Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. We're going to jump right in and this is obviously session one so there'll be a lot of acclamation

on your end to kind of what this is going to look like.

The thing to know is just to have the expectation that not only will this look different

from one instructor to another, but this will also look vastly different based on how the Holy

Spirit leads from one to the other.

So although there is certainly an, especially with my session, sort of an academic lecturing side of things,

that is always secondary in our culture from whatever the Holy Spirit is doing in the moment.

And if we move out of one of these worship sets

and we feel like we just need to keep rolling with that,

then that's what we're gonna do.

And if there are times I teach for 30 minutes and then we move into some ministry time, it's all just real flexible.

What that requires of you is that you sort of suspend any preconceived ideas of what any particular session may look like.

But you just come with a heart open and a posture of expectation that you're going to grow

in the grace for union more with each session.

And say that again, grow in grace for union more with each session, Union University. We're wanting to create an atmosphere that allows that growth,

but also to have enough instruction that we're creating a wine skin so that you don't ever

look back on this as the best nine months of your life. It may be one of the most

important nine months of your life but most important nine months of your life, but the best nine months of your life will be whatever next nine months you're staring at because you're just going to learn how to move in this ever increasing kingdom of Almighty God.

So it's, I wanted to start, I have 16 teachings,

thank you, I have 16 teachings mapped out for your first semester.

If I got to 12 of those, it would be a miracle equivalent

to the parting of the Red Sea,

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