A person must grow,
not only in fully understanding God in intellect,
but also in continuously growing in spirit.
Then your physical body will dwell securely;
this is a spiritual principle.

Foreword: This is an Era of Efficiency

The topic I am speaking on today is about improving work efficiency. This generation or two among us, extending to the post-80s, 90s, and 00s, lives in an era of increasing efficiency. Twenty years ago, traveling from one place to another was vastly different compared to today. Today, airplanes are very fast, and high-speed trains also run very quickly. When I was young, it took eleven hours by train to travel from my home to Harbin, a distance of over three hundred kilometers. The train's speed was truly slow because it stopped at every station. The train could never pick up speed, and its pace was similar to a city bus, making the journey exhaustingly difficult.

But do you know today that driving from Mudanjiang to Harbin, a distance of over three hundred kilometers, takes only three hours, sometimes even less? When the high-speed rail is completed, it will probably take only one and a half hours. Traveling from Mudanjiang to Beijing in my time took thirty hours, but with the high-speed rail now, it should take seven or eight hours. In other words, this era is one of increasing efficiency.

The environment we face in this era of efficiency is very demanding. If you do not know how to improve efficiency, your life will be quite miserable. Today, when we depart from Singapore, we use Uber, which is similar to Didi Chuxing in China. You know, Uber will gradually eliminate many taxi drivers. In Singapore, there is a peculiar feeling: when you need a taxi, there are none; when you don't need one, there are trucks of taxis. It is very strange, and when you finally flag one down and ask where you want to go, they decline to go. If you are in a hurry, it can be infuriating. Why? Because traditional taxis operate in a very inefficient mode.

The taxi business is quite odd. The times when people need it most are during the morning and evening commutes. In Singapore, taxis have shift changes; one car is driven by two people, with shifts changing at 5 PM. If you need a taxi at 4:30 PM, it is very difficult to find one because the driver needs to hand over the car to the next person at 5 PM, using the half-hour to change shifts. They have been doing this for years.

Although I am an outsider, I immediately understood it because I have developed a habit: the habit of improving efficiency. Can the driver change the car on Monday at 4 PM, Tuesday at 6 PM, Wednesday at 4 PM, and Thursday at 6 PM? If you stagger those times, wouldn't your business improve? That period would be excellent for business because others can't find taxis, but your taxi is still picking up passengers. Taxi drivers don't know how to make a change, and taxi companies don't know how to make a change. Don't you find it strange? When Uber came along, it forced taxi drivers to change whether they wanted to or not.

So, in the era we are in today, if you don't improve efficiency, you are finished. Over the past few years, I have often collected good books. I collected a book called The Sacred Challenge, which talks about how to build a church. Two years ago, after buying this book in Taipei, I read it carefully. After reading it, I bought two more copies and gave them to the full-time staff of the church. Two years ago, when I read this book, reaching the last page, I was very moved. I said, God, when will the church reach this stage?

But two months ago, I opened the book again and turned to the last page. I discovered that in less than a year (including the years of preparation before), we had accomplished everything described in the book. There was a passage that said: Some people will join us from other churches, and some people will suddenly grow rapidly in their hearts. This is the current state of our church.

It also said: Do not stop praying until such things occur, and also especially enjoy this moment. This is a great opportunity to proclaim God's grace and avenge the enemy. When I read this page, I thought: God, I didn't know when such a day would come, but today it has arrived! How did this day come about? I tell you all, it is because the church is constantly pursuing service efficiency and constantly pursuing the overall improvement of the church.

I do not believe in so-called traditions. I only believe in one thing: constantly innovating, constantly renewing, constantly doing new things, constantly improving, and building a paradigm church of God. What is a paradigm church? If you divide churches into categories, it is like a pyramid. The tip of the pyramid is called the paradigm church.

Everyone looks up and sees this kind of church. I really want to say that the church should be this kind of church. Thank God, we are truly watching ourselves enter the state of being at the tip of the pyramid. Whether it is our pastoral system or the entire theological system, the degree of completeness in every aspect, and the implementation of the online church, surprises us greatly. The overall efficiency has completely changed. Why enter the online church? Because it is very efficient. Today, when we participate in gatherings online, is the efficiency high? Much higher!

