Elevation Year In Review

0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:02.800 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.840 I'm the pastor of Elevation Church and this is our podcast. 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:07.760 I wanted to thank you for joining us today. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:10.680 Hope this inspires you. Hope it builds your faith. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.879 Hope it gives your perspective to see God is moving 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.600 in your life. 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:23.160 Enjoy the message. I thank you that one thought of 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.600 you today, one thought can change the way we see ourselves. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.560 When God puts something significant in me, the enemy sends 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:35.519 something significant after me. 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.200 Find your tambourine and figure out how to praise even 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:42.680 in the waiting. 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.520 And the proof that I know that God still has 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:51.320 something amazing ahead for your life is that you're still here. 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:55.480 Hi. 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.560 Everyone, Welcome to church. I hope that you had a 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:02.400 wonderful Christmas. I hope that you were surrounded by the 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:04.480 people that you love. I hope that you ate all 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.720 of the amazing foods that you love, because you know 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 calories don't count on Christmas. I hope that you had 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.040 time to rest and nap and enjoy the peace that 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:17.959 this season brings. Now, this is the one Sunday of 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:22.039 the year where our entire church is epham, So I 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.640 want to see the comments flying right now. Let us 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.480 know where you are joining from. Maybe say hello to 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.480 someone else in the chat that's. 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:30.520 Not from your state. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.639 Pastor Steven and I are continually amazed at the people 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.840 that God has brought together across the world who make 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.720 up the people of Elevation Church. And it is the 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.280 honor of a lifetime to get to do ministry with you. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.080 Today is evident that you are finishing the year strong. 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.560 You're making church a priority, and that is something to 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.960 celebrate because twenty twenty four has been an immeasurably more. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:58.400 Year for our church. 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:03.000 We have seen some true, incredible blessings. We've reached new 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.360 communities all around the world. We've continued to be a 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:10.079 resource for those in need, and we have seen thousands 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.800 of lives transformed. The impact of our church and our 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.200 ability to share the hope of the Gospel is greater 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.000 than Pastor Stephen and I could have ever thought possible. 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.440 And that is because of you. You give so generously 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.919 of your time and your gifts, and you keep doing 0:02:29.120 --> 0:02:33.760 your part, and God continues to move you know, Jesus 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:37.320 says in John ten, He says, I have come that 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.160 they may have life and have it to the full. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.880 And as we continue to be the church, we get 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:48.639 to experience the fullness of life that God has promised us. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.720 Looking back on twenty twenty. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:54.280 Four, my heart is overflowing with gratitude for the ways 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.040 that we have seen God move, and as. 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:58.079 We look ahead to. 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.200 Twenty twenty five, I'm feel with expectation, knowing that even 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:06.359 greater things are yet to come. So today I thought 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.080 it would be fun to take a moment to reflect 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.320 on the incredible moments from the past year and then 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.480 maybe take a peek ahead to all of the amazing 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.360 things that God has for us in the year to come. 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.640 And I thought that I would invite some friends to 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.799 join us. It's going to be a great time, a 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:25.720 great conversation, and I'm glad that you're here with us. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.440 So let me introduce to you some of my friends. 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:31.440 These are all familiar faces, but I just want to 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.720 give you a formal introduction. This is Chris Brown, who 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:38.960 you probably know from Elevation Worship. And then we've got 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.400 britt at Consola in the middle here, who is our 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:46.320 ministry's pastor. Pastor Chad Zolo, our online pastor you all 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.760 know him, and Pastor chet Pete, who is our UC 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.120 University City shout out campus pastor. We've got to talk 0:03:54.120 --> 0:03:58.720 about worship first, because this was an incredible year for 0:03:58.800 --> 0:03:59.560 Elevation worship. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.920 I can't, I can't believe we're what almost twenty years in. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.920 Yeah, we released our. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:09.520 Seventeenth worship album maybe eighteenth nineteen. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.760 You can see exactly exactly. 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.040 That's a long story, all these years in almost two decades. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.840 It's crazy how God allows our ministry to go places 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.760 that we may physically never show up or set our feet, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.320 but the Word of God goes there, and a lot 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.480 of times that's happening through our shorge. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.680 Yeah, I feel like there are so many people who 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:34.800 have found our church through elevation. 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:38.200 It's incredible, so grateful. It is a crazy year. When 0:04:38.240 --> 0:04:40.320 Wind meets Fire. