BGI Handbook Overview

[Music] hey guys i'm super excited to go over the bgi handbook with you all and you should have a an electronic version of this too you can even go over it along with me or separately i know it does have to be signed even our staff and people aspiring to volunteer with us and intern just a beautiful um structure and parameter set in a biblical fashion to keep the culture pure and really an upright posture you know for a community to host the lord well and represent him in an upright fashion so anyway i'm going to go over each line item with you i may summarize some and many of you already know this and walk walk this out in such a beautiful way i think it just helps as even throughout the academy and community and just humanity you get not only people from all walks of life people are at different places in their walk with the lord installment seasons and that's okay and and we love it all and sometimes we just need a good healthy reminding we all do and that's beautiful sometimes it's just a reminding of what we already know and it helps as many of you probably have been with us on crusades in the past i actually do a mini version of this you'll remember from like day one we meet with the team and go over some of this kind of cultural um infrastructure that's beautiful and it really it just it benefits all of us and we're all grateful for it at the end of the day because it keeps such a community of unity and community and peace and love and support and it's just a safe place for everybody of encouragement and in so many different ways so number one really we have one a one b two a two b and so forth and so on i think down to eighteen items no not just twelve it may end up around eighteen we're going to revamp it and get it better but this is pretty full to start with so um number one this is a big one i i we have here and it all has to be signed at the end i will not complain uh and murmur or even entertain forward slash regurgitate which means to bring back up complaining and murmuring of any sort even to entertain it and repeat it you know often the enemy he may not even need you to complain if you don't do that but if he can just get you to be a parrot of it he still uses you you know the bull horn that people use to speak it's nothing but electronic device no life in it but boy can sure echo what's being said and projected and there's power of life and death in the tongue and so not only do we not want to complain or remember ourselves we don't want to be the bull horn for it to then be entertained by it and repeat it you know anytime i hear complaining it if it hits me it dies with me i know no chance am i going to be the source for death to repeat death you know and be the parrot that's going to repeat something that's not life in jesus christ all on purpose twist it and speak life or i won't say it at all so a culture this is beautiful when you find a culture it's rare quite often to be honest but it does not operate in complaining and murmuring also some of you guys have heard me say this before you are guaranteed to never get out of the wilderness as long as you have a complaining or murmuring spirit that is number one that was one of the main things god went after um in the wilderness before he even let his children into the promised land if you keep if you hang on to complaining and murmuring by default you will be ousted from the promised land it will short-circuit your destiny 100 of the time and we just don't want to be a people of sorts um of course can you find reasons to complain murmur you know of course throughout life in just about any given situation but it still doesn't make it right or just or pleasing to the holy spirit the verse is here we have it all backed up by scripture which is beautiful uh philippians chapter 2 verse 14 paul's writing to the church of philippi do everything without complaining do everything without complaining well what if i'm mopping up a dirty bathroom floor everything just enjoy it thank god it could always be worse you know and first corinthians chapter 10 verse 10 says we must not complain as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer so first paul is writing to the church of philippi this is all new testament here in philippians 2 14 he says do everything without complaining then in first corinthians he's writing to the church of corinth in chapter 10 verse 10 and he's talking about the people in the wilderness under moses he says look we must not complain as some of them did and were destroyed by the destroyer that's what it does it brings destruction to your own life and we don't want that we want our community to thrive and be promised land livers you know milk and honey and we want to all flow in that together we don't want anybody falling back into the wilderness we all want to come together remain in a beautiful spirit without complaining and murmuring one b you'll see why we have one a one b two a 2 b and so forth and so on 1 b the b is always this right here so this is what i won't keep repeating i may for a few until it sets in but it says this right here i will tell bgi leadership if anyone amongst us including myself is found to be a complainer and or a murmurer or found to be operating in a complaining and murmuring spirit of any sort he said where is that in the bible ephesians chapter 5 verse 11 take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose them and just so you know as leaders i'm sure many of you have seen this in the years if you followed us for any length of time we're super protective especially of our people and really just in general you should be we love to cover people keep them in honor bless them be life in any way we can so we're not about um trying to humiliate people at all but we are really about having a community and a culture without weeds and nonsense that's not pleasing to the lord and that we'll keep trying to pull a work that we've built for so many years through our own blood sweat and tears and prayer and following the voice of the lord as accurately as we can to thrive under his presence for a people to thrive under and in his presence for then a few weeks to come in we're very adamant about that we'll remove weeds but typically just so you know we operate high high mercy grace patience second third chances but also if we see a consistent theme there we will um that's why this must be signed you know we can uh remove you and or the person that