Let me make a comparison: Alibaba with 30,000 employees does the work of Walmart with 2 million employees, creating the same output value. How would you rate the efficiency? Alibaba consumes only 5% of the resources compared to physical Walmart. In other words, what brought about such a leap in efficiency? It was the internet. Singles' Day is coming soon, and everyone will be rushing online to grab deals. This era is such an era. We are beginning to enter such an era. Without efficiency, you cannot compete. People often criticize Jack Ma, saying that he is the reason they are unemployed. But that's not true. If there were no Jack Ma, there would be others with different surnames.

Today, we must build a paradigm church of God, constantly building on the Word of God. I tell you, God is a very efficient God. God said, Let there be, and there was; He commanded, and it stood fast. How high is that efficiency! In other words, the church is a place to manifest God's glory and cannot lag behind. In the previous two sessions, I talked about innovation and observation. Have you received the idea that innovation is for what? To improve efficiency. What does observation improve? Improving efficiency. Uber improves the efficiency of taxis and is a great change.

When we went to Shenzhen, they used Uber to call a car. When I went downstairs, I saw, Hey, isn't this a private car? It didn't have a taxi license or anything. Get in! This is pretty good. We went to the airport like that. That day happened to be 4:30 PM. If you wanted to find a licensed taxi, it was impossible, and it was raining heavily. It was so difficult. Luckily, there was Uber, and our car-hailing efficiency was greatly improved.

So today, I think efficiency is directly related to time. If you can't finish your work, don't blame your lack of time; blame your lack of efficiency. If your efficiency is not high, then focus all your attention on efficiency. I once calculated that an ordinary member of our church spends more than 20 hours a week worshiping God, reading God's Word, praying, engaging in healing and deliverance ministry, outreach ministry, and so on. And they don't neglect anything. What happened?

If you work four hours and another person works six hours, but your work is better than theirs, what does that mean? It means your efficiency is twice theirs. You did in four hours what they couldn't finish in six hours. In other words, improving efficiency is the key to solving problems.

As soon as you hear someone say this, you know they are not efficient. Among my staff, if I hear them saying they are busy, they need to be careful. I say, Come here, let's talk. I am not a policeman; I am inviting you for tea. You don't need to be afraid. I want to improve your efficiency.

I say, Tell me what you have been doing recently. They say, I did this, and I did that. I say, You only did these things. How many hours did the first task take? They say, Two hours. I ask, How many hours did the second task take? They say, Two hours. How many hours did the third task take? Two hours. Then I say, Are you still busy? You only did eight hours of work in three days. Where did the other sixteen hours go? Then they look at me, wishing they could dig a hole and disappear. This kind of thing has happened again and again. All the departments I manage and my employees face these kinds of problems.

The problem is, do you really know your work efficiency? If you don't often evaluate your efficiency, you will encounter a serious problem with me. So, being truly busy means being inefficient. Being busy is actually not a good thing because busy (忙) in Chinese is written with the heart radical next to the character for death (亡). The reason for the death of the heart is the death of the spirit. The death of the spirit means a person is not efficient and is in chaos.

Efficiency and Time

When we get busy, we might not finish four hours of work in six hours, and if we don't finish in six hours, it becomes eight hours. If we don't finish in eight hours, it becomes twelve hours. If we don't finish in twelve hours, it becomes sixteen hours. If we don't finish in sixteen hours, it becomes twenty-four hours. We don't sleep until we finish. This is the most common way of thinking, but it is also the most harmful way of thinking.

This way of thinking is called one-dimensional thinking. In their minds, there is only time, not efficiency. Time invested without efficiency is ineffective investment. So, I want us all to develop a two-dimensional way of thinking. If you have a three-dimensional way of thinking, that's even better. The first dimension is time, the second dimension is efficiency, and the third dimension is innovation. If you have a three-dimensional space to think in this way, you are an innovative person, an efficient person, and you will never be a busy person.

Therefore, brothers and sisters, in the process of building a paradigm church, we must develop a concept: efficiency and innovation. Today, if you are a one-dimensional person, just time, you will never finish. You will be busy until you lose your job. In Singapore, there is a research bureau. If they lose their jobs, they can't do anything else. If they lose their jobs there, they can only drive taxis. If taxis are replaced by Uber, they can't even drive taxis.

