We’re Not Done - Pastor Matthew K. Thompson & Pastor Matthew Thompson Jr. | Faithly Podcast
Website: https://www.jubileeboston.org/
(01:16) Praying early: prioritising God’s presence
(03:33) Jubilee’s foundation on decades of united prayer
(07:12) Honouring a father
(10:03) Reshaping how prayer is carried across generations
(16:41) “Code Blue” and baptisms
(21:49) Blessing Boston through practical outreach
(27:35) Fathers and sons: building a healthy legacy
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The first day we had 40 registered, and then I was like, but if you want to get back, like we can do spontaneous, like every want to do. And on that first night, we ended up baptizing 150 people. And then the next morning, one of my leaders called me, I was like, I heard the Lord say we're not done. And so I got up on the stage and was like, hey, we're going to do more baptisms tonight. This is the Faithly Podcast. Welcome to another episode of Faithly Stories Podcast. My name is Pastor Adam Derristo, and I am sitting with two of my favorite people on the planet. Pastor Matthew Keith Thompson, senior pastor at Jubilee. And soon to be pastor Matthew Thompson, the youth pastor here at Jubilee. What's good? What? Let me just say this is the early morning edition. I think the stories podcast. Well, I was getting up after a late night of church last night. Right. I'm thinking to myself, there are only a couple of people in the entire globe that could get me to film a podcast at seven o'clock in the morning. And one of them happened to be my brother to my love pastor Matthew Thompson, man. Why are we here at this time? God's not up. He's still answered prayers for me. He's alive now. Well, according to the Bible, he's a Jesus, said you should pray. Oh, me, little boy. It's the wise thing before the sun came up. So what? But there's a prayer culture, a morning prayer culture that you have established here, that your father established before you. Yes, speak to that. Yeah, man, I think that it's important that we recognize the importance of prioritization and that to prioritize the presence of God. I'm not saying that you can't pray at night. I'm not saying that you can't pray during the day. I just feel as though if you're going to seek the face of God, you should probably do it before you, you know, have all these other challenges or pressures or just a complexity of life just kind of like, weighing down on you, but also just, you know, proof of concept, you know, I have tried to pray kind of like before I went to bed, you know what I'm saying? And I mean, just tried and failed, tried and failed. Like, you know, I said, I sat out, I got all my knees, I was like, you know, about to lay out and go to sleep. And I'm like, all right, I'm about to go to bed. And then I can't read time. I just, like, saw myself laying down, hitting the pillow, waking up, saying, Lord, I'm so sorry, please forgive me. But I mean, years ago, I wrote a book called Atmosphere Shift. And I said that there are prevailing atmospheres, they're prevailing discultures and spaces that affect your ability to really, not necessarily talk to God, but hear His voice. Yes. And so there's something about the stillness in the morning where you can hear Him before all the cars are hustling bustling before your children and you're getting ready for school, whatever. You're just like a calm stillness where you can hear God. Because prayer is not just me communicating with Him, but Him being in what it is. It's not just a laundry list of needs. It's God I want to hear from you. 100%. And for me, early in the morning, is the best time where I hear the voice. And you're inheriting a prayer culture from your dad, because what he was called to plant in the Northeast were up here in Boston. And this is the place where church planning goes to die. And yet, generally 43 years in, is thriving, launching campuses, launching people out. I mean, the music that comes out of this house is literally reverberating around the world. Speak to the correlation between the prayer culture and the growth of the church and what's happening. To God be the glory for the great things that He has done, I'm honored that my dad, the living legend, came to Boston in 1972, the year I was born. The pastor, a small denominational church in after 10 years, and I say, do log step down the faith to establish New Covenant now, Jubilee. You know, earlier into his ministry, the Lord started to speak to him. And the Lord was saying to him, you don't pray enough. And he took that to mean, all right, I got to spend some more time in prayer. So he moved his prayer time from praying an hour a day to two hours a day, from two hours a day to three hours a day. And even after all of that, he still kept on hearing the Lord say, you don't pray enough. And he realized that it wasn't just him. It was his congregation. It was his family. It was a generational move to get the body of Christ to unite together in prayer. So he launched, you know, early morning prayer services from five to six, six to seven every day, God sends for well over now 43 years. We've been praying in this building. We've been praying for 33 years. But as a ministry for 43 years, Boston, Stolen, Worcester, with more locations to come. The foundation pillar of this church is prayer. And, you know, God just breathed on it. And it was like, you know, fire in wind and the wind of God. And God just has done something supernatural in his marbles and eyes. And