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.039 Okay to say, I think When Wind meets Fire is 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.760 my favorite Elevation Worship album. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.400 It's incredible. People ask me what, what's my favorite song? 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.680 What's my favorite album? The favorite album? Answer is always 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:54.760 what's the most recent one? 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.159 We just did? So I agree it's my favorite too, 0:04:58.800 --> 0:04:59.599 but for good reason. 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:00.480 Nowavorite song? 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:06.920 See, it's a album it is you got we might 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.680 get there, but I'll say sure, been good. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.080 Yeah, I love sure been good to the day I died. 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.240 Yeah, Jesus are the albums and the songs are like 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:15.839 your kids. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:19.000 Like you know, you can't choose a favorite. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:27.880 I have a favorite take, you have a favorite favorite song? 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:32.960 Okay, all right, I'm going to say it. 0:05:33.240 --> 0:05:35.920 No when win means fire though the song it's it's 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.800 a rock opera. We got like God is Not against 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.080 Me is on there? Which was what a sermon? It 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:45.280 turned into a song that also made. 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:45.800 Chapter in a book. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.279 Yeah, exactly, and one of the mindsets. I mean, it 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.080 wasn't just a chapter, it was like a section in 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.479 the room. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:56.400 Absolutely. I mean, new Thing Coming, which is so fun. Also, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.960 I mean, what a great song to to end one year. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.799 So many great songs. I can't believe it's seventeenth album. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:05.240 I can't believe it is. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:05.920 It's incredible. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.200 Also, I mean, we got a shout out rhythm for 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:10.280 Goodbye Yesterday. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.080 How good is that song? 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:13.640 It's so good, so good. 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.040 Also, actually another perfect song to end one year, And. 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:19.159 That's true. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.880 I love worshiping of that song. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:25.279 It just makes me so happy and you start like shouting. 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:27.000 I have decided to follow Jesus. 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.800 I feel like at a youth I mean, I got 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.840 a rhythm night and to hear are you declaring that? 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:35.360 Yeah? 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:37.719 But then to see it on a Sunday morning and 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.840 balanine'e and I mean it like. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:46.120 They're going strong, it goes crazy. Also, I mean selfish. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:50.279 I'll shout out praise too, because praise just kept released 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.400 it well over a year ago, not not this year, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.479 but it just kept reaching more people. So the way 0:06:57.480 --> 0:07:00.000 God's working through our ministry, how He's using the songs. 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.640 Is it's incredible. 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:07.320 I think we have a clipless show saying, hey, I. 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:13.160 Got you don't get it what we what we call 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:21.120 don this sol thing. You've never run out big? Put it? 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:22.240 Put it. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:31.800 By God. He's not a dance He's a shires as 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:36.960 this says a little little wayes Hi. 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.679 Do the songs on the bed room right down. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:52.360 Sons to get ready. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.400 For done the one because I done. The money's a. 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:22.960 Great shop thing, incredible, amazing, It's amazing how many good songs, 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:24.760 so that many. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:28.080 Song after song after song. I just am blown away. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.560 Okay, So, Chris, one of the things I want to 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.000 put people on the spot that are on the sofa, 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.520 and I want to know, are there any secrets. 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:38.920 Five. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.199 I want to know, are there any. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:45.240 Secrets that's the people watching today can can get O? 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.599 All right? All right? So well, can I let me 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:49.400 share a little story? 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.360 Okay? Stories? 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.240 May of this year, I got a phone call. I 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:55.800 think you happen to be in the car. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:56.360 Okay. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.680 I got a phone call from your husband, Pastor Stephen, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.719 and he says, you know, all these songs that have 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.920 been sitting on our phones, We've never recorded them, we've 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.719 never sung them in church, We've never figured out what 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:08.760 do we want to do with them. 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:10.040 I got the idea. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:15.160 What we need to do is get our friends together, Brandon, Lake, Channer, Moore, Leland, Pat, 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.880 the two of us, and let's just have fun and 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.760 let's record these and let's let's start a new group, 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:25.280 a new a boy band, if you will, but not 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:33.079 really a boy band, but a new twenty four twenty 0:09:33.160 --> 0:09:38.840 five man band. And it's going to be called Sons 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:44.520 of Sunday. My secret is Sons of Sunday SOS. So 0:09:44.760 --> 0:09:48.440 we got together in September and we recorded so many 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:54.040 songs in this amazing little chapel, and we banged on 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.439 pianos and guitars and tambourines and we cried and we 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.560 laughed and we lost our voice is and we recorded 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.719 so many songs and uh, it's gonna come out in 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.760 full album form, brand new album, all new songs people 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:10.320 have not heard. