a laugh
and then some ice breaking and some connecting and then also why don't you
share in that three minutes as well why don't you share one thing that's kind of
vulnerable kind of deep about something that you've overcome you know a struggle
that you've had you struggled with it you fought with it you battle with it
was deep it was personal but you actually overcame and you were victorious
in that so I'd love to hear that from you guys I'd love to hear any more
questions comments feedback I'm really excited about going on this journey
together hope you've had a great night I'm gonna do a short a short live New
Zealand time but early on Friday morning early in the a.m. I'm gonna do a short
live I'll shoot you details on that tomorrow in the meantime love you guys
hope you having a great night let me pray for you and wrap this up Trinity
you rock our worlds you truly are the blueprint for divine family you truly
are the blueprint for heaven on earth you truly are the blueprint for sonship
you truly are the blueprint for who we are and we give you all the glory and all
the honor we stop right now in your presence we stop right now in your
presence we become aware of you and we welcome you to flood our whole being
would you reset our default settings would you give us eyes to see what
we've never seen before would you give us ears to hear what we've never heard
before would you give us hearts to receive what we've never received before
and even right now I can feel it so strongly so powerfully in the spirit
right now I can I can feel it I can sense it I can even have a picture of
him doing it but there are things that you need to receive right now there's
people right now and you're in a place we like man I need you've just got some
needs on the on the demand list of like what not not that you're demanding from
God but just needs that you things you really need to receive from God and not
physical things yes so I mean it's physical things as well I just want to
declare as well physical breakthroughs over you I want to declare abundance
over you in every way and prosperity over you in every way and fullness over
you in every way but I think that really what I'm seeing that the Lord is
releasing to people that they that they really need to receive is I see people
receiving a new image of who He is I see people receiving a new revelation of the
goodness of the Trinity I see people receiving a new revelation of the safety
of the Trinity I see people receiving new revelation of how trustworthy the
Trinity is I see people receiving a new revelation of what love looks like I see
people receiving a new understanding that it's in the fellowship of the
Trinity that they're gonna thrive like never before so Papa I thank you that
you're depositing that and I thank you that you're sealing it all in love
thank you for the beautiful work that you're doing in our hearts Papa Jesus
Holy Spirit I thank you that even right now that your love that's on maximum
volume I thank you that our ears would begin to hear the sound
of the rhythm of your love, that our ears begin to hear the volume, the intensity,
the extravagance, the awe, the wonder, the delight that's in your love, that our ears
we would hear it like a stereo stuck on full volume, that your delight in us
would be stuck on full volume in our hearts, in our minds, in our heads.
Papa, I thank you as we just finish tonight. Thank you for wrapping up every
person in your love, your kindness, your tenderness, your goodness, and I thank you
for giving every single person a revelation of your face, like Psalm 1611
says, in the face or in the presence, in the face of the Lord, is the fullness of
joy. Release that right through our whole being, Papa. In Jesus' name. Boom. Amen.
Love you guys. I'm gonna end this live and then I'm gonna jump on myself and do
a three-minute embarrassing moment live and also give you something that was
deep, vulnerable, that I overcame by the grace of God. Love you. Catch you all soon.
Ciao.