obviously, it's a generational move. It's a generational move and Matt Maddie, my nephew. I mean, it's generational because the young people have caught on. There are more young people up at the front during convention. I mean, I've been in 12 hours at prayer since the very first 12 hour prayer. And you get to three, four in the morning. And 50% of the room is under 35. I mean, so what generationally, how has that prayer culture infused in the young people? Because all I keep hearing from commentators is, you know, young people just leave in the church. They out. They got it. That is not the case here. It's not the truth. Yeah, man, it's not the truth at all. And I think, you know, one thing that I respect about dad and I love about dad is he always gives honor to his father. Yeah. For, you know, the legacy that he's left. But my dad is a goat too. Yes. And when COVID happened, he immediately just pivoted. The whole world was shut down and then goes right online. Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, all of it. So that even though we couldn't meet in the building and pray, we're able to go on social media and pray. And now every single morning, we're online. Yes. We're praying and more and more people are able to come and participate. And I think. Can we just pause it for a second? Because I want you to, I want you to talk about the impact on the next generation. Yeah. But last night, I was getting ready to do a segment of the service. And you grabbed me in the corner. And you knew I would honor your dad because he's my best friend and I love him, he's my brother. But you were like, came in like, he does such a great job of honoring and really do we have an opportunity. And I've seen this, you know, he does such a great job on it. Really do we see him honored? Yeah. Could you just take a moment and honor your dad for all the, all the, all the dads and sons that are watching? Yeah. What, what that means when you, when you, when you speak directly to your dad and say, hey, man, you're the go-to. Oh, man, like, last night I had the opportunity to pray for some p.k.s. And before I prayed for them, you know, my dad was standing right next to me. And I told them the testimony that I have, that literally like, it, it chokes me up every time. I, I think about it because there was a dad, I looked at my dad, and this is when I was like 19 years old, dealing with substance abuse, dealing with pornography addiction, sex addiction, just all these other things. And I told him, I was like, oh, dad, I'm always going to be addicted. And he looked at me and he was like, no, son, no, you're not. He was like, got us something more for you, yeah. And it's, it's the moments like that that I like really cherish from my pops that my father has been there for me for everything. So when I say he's the go, like, he's not just like, he's an amazing pastor, he's an amazing preacher, amazing communicator. Like I said, amazing prayer warrior, he, I know it gives honor to his dad, but like my grandfather, but he shifted things for real. And with all those things, he's been an amazing father. And I tell people all the time that the reason that I know how amazing God the father is is because I've got to see my dad as a father, being an amazing father to me and not just to me, but to my sister, my niece's, my nephew, I mean, they took the man and raised them for a season. And so I get to see him not just father me, but also father others. I've watched him almost father some of my cousins, father, people that he doesn't even know. And so spiritual sons and daughters all over the place. And so yesterday, the reason I came over to you and says, because I'm just like, even I was in a conversation with my mom the other day. And it was just one thing that dad has always done is made sure that the honor has gone to his father. And I want to make sure that I can do the same thing for him. And so I knew yesterday I was like, I know that I was going to honor him, but I want to make sure that we get over there and we get him for sure. So we're going to let him get his stuff together. You're crying too on this side, man. I might just have to do a lot of shit. I'm going to go for a lot of it. He's like, no, he's telling you what we've been talking about. But what I would say, I think the key thing that in this moment is that it's like from one generation to the next generation. And it's like the beautiful thing I love about my dad and his ministry is that his vision was so expansive that it gave room. Yes, for generations to say, hey, like I think I can pick up that mantle. You know what I'm saying? And it's like you could build upon the foundation. It's like like his shoulders, I'm standing on his shoulders and his ceiling became my floor. And my prayer is that. And I mean, and tonight, obviously tonight, man, my son is going to be ordained right where we are right now. And he will be now a fifth generation preacher and pastor and legacy builder and yielder and his great, great, great grandmother. My great, great grandmother prayed that God would bless his herd daughters, children's children's children's children. And so Mother Staten is in heaven right now. She's with the cloud of witnesses right now. Watch this prophetic moment. But I had something to build upon. So it's like when COVID happened, but even before then, it's like I realized that prayer had to be transferable because prayer is generational. Yes. Prayer is transformational, but prayer is transferable. Yes. So