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.800 But it's coming, Sons of Sunday. I'll tell you what 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:13.280 you need to do. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.679 You actually need to go on socials right now and 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:19.280 search up Sons of Sunday because I mean we kind of. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.839 Have been king and then you'll know when it's out 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.080 exactly and every song is so good and okay. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.160 Do we have a little. 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:30.840 All right, so the secrets out? 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:32.800 Okay, secrets out. Check us out. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.439 God gets a hold of you. 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.480 It's no town. Watch alluded, nom time, watch. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:56.400 Alloud, my gad, fight my key free. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.640 But if you back, come out, I'm bing out on me. 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:03.480 I got fawing out. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.600 Okay, we needn't. 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:11.120 That's all you get right now. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.040 So sometime in twenty twenty five. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.800 I'll say sometime very soon, okay. 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:19.240 And then of course elevation worships on tour. 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.360 We we saw what sixteen cities with elevation nights this 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:28.160 past year and it was incredible nights in ministry. Yeah, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.000 and then we're headed right back out in February of 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:34.160 this year. Yeah, eight more cities in February. Can't wait 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:34.840 to see what God does. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:35.960 I mean, tour is amazing. 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.760 And the thing that I love about tour is it's 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.079 not just Elevation Worship. 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.120 It's like it's like. 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:46.680 Elevation Church came to your town. It yea and filled 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:49.400 an arena exactly. And so you get like all your 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.600 favorite songs, and then you get a word from Pastor Stephen, 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:57.240 and you get Epham you know, in the not the lobby, 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.199 but like whatever it's called the concourse. Of course, you 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:03.000 get to meet Chad and all of our e fam 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:07.560 gets to come together, and they're just such incredible nights. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.319 And we're going back out again and I'm so excited. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:11.960 We have the dates. 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.200 But we got another video. We got another video video. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.520 All right, all right, check this out. Here's Elevation Nights. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.679 It's amazing because this last time we had I think 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:43.240 over one hundred and sixty thousand people who showed up 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.240 this year and it is crazy, I mean you were 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.559 saying it, but to gather in person. A lot of 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.240 these people are part of our e fam who watch 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.160 online and so to get everybody in a room together 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.839 is crazy. One of the things I love that we do, though, 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.079 is when we get to meet with a lot of 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.000 the fan people who call Elevation Church family out in 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.040 the concourse. As you were saying, we have these little 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.200 stations set up and people stop by. But what Brick 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.319 gets to do a lot of times share with you 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:09.679 like your little station that you have. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.400 It's awesome, it's so special. It's my favorite thing that 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.240 we get to do. So we have an area where 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.280 we get to pray with you, and so you can 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.839 write a prayer request down and even to this day, 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.760 if you've written a request down, we're still praying for you. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.880 We have our teams hereas that pray over you, your 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.319 family or whatever it is that you need prayer for. 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.160 And so you mentioned it, it's a night of ministry 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.160 and it goes deeper than just like a room full 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.560 of people. We love the opportunity to see the individual 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.120 people and their needs and then align our faith with 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.040 you and what you need to see God do in 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:40.480 your life. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.839 Yeah, yeah, that's awesome, and we're pouring out as a 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.280 ministry into people. But I will say how much I 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:50.760 feel like, yeah, I get filled when I get to 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:55.520 read testimonies or you know, read the cards that someone 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:58.520 wrote a prayer request down and then months later have 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.839 in fact heard the test mony how God answered that prayer. 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:03.800 We're getting to meet people even there. 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:09.079 We've done that backstage and gotten to hear personally from them. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:13.080 How you know one of our songs carried them through 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:17.280 a sleepless night and that's just I mean, that's so fueling. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.720 And it's like I have no business being in the 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.000 position i am, but thank you Jesus. And we just 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.080 get to be a part of a ministry like this. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.200 Yeah, and we're not just at our campuses and on tour, 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:30.760 but we also do pop ups. 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:33.200 I mean pop ups have been amazing. 