What caused them to lose their jobs? It is because they are one-dimensional creatures, because they don't understand efficiency. The whole generation is developing rapidly. If you lose efficiency and lose innovation, you are completely finished. What building a paradigm church? You can't even maintain your own life. So, in our church, whether you are a member, full-time staff, or leader, I will push you to learn without the slightest hesitation.

I will push you without the slightest hesitation to constantly innovate and constantly improve efficiency. Then I will constantly eat up your time. Record short videos. I don't have time to record short videos. You must have time, even if you don't have it. I must record! I don't have time to lead you in Bible study. You must have time, even if you don't have it. Why? I want to force you onto the path of efficiency and innovation. If you walk on the path of efficiency and innovation, it means I am securing your jobs.

I am not only securing your jobs, but I also want you to be above and not below, to be the head and not the tail. This is crucial. You must constantly renew your minds and examine what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. If you have this concept of innovation and efficiency, do you know what will happen? You will greatly experience the grace of God! You will experience God's good, acceptable, and perfect will because our God is such a God. I am not talking about something secular; I am talking about something spiritual. Your efficiency is a spiritual matter, and your innovation is a spiritual matter. When you do this, the creativity of God and the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead will descend upon your life, and you will experience God's good, acceptable, and perfect will.

Efficiency and Innovation

There is a professor at Harvard University named Clayton M. Christensen. Search for him online; he is very famous. He often goes to businesses to promote a culture of innovation. He is the founder of the theory of disruptive innovation. For taxi drivers, Uber and Didi Chuxing are disruptive innovations that can cause them to lose their jobs. I tell you, like self-driving cars, in our lifetime, I believe we will see them. When I arrive at the airport and land, a car will come, put my luggage in the car, and I will sit in it and be taken to the taxi stand. All of this is automatic. The luggage is automatically moved; there is no one in the taxi. A mechanical arm reaches out and puts your luggage in the taxi. You sit inside because you have already booked online to go somewhere, and then the car automatically goes there. The taxi driver is gone, and there is no job.

How good is this kind of thing? You will see the coming of such an era, an era of efficiency and innovation. Disruptive innovation is a complete subversion of the old way of thinking. New wine in new wineskins versus old wine in old wineskins is an inherent struggle that has existed from thousands of years ago until now. We brothers and sisters must always live in new wine in new wineskins, constantly renewing, even to the point where you don't let your new wineskins become old. Just change them to new wineskins all the time.

Why are Singapore Airlines' tickets so expensive? Because the business is very good and the profits are very high. Why? Because wealthy people are willing to fly Singapore Airlines because Singapore Airlines' service is first-class, and second, Singapore Airlines' planes are all new planes. The models they use are very interesting and new. In other words, disruptive innovation brings about a very interesting thing. If you always live in new things, you will always run ahead. Disruptive innovation especially solves the problem of efficiency.

If your efficiency increases tenfold, will you be busy? If you finish ten hours of work in one hour, will you be busy? You will be very comfortable and enjoy it. If you can't finish one hour of work in ten hours, how much worse is that? One hundred times worse. Many people can't finish one hour of work in ten hours, and there are many people who finish ten hours of work in one hour. Whether the work takes one hour, ten hours, or one hundred hours, that is negotiable.

The return on disruptive innovation is called tenfold growth. Where did the concept of tenfold growth come from? It came from Intel's boss, Andy Grove. He is Jewish, and he wrote a book called Only the Paranoid Survive, written in the early 1980s, but it is still very valuable today. He said that you can only survive with tenfold growth. Who quoted this book? It was quoted by Kong Yi, the author of Winning Through Turning Power. If you have the chance, read it. Even if you invest and buy a copy, consider it a gift from me. I am not vigorously promoting Kong Yi; I am promoting disruptive innovation.

Let me give a personal example of how disruptive innovation improved efficiency: In 2002, I joined the polytechnic, and the boss proposed paperless operation. Thirteen or fourteen years ago, this was a very new concept and very difficult. I was the one who implemented paperless operation. What did I do? I implemented paperless exams, which greatly benefited many Chinese students. They took exams on computers.