it had to be a transferable thing where generations could say, okay, I can grab this. I can catch on to this. So whether that was 24 hours of prayer, whether that 12 hours of prayer, whether about midnight prayer services, where it was about just even shifting how we even like packaged prayer. Because I mean, we grew up in a day and age where all night of prayer was literally like one old guy sitting in the room literally just kind of like, oh God. And I remember being in those type of prayer services, sitting in the back of a room in the basement of a church, taking to myself, this is transferable. Right. And so I'm believing even even now, so I'm believing, I'm probably I'm believing that whatever, whatever my great grandmother prayed, whatever my grandmother has prayed, whatever my father has prayed, now whatever your father has prayed, that man like like there's nothing that is dead. There are some things that are sacred, but there are some things like everything can, it's transferable like now you can hear from God for your generation and and ship something and establish something that'll take our prayer ministry for generations to a whole another place, that's like I did. You know, I oftentimes quote the idea that whatever you don't celebrate, eventually you forfeit. And in many churches, they don't celebrate the next generation. Or there's this collision of old and young. I don't see that here. I see a celebration of younger people coming in the door. I see a celebration that diversity amongst your youth group is crazy. It is just, I mean, speak to what God is stirring and doing here in the youth of ministry, another adult ministry at Jubilee. Yeah, for sure. I mean, for the past five years, I've been with the youth ministry, just kind of spearheading that. And then over the past two years, I've been doing both the youth and in the arts ministry. And me and my wife got married two years ago. And so now we lead those ministries together. And when I first took over what a citywide, which is our youth ministry, we went from 30 students to 300. And then now, in terms of our college. From 30 to 300 to 3000. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Well, we got to talk about Paul Blue for a second. We go to the commission, we go to the architect. Because that was just some next level. Yeah, yeah. Okay, super short. But yeah, when we took over, it's so interesting. I was thinking about this on the way here that sometimes I feel like we talk about a theme of the year that the Lord kind of like reveals something to pops. And it's like, that's what the theme is. Yes. And I feel like sometimes with those themes, it's like there are moments where we can hear something from the Lord. And we go out and we go after it. And we're like, this is what God is getting ready to do. And then sometimes I think God reveals it to you so that when you declare it, it'll begin to happen. And so in this year, especially when it comes to our theme as this is the year of revival, what I've noticed is it's like that has been not just a vision, but a declaration. And so now there is revival that is happening. And I've seen all over social media that there's people that are in arguments over what revival is. They're like, oh, revival is in a thousand people in the sanctuary just like getting height. But it's like, well, let's look at the definition of revival. Definition of revival is that there is an increase in popularity. And it's like, that's what my generation is experiencing right now. That there is an increase in popularity of, not I do want to pray, for 12 hours, I do want to worship, I do want to hear a word. I do want to be in the building and celebrate. And it's like, you know, what's been happening over the course of the last five years within our church is there has been a revival in the next generation that has increased the popularity. It's almost like being Christian is cool now, which there's a balance to that because if you think it's all cool then you neglect the suffering. Yeah. But it's like at the same time, hey, let's get them thinking it's cool, thinking it's awesome so that it's easier for them to go through. I mean, my youth ministry in the 90s, I say all the time, like the kid that was in church was uncool and then all of a sudden it turned. Now pure pressure was reverse because pure pressure can be neutral. Pure pressure could be negative or can be positive. And now all of a sudden it was like, well, if you're not staying, if you're not hanging, if you're not really on fire, forgot that, you know, like you felt like the outsider somehow. And so code blue revival is a tangible evidence. Yeah. The revival that is happening at Jubilee. It's not theoretical. It's not like I can just give you a bunch of principles. What happened in August? Wait, wait, before you go there, last year, one of the most incredible moments. Before we go to happen this year, last year the most incredible moments during code blue revival. Oh, code blue last year, last year, where the Lord spoke to my son to put out this water particle with two baptistry pools outside. They had like close like 40 or 50 kids that were registered to get baptized. But in the course of two days, over 200 and 50 baptisms outside, outside, when it was the first time. So it was very interesting. So we had a team of about, you know, I have a team of 40 leaders last year when we were playing in code blue. And the theme was troubled waters. And so we created the pool of Bethesda