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:35.240 We've been doing these for a few years now, and 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.480 it actually started kind of right out of COVID. We 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.640 were like, well, everybody's watching online, now can we actually 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:42.480 take church to people on Sunday. 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.200 It's not an event, it's just. 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.480 Literally we bring some of the Elevation Worship crew and 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.040 we get people from all over the world who say, hey, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.360 I'd love to be baptized. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.880 I'd love to take that step, and we thought, well, 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.600 let's bring a baptism. Thanks to that. Yeah, and let's 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:56.360 do baptism. 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.760 So this year we've been able to do twelve pop 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.280 up and we're all over the United States. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.960 We wrapped up this year in Los Angeles. 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.400 We've seen over fifteen thousand people join with us at 0:15:08.440 --> 0:15:12.560 these pages and we've got the opportunity to baptize over 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.120 fifteen hundred people. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:15.160 Incredible it is. 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:20.400 It is absolutely incredible, And every stop it just never 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:21.200 ceases to. 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:21.640 Blow a mind. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.520 There's people lining up around the building. But what's cool 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.960 is every place that we go, it's like it feels 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:28.720 like church. 0:15:28.960 --> 0:15:30.360 It feels like this is family. 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.720 Yes, and we really try to make it feel that way. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:35.720 From you know, if you attend to campus, we want 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.440 you to come and attend one of these and think 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.880 I want you to see the banner and it's like, oh, 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.080 that's my church. They're here, and so as people are 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:46.960 coming in, you're what you're seeing familiar faces, but as 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.240 people who are part of this family. And so just 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.920 the opportunity that we get, I'm always so blown away, 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:54.720 Like you said, who are we that we get to 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.720 travel around and do this, like to be able to 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:59.400 go to a place and bring church like this to 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:00.360 where so many of you. 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.680 Are One of my favorite things that we did in 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:09.000 twenty twenty four was my husband released a book, and 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.320 it was his first book in eight years, and. 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:13.880 The book was called Do the New Year. 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:18.720 Yes, and the book, I mean, besides like releasing it 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.240 to the world and like all the things that came 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:25.280 along with it, I just so loved this book. Like 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:31.600 I'm just continually blown away at how God continues. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:32.920 To use our pastor's words. 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.240 So it's it could be when he's preaching, it could 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.880 be through the songs that he's writing, or through the 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:40.920 words of a book. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:42.800 And this particular book. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.240 He gave us the six mindsets and then the chapters 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.240 within the mindsets, and it was just I mean, it 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.360 was just so much fun to get to read that 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:55.200 book and release it and to hear people talking about 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:58.160 it and to hear how it was ministering to all 0:16:58.280 --> 0:16:58.480 of you. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.680 And I don't know any of you, I think we 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.280 do have to thank God for the way that he 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:03.840 used your voice because. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:06.960 If we remember, oh I remember, if we remember pastors, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.200 I mean, by the power of the Holly Spirit, God, 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:17.000 God use your voice to be able to. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.480 Say, well, it was special for me because you know, 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:24.720 like everybody needs moments where you feel like, oh, God 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.480 does hear my prayers. God does answer prayers. And it 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:29.520 was like one of those moments. And we shared the 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:32.639 story many times where you know, I had just been praying, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.440 Like we had many conversations and we had this one 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:36.919 like I wouldn't. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:37.600 Say it was a fight, but it was. 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.360 It was a little heated conversation and intense. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.879 And I just felt, you know, like that's enough, Like 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.359 when you know, and sometimes you're having a conversation with 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.960 somebody that you really love and you're really trying to 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.000 push them, but then you know that like you've said 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.960 enough and it's time to just move on. And and 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:59.520 so whenever that happens to me, I have said enough 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.199 to that. But then I know that a guy can 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.440 say all my thanks to God, and so I just 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.160 kept leaving it with God. And then it just happened, 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.400 and we got to release the book and it's so good. 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.040 If you haven't read Do the New you you have 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.840 to get a copy. We're leaving all the links, by 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.520 the way, everything that we talk about in the description. 