Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

We're just really to jump in tonight.

I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do last night.

We had one of those times where the Lord just hijacked. I think, I think those leaders come together and they sit in the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation for a couple of days. And then by the time we stoke the fires of worship, they're just ready to jump right in. Interestingly, when we did our first under the Oaks here, that was not the narrative. Worship was very challenging the first time because I felt like leaders were sort of paralyzed.

They were analyzing.

Now the culture has begun to take root in such a way that we recognize.

You're here to get rocked, man.

You're not here to leave with gimmicks and strategies for leadership.

You're here to get rocked in the love of God and carry that fire home with you. And so it was awesome to experience that time of worship. But I had something specifically prepared that I thought, you know, maybe I'll do a teaching and union and we'll film it. And I felt all throughout the day today, the Lord just marked and some of these guys, Bobby and Jesse were in here praying with us today. And I just kept like the Lord kept giving me more on this subject. And I don't think I could change the subject. So we're just going to jump in and you're going to kind of get under the Oaks part three here. And this is going to be kind of more of a leadership-oriented thing. I'm so thankful to have the kids back in the room with us. This place, as awesome as it is

that it's filled with leaders, it is not the same when these kids aren't in here worshiping with us.

So I love having you guys back with us. I'm very, very, very thankful for that. I want you to go

with me first. We may hop over to John chapter 20 maybe, but we're going to start in John 5.

We started Tuesday night talking about

John 21 and the disciples have gone back fishing following Peter in a cycle of shame and then

the Lord shows up, breaks them out of that. We'll get that podcast out to you for those of you

that weren't able to be here for the leadership gathering. The interesting thing about our congregation here at the homestead is it's almost all leaders. And leader is a term that

I think we have to be careful to rescue from some type of religious orientation, where leader means

senior pastor or leader means worship leader or leader. Leader means somebody that's literally

living your life in such a way that others are following. Therefore, we should all be functioning

as leaders on some level. And I know that we're moms that were not able to be here because we

restrict the kids coming. Honestly, we just don't have space or room. And it's not because I cuss more

in those than I do in the other ones. I try to keep the cussing across the board so it's not because I cuss more in those than I do in the other ones.

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