You know, taking exams on computers is very, very challenging. Why? Because if you lose one or two assignments, it doesn't seem like a big problem, but if you lose an exam paper, that is going to cost you your job. After the exam, counting the papers, a stack of papers, one hundred copies. When I hand it over to another person, that person counts it like counting money, to see if there are one hundred copies. Then they sign, and then hand these one hundred copies over to another person, who counts them again. Collecting the papers, sealing the papers. I created a paperless examination system, all exams are taken on computers, and now all these tasks are saved.

Anyway, the whole exam process is a very painful process. Any teacher knows that being responsible for exams is a very painful thing. I completely solved these problems. You know, after I solved these problems, I also admired myself. The efficiency improvement was not onefold, but tenfold. Even now, even if they don't appreciate paperless operation very much, they can't abolish the paperless system because paper-based exams are too painful. Teachers find marking papers painful, everything is painful. Even the approach taken when marking papers in the paperless system, that concept, was implemented step by step by me.

In the future, in our pastoral process, including recording short videos, the efficiency of marking those short videos will be greatly improved. Let me give you an example: Someone records a short video, turns the audio into text, and then the pastor takes a ten-second glance and scans it all. And when scanning, if your short video has the required keywords, Genesis chapter 1 must talk about these things. Each according to its kind and seeing that it was good, when encountering these words, they turn red. The pastor can automatically grade it and give some suggestions. For example, after the computer receives it, it analyzes it and gives suggestions. It may all be an automatic process. It's like a driverless vehicle. Our pastoral efficiency will be greatly improved. This is called disruptive innovation.

In your life, have you ever thought about having disruptive innovation? Because I am a programmer myself, I like using computer programs to solve problems. In my mind, in the process of building a paradigm church, I am even starting to consider an innovative pastoral model, and this model will be greatly promoted in the days to come. Is this in accordance with God's heart? It is in accordance with God's heart.

Why is Genesis the foundation of the entire Bible? Because that is creation, and the return on creation is the highest. This has always been my inherent concept. What is Genesis chapter 1 talking about? Isn't it talking about God's creation? Then it talks about man having God's image. Man should be a creative creature. He can create. If you and I have no creativity and no disruptive creation, you need to repent, and I will repent with you.

The most important concept in building a paradigm church is creation. Creation is the key to solving efficiency. It is tenfold growth. I look forward to one thing, in the coming years, our church will enter tenfold growth. You will be frightened by the speed of that growth. Will it create pressure? It will create pressure, but that pressure will never be as great as our ability to create. If our speed of creation exceeds the growth of pressure, I tell you, that is creation guiding creation, creative growth.

Every time we introduce something, tenfold, then introduce another, tenfold, will you have pressure? Probably not. Let's take our breakthrough in healing and deliverance. The speed of healing and deliverance is getting faster and faster. It's so amazing. Today I saw YR return on the bus without getting carsick. I thought it was so divine. I didn't really pray for her much, just mentioned it casually. This is the relationship between efficiency and innovation.

The second type of innovation is called sustaining innovation. When you have disruptive innovation, you will constantly improve it. I ask you, has the automobile changed the world? Since the advent of the automobile, Ford created an inexpensive car, and since then, the automobile has become an everyday tool for the common people. Today, many ordinary people have their own cars. With cars and highways, your life has really changed dramatically. Japanese cars are doing very well. Their stability is constantly improved through continuous innovation.

Today, it's our turn, the Chinese. From continuous small innovations to disruptive big innovations, this has become the main axis of a person's life. If a person lives on such an innovative axis, he will become a person who is above and not below, a head and not a tail in this age. If you become such a person, you will have many testimonies to share, and there will be too much grace. So, brothers and sisters, today we go from disruptive innovation to sustaining innovation, and then from sustaining innovation to disruptive innovation.

Most of it is still efficiency-style innovation. Where is the innovation? It's that the same things need continuous innovation the most. Efficiency-style innovation is so interesting. Let me give you an example: One day, XY inexplicably said a lot of negative things, like having pressure and all sorts of chaotic things. I found out that it was because she was inefficient. I wanted to solve her efficiency problem. Where is the key? The key is in efficiency-style innovation.

I just listened to WH share her testimony. In fact, XY did to WH what I did to her, efficiency-style innovation, and WH's work pressure will be immediately halved or disappear. I called XY to my office and said, XY, come, tell me what you have been doing. Have you been doing this, and then doing that? I told her, I do this for these few hours, and that for those few hours. Is there still pressure? No pressure. Where did the pressure go? I tell you where the pressure comes from: from not having a plan. A person with a plan must be an efficient person. In other words, doing the same thing, just changing the way you do it, the person is still the same, but the efficiency doubles. That is, adjusting the way we do things. We will talk about efficiency and each according to its kind later.