wants to operate in that we we just as soon if you want to complain there's going down the road there's many other ministries or churches or somewhere in the marketplace it might be a better fit for you but um this is what we have to assign to and we encourage our culture to tattletail for sure because we're going to protect the title tale you won't even know where we heard it from we're going to honor everybody and the source of the problem we're trying to fix in love and mercy and say look let's come out of that let's come higher let's walk in a land flowing with milk and honey it's only going to hurt you not us you know because we just want to do what the lord wills and um so that's uh one b and if i'm honest too our and if we are as a bgi community and even our staff any of these you start to operate in you're going to stick out anyway it's just not our culture you'll start to stick out like a sore thumb and you in not a good way really you'll start to uh it'll be seen pretty quick and you just don't want to you know flow in that we want to not be conformed to the world but by the renewing of our mind be transformed into the way and character of the lord so uh number two to a i will not cause divisions or even entertain forward slash regurgitate divisiveness of any sort listen this is a big one too and it usually comes in a beautiful package backed by revelation and verses and all this but if any divisions of any sort is never the will of the lord a house divided against itself cannot stand i'm quoting verses not even one of our main verses i'll quote here in a second but division and um real quick the the origin of the word division means to separate and you you have a die a separate vision so a lot of people don't realize this but division often comes by just bringing a separate vision from the overall vision of the house or work or direction a body is going and so often people mean well but they they birth and give life to division by bringing a separate vision so which is great in in at times but often just so you know i am under different visions often all the time sometimes every weekend under different houses and visions and ministries and and what i do is even if i hear something that may be seeming like in a different direction you always submit it to the house and even then it should complement strengthen the the main overriding vision and if it doesn't i won't touch it because we're about unity first which is biblical you see it here in um uh first corinthians 1 10 chapter 1 verse 10 of first corinthians paul writes i appeal to you brothers by the name of our lord jesus christ that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment and so division divisiveness often it it's kind of people will come in and not even know it at times but want to start their own thing that that's that's using the umbrella of the house or the name and credibility to attach to and create a separate vision and many other ways just straight up divisiveness from from any form or fashion is not biblical and should always be done handled by grace and mercy which we will but divisiveness to divisiveness is just not the lord in any setting and that's how the enemy will want to work he he'll come in right out of the gate that's what he did with adam and eve he'll bring a truth but he'll he'll split the vision of it and it causes division and a divided house can't stand so that's how the animal works so that's a big one if we sense that in any form or fashion of course we're gonna address it in mercy and grace but it won't last any length of time and that's a big reason too why now we're going over this handbook with you guys not so much so for the online community because there's many leaders and even pastor leaders of their own ministries on the online community that we wouldn't want to overstep especially as i get later into some of the other details that they may see differently and may not they may see it the same but we will only want to extend the leverage of love and covering where we have that authority and leverage and that would be in-house with the bgi community volunteers interns within the church and things like this and this is where we're mostly bringing it forth now because it really matters in this way and yet and one encourages because i know some people are moving changing jobs up and moving and everything else and you do need to know this beforehand um it won't really matter if this is a continual operation we will you know remove divisiveness complaining things like this no matter what what scenario the scenario was of getting here and things like this so we just want to be clear to be i will tell bgi leadership if anyone amongst us including myself was found to be causing division spreading a separate vision or found to be operating in a divisive spirit of any sort ephesians 5 11 take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose them so again tattletail if people are divisive and and my next one will the next few will connect you'll start to see it all play out but just causing the vision and talking a little bit and saying things that they typically wouldn't in front of leadership that's a dead giveaway if you can't openly say in front of leadership there's you know you know i think we should you know just starting to spread different vision from outside of the the unit the overall unity and same mind that paul's going after here i appeal to you brothers by the name of our lord jesus christ and all of you agree that there be no divisions among you but that you'll be united in the same mind and same judgment you know and um often people you know will want to cause a separate vision that don't even carry the weight of the corporate fish you know all the responsibilities of the house anyway and that that's just not it doesn't line up so anyway uh 3a i will walk in honor toward bgi bgi leadership and to my brothers and sisters in the lord throughout the entire bgi community honors big and again i i not to toot our own horn here but if you ever start to think you know just watch when instructions like this are given and typically you'll see us never ask you to do anything we don't do you know you can sit back and be like oh yeah i watch brian or i watch some of the team and the bj staff and we this is what we do because we really you know we would never say do as we say not as we do that's really my point so we're never going to ask anything of you that we don't