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

All right, I think that got everybody. So we've got Washington, Montana, California, Illinois, Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina,

Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Kentucky, South Carolina, Arkansas, I see.

I forget that, people that are from out of the country.

Sometimes, if they're, our international students, I can forget sometimes that they're

from out of the country.

All right.

Well, we're going to get started this morning, and you'll get to hear from me once or so a week during this process.

But this has been, you're a fulfillment of a dream that's been in my heart for many, many years, not just a personal dream, but many prophetic words about how we would have a place where we would literally train

the next generation in the ways of intimacy, communion, and ultimately union with the Lord.

And although I am thankful for any place that's turning their heart towards the next generation,

I knew in the earth we needed a place that did not have on the ends of it school

of ministry because as important as that may be for some, that's certainly of lesser importance to

us. If you're trained in the ways of union, you'll be ready for the ministry. But if you're trained

in the ways of the ministry, you may not be ready for the ways of union union and it's your union that will actually impact the cosmos far more than it will your ministry and so

we're going to we're going to have my my sessions uh i can't speak into all the sessions that we

have so many different voices that speak into you i can't say to you that i approve of every

voice you'll hear from you'll not hear from anybody that does not have a stalwart marriage.

You'll not just hear from people who are gifted speakers, although they are, and are theologians, although some of them will be, are scholars, but you will hear from people that raise their children well, love their wives well, love their husbands well,

and are people of extremely high character. And that's the standard for me. We could fish a lot of

people out that have tremendous giftings and are incredibly articulate and understand homiletics and

hermeneutics. But if they don't live the lifestyle, then we're not interested in listening

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