outside. And so I remember like one day, I was just like praying or just something. I don't know, the God just revealed it to me. It was just like put the baptism pools outside. We had never done that as a church. Normally we do it right on the stage so that we're all in the sanctuary. We can celebrate. And I remember bringing it to the team. We were like, hey, Phil, I think, let's do baptisms outside like and everyone looked at me like I was crazy. They were like, well, how are we going to get it on video? How are we going to live streaming? How are we going to, I'm like, cares? Like, let's just, let's put it outside. We'll put it literally in our pool of Bethesda and let's just, let's baptize people out there. So yeah, over the course of, it was literally maybe 36 hours, yeah, baptize over 250 people. But the first day, the first day we had 40 registered. And then I was like, but if you want to get back, like we can do spontaneous, like everyone to do. And on that first night, we ended up baptizing 150 people. And then the next morning, one of my leaders called me was like, I heard the Lord say we're not done. And so I got up on the stage and was like, hey, we're going to do more baptisms tonight if you're down. But on the first day, that the pool of Bethesda was set up with two membership pools, it was before the services started. We were outside and we haven't recorded, we're outside. And we just, we just finished the staff meeting and we were just standing out there, just looking at the pools. And I mean, the sky was clear, sunny everywhere. Beautiful day. But like, I don't know where there was like this mist. And just rain falling right over the back. And then that night, while they were baptized, it happened again. The entire, it was dark midnight, you know, everywhere was dry. And it wasn't a heavy rain, it was just like this mist. It was just kind of like the glory of the Lord was just kind of resting. And you know, when I knew that this year, the theme was going to be revival. The Lord said, I agree with what my son is saying about, about the glory of the Lord gaining popularity. But it's like, we grew up thinking that revival was an event or revival was like. I grew the services on, yeah, like revival, like survival. I mean, we grew up in a day where it's like, you know, our parents said, there's revival. And you go somewhere and people will be rolling around. People will set up tents. Yeah. And it was a revival. But the Lord said to me that revival is not a destination, but that it's a posture. And so what has happened is that there's a posture for prayer and the presence and the power of God that literally has rested, rested here. And I think this year, during Koblo, was another kind of evidence of desolate. I mean, I heard cold blue this year. And of course, your dad and I talked multiple times a week. And he was like, Adam, Adam, we broke every attendance record for any conference or anything we've ever done. And youth and young adults, under what age, you think for the most part, under 30, under 30, so 90 plus younger than that. I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, I'm think maybe it was probably like 10 to 20% over 30. But I'd say 80% of this room and the lower level and people standing outside all the place were. It was the highest attendance that I've seen for our church just sure in general. I mean, by the first day, the first day, we maybe five hours before service, hit over 1,000 registrations. That was the most we had ever seen before. Registrations. Yeah, literally has registrations. And then on Friday night, for the first time in cold blue history, we did 12 hours a prayer. And so, you know, as far as a prayer room started off, like at 12,000, and probably more than that, 15, but downstairs, I was great, it was packed. And then by the time we hit seven in the morning, you can young adults, 600 people. Yeah, wow, yeah, just at the altar. I mean, absolutely insane. Part of cold blue is also taking over the city, random acts of kindness. And, you know, I believe Acts 2 doesn't end in the upper room for a reason. Wow, it's good. Too many penicostles, it's good. Acts 2, the Holy Spirit is poured out. Yeah. And we've got tongues of fire. And we're speaking other languages. That's great. Yeah. But it spills out into the street. Yeah. Because what God is demonstrating something, it's not to be contained within four walls. Yeah. What was happening in Boston? And I was seeing all types of clips on social, like, y'all were randomly paying even people's gas at most of the reason. What was that like? I mean, we do jubilee in the city every year, but it was actually dad this year that was like, we're going to do jubilee in the city like monthly. Like once the summer hit, he was like, yeah, we're going to do it once a month. And so we would go in Boston, up and down blue hill and live in clean stores, clean streets, pay for people's gas, pay for people's groceries. And then pray. We'd set up prayer tables and different things and just literally just pray for people. We had people with shirts that said need prayer. Someone would walk up. I need prayer. It was good. Yes. And pray for them. And so yeah, we were able to literally go through and just bless the city. And that's one of our culture keys is blessed to be a blessed. Yes. And we just believe that if we can bless others without even an expectation of anything in return that is just like this right here is going to increase the kingdom. And it's not