already do our best to walk in and hold at a high level we're really about glorifying jesus in all things and honor is really really big to walk and honor and sustain it and maintain it and that's what really gets elevated and secure in the kingdom anyway i will not operate in or be given over to dishonor in any form or fashion and i'll tell you often sometimes it creeps in unknowingly this is a big one people start to get around others that they initially honor and just from sheer familiarity it breeds contempt and they get a little too relaxed and start to dishonor in certain ways and joking manners and and talk down or and just in dishonor and that's not not a good place i just want you guys to know there's plenty of people i walk very closely with now that initially are holding high honor and still you just keep you maintain that honor because you see people through the lens of the lord and the viewpoint of the spirit always even look at david he knew the anointing was on saul saul totally twisted tormented by a demon spirit trying to kill him throwing a spear at him hostile emotional and still david held him in honor he said no don't touch him he's the anointed he wept when he found out saul and jonathan were killed killed the guy who admitted to killing them there's honor you keep honor always and um and so anyway romans 12 10 paul writes be devoted to one another in brotherly love give preference to one another in honor so again of course to bgi bgi leadership but also even to our brothers and sisters in the lord throughout the entire community listen this breeds for a heavenly like atmosphere that's what we're going for your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven there's no complaining in heaven there's no murmuring in heaven there's no division in heaven at all there's complete authority alignment perfect alignment leading up to the godhead and everybody's happy and in complete paradise and glory and there's complete honor and that's all we're wanting to do is is kind of replicate repeat the blueprint of heaven and everybody will be appreciated for it soon as people you start letting bad weeds come in that murmur complain dishonor um trust me we'll again we encourage be a tattletale and uh we'll pull them out the weeds we're just not or again hopefully redirect you back onto the path in mercy and love 3b i will tell bgi leadership if anyone amongst us including myself is found to be operating in dishonor or found to be operating in a dishonoring spirit of any form or fashion see even including myself so it's not always trying to find the person it's like oh light bulb i'm operating in this thing so come to leadership we'll say hey no worries let's pray together let's not go back there again though you know and and just strive to reflect jesus really well 4a i will operate in humility pliability and a submissive spirit toward the entire bgi leadership team and even that applies within the the brothers and sisters too in a certain way it's it's beautiful humility true humility um brings this about anyway but hebrews 13 17 obey your leaders and submit to them for they are keeping watch over your souls as those who will have to give an account so that's beautiful 4b i'll tell bgi leadership anybody's not operating and such 5a i will not commit or be given over to sexual sin in any form or fashion not limited to but including pornography ephesians 5 3 since you are god's people it is not right that any matters of sexual immorality or indecency or greed should even be mentioned among you so again we want the just purity of the lord thriving through our camp no mixture wash us jesus and let's keep growing in reflection to him 5b i'll tell bgi leadership if anyone amongst us including myself is operating and sexual sin in any form or fashion not limited to but including pornography ephesians 5 11 take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness but instead expose them and again it's exposing them to us as leadership which we are going to take it and cover and bless and typically you'll you'll never know because we want to like jesus you guys hear me teach us a lot the woman at the at jacob's well he starts reading her mail in baggage from the past just when she's around the disciples came up after and it was recorded for encounter sake but in his love we and that's how we operate love cover you bless you we see you in god's eyes we see you for the long haul and destiny say come back around but also we don't want to condone and support compromise either because you'll never fulfill destiny that way either 6a this is a big one i will not gossip or slander unacceptable ephesians 4 29 let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion it may give grace to those who hear leviticus 19 16 you shall not go about as a slanderer among your people and you are not to act against the life of your neighbor i am the lord proverbs 20 19 he who goes about as a slanderer reveals secrets therefore do not associate with a gossip proverbs solomon's like don't even associate with a gossip very deadly the life and death of the tongue we want to be life always life bombs if if you can't produce life just zip it you know so a gossip or slander no no such we'll be allowed in the in the camp we're just we're we're good we you know just not not acceptable uh 6b i'll tell bgi leadership to find any anybody's gossiping or slandering even myself and we'll make sure it's cleaned out 7a i will not be negative or of a fault-finding spirit this is big and i think often we don't realize we operate in it we've all been guilty of it but listen to philippians 4 8 paul writes finally brother brethren whatever things are true whatever things are noble whatever things are just whatever things are pure watch this one whatever things are lovely whatever things are of good report if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy meditate on these things the bible says out of the heart the mouth speaks and really the heart there is the mind meaning if you're meditating upon negative things out of your heart the mouth will speak and that's where negative fault finding comes from it's you're allowing it in your heart but when you do like paul and meditate on that which is lovely things of good report anything of virtue and praiseworthy meditate on these things guess what's going to come out of your mouth out of the heart the mouth speaks pray things noble praise worthy things that are