It can be difficult to know how to minister effectively in today's world. The landscape of ministry is constantly changing, and it can be hard to keep up with the latest trends.

Listen as Davi Almeida shares his experience and how both faith and flexibility are essential in order to minister effectively in today's world.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Why Minueto is not specifically a Christian school
• The biblical definition of prospering
• Winning over suspicion

LINKS & RESOURCES:

• Minueto.com 
• Facebook.com/minuetoburitis 
• Instagram.com/minuetoburitis
• CCZS.org.br 
• Facebook.com/cczsbh

ABOUT DAVI ALMEIDA

Davi Almeida is a praise and worship leader at Comunidade Crista Da Zona Sul and the co-founder and administrator of Minueto.com. He sings and plays both the drums and the guitar and uses his love of music and God-given talent to teach others music. Through Minueto, Davi hopes to continue to spread the culturally rich joy of Brazilian music, and to influence people for the Kingdom of God.

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As he deep dives into the lives of leaders to glean secrets that will propel today's leaders to new Heights.

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Here's Scott,

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if you're just joining us, this is the third part of our interview with Dobie Almeda.

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If you haven't already caught the previous two, you want to check out episodes 2, 2, 9, and.

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As we rejoined Debbie, he's going to explain why his school isn't a Christian school and the importance of being aware of the community around us.

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What kept you from making your school only training for Christian music or church music and keep in mind, culturally speaking, I'm unaware of the environment I'm in, in so many ways.

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So that may not be a good question or maybe it is.

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You're in business, you're serving the community and it's not on the basis of faith.

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It's on the basis of desiring to want to learn music I'm guessing and having some skill or the parents want the kids to learn.

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I don't know how it works.

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What made you not put it restrictive in that way?

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Am I making sense?

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You are

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like, I went to U S for a Christian school morning stars with Christian music.

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I believe we can't, it's hard for me to separate Christian life from secular life.

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For me, it's, it's the same thing.

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Yeah.

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And God will to use us to in all the environments, not just at church, but I believe there's a mission from God, so we can tell the world is doing.

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Yeah, our lives.

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Yes.

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The Bible says they ever had, was called from God to go to a place that he didn't know.

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He had to walk by faith.

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I believe we need to walk by faith in everything we do, not just on weekends at church, but your life should be a testimony that you are a believer have.

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Your life.

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The Bible says that everything that we does outside of faith it's sin, it's really strong.

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Paul says in Romans 14, I guess.

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So everything that we do in life, it's based on faith, you know,

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not just the church stuff, not

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just the church stuff.

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Yeah.

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So I believe Christians, they need to start thinking more outside of the box, thinking in their community, thinking about serving the community,

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the neighborhood.

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Yeah.

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If I tell my neighbor who this is just a Christian school problem, people were not Christian.

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They was thinking, this is not for me, or this is not for my son.

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Yeah.

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But, uh, I have a secular or regular

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Christian school.

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It's an open door.

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My older neighborhoods.

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Yeah.

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I had a lot of Christian teachers, but they are not teaching Christian music.

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Of

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course.

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No.

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They're teaching the

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class.

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They have the opportunity to talk, to share their lives with the people.

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So I believe the school is creating those opportunities.

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Yeah.

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I could say that a lot of times we are tempted to be isolationist.

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Like we're tempted to isolate ourselves and prevent the contact with other people by doing so that is actually meant to.

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Touch that person or that family that otherwise wouldn't get that type of contact.

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If we're isolated, it's very common in United States because everything is about marketing and we have a big market.

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If you know what I'm saying in the U S you could just put a flag out and say Christian music school, and probably there's enough people and enough money to support.

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But it keeps us from having contact with people who would benefit from exposure to our lives.

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It's what some call an echo chamber.

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I don't know if you've heard this word, but we won't go very far down that road because people are.

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But

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we also teach Christian music in my school.

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I have people from my church, they studied and they asked the professors, please teach me some,

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some Christian music.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just close with Brian.

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And I learned some brother.

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Yeah.

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You cannot learn bossa Nova.

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There is it

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bossa Nova bossa,

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bossa, Lord.

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I got it.

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Wrong balsa.

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What does bossa know?

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What does that mean?

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Nova means new.

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Okay.

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Boss

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says they style.

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It's the style new style.

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Sorry.

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I'm just absolutely know nothing about music and here, everyone knows it so well.

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What you're saying there.

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And I feel that blesses me to hear how you're approaching it.

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It's not like you're saying, oh, we're not as Christian school.

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You can't learn Christian music here, but you're saying, Hey, come on.

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You develop skills, you cultivate your talents.

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You're investing yourself in this.

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And of course you started very early in music.

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I'm guessing I was

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12.

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My father used to play the guitar in my mom's place, the acoustic guitar as well.

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So since I was a little kid, I heard them playing.

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That's why.

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Wow.

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Very, very cool.

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We're coming closer to the end.

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I want to make sure a couple of things we do.

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I want to make sure.

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Anything you wanted to say, in addition to what we've said, we discussed.

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And also, I want to make sure people who want to find out more about what you guys are doing to just be, you know, look at your website or however, they can find more information.

