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Family Teams Ep 4: The Five Generation Family Mission · The Family Teams Podcast

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  Why are today's Christian families so fragile and so weak?
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  I think that we should be able to look at the way a Christian leads their family and the way somebody who is very secular in their outlook and see a major difference between the two.
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  But I think that Christians do not build a different kind of family because we lack a biblical vision for family.
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  I think that if noble Christian fathers and mothers would actually take seriously the call to build strong multi-generational family teams, then I think we would see this incredible difference.
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  And I think the world would pay attention and notice.
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  And so what I want to do in this video is walk through what that could look like.
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  Like what is the dream scenario?
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  What's the ideal scenario for a multi-generational family?
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  So, hi, my name is Jeremy.
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  I'm with Family Teams.
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  We're trying to figure out how to help restore the biblical blueprint of families to the church.
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  Episode 3, we looked at Genesis 128, where it describes the family as a unit that does five things.
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  Be fruitful, multiply, fill, subdue, and rule.
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  Now, I want to take a step back and think about those five words from the perspective of a visionary case study.
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  What could this look like across five generations?
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  What could this look like across five generations?
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  And I think as you begin to perceive what this could look like, what I want to help you guys do is to see this is so worth investing in.
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  Like you can change the world radically in five generations.
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  So what would happen if in each generation we took one of those elements really seriously?
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  What if Gen 1 tried to be fruitful, Gen 2 tried to multiply, Gen 3 tried to...
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  Fill, subdue, rule in each generation.
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  Now, I think it's great for families to go after all five things in every generation, but I want to do this just for the sake of really teasing out the vision, that even if all you did was accomplish one of these and just stack them over five generations, what could happen?
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  So let's go.
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  Gen 1, your job is to be fruitful.
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  That is really simple.
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  Have kids.
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  So...
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  Let's say in Gen 1, your family, you had five kids.
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  Part of being fruitful is not just having kids, but also raising them well, giving them that godly character like it described in Malachi 2, what it means to actually raise a godly family.
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  And so part of what it means to be fruitful as well is to clarify the family's vision, our mission, our values.
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  You really instill that deep into your five kids.
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  They really get a sense for it.
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  wow, this is who we are as a family.
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  And so they want to pass that on.
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  And part of what you have to do in order to be fruitful is also protect your kids from the sterilizing mind viruses that will cause them to really reject family, reject someday being a mother or father.
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  That's going to be really important.
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  So you've raised a fruitful family in Gen 1, and now you are watching your children begin to have your grandchildren.
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  And Gen 2 takes up the mantle, and their job is to multiply.
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  So your five kids have an average of five kids each, so you end up with 25 grandchildren.
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  an amazing Gen 2 experience of your kids having kids.
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  So Gen 1, this is you and your wife or husband.
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  And then Gen 2, your five kids.
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  Gen 3, now you have 25 grandchildren.
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  So part of what this means is that what Gen 2 needs to do to focus on creating a multiplying family,
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  Gen 1 really created the vision for a fruitful family.
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  Now we want to have a multiplying family.
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  And that means that we really instill this value for having children early and often.
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  So our kids are excited to have kids.
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  And now we're raising these 25 kids to be not just independent, individual men and women, but to become future skilled fathers and mothers.
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  Every boy desires to be a father.
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  Every girl desires to be a mother.
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  They begin to create this kind of family culture.
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  Every branch has a love for this larger family team.
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  And so these 25 cousins who get to interact with each other, really learn how to love each other, and they see the beautiful vision that could be the family.
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  So that's Gen 2.
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  Now we're going to get into Gen 3.
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  These 25 kids are now experiencing
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  excited.
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  They're on board.
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  They understand how to be fruitful.
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  They're on mission to multiply, to have kids early and often.
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  And so these 25 kids that are in Gen 2 decide to have children an average of five as well.
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  And so now you have 125 cousins in Gen 3, 125.
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  Now we were fruitful in Gen 1, multiply in Gen 2.
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  Now in Gen 3, we're focusing on family.
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  Phil.
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  What does it mean to Phil?
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  Really, there's two trajectories that we really want to consider.
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  What does the Bible mean by Phil?
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  The first one is we want to saturate the local area that we're in.
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  We have 125 cousins now.
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  We want to figure out how do we create a kind of experience here where we are saturating a region with the values of our family, the vision of our family.
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  We're blessing people and other families tremendously, the kingdom, other elements of society.
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  But part of Phil is
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  Also, because he's talking about fill the earth, or what Jesus says in Matthew 28, to make disciples of all nations, that's also the mandate to fill, is we need to begin to think about what are the mission bases that our family is going to be launching into as well to begin to fill those regions.
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  And so you might want to think of other places around the country, other cities overseas, specific buildings.
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  areas that you want to colonize through your family for the kingdom of God.
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  So you have your very dense homeland where you're like, this is our homeland.
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  This is where we are rooted.
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  This is our outpost.
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  And then we start to figure out what are some additional outposts?
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  How do we create almost family colonies in other places to make sure that as our kids are growing up, they're not just stuck.
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  in one place.
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  If they can contribute a lot to that area, then they're staying, they're building strong families.
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  But we really want to be thinking about, God, are you calling us to other places?
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  So Gen 3, you've got 125 cousins working to fill.
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  So they bring fruit for their multiply filled.
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  Now, what's the fourth thing?