lovely and a good report pure just noble and so again this is the this is the community and the the culture we want to embody things that are praiseworthy and true and so negative fault-finding again it's similar to complaining and murmuring it's a wilderness it's a sign of a wilderness dweller and that's just not what we want so and you find anybody operating in just negative fault finding criticizing look anybody can do that but why don't we step up to the high standard of the holy ghost and how jesus walks and what paul condones and writes in the inherent word of god and meditate on these things that's that and that's what will come out and you'll be a lot more uh filled with peace love and joy anyway negative fault finding it's just you reap what you sow and then everybody start wondering why everybody's finding fault with you and negative with you because you've sown it not unknowingly often uh for weeks and months to come and and um so um i'll tell bgi leadership the negative nitpick and fault finding um that's just not the lord thank god jesus went that way with us you know and he never is so uh eight a i will and this is the one where we um really want to um you know imply this have this as a infrastructure for our academy and culture others may have places they want to debate on it that's okay but within our community this is this is a big one to us i will not drink alcohol do drugs partake of nicotine products or be involved with any such practice many people want to pull verses and debate about alcohol in this day and age i've seen way too many cons over the pros of that and the excuses i hear really weak anyway and i would propose that i've talked before jesus even himself before he died and rose again he said i'll never even touch of this vine again until i have it with you speaking of wine on the wedding feast so jesus christ if we're saying what would jesus do he's to this day since 2000 years ago never touched alcohol not even the heaven waiting for the covenant new wine to drink with his bride on the wedding feast day so if you want to do what jesus did you do that but also watch first thessalonians chapter 5 verse 22 paul writes abstain from all even appearance of evil not just evil appearance of and all of these things fall out there's a bit of a blurry line there and so we just anybody around this topic or again any of these you say well no i just kind of want to hang on to this then just don't come again we just want to be upfront with you don't want to under communicate mislead anybody you know you just don't want to up and move to atlanta and be a part because we we won't have a partner and that's why we're going to have you guys sign this and i say that in love but if some of you have your different take on it that's okay but have your different take in a different community or house because it you know that's just not what we do but abstain from all appearance of evil you know a good example is say you go buy a bottle of wine at the store for communion and it's it's up right before you and the lord but somebody else just got born again in a church set free from alcoholism sees you one of our main students in the line you don't know they're in there with a full bottle of wine they don't know you're not gonna go go home and down the whole thing and be drunk and see that's what paul says abstain even from the appearance of evil all appearance of evil and so and it's just a blurry line why even go there stay drunk on the holy spirit intoxicated and he who is perfect love you know and so that's another big one i'll tell bgi leadership anyone amongst us even including myself is involved in any of these things number nine and we're getting towards the end i will not participate in the use of verbalizing explicit language or even slang terms relating to any form of explicit language so just foul foul you know foul mouth no no bleeping needed around our culture um again most of us already walk in all of this but we we don't want to even start to lean that way ephesians 4 20 29 let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion that it may give grace to those who hear 9b tell bgi leadership 10a i will abide by the bgi dress code and not wear anything inappropriate or seductive in any form or fashion but dress modestly and respectfully this is the lord and it's beautiful i tell you men or women way more beautiful and handsome in modesty anyway the modesty and reflection of the lord is glorious and actually rare in this hour and we need us we need a bridal company coming forth and being forerunners in this area first timothy 2 9 dressed modestly with decency and propriety 10b tower leadership 11 i mean we love tattletails listen we're all about it in our culture you just let us know we want to pull the weeds out and everybody will be more grateful for even those in it because we're going to see we're going to love you say look let's get it out let's keep going and then if you just insist then we'll just find an exit door for you and bless you on your way but anyway um this is a big one 11 a i will honor all times and schedules of bgi forward slash bgi classes conferences events outreaches volunteer forward slash intern hours and work positions this is a big one i promise to be prompt and on time for all responsibilities i have committed to and be respectful of the times and schedules have all involved ecclesiastes 55 it is better not to even make it a vow or an agreement than to make one and not fulfill it look i'll be there at 6 p.m and show up 602 607 and then everybody's there waiting that have actually probably been there five or ten minutes before so now it's not just you know two minutes latest 12 minutes late everybody's waiting to be sitting on go and start at the time and you'll notice as best as we can we we start on time our schedules will start on the minute if not typically before many of you have been on crusades with us we when we we set that culture as well because you know there's a timeline especially if you're moving a big corporate body you know if you're not just going out to lunch with somebody but you when you're moving a big machine you got a bunch of sheep we need to to move together and it's just considering and preferring others and not making other people wait on you and not thinking about that you know and so often on crusades we've got a schedule it's it it's tight at times there's traffic that hits these big cities in central and