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.480 If you're looking for a link, it's going to be 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:23.280 right there. So if you want to link to the album, 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:25.439 you want to link to Do the New You. It's 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.240 everywhere books are sold and it's so incredible. And so 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.200 then we got to do an E group study with 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.240 Do the New You, and that was such an incredible 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.200 I mean, so many people in our church are part 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.040 of an E group. Now if you're not a part 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:42.280 of any group, it doesn't matter where you live. We 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.440 have E groups for everyone, every age, every area. We 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.879 have groups that meet in person, groups that meet virtual, 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.600 and mostly our groups discuss the sermons. And what was 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.800 cool about Do the New You is that it was 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:57.119 like everything overlapped, Like. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.320 We had a song, we had the sermons. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.879 Week, we had the book to discuss, and then we 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:05.520 had E groups that were discussing all of it. 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.480 And it was such a great moment. Fun facts about 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:12.720 twelve thousand people in our church. I'd love to know 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.440 who you are like went through this study together. So 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:19.200 it was also such a special unifying time in our church. 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:21.080 But we did. We unpacked these mindsets. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:21.880 I love. 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:23.840 If you've been around, maybe you've heard of say this. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.919 E groups make our church, a big church feel small, 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:31.080 and so it's one thing to hear it, it's another 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:34.080 thing to unpack it and make it personal in your life. 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:35.920 And that's what we got to do for these six 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.159 weeks together, and so we got to take them to 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:40.119 another level, really get them in our hearts that we 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.959 can really love them out. And so we loved our 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.120 time together and it was just really special. 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:48.159 It really was. You let us so well through it too. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.360 Thank you for videos. Yeah that one, I'm like every 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.159 single one of us were a part of that. 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:54.960 Yeah, that's true. 0:19:55.040 --> 0:19:56.359 Yeah, it was a really special time together. 0:19:56.440 --> 0:19:57.119 Oh, it was awesome. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:19:59.720 And I just I love the e groups of our 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.120 church because it's a place where I feel like God 0:20:02.240 --> 0:20:05.480 can take what he's speaking to you when you listen 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:10.040 to the sermon, but it takes It's like the roots 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.720 go deeper when you are able to discuss it with 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.080 other people and you hear other people processing what God 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.520 is speaking to them, and it just solidifies what God 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.119 is speaking. And so I just think it's so powerful 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:25.520 and you can still be a part of any group 0:20:25.560 --> 0:20:27.400 an elevation. There'll be a link in the description. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.760 Okay, other fun things that have gone on. Tell us 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:31.719 a little bit about outreach. 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:34.359 Okay, you've said this, Pastor Holly, and it has stuck 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:37.480 with me. You said that if the groups are what 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:41.440 make a big church feel small, yes, then outreach is 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.320 what makes a big church feel big. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:45.480 Yeah, And that is so true. 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:49.399 Outreach is such a special part of our ministry because 0:20:49.440 --> 0:20:51.280 it really is one of the areas where we get 0:20:51.280 --> 0:20:53.479 to live out our faith. And I feel like if 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:54.920 you've been a part of it, then you know that 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:57.320 you've walked through this all year long. I mean, we 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.920 do everything from Dream Week. We kick off the Ears 0:21:00.040 --> 0:21:03.399 Strong with Outreach Love Week, I mean, and then we 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.240 also like go into like you guys remember the response 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.400 that we did, Yeah, Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton. 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:10.320 What was crazy? 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:12.960 Was like in my mind, I thought we were just 0:21:13.080 --> 0:21:15.840 gonna be asking our campuses. 0:21:15.720 --> 0:21:19.800 To show up and bring stuff. But Epham was like, 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.560 oh no, you're not doing this without us, and. 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.880 So you can created an Amazon wishless And I don't 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:29.760 know if anybody remembers this, but the Amazon guy we 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:30.440 did this video. 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:33.119 It made me cry because the Amazon delivery man. 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.879 Was like, we haven't seen this many packages since the 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:39.080 week before Christmas last year and we're all being delivered 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.280 here and yet like it was so incredible because you know, 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.800 we're a big church and sometimes you need to feel 0:21:46.160 --> 0:21:48.520 how big it is. And it was like mobilizing an 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.080 army of people who are like I'll send something, I'll 0:21:52.160 --> 0:21:55.240 sort something, i'll deliver something, everything. 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.879 I mean, it was so immediately, like you guys showed 0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:02.480 up immediately. I mean we just started getting like packages 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:04.840 and people showing up giving their time. 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.440 And it was such a powerful time to just be like, 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:10.600 this is the church. 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:10.880 Yes. 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.560 And it made me so proud of our church because 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:15.680 I feel like it was a moment where we got 0:22:15.720 --> 0:22:20.640 to see how all of the strategic systems that we've 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.399 been building and how all year it was like everything 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:27.479 sort of culminated because you know, we say this all 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.240 the time, but twelve percent of every dollar given to Elevation. 