But before we talk about all the numbers, let's talk about numbers, okay?
And I asked Bruce, I said, I really want to address this because I feel like I had, coming
into this space, I had some false humility and some wrong beliefs about numbers that
I don't even know where they came from.
I don't know if it was just a defense mechanism for me, but the Lord had to break those off
of me as I continued to be okay with saying, this is what I want to do.
I want to reach people at scale.
And so again, like I talked about with the choice that he gave me, do you want to do
it with people?
Do you want to just focus on your channel?
The worthiness was in his partnership with me, me partnering with him because I'm in
him and he's in me and we are one and we're in this together.
That's the worthiness of it.
I have friends that are so fulfilled in reaching their local neighborhood, like they are giving
their life to that.
I have friends that have moved into apartment complexes, moved into certain neighborhoods,
just like this is our mission field.
This is where we're planting ourselves and they are so fulfilled.
It's probably less than 50 people that they're reaching and nothing's wrong with that.
It's the desire of their heart.
I have friends that speak to stadiums, like in-person conferences.
They speak to large groups and there's nothing wrong with that.
It is the desire of their heart.
It's how they're partnering with the Lord.
And I think that for so long we've seen, we've measured fruit by numbers, big or small.
Some people think it's so worthy to reach, like, hey, don't forget the one.
Give yourself to that.
And they make, they kind of make jest at the people reaching stadiums, who are they really
discipling?
Are they really getting into people's lives or just like blowing into town, blowing out?
And I've seen the opposite happen, where people look at the people who are not, who are reaching
less than 50 or they're reaching five and they're saying, well, if you were really doing
something for the Lord, you'd be reaching more people, right?
None of that, we don't do any of that.
That's not kingdom at all, because the worthiness is in the partnership.
And I want you to hear that because I'm guessing that the reason you are here is there was
something about reaching stadium-sized audiences, and we were very specific about putting that
in the tag that has drawn you.
Maybe not the only thing, but you're like, there's something about that that I want to
talk about.
And that's because it's a desire of your heart, and that is okay.
I go back often to Psalm 37, where David is writing, delight yourself in the Lord and
he will give you the desires of your heart.
I've heard sermons saying that means that the Lord is going to give you what you want.
I've heard sermons that people have said that means the Lord is going to plant new
desires in your heart.
Wherever you land, whatever you believe about that verse, here's what I want you to catch
tonight.
The creator of the universe is intimately involved in the desires of your heart.
That is closeness.
That is oneness.
That is union.
That he would be so intimately connected with the desires of your heart.
Let that capture you tonight.
You are not alone in this, and maybe there's things that you are wanting.
I want to reach a lot of people.
I don't even know why.
It's just something I've always wanted to do.
I want to do ministry at scale.
But you feel like that's not humble, or you've been told that you shouldn't want that, that
it's fame-seeking, that it's narcissistic, or whatever it is.
I want to break that off of you tonight.
I am someone who, for whatever reason, I don't even know because it feels even anti my natural
nature as an introvert, but I have always resonated with wanting to reach a lot of people.
I would go to conferences, and I'd be like, it would be so cool to be on stage someday
sharing my message.
Or I would hear a pastor teaching to a large stadium, and I would just be like, I would
love to be having that amount of impact.
It was just something in me.
And I realized that was a desire that I shared with Jesus.
There's a commingling happening based on what my calling is and my purpose.
But the worthiness is not in the outcome.
It's in me saying yes to the partnership and being on mission with Him.
And so I wanted to take some time just to address that tonight because I don't want
you to, if you've been fighting it, don't fight it anymore.
Give your yes.
You have a choice.
You've been given a choice.
You can say no.
You can say yes.
But I want to encourage you, if this is something you've been desiring, say yes.
Say yes tonight.
