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IHOP which is short for the International House of Prayer in Kansas city is by most people's standards it'd
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be called a mega church um has 5,000 people at least but much more uniquely it has a webstream that hundreds of
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thousands of people watch and a conference an annual conference that at least 20,000 people show up to each year
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we started becoming really interested in IHOP's teachings after Tyler went to one
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of their conferences in December 2007 it's one of the largest and most influential um charismatic churches in
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the country but something that makes IOP really different is that they have a 247 place of prayer and worship IHOP
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believes that Jesus is returning in this generation um like within the next 50 years potentially and that
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we have that Christians have a major role to play in bringing him back by praying
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in his return that he will come back in response to their prayers they think the
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Earth will be filled with houses of prayer like like theirs not like exactly like theirs but you know like whatever
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it'll look different in lots of different cultural contexts but that that places of Perpetual Adoration of
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God will happen and that in a in a sense that love of God and crying out to God um ultimately is something that God
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responds to there's a very um personal idea of relationship between God and people we were all really fascinated
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with the idea of getting to be in the last generation and with IHOP's teaching that there is a special group of people
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um that are going to prepare the rest of the world for his return we felt like we
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were were all called to be part of that chosen group we felt special