Efficiency-style innovation is just slightly adjusting the way you do things, that's all. This is so interesting! The efficiency has greatly improved. Some time ago, because XY and HF were responsible for the writing ministry, one day I had a meeting with them, and they were under great pressure. I just adjusted the way they did things, and the output doubled! Don't you find it amazing? The same thing, changing the way you do it, greatly improves efficiency.

Tian Ji's horse race, you see that his three horses are not as good as the others. He just adjusted the order of the race. What did he do? He did efficiency-style improvement, efficiency-style innovation. Efficiency-style innovation is very interesting. The same group of people, the same thing. I change the way they do it, and the efficiency doubles. Don't you think the return is too high? Who among us has studied optimization? Brother WJ is in charge of logistics optimization. Optimization is amazing. Where did the concept of optimization come from? It came from efficiency-style innovation. This is so powerful. With one adjustment, the efficiency doubles. This is so divine.

What did Tian Ji's horse race do? I used my worst horse to compete with your best horse. It doesn't matter if I lose. I used my second best horse to win your third best horse, and I won. The final result is winning. All three of my horses are not as good as yours, but the final result is winning. Don't you think it's very divine? This is called planning, strategic planning.

I think the reason our church can get to where it is today is because I have a strategic mindset. It is not because I am leading the best talent, but with the people I lead, I will definitely use my human resources very effectively. What kinds of things do I do? Besides preaching, preaching is not my most important thing. The most important thing is planning there. Painting a good direction for the future, and then planning how to mobilize resources. Resources are always limited, but your work is always unlimited. So how can you use limited resources to solve unlimited work? I tell you, this is called planning. This is efficiency-style innovation.

## Efficiency Arises from Each According to Its Kind

The previous discussion focused on enhancing efficiency. Now, let’s summarise this from another perspective. Regarding the term each according to its kind, have you noticed how often it appears in the Scriptures? Moses, while writing the Book of Genesis, reiterated that “each according to its kind” is key to efficiency. What is each according to its kind?

Each according to its kind signifies planning. Our God is very purposeful in what He does. Do you think He just acts on a whim 一 planning one way on the first day, another the next, then on the third and fourth? The Scriptures state that God, before the foundation of the world, had already predestined. God is very purposeful. Do you think mankind suddenly fell, and only then did God have a contingency plan? No, God chose you and me before the creation of the world.

God knew what was to come a long time ago. I find it divine, beyond my comprehension. Each according to its kind is about planning — planning what? If people are those each according to its kind, they are bound to be very efficient. I apply this principle to daily life, breaking it into four parts: First, what to do; second, how to do it; third, to what extent to do it; and fourth, when to do it.

If these four aspects are handled well, you’ll always know what to do when planning. What to do and how to do it — if you're clueless about both, I tell you, you’ll be under immense pressure. A day passes, and nothing gets done; yet, the pressure is overwhelming because you’re just daydreaming without a plan.

If you are a man of planning, you will never do by emotions. I calmly plan what to do, how to do it, to what extent to do it, and when to do it. Write down the plan, then execute it — pressure dissipates. The capacity to plan and the ability to execute are critical. When WH asked me a question, it involved both planning and execution.

## Review & Reflect

Was my plan sound? Was my execution correct? Next time, plan again, execute again, reflect again. Continuous iteration makes you extraordinary. Why do I dare say that our church's potential is far from being fully unleashed? Even at this stage, it’s still far from being realised. Why such untapped potential? Because the potential of our brothers and sisters has not been fully released.

If the potential of every brother and sister in our church could be amplified tenfold, it would be astonishing — tenfold, a hundredfold, like a nuclear explosion. So today, let’s elevate our planning abilities, execution capabilities, and the power of review and reflection. Take time to sort yourselves out. What do you not need to do?

Some wallow in negativity. What good does that do? One hour, two hours of negativity, day after day 一 you're consumed by it, achieving nothing. I find it odd; why be negative? It’s because negativity wasn’t in your plan. Focus all your attention on what to do, what objectives to achieve, and whether you are meeting them.