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I want to give them that opportunity.

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What else is on your mind that you want to say about faith and business that we did and say, if anything, one thing

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that I believe is very interesting.

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It's the Bible show us that if the person is very diligent, if they work hard, they will prosper.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes we Believer's.

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We look to non-believers and in the book of Psalms, it's interesting.

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Sometimes the David or the other guys, they're looking to the people that are not believers and say, oh God,

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Why did they, why does the evil prosper or the non-believer Prosser?

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Right.

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And

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God has established some principles.

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This for everybody work hard, I will bless your work.

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Rain and sun comes from two believers and non-believers sometimes people as believers.

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They sit on the sofa.

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They way God to bless them.

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God, please bless my business.

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Yes, but there's some principles is like, you need a stand up.

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You need a wake up earlier.

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Yeah.

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And be diligent, diligent.

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So you will be prosper.

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I think we need to pay attention on that as believer.

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So the things that got us.

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Prepare the Bible says that God prepare, works for us to walk before the foundation of the world.

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We need a big partners of what God is doing in earth.

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And it goes beyond the standard principles.

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Like if you work, you will prosper.

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God wants to reveal to his people.

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More things, that things that goes beyond.

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Just standard principles, standard

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principles.

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We need to pay attention in those things.

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We need to do what everybody's doing, work hard, be diligent, but we also need to be led by the spirit, the holy spirit, because there's more things that God's wants to do through us.

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It's not just the work, but there's opportunities in our days that we can be used by God.

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And I believe those are the works that he planned for us.

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Not just work, not just work hard, but there's some opportunities in business in life that the holy spirit wants to use his.

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To bring the kingdom.

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It's not just about making money, just to bring the kingdom of God where we are.

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So maybe this is a simple thought that can add to the discussion we

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have in here.

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It resonates.

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I think, well with me, I think there's a lot, God planned for us.

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Diligence puts us on the right road to discover these plans.

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It's not about, are we asking God to bless us?

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Or are we working hard?

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We're doing both right.

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We're asking God to bless us and we're working hard, but to cooperate together in those beginning things and those simple things, then we grow to those other things.

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You're talking about.

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How has God's strategically going to use us to introduce something of himself and of his kingdom that is new and fresh and, uh, benefiting.

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I really believe as my business.

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And I have one in this series where I told a big crisis in my business years ago, maybe we'll listen to it.

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I'll be embarrassed, but it's very transparent.

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Anyway, I think for me, I have come to a place in my business.

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We celebrate 20 years this year, where I am trying to do everything like service to the Lord.

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And as if the person I'm serving is the Lord I'm serving, this is a simple concept to understand if something is different to do it because not everyone on the other side of the table is acting like Jesus.

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You know what I'm saying?

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And some customers feel like they have a responsibility to abuse you to get everything they, yeah.

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And also some customers are suspicious.

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Of your honesty.

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You come, you say, Hey, look, I'm here.

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I'm just here to serve you.

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And I'm going to do my best for you.

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And I'll do it in a way that doesn't extort too much from you in the process.

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I'm going to give you more benefit than I am expecting to receive from you and money.

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And they just don't believe you.

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And so instantly they have a suspicion around you.

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They probably were hurt before.

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I of course.

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They saw that one time before and the guy took their money and didn't deliver the value.

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So I'm growing, obviously we're all growing.

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Those of us who are still alive, have an opportunity to grow, to learn and to get more like Jesus, but in our businesses, I think we have a unique opportunity to express the.

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And a strategic way and a creative way.

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And in a way that is sneaky, you know what I mean?

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That is influencing people.

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By the spirit of Christ and for the kingdom of God, that doesn't advertise itself as religious or something like that.

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It seems like that also is present in your situation.

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Yeah.

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Sorry.

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I just went on and on about that,

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man.

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Thank you for coming on the podcast, your English was awesome.

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You only had one time, you were looking for a word you couldn't say.

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I

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told you, I might look at Google it, but I left my cell phone here and try to work

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and try to co-op.

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Yeah, we did.

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I think we did really good.

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Again.

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I'm thankful to be here with you to receive your invitation, to visit you in Brazil.

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Even

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I can give you some influence that you told me, like, please, my school website is www dot.

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Okay.

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So many Beto is M I N U E O o.com.

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And there's also my church website.

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It's www.cc Z S.

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Zona Sue C, C, Z S B H from Bella design.org.

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I guess I believe this is there's a BR

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indiana.com that BR.

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Is the mini wetta.com.br as well, or just regular.com.

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And we'll back link.

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These we'll research and we'll put the links there for people.

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So they have it easy.

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They can click through there.

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They can take a look at what you're doing.

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Business-wise your partners there.

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Some of your students, what you guys are concentrating on and also the ministry side from a worship leader, you have a lot to do.

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Yeah, you're a business person.

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You're a worship leader and it takes time to look this dazzling.

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You have to really spend a lot of time to look this good.

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And of course you have a wife and two small children, so maybe yes.

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The Lord's going to give you a grace to make.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Thanks for being here so much.

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Yeah.

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