I really feel like we're supposed to talk about hope for the nations and this is you know

when I'm when I'm going to share just pieces of what I've shared many times and we just

kind of mix it back up and say it again and but I really believe that God's called us

to mold culture and I'm Bill was talking about culture a few minutes ago and a friend of mine

emailed me this quote about three years ago she said he who gives the most hope has the most

influence he that gives the most hope has the most influence and we were you know we have the

opportunity and the privilege to travel maybe to some of your churches but we travel all around

the world our teams and we get to see you know we get to see the world in and in not you know

not from a distance we get to see the world up close and we get to experience different cultures

and different churches and I love diversity a lot I love that God didn't make flowers like even

even like all purple even though I like purple and it's like it's awesome that he he created diversity

and I hate genetic cloning like it began with religion you know I I like the fact that God made

things different and that and that you know I like that churches sometimes churches you know when we

go to churches or we do leader stuff they're like how can we come like become like Bethel I'm like oh

don't please don't do that like one of us is enough really we need you to be yourself we need

you to be original we need you to be an original and whatever that looks like it's exciting but I

also noticed that as we travel we we hear lots of stories we talk to lots of leaders that it's

you know in them the the recession a lot a lot of ministries are really hurting and there are lots

of different reasons and and I don't want to be critical of any of them and you know we're we're

friends with so many ministries and even we're friends with many ministries that are really in

trouble financially in different ways and we we pray for them and of course we've had our share

of troubles we've had more than our share of troubles actually so actually the more I think about

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