Isn’t your goal to live prosperously? Isn’t your goal to be a blessing to many? Why not move in that direction? What you do matters greatly. If you do the wrong thing, even if successful, it’s meaningless. I regret that some of those I ministered to not only failed to contribute positively to the church but instead caused significant damage. Why did they sabotage? Because they were negative, dissatisfied with me or the cell group leader. If you damage God's church, won’t He settle the account?

What you do is crucial; if something isn’t important, postpone it. It might just resolve itself with time. Pursue the right priorities. Focus. When one knows what to do, next consider how to do it. A great skill. If you’re unsure, reframe the problem as “How should I do it?” Research to understand, instead of being stuck with pressure or a sense of helplessness.

If you are unsure, then study what needs to be done! And if you only partially know it, hold on to what you know, and research the remaining parts! When you become clear as how to do it, your efficiency would be significantly improved. To what extent should things be done? I often give an example: You can wash a bowl a hundred times. Some take six hours to shower and two hours to use the restroom — surely, time will run out. This raises an interesting point. When to act is equally important.

If it’s not urgent now, can it wait until next month? If so, postpone it. Then, you won’t complain about undone tasks or feel burdened. Why lug around what’s only needed next year? Planning “what to do”, “how to do it”, “to what extent” and “when to do things” – all are important.

If one clarifies these aspects and addresses each methodically, one can achieve a great deal. Many problems in the world are due to people not acting each according to its kind; they're in disarray. I’ve interpreted “each according to its kind” in these four ways. Reflect on this and implement it well. Don't do useless things. Before acting, ask yourself if it’s beneficial. If not, discard it.

Take JN sister’s mother, XR, who complains that she is kind to somebody, but somebody is unkind to her. What good does it do? None! Reduce useless activities. Don’t tell everyone; talking gets you cancer. So, today, we do beneficial things. Imagine what could be achieved if everyone did what is beneficial. If 98 out of 100 people do useless things, and only two do beneficial things, who will win? The two will win. Standing atop, the top 20% share 80% of the world's resources.

Whom can you blame? They are who do useful things. The bottom 80% share 20% of the resources; whom do you blame for your poverty? I feel that many people do futile things, a picture of road side bird, a picture of new shoes. Before taking action, could we ask ourselves if it is effective? If you think that living that way is interesting, then slowly enjoy it. Don’t blame me when you are in a fix. They are too dumb. If you find yourself getting anxious, it is not my fault. How can you consider yourself as smart and me dumb? The mess is getting worse!

## Efficiency and Learning

Learning is key throughout one's life. You might ask, Pastor, why don't I have any innovative ideas? Why don't I have disruptive innovation and efficiency-based innovation? I don't have sustaining innovation in my life, and I don't know how to plan or anything... Do you think you were born knowing all this? No one is born knowing everything; it's all learned. If it's learned, then let’s learn it. Learning is key.

I ask you, if a child is born and doesn't receive education from a young age, like my father who was a cowherd, and you bring him here today, put him under the spotlight and cameras, and he has a dark, wrinkled, old face like an old farmer. When he speaks, he sounds very unsophisticated. Why? Because a person who doesn't learn remains ignorant their whole life. So why did my cousins and I become completely different people? Because I learned.

What are they doing? They also learn, but they learn useless things: playing mahjong, smoking, drinking, watching the news, and chatting about nonsense. They think their way of life is interesting, but I disapprove of it. I disapprove of many people's ways of life.

What is the critical issue? It's that people must learn from a young age. If you're fifty, you still need to learn; if you're sixty, you still need to learn; if you're seventy and half-buried, you still need to learn; even if you're eighty, you still need to learn. You need to know that **learning is key**. You must know this and learn. Look at my mother, who is over eighty years old. She typed a lot of text the other night and did it very well.

I thought someone else was typing for her, but it was her. She slowly figured it out, how to pronounce and type. It's very interesting. Fortunately, my mother learned computers, so when she has problems, she searches online and many people pray for her. She often sends messages on WeChat and chats with me. Over eighty years old and can type, that's great! So we must learn and constantly understand, and then we can work efficiently.

For example, my mother learned computers. Others taught her, but she couldn't learn. I taught her over the phone for two twenty-minute sessions, and she learned. Where did my teaching method come from? It's a method I developed myself. I teach people because I learned how to teach her. In the process of learning how to teach her, I first close my eyes and think about what problems she might encounter.