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  They subdue.
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  So Gen 3 is 125.
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  Now, they're still on mission to multiply.
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  They're excited to have kids.
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  They're excited to be mothers and fathers.
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  And so let's say you're 125 Gen 3 great-grandchildren.
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  They decide to also have an average of five kids each.
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  That's 625 members of Gen 4.
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  And what is the mission?
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  They're on the mission to subdue.
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  So what does that mean?
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  That means that they are building strategic businesses.
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  They're taking control and purchasing and acquiring assets.
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  They're figuring out what are the ministries that are really going to move the kingdom forward that we can be a part of.
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  How are we being a part of a mission to make disciples who make disciples?
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  How are we subduing in our area?
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  Always looking for those
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  elements of influence and impact to maximize what the kingdom is doing in and through our family.
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  And so this kind of subduing, and this can happen over land as we cultivate the land, the way that Adam and Eve did the Garden of Eden, but also means extending the boundaries of the kingdom of God.
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  And how does that kingdom expand?
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  It expands as people make the confession, Jesus is Lord and they're disciples and they become obedient to him as their king.
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  And so we want to see that as we're leading businesses, we're in
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  integrating our faith into those places when we're becoming a part of ministries that we're ensuring that they are maximally reproductive for the kingdom of God and making disciples and maximizing and multiplying disciple making.
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  And so part of what we want to do also in Subdu is to think about like, what are the macro businesses or things that we're doing to really
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  extend or be a part of this larger economy and then also potentially creating micro economies are really interested in the local economy.
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  What are things that because we are importing and exporting things to the larger economy that we're participating in that larger place, that's part of subduing is really engaging in that larger economic game.
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  We also want to be thinking about like, how is this really playing out in our area?
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  Like, how are we making sure that there are businesses thriving here?
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  So much of what happens is that we just get into that macro game.
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  You know, we bring in the Walmart and then we just see all the businesses in our area just kind of implode.
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  Every mom and pop thing that is created is just overrun because Amazon and Walmart is just like nobody is buying things locally.
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  So we want to be really thoughtful about how are we creating beautiful businesses that are really blessing our local economy, but also how are we sustaining all of that through bringing in money through the macro communities?
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  So this is all a part of what Gen 4 is going to be part of.
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  The 625 members of Gen 4 that are a part of that mission to subdue.
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  Now, where is this ultimately headed?
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  Okay, so you've got your fruitful, your multiply, your fill, subdue, and now the ultimate goal of where this is all heading is rule.
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  So the 625 family members of Gen 4 have now an average of five kids each.
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  That gives birth to 3,125 ruling descendants in Generation 5.
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  So these ruling descendants are really thoughtful about, okay, now we have these deep values that come from our family.
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  We've seen the fruit of our family.
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  We've seen how it has blessed our whole region economically.
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  And so who is better suited to rule?
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  We do need people to rule, people to be judges and to be mayors and to engage in the local economic and local governance roles.
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  So we're seeing...
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  our kids from this Gen 5 really fill so many of those roles.
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  And this is something that the entire area is so excited.
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  Your family has such a stellar reputation.
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  And in the different colonies that you're a part of, that you're sending more and more family members to, you're also becoming a ruling family in those places.
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  You're discipling nations now.
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  You're getting the attention of the national media.
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  They're like, what is going on in this town?
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  What's going on over here?
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  What is this family?
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  Like, how did this come about?
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  And so they ask,
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  questions and you're able to really bless people and say, look, this is God's vision.
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  This is what it means to really be a flourishing family.
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  This all started, you know, a hundred years ago with just a mother and a father that decide to raise a godly multi-generational family team.
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  And so this is starting to really bless people.
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  They're starting to see the vision.
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  Now, part of what I want for you guys to see is that obviously this is an ideal, you know, there's going to be a lot of challenges in each of these generations that are going to try to derail anything like this.
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  But I think the thing that I really want to leave with you guys is that this is a vision that is
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  but most of us can't see it.
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  We cannot look at our kids right now and see the 3,000 ruling descendants that could come from that family line if we're faithful.
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  We're so enamored with the big spectacles, the addition strategies, that we're ignoring these powerful family multiplication strategies if we are not obsessed with just what happens in our lifetime, but what's happening across generations.
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  So I want to encourage you guys, there's so much possible that can happen.
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  What you're doing is absolutely world-changing when you're building a multi-generational family team.
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  What the
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  planet could look like?
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  What would happen if you go back in time and train families from 100 years ago to think this way?
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  What would America, what would your country look like if we were all doing this?
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  If we were all a part of the Genesis 1.28 vision, that really is the identical thing that Jesus says in Matthew 20, to make disciples, to be fruitful, to multiply, to fill, subdue, and rule.
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  We would live in a completely different world.
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  So I encourage you guys to really catch that vision, begin to build that five-generation family that is going to
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  see the world, your region transform in the world because of it.
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  We need thousands of families to adopt this vision.
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  So if you guys want to figure out what are the first, you know, micro steps into this whole world, go to familyteams.com slash transform.
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  We have just a short email series that'll help you guys see here's all the tools and resources that we have available, but also here are the first basic steps that we've seen families take that begin to transform the way they think about family, the way they practice family from being these Western kind of nuclear families into a multi-generational team.
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  So check that out over at familyteams.com transform.
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  and I will see you in episode five.