even an expectation of like, hey, we're going to pay for your gas coming to church. It's just like, oh, no, no, we're going to pay for your gas because we're believing that God is meeting you right here. Why? Because Acts chapter one says that we should wait for the power of God. Wait in Jerusalem. Wait. And you will be in wait for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And after that, it says, you will be my witness. So the Holy Spirit obviously is a language, obviously it is a conversation, but really the Holy Spirit is there so that the people of God could be a witness of Him in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the year of year. And I find in so many cases that guys have either gone so social justice that they forgot the gospel. Yeah. Or they're of such, you know, heavenly good, of a no earthly good, and you're pastoring and you're leading a church that's like, hey, we'll have full on Holy Spirit moments. We're going to preach the gospel, but we want to have a witness in the streets. Yeah. Why does the balance of that matter for every leader that's watching? I mean, obviously the Bible says faith with our works is dead. Yes. And so to be the hands and feet of Jesus means that there are felt needs that I believe the Lord is worrying us to do. It's a privilege that we get an opportunity. I mean, it's like the Holy Spirit is here so that we can be a witness so that Jesus can say, all right, if you're looking for a witness, if you're looking for a testimony, I got the person that can stand trial over how good that I am. Yes. Okay, how good that I am. Well, I'm saved. Praise the Lord, but not only am I saved, but man, I got a job and I can live in abundance. And he came so that we might have life and life more bundledly. If the whole thing was about just going to heaven, and I'm excited to go to heaven, then as soon as we gave our time to the light, we would just drop down. No, but there is the up and down, but there is something that has to happen on the earth why so that we can be a witness of his goodness as mercy as grace. There's this constant perception in Pentecostalism, like I can't wait to get there. And all of the Bible's really about heaven to get here, like that you have in the new earth, it's here. It's here, right? We're not, we're not, you know, we're bringing kingdom come. Yeah. And I mean, I grew up in a church where, if you wanted to get people excited, you start singing when we all get to heaven. What a day of rejoicing. I remember, I remember the full thing about to go, yeah, okay. I remember sitting here as a kid thinking of myself. Man, like, yeah, I can't get him to the bus, like, like, yeah, I want, I want to have, I want the goodness of the Lord here in the land of the living, in the while I'm alive. And the way my brain works is that, I don't think the Lord would ask us to pray something that was impossible. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So he asked us to pray. Thy kingdom come. Yes. Thy, he's asking us to pray something that is possible. Yes. I remember here, I remember a few years ago, I was at one of my son's spiritual service church, and he was telling me just about something that God was doing supernatural in his life. And I was about to say to him, that is unbelievable. But as I was about to say it, the right just took those words and sucked. And I paused, I said, hey, man, I'm sorry. You know what? Because sometimes we throw out these cliches, these solutealisms. Yes. And I said, you know what? What you just said to me, that's believable. Right. And so I believe that God requires us, wants us to pray. So if there is no violence in heaven, God wants to pray peace on the earth. Yes. If there's no sickness in heaven, God wants there to be healing on the earth. Those are possible prayers. Those are believable prayers. They're not just heaven prayers. Yes. You know, there's so many examples of sons working with their dads. Oh boy. Dad's working with their sons. And most of it is not good. It's just not. It's not done well. And besides working together, what's your relationship like outside of the church? What's your relationship like? Like when you guys are just hanging or when you guys go play basketball, don't invite me to not cause nobody believes that I could actually ball. Let me just say for the record, I'm fast and Travis great. I love you. I'm homeless. So you can, what is your relationship? And I've gotten to witness it. We've all traveled to Africa. We've been to Thailand together. We've been overseas again. Like talk to me a little bit about your relationship and then about your relationship with yourself. No, I tell everybody that my dad is my second best friend. Okay. That up until two years ago. Well, no, up until five years ago. Okay. That he, he without a shadow of a doubt has been my best friend for my entire life. I mean, we have videos of when I was one years old, me laying on his chest, him with a bench press, going like this and me with my hands on it, acting like I was benching with him too. And to this day, we still do that at home. To this day, you know, we still work out with each other. We still lift and then, you know, I live with him up until a year ago. So you work with him. You were living with him and you wasn't sick of him to the point where you still want to work out with him? Yeah, no, not at all. I mean, literally I miss living with him because it used to be that I would just go upstairs and we'd just start watching