An eighty-year-old opens a computer, what's the first key she presses? What will happen after she presses it? After opening QQ, she can't find anything, what problems will she encounter? My guesses are very accurate. I said, Are you encountering this problem? She said, Yes, I can't find the window. I said, The window is behind; you need to bring it out like this. Then she knows how, and it's very simple. I'm very grateful that my mother is a senior who loves to learn. She goes out and proudly tells other old ladies, Can you use a computer? You can't? I can. Can you video call? You can't? I can. What changed my mother? Learning changed her. If she refused to learn, there's no way.

This is learning and efficiency. Learning brings thinking, learning brings inheritance, learning brings efficiency. I have a concept for everyone to remember: **Learn a little bit every day, improve a little bit every day, grow a little bit every day, isn't that great**? Some people don't learn for a day and are negative. I think that's a pity. If your life grows, growth brings joy, and joy brings a sense of happiness.

So a person must constantly learn and constantly increase their sense of happiness. Think carefully about what I'm saying. Without learning, you don't grow. Without growth, you live a depressing life, with food and drink like a pig. Pigs have food and drink, sleep and eat on time, and are raised like that. If you ask them what they're doing, they don't know.

**A person must grow, not only in understanding God with all their heart, but also in constantly growing spiritually. Then your physical body will dwell in safety. This is a spiritual principle.** I think this is the work of the church. Our church will have major breakthroughs in learning methods in the future. This is my key project for the next period, to teach everyone how to learn. I think I am someone who knows how to learn, and I will teach everyone to become someone who knows how to learn.

Nothing in a person's life is not learned; no one is born knowing everything. Everything is learned, and learning can unlock our potential and make us grow. We want to build a model church, teaching everyone innovation, teaching everyone how to learn. This is the work of the church. Teaching everyone how to improve efficiency is the work of the church. Teaching everyone how to plan and classify things is the work of the church. This is a model church. So the church we are building today is not based on any particular church, although we may have built it according to them in the past. Today, we are starting to build according to the word of God.

Starting to build according to restoring the original glory God intended for the church. God wants to receive glory in the church, in Jesus Christ. How do we receive glory? Through our way of life. The church must become such a model church, constantly cultivating everyone into talented people, and even if they are not talented, they will become talented.

This time I met a sister named XL, whose child is named FF. XL always had many worries about her child, but after coming to the church, the worries gradually disappeared. Now I confidently say that FF will become a remarkable person in the future. This child is very impressive. I once said that I could run 5 kilometers in 21 minutes; he runs 5 kilometers in 15 minutes. 15 minutes is super fast, equivalent to 2 hours and 40 kilometers, which is a marathon standard, very impressive. Our church gave him a running jersey.

I am really grateful to God that everyone is releasing their potential. Anything can be taught, and anything can be learned.

## Overcoming Negative Emotions Is Key to Improving Efficiency

If you are filled with negative emotions, you can't do anything. Actually, when I face challenges in my life, I also have many negative emotions. But I don't stay in that emotion. My feelings are very painful, often like someone stabbing my heart with a knife. I am not without blood and flesh; I often cry, and I tell God that it really hurts.

But I don't live in it. I must run the heavenly road ahead, regardless of whether people mock me or not. I must continue to run this road. I have negative emotions just like you. In fact, when some brothers and sisters are negative, I also become negative along with them. I find it strange, why are you always like this? I become negative towards you too. You are not only negative towards me, but I am also negative towards you.

But I will get rid of the things inside. I continue to innovate, continue to improve, continue to learn, continue to develop my potential, and continue to build God's glorious church. What about you? Are you just negative? You really need to change! Overcome negative emotions and don't let them become the main focus of your life. Let learning, efficiency, innovation, observation, and living abundantly become the main focus of your life.

## Summary

Our potential is unlimited. Have you released your potential? If you can release your potential, you will let God be glorified through you. Rivers of living water will flow from your belly. You are living water, not stagnant water, and certainly not bitter water. You will become a blessing to all nations and peoples on earth, constantly improving yourself to glorify our God.

Then I also encourage you to really know why you live, really know what your Mingding Doctrine is, and then we will build God's glorious church together. Amen!