Christimas For Christ Kickoff Rallies

Section 2&3

Pre Service: CFC video

Open: Bro. Nate Muellur

Worship: TLC Worship team

Bishop testify: Bro. Nate Muellur

Sectional updates/thank you’s: Bro. Alphin

Every church in Nebraska gave to or had someone give on their behalf…

Grand total of $18,597.40

Section 3: $5,380

Bethel Christian Ministries: $1,000

The Church of Omaha: $1,600

Section 2: $12,172.14 - lead by Nate Mueller

New Life: $2,000

The Life Church of Lincoln: $7,102

Second Video

Section One: $4,115.26

Apostolic Worship Center: $1,785

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We are here to take both an offering and commitments to for Christmas for Christ.

If you don’t know, NAM is the primary mechanism that we as the UPCI, utilize to finance starting churches in the US and Canada.

NAM Trains, Funds and Sends new pastors in new cities.

Through Christmas for Christ, we raised 8.3 million dollars for church plants last year.

This year our national goal is: 10 million!

Last year we planed 242 new churches/one church every 36 hours!

This year our national goal is to start 365 new churches, one every day of the year!

Tonight we are going to do three things.

Receive an offering - what is taken in cash money tonight is our first wave of giving.

Receive pledges - Official due date is December 25th - pay that through your local church so that your church is credited

Take your pledge card and write a number on it and pray

TNT pledges - each pastor take a card and pray over it and fill out and turn it in.

365 new works a day!

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Philippians 3:13–15 KJV 1900

13 Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

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Title: The Pull Of The Future

It seems to me that we are in a never ending game of Tug-of-war with our time.

Our jobs, families, hobbies, churches all are grasping for our attention.

While if I asked, we could all come up with lists of things that pull at us…

I am going to distill it down into three basic things that constantly pull at us!

Past

Present

Future

Timeline illustration

Our Present - detractions, careers, family, entertainment

Tries to move me off my course

Our past - Constantly pulls on us.

We are a little district, flyover country

Condemnation, insecurity, tether us in place.

Rising tide raises all ships - no… if a ship is feathered to the bottom and the tide rises high enough the rising tide will sink a ship.

If your tied to the past, the future can overwhelm you!

Our future - the call of God pulling us!

We need the supernatural grace of God in our lives to fulfill!

We have to shake off the past, ignore the distraction of the present and surrender to the pull of the future!

Our problem is we think we have to figure it all out!

We constrain God with our linear thinking!

BUT! God is eternal!

He exists before time, in time and after time.

We have to move from the past into the future.

Is 46:10 - He knows the end from the beginning!

We can see only our present and what has been…

I’m thankful for that because goodness and mercy follow me!

BUT God also sees from your future to you beginning!

See’s every place you’re going to be,

Know where you will need help and provision!

Every place Strength and wisdom!

That’s why 1 Cor 10:13 says that there is a way of escape made before you ever get tot he place of temptation!

God just don’t know your past to your present, but he also knows your beginning to end!

Conclusion:

Sections 2 and 3 of the Nebraska district!

Can you feel the pull of the future?

We can have a long list of all the reasons why we will never have what has been prophesied…

I say to you that we are well able to get a church established in:

Kearney - 34,000 people right now calling for us to get a church started… can you look far enough into the future to see it?

Clay county - 6,200 people

Waverley - 4,300

David city - 3,000

Hickman - 2,500

South Sioux City - 82,000

Gretna - 5,000

Wahoo - 4,500

West Point - 3,200

God chose you to be here to be a part of his plan!

Do you feel the pull of the future?

Return to seats and take offering and pledges