south america we gotta be on the bus and and everybody knows that we're leaving here if you're not on the bus you get left and that has happened before people have to get their own taxi and we don't want to do that so i encourage if you hear us ever say show up at a certain time i'd be there 10 minutes early that always shows good anyway as a culture and then you know and it's just better to be very punctual or before and it exudes excellence it's really a beautiful thing um also psalm 15 4 he keeps his word even to his own divine a disadvantage and does not change it for his own benefit talk about the man that fears god and loves the lord pretty much in psalm 15 you'll a person will keep their word even if it's to their own disadvantage meaning if you agree to a certain time and just punctuality excellence and again as a team grows and the staff grows you'll start to realize like we've been leading for years and you start to know as soon as that ball starts getting dropped down the line it it really can mess up the culture so punctuality honoring time schedule is really big 11b i'll tell bgi leadership if we got some stragglers 12a i will not utilize social media and again any of this stuff you're like look i'm just too much i encourage you don't don't sign this and if you don't sign this we won't let you in so and it'll be easier on everybody you know and you can keep enjoying whichever a's or b's you you want to hang on to and we'll bless you and love you either way but that's the point of this this is part of it and this is really minimal because look jesus had high standards it's the narrow straight gate with the compressed way to life you know you want to follow me he told him take up your cross meaning died everything you ever thought you were die to it he didn't go you know 12 a through 12 b he's like look get on your cross own it come to the point of death and you'll barely be entering the door to begin to learn from me this was the standards of jesus so which is good and we welcome that too we want everything jesus in the ways of the word and his presence 12 a i will not utilize social media and public platforms to harm slander or voice my concerns uh in any certain way that just wouldn't be um credible for anything and this this even has against bgi or bgi leadership i'd say even within the community that goes back to even honor as well but um and i but also more importantly i will use all social media and public platforms to set a good example that reflects the bgi vision because again the more you come under us which again we're okay if you you would like to be somewhere else but as you come under us we want to cover and bless and guard your souls the scriptures and teach and train and protect and honor and watch you thrive and come under you and cheerlead you and train you up as best which is all the lord through us but but also what happens by default is you become an extension of us with our name that we've we've tried to protect all these years and build up and really cherish as it really points back to the lord and giving him glory and so as you become an extension that really matters and so set a good example that reflects bgi vision the mission statement and all that is outlined in the bgi handbook i'll go even further i would run out of the gate say go look at your social media following even who you're following because you've got to go back to i'll avoid even the appearance of evil you know if you're starting to if you're following things and sometimes it's just we forget from seasons past and that's okay too but i'd start to weed out if anything is before your eyes and ears of social media mostly i'm going to be real practical with you mostly instagram because people follow that that's a visual platform facebook as well but that's hard to know at times because we have thousands of friends i don't know don't never even know their name or met him in my life i don't know who they are it's just our platform you know it's maxed out on friends and following but trust me me and our media director if any of us find nonsense they'll be gone so fast we'll delete them we just don't play with it will impact you but again what you're letting in and watching if you're following on instagram that means that's what you're viewing then i mean it looks evil or doesn't represent well i i would delete and remove and do a good sifting through that really or it's also going to be just hard on yourself in life especially if we want to begin to grow and have you be a volunteer an extension of us or staff ultimately we'll check those things you know because you're an extension of us and that really matters but first timothy 4 12 set an example for the believers in speech in conduct in love and faith and in purity you set an example and so even what you're following make sure it's clean and pure and avoid all the appearance of evil and and again you may say well i know that person and my account's been interesting to them if i don't follow them it may they may get offended i hear that but also all the people that are starting to follow you they don't know that and they're they're not seeing what you're following and it's not avoiding the appearance of evil and so you really got to pray through that start weighing all that out uh 12 b i'll tell bgi leadership any such a thing happens and at the bottom you'll see by signing this agreement i so and so indicate that i have read and understand the bgi handbook therefore i accept all the terms and conditions as mentioned in the bgi handbook forward slash agreement i acknowledge that if i do comply with the bgi handbook for such agreement bgi leadership has the right to dismiss me at any given point print full name signature witness signature and date and that'll be glorious um soon i love you guys and super excited for this as well and again just to start and i'll go over this in person as well when we get together here shortly actually at the church in the academy headquarters and super excited to house a healthy culture that's safe full of mercy major grace love we get it we've all fallen short and go there but also we're not trying to keep having all these trip hazards and weeds in the way either you know we want to pull them out and operate off of the lord's glory so love you guys hope that blessed you you'll have your electronic version there at home and excited to see you guys soon

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