Because as you continue out on the digital landscape, wanting to reach large amounts
of people, wanting to reach a lot of people where they spend
a lot of their time there's going to be some resistance and when there's resistance we
have to hold on to that yes because what has happened in the past for me when I faced resistance
is I just assumed it wasn't meant to be and I let go of my yes and I didn't move forward
because I thought well if it's meant to be it's just going to happen and what's more
unfortunate about what's most unfortunate about that scenario is I was not trusting
in the partnership and I wasn't engaging and experiencing the beauty of the partnership
I just kept backing out of it because I was weighing everything by a measure that the
Lord wasn't even measuring yeah that's good that's good we are we have been given the
fullness of Christ you have been given the fullness of Christ you're full now we get
to experience how full that we get to discover and experience how full that fullness really
is the religious spirit in the political spirit hate this by the way be prepared the religious
spirit hates it because they can't measure it because the religious spirit can only measure
the external it's looking at the external what are you actually doing for the kingdom
show me show me your fruit prove your intimacy with Jesus by the fruit of your life that's
the religious spirit the political spirit hates it because it can't control it because
you can't take away from fullness and you can't add to it and therefore your only source
is the one who's given you the fullness in the first place and you're not looking to
any other system organization person leader for that filling I love it so good and it's
something that I think when we can go about ministry sometimes especially this online
because things can scale quite big quite fast and we want to be more humble than Jesus right
like even Jesus preached to the multitudes right he's brings to the you know thousands
and thousands and I think that's something where we don't have to be more apologetic
yeah we can just be ourselves and that's what we're not trying to have you guys change your
message change whatever it is we're just trying to give you the tools and equip you to share
that message online and to believe that this is something that actually does make a huge
impact and so to come back to the numbers here we love showing this slide as well because
sometimes it's hard to visualize a hundred thousand people what a hundred thousand people
looks like and so I think there's a hundred thousand people in this audience and so that's
that's a lot of people so imagine like you know you standing in the middle of that stadium
sharing your message and not just sharing it once but being able to every week every
week hit publish and this many people listen to what you have to say and these are people
that have voluntarily followed you voluntarily watch stuff you know they're showing up to
consume content so it's a it is it is real like sometimes we forget you know the numbers
we see a number yeah it's people we want to show you this as well so because Lindsay said
she launched her channel but we felt like we wanted to help kingdom messengers like
you launch and grow their own channels we have a goal to reach a million people a week
so we want to reach 10 of these stadiums every single week with the gospel and we have three
stadiums we're almost at three stadiums worth as a community and that is just there's about
60 members we have in our in our between our roadmap and membership and that you know that's
that's just that okay sure yeah 60 people this is mind-blowing to me still this never gets old
60 people reaching almost 300,000 people every week yeah this is the multiplication effect of
the kingdom yeah and i feel like the lord for such a time as this is highlighting technology
as a tool to do that absolutely yeah and so the way we again the way we're getting on mission
for that is like we we want to resource you guys so we're thinking we need a hundred people it's
math right 100 people with an audience of 10,000 each to 1 million so it's so doable exactly and
i think that's yeah and we talk about this and i want to give you guys this reference point we'll
come back to this a little bit later in the in the presentation but this is what 10,000 people
look like and so when we say reach a stadium size audience this is the size audience that we're
because we want to get a hundred of you over 10,000 and we have had kingdom messengers break
that and go well past that and uh we have some that are close to some closer breaking it so
um yeah so that that's just something i want to give you guys that visual as we're talking
imagine like this size audience and imagine if this was a church like this would be a
mega mega church right at this scale so just be thinking big we want to kind of help take those
limitations off if you just need permission if you just need permission this is the mission
field we're talking about um we know that social media is a powerful
ministry tool and it's massively under-leveraged by the body of Christ right now. There are
there's so many content creators that are leveraging this who are either in the world or
or they have worldly agendas yeah and and it's working because it's a way to reach people but
there is a way to what we say is leverage the digital landscape um and disciple nations to
disciple nations and there's a way to do that um so it this is exactly we just want you guys to get
this one thing tonight that this is possible that you could have an online ministry that could be
reaching 10 000 people or more and and it is a landscape like no other and so we're going to
jump through and we're going to talk about three keys to actually leverage it so we're going to go
through three of these tonight and we're going to dive deeper so everybody good if you guys want to
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