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:33.040 Church goes to our outreach efforts. 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:37.280 And so when a disaster happens, we're we're ready with funds. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:39.960 You don't have to wonder should I give to this organization? 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:40.920 Is this is this? 0:22:41.200 --> 0:22:43.960 You know, somebody who's being honest with you already give 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:45.800 to your church, so you know that your church is 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:48.960 going to support whatever it is. But then throughout the 0:22:49.080 --> 0:22:52.040 year we have events where we're whatever you know, Love 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:54.960 Week or the Dream Weekend where we're packing backpacks or 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:59.000 we're making flood kits, and so then whenever disaster happens, 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:02.879 we're ready emptied out our warehouse. And it was just 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:06.600 I was so proud to be a part of Elevation 0:23:06.760 --> 0:23:10.000 and Elevation outreach and to be able to represent our 0:23:10.080 --> 0:23:12.159 church in that moment was really special. 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:14.320 I love how our church shows up in these moments 0:23:14.400 --> 0:23:17.520 where it's these national disasters, but I think sometimes people 0:23:17.520 --> 0:23:21.680 don't realize that there's outreach events happening all the time. 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:24.879 You know, We've had people going back and forth to 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.200 Ashville since that. We can't like it wasn't just the 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:29.639 one time and there left. Yeah, I'm proud of the 0:23:29.680 --> 0:23:31.680 way that our church continues to show up. So these 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:33.439 big moments where we have to show up, but then 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.720 throughout the week, whether it's like meeting with schools or 0:23:36.840 --> 0:23:38.240 feeding teachers. 0:23:37.960 --> 0:23:40.400 Breakfasts and things like that. So that's just the heart 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:41.600 of our church showing up. 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.760 It's happening all the time, all the time, all the time. 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:47.280 So we get to do both in the moments that 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.400 it's desperate and we got to show up, and then 0:23:49.440 --> 0:23:51.159 when it's just showing up for people on a day 0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:51.800 to day basis. 0:23:52.080 --> 0:23:55.119 Our church does that too, all right, So God is 0:23:55.440 --> 0:23:58.640 expanding so many areas of our church. 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.199 Chet tell us about some. 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:02.639 Of the really fun things that we have coming in 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:04.720 twenty twenty five and some of the things that we 0:24:04.760 --> 0:24:06.120 accomplished in twenty twenty four. 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:08.800 Well, one of the strategies that you know, we implemented 0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:10.600 I guess a few years ago is that we just 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.879 really wanted to be focused on having some permanency in 0:24:13.960 --> 0:24:15.880 the communities that we were in. So we just wanted 0:24:15.960 --> 0:24:18.320 to focus on what campuses were we setting up and 0:24:18.359 --> 0:24:22.000 tearing down, and maybe we were at the whim of 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:23.720 the school or whether or not we could have church 0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.240 that weekend or do an event. And because of the 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:28.720 generous people of our church, we were able to really 0:24:28.760 --> 0:24:31.600 start to be aggressive at looking for facilities that we 0:24:31.640 --> 0:24:33.680 would be able to go in and renovate or buy 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.719 land to build so that Elevation Church could be permanent 0:24:36.840 --> 0:24:39.280 in that community. So at the end of last year 0:24:39.359 --> 0:24:41.560 we were able to open up Belmont and so they 0:24:41.720 --> 0:24:44.200 just had a full year ministry and then Columbia was 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:45.960 able to celebrate Christmas in. 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:47.680 Their new building this year. 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:52.600 So yeah, Taylor and Nikki Seidel they had a. 0:24:52.800 --> 0:24:53.840 Parking lot party. 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:54.639 I saw it. 0:24:55.359 --> 0:24:58.920 I saw it for three hundred people to come just 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:00.880 to have a night to be ab to worship before 0:25:00.920 --> 0:25:02.000 they open up the building. 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:04.159 A thousand people showed up. 0:25:04.359 --> 0:25:05.040 That's crazy. 0:25:05.280 --> 0:25:08.639 They had ten salvations that night in the parking lot 0:25:08.720 --> 0:25:11.520 before we even open up the building at Columbia. 0:25:12.400 --> 0:25:12.640 Okay. 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:16.040 So then coming into twenty twenty five, Greenville. Greenville will 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:19.720 be opening up hopefully summer twenty twenty five. Then we 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:24.280 have Uptown, who should be opening summer of twenty twenty five. 0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:26.800 We got a really cool location, really cool location. 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.359 When you step out on the Fourier, you're able to 0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:32.400 look up and see the skyline of the city of Charlotte. 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.159 That's pretty amazing. And then Toronto East. Toronto East was 0:25:36.240 --> 0:25:38.920 a new campus that we actually launched this year. No, no, 0:25:39.000 --> 0:25:40.960 don't apologize. It was at the end of last year 0:25:40.960 --> 0:25:45.200 that we launched Toronto East. God's doing so much in Toronto. Last, 0:25:45.280 --> 0:25:49.920 but not least Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina. We purchased Land 0:25:49.960 --> 0:25:52.080 and Raleigh and have been working hard over really the 0:25:52.200 --> 0:25:54.960 last year and a half to be able to push 0:25:55.000 --> 0:25:57.200 through permits and all of those things to get it done, 0:25:57.240 --> 0:26:01.080 but we're finally able to start breaking Brown Raleigh. But 0:26:01.160 --> 0:26:03.000 one of the things I wanted to highlight with Raleigh, 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:07.359 I got a picture of Isaiah being baptized. This is 0:26:07.520 --> 0:26:11.840 on the ground where we're going to be building Elevation Raleigh. 0:26:12.160 --> 0:26:15.680 Here's the beauty beauty of this picture is before we 0:26:16.000 --> 0:26:18.520 break ground, we're already had a baptism. 0:26:18.800 --> 0:26:19.040 Yeah. 0:26:19.320 --> 0:26:20.800 And the one that I think about this and think 0:26:20.800 --> 0:26:22.560 about the mission of our church so that people far 0:26:22.640 --> 0:26:26.080 from God would be raised to life in Christ. And so, yes, 0:26:26.160 --> 0:26:28.200 we're talking about these buildings. You're seeing some of the 0:26:28.280 --> 0:26:30.280 renderings and all of that, but what we're really excited 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:33.040 about is the ministry that's going to be happening in 0:26:33.119 --> 0:26:33.600 these walls. 0:26:33.640 --> 0:26:33.880 People. 