basketball with each other or just randomly, hey, you want to watch a movie? Then the movie would start watching him and then I'm just watching people by myself. But now this guy right here, I could, I love, we went to DC a couple of weeks ago. And it's just like, we literally are almost like the same person and we can just chill with each other just all day, just either doing nothing, doing something, doing whatever. Like I can, I'm so grateful I get to do every aspect of my life with my dad. And so for my whole life, he has been that guy for me, my best friend. And in high school, you know, a lot of times I didn't feel like I had a like actual like best friend. Like that was, that was my age. Like I was always, and you know, it shows up in kind of like my pastoral ministry right now, like the way that you said that our ministry is so diverse, it's because I never found like one crowd that I fit in with, right? It was always, I mean, I did theater. I was also a nerd at the same time. I loved math, I loved science. I was studying Greek and high school when translating it into the New Testament. And then I played basketball and I was getting recruited to go play basketball and college and all these things. So there was all these different spaces that I was, you know, fitting into, but I didn't feel like I had like that one space or that one crowd, that one people, that one person was always my dad. And me and my dad just literally did every single thing together. And so I'm so grateful that me and my dad have that relationship where he's literally second best friend now. Second. Second. Second. Okay. Oh, my wife is my best friend. Oh, my God. Well, for me, man, it's simple, you know, you know, for this son I prayed. So, you want to talk about that a little bit? Yeah, man, I mean, he's one prayer away, man. In my wife and I, we got married. My wife had a daughter and it was an honor for me to step in to be her, her stepfather now, her father and her dad. But, you know, for the first three, four, five years of our marriage, we were just unsuccessful in having children. So when I say that, you know, you're one prayer away, you know, that's not just something that I read. It's something that I lived. Yes, so I'll never forget the day that my wife, you know, took the pregnancy test through all the different trials season. It will be too long to get into. I was going to say it's just all unsuccessful. Yeah. It's an understatement day. I mean, it's as weak as we tried everything from doctors, IVF to all the treatments. And it was really just the power of God, just the power prayer. And when she, but I remember the first time she took that test and we just jumped around the house, screaming, crying, and, you know, even before, before we were married, though, I prayed for my son. So, you know, from the time he was conceived, the time he was born, born the car from that moment. From that moment. Oh, other story. And then you have to watch part two of that moment until now, man, this is, this is my guy. This is my son in whom I'm well pleased. So, and I just determined that one of the greatest gifts that God could give to us is his presence. And so I determined from the very beginning that the greatest gift I'll give to my son is my presence. Yeah. And so I determined that, and sometimes, sometimes I want to talk to father. Sometimes, like, you can try to make what you want. You're trying to get your son to come up to you. But as a father, I determined that I would be in his space. I would, I would be with him from the time he was younger until it's like, I'm always trying to find how can I relate to him? Yes. And, you know, what happens is that when you do that well, you raise children that not only on you, but then they determine, well, how can I relate to my father? Yeah. And so I had a lot of siblings, and I saw a lot of siblings, you know, my siblings that were always trying to get my dad to this. And I was like, well, hey, as a son, like, how can I honor him? How could I bless him? It was because, you know, I was doing it as well. Yeah, so, and from the very beginning of my life, of my journey, I kind of always saw myself as like a bridge between, you know, generations. And so even when I think about him now, it's like, I see him, but like, and I come here every Friday night that I'm not traveling somewhere. It's like, I'm here praying for him, praying with him, whatever he needs. And I see, I see 300 to 350, sometimes 400 kids in this room, but really I see 40,000. That's 40,000. A laughing because PMKT has a tendency to count how many people are in the room. Yes, I do. He hundreds. No, no, no, no. The counters are off. But it's because he's not looking with natural eyes. He's always looking in the supernatural. And so I remember even when it was 30 students, he wasn't seeing 30 students. Right. He was seeing the 300 that we have because, because as a father, you see potential. You see what God has in front. The same way God looks at us and does us as we are. He sees Matthew for everything he's going to be. He saw Adam and Matt for all the things and drop all the titles and all of that. He just sees us for who we can be and then puts all of heaven behind us. Thank you guys both for sharing. My name is Fast and Adam Deros. I'm sitting here with Matthew Thompson, senior and Matthew Thompson. About to be past the Matthew Thompson, youth past to hear it you will be. Thank you for joining us at Faithless Stories. God bless you. This was a blessing.