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:36.840 I just want to thank all of you faithfully give 0:26:37.040 --> 0:26:40.159 an Elevation Church so that when an opportunity like this 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.240 opens up, we're able to jump on it. 0:26:42.400 --> 0:26:44.160 That's right. We have resource set. 0:26:44.119 --> 0:26:46.040 Aside, we can get ahead of projects because of your 0:26:46.080 --> 0:26:47.920 generosity to be able to jump in and see what 0:26:48.000 --> 0:26:49.480 God can do through through our church. 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:49.840 Yeah. 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:53.200 And I love how when people people give, it's this 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:56.760 spirit of of like, well, this ministry has touched my 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.840 life so much and even though I attend a camp, 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:03.840 you know, like University City, that is already a permanent 0:27:03.960 --> 0:27:07.439 location the generous spirit of I need. 0:27:07.680 --> 0:27:10.000 I want other people to experience that too. I want 0:27:10.040 --> 0:27:11.520 to create a seat somewhere else. 0:27:12.160 --> 0:27:15.200 It's just such a beautiful thing to see when we 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:17.560 come together. I mean, it's another way that a big 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:20.800 church feels big, because when every gift matters, because when 0:27:20.840 --> 0:27:22.800 we pull all of our gifts together, God is able 0:27:22.880 --> 0:27:26.120 to do miracles. Before we leave, I have to spend 0:27:26.160 --> 0:27:31.000 some time talking about some of the amazing sermons that 0:27:31.160 --> 0:27:35.120 we heard just this year, twenty twenty four. 0:27:35.280 --> 0:27:37.639 Now I looked last night. 0:27:37.880 --> 0:27:41.000 I looked at a list of all of Pastor Stephen 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.040 sermons just in twenty four, just the titles, and I 0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:45.480 was blown away. 0:27:45.560 --> 0:27:48.879 I was like, how does this man do this? 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:55.880 I preached three four, I preached four baby sermons, Okay, okay, 0:27:56.000 --> 0:28:00.240 but this man preached like thirty five times and his 0:28:00.800 --> 0:28:04.480 titles are brilliant and they come together. And we had, 0:28:04.720 --> 0:28:06.880 you know, we had do the New You. We had 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:10.280 ghost Writers series. We had this series that was towards 0:28:10.320 --> 0:28:11.480 the end of the year. I don't know if it 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.240 ever got a name, but you know, it was like 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:16.959 God is Oh, now I can't remember all of them 0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:18.840 working in. 0:28:21.280 --> 0:28:22.080 Can you do them all? 0:28:22.720 --> 0:28:23.480 Don't challenge? 0:28:25.800 --> 0:28:26.760 God's got the hard part. 0:28:27.600 --> 0:28:30.639 And then the last one, I'm cheating. I'm looking at 0:28:30.640 --> 0:28:30.960 my nose. 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:31.800 Oh, God gave it to me. 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:36.240 I mean, those were incredible messages that we ended the 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.400 year with, but we started the year strong. And so 0:28:39.000 --> 0:28:41.880 I had everybody in this room come with their favorite 0:28:41.920 --> 0:28:46.080 sermon and we're just gonna watch a clip and chat 0:28:46.120 --> 0:28:48.920 about them. Chris, what was your favorite sermon of the year? 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:49.280 All right? 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.080 So I mean also kind of like picking favorite kids, Yes, 0:28:52.280 --> 0:28:53.880 but totally for the exercise. 0:28:53.960 --> 0:28:54.280 Totally. 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:59.040 In August, he preached two titles, Me and. 0:28:59.160 --> 0:29:03.360 God getting back together, got Back Together and breaking the 0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:08.880 bondage of wrong belief. So it's in Judges six he's 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:15.200 talking about Gideon. Gideon's hiding in a wine press because 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:18.800 the nation of Israel has been in captivity for seven 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:22.000 years and God shows up. Gideon's feeling like a whimp 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:26.480 and God. The first thing God says to him is, hey, 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:30.080 mighty warrior. So he's feeling a certain kind of way. 0:29:30.640 --> 0:29:33.400 God doesn't speak to how he's feeling. God speaks to 0:29:33.560 --> 0:29:38.600 how God sees him, and then this is really where 0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:41.600 Pastor spent most of the time. Then the first thing 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:45.320 God asked him to act on is go and tear 0:29:45.440 --> 0:29:50.440 down the altar of bail of your father. And so 0:29:50.880 --> 0:29:54.280 the question that Pastor kind of kept coming back to 0:29:54.640 --> 0:29:58.120 was what wrong beliefs do we need to break up 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:01.400 with in order to move forward and see ourselves as 0:30:01.440 --> 0:30:01.880 God does. 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:02.720 It's so good. 0:30:03.320 --> 0:30:05.600 So I mean kind of a perfect way as we 0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:10.160 step into a new year, like what old mindsets have 0:30:10.320 --> 0:30:13.200 no business going into twenty five with us? 0:30:13.600 --> 0:30:14.440 I think I've got a clip. 0:30:14.920 --> 0:30:15.640 Let's check this out. 0:30:15.920 --> 0:30:18.320 I see some people that I preach to. You're trying 0:30:18.360 --> 0:30:20.680 to build your life back. You're trying to build your 0:30:20.760 --> 0:30:23.600 hope back. You're trying to build your business back. You're 0:30:23.640 --> 0:30:26.120 trying to build your family back. You're trying to build 0:30:26.120 --> 0:30:28.880 your sobriety back. You had eighty one days and now 0:30:28.920 --> 0:30:31.640 you're back on day two. But that's okay, because as 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:34.200 you are trying to build it back, God wants to 0:30:34.320 --> 0:30:36.680 show you something that will make sure that this time 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:40.560 you build it, what you build will stand the test 0:30:40.840 --> 0:30:42.440 of the battle that you face. 0:30:44.280 --> 0:30:48.120 Because because if all I. 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:51.800 Do is build an altar while Pastor Stephen is preaching. 0:30:52.400 --> 0:30:54.719 And if all I do is say, Okay, I'm going 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:56.880 to stack some new habits and I'm going to do 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.640 some new things, and okay, the Lord is peace. 0:31:00.040 --> 0:31:04.440 Found out something that you cannot have God's peace and 0:31:04.720 --> 0:31:15.280 keep it without having God's priorities. God's peace without God's 0:31:15.400 --> 0:31:20.920 priorities is always temporary. The kind of peace that you've 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.800 been seeking in your life, craving in your life, crying 0:31:23.880 --> 0:31:26.880 out for in your life, that kind of peace, that 0:31:27.320 --> 0:31:32.000 that permanent peace, that storm speaking peace, that lay your 0:31:32.120 --> 0:31:34.840 head on the pillow of a lion's main kind of 0:31:34.960 --> 0:31:38.000 peace that I'm in a fire. But I see the 0:31:38.120 --> 0:31:39.760 fourth Man kind of peace. 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:43.240 The kind of peace that can know that greater is 0:31:43.320 --> 0:31:45.600 he that is in me than he that is in 0:31:45.720 --> 0:31:47.840 the world, and there's more with us than with them. 0:31:48.200 --> 0:31:50.560 And I don't have to be afraid about any of it. 0:31:53.600 --> 0:31:59.440 That kind of peace only comes from priorities. 0:32:01.080 --> 0:32:02.360 Yeah, I'm good. 0:32:03.840 --> 0:32:04.280 I wrote this. 0:32:04.480 --> 0:32:06.520 I wrote this in my notes. I thought this was 0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:10.000 so powerful. No breakup, no breakthrough. 0:32:10.640 --> 0:32:15.720 Yes, And it's like until you break up with those habits, 0:32:16.240 --> 0:32:22.120 with those ways of thinking, with those like you said, 0:32:22.240 --> 0:32:25.960 those those mindsets that you've believed about yourself aren't true. 0:32:26.440 --> 0:32:28.320 Until you break up with those things. 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:30.040 You don't get to have breakthrough. 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:32.040 And we all want breakthrough, but a lot of times 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:34.000 we don't want to do the work that it takes 0:32:34.160 --> 0:32:35.040 to get that breakthrough. 0:32:35.080 --> 0:32:38.000 And it was just such a convicting message. 0:32:38.400 --> 0:32:42.320 The whole idea of God's peace is connected to God's priority. 0:32:42.400 --> 0:32:42.560 Yeah. 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:46.760 I mean that's enough to go into right there and 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:50.760 just say, Okay, how am I going to count my day? 0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:53.120 Is this a lot with what God has for me? 0:32:53.840 --> 0:32:56.840 And not be mad when you don't experience the peace 0:32:56.920 --> 0:32:59.240 of God and you haven't taken time to be able 0:32:59.280 --> 0:33:01.520 to prioritize your effect your life effect. 0:33:01.360 --> 0:33:03.040 Is like the daily thing though, because a lot of 0:33:03.080 --> 0:33:05.280 times I think that it's like a moment where it's 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:08.400 like Okay, I'm gonna go destroy that altar and then 0:33:08.480 --> 0:33:11.640 that's done, like okay, and it's not really that well, 0:33:11.960 --> 0:33:14.560 it's like a daily thing. Every day. God's calling you 0:33:14.640 --> 0:33:18.960 a mighty warrior. Okay, okay, I'll do it today. So 0:33:19.320 --> 0:33:21.200 that's the thing that I feel like I miss a lot. 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:24.000 It's like it's not a moment, it's a daily decision 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:24.760 to believe that. 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:27.320 Okay, God, I'm a mighty warrior. That's tough. 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:30.640 Yeah. The thing that you need to make real practical, right, 0:33:30.800 --> 0:33:32.280 Like you got to write some of these down. You 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:34.560 mentioned looking back at our notes. That's a great sermon 0:33:34.600 --> 0:33:36.120 to go back look at your notes. You got to 0:33:36.480 --> 0:33:38.800 write it down. You need to schedule it. You mentioned that, like, 0:33:38.880 --> 0:33:41.360 what does your calendar look like? Like are you scheduling 0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:43.760 according to the priorities that you feel like God's put 0:33:43.800 --> 0:33:45.840 in front of you, and so making it as. 0:33:45.800 --> 0:33:47.600 Practical as you can to be as successful as we 0:33:47.680 --> 0:33:48.680 can at this all. 0:33:48.560 --> 0:33:51.080 Right, Britt, Okay, you like the Easter sermon. 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:53.520 I love the Easter sermon. 0:33:54.800 --> 0:33:59.160 The Easter sermon was so good, and I mean all 0:33:59.200 --> 0:34:04.360 of pastors Steve and sermons speak to you. This one 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:06.400 was the one of the year that I feel like 0:34:06.480 --> 0:34:10.920 I felt the most scene because maybe it's just because 0:34:10.920 --> 0:34:11.720 of how I'm wired. 0:34:11.840 --> 0:34:13.880 I don't know, crazy though, how he can do that. 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:15.640 How like he'll just. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:19.800 Say something and you're like, oh my gosh, yes for me, 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:24.920 I'll actually think I'm like he better stop because I really. 0:34:24.840 --> 0:34:26.440 Feel like he's talk about me. 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:27.759 But I'm not. 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:31.600 That's just the Holy Spirit just speaks through him and 0:34:31.719 --> 0:34:36.400 it just like cuts straight to you and sorry interrupted, No. 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:37.279 No, this is great. 0:34:37.800 --> 0:34:42.279 This sermon was called something in Between maybe you remember it, 0:34:42.400 --> 0:34:44.640 and he preached from Matthew twenty eight and so this 0:34:45.000 --> 0:34:48.280 was our Eastern sermon. So he preached about the Mary's 0:34:48.360 --> 0:34:52.400 going to the tomb. Yeah, and he really camped in 0:34:52.600 --> 0:34:56.200 a verse and you know scripture, and you know, I 0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:58.440 don't know, like maybe you have a tradition where like 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:00.800 I don't know if you read the Easter Story. Like 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:02.920 my in laws they read the Easter Story of the 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:05.839 Christmas Story every holiday. And I'm like, I have read 0:35:07.080 --> 0:35:12.360 this story. I know it so many times. And it 0:35:12.520 --> 0:35:14.520 was such a beautiful revelation that he bulled because he 0:35:14.600 --> 0:35:17.600 specifically camped out whenever he talked about they were leaving 0:35:17.680 --> 0:35:22.000 the tomb and they left with fear yet joy. 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:24.320 Yeah, we got a clip. We gotta clip yellows. 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:24.800 SHOT's watch it. 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:27.000 And I love this phrase because this is how I 0:35:27.040 --> 0:35:34.960 feel afraid yet filled with joy. This is not a 0:35:35.080 --> 0:35:39.080 translation error, by the way, because most of us think 0:35:39.239 --> 0:35:43.719 like you're either going to be afraid or filled with joy. 0:35:44.760 --> 0:35:46.480 I had somebody ask me the other day, I was 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:49.160 going to do something that was a big deal, and 0:35:49.200 --> 0:35:53.279 they said, are you looking forward to it or are 0:35:53.360 --> 0:35:58.480 you dreading it? And I was like, are those the 0:35:58.560 --> 0:36:02.640 only two options? Because I'm not exactly looking forward to it. 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:04.800 I'm not exactly dreading it. 0:36:04.920 --> 0:36:11.240 I'm something and it can change from moment to moment. 0:36:12.280 --> 0:36:15.080 I'm like, really grateful for this life God has given 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.759 me and this influence that He gave me. And then 0:36:18.920 --> 0:36:27.520 sometimes that anticipation feels like anxiety, and sometimes my anxiety 0:36:28.040 --> 0:36:34.320 feels like anticipation, and sometimes listen to this. The difference 0:36:34.440 --> 0:36:38.560 between anticipation and anxiety is the way you label it. 0:36:39.640 --> 0:36:44.719 I stand before you today excited and afraid. I stand 0:36:44.760 --> 0:36:48.879 before you today a sinner and a saint. I stand 0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:51.080 before you today a flawed man and a child of God. 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:53.479 And I'm never all of both. 0:36:54.719 --> 0:36:55.720 I'm something in between. 0:36:56.920 --> 0:36:58.719 Okay, now I know you guys see why I felt 0:36:58.760 --> 0:37:01.880 so seen because I feel like that is literally me, 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.760 Like we're all Our faith is just a constant journey, 0:37:06.520 --> 0:37:09.959 and it gets so frustrating when you're like, you see 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:11.120 where it is. 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.000 That God would have you be. 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:15.960 You're like, okay, Lord, you say love my enemies, to 0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:19.120 pray something, to be kind and to be generous, and 0:37:19.239 --> 0:37:22.040 then somebody says the wrong thing on the wrong day 0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:25.320 and you're like, oh, I was working so hard on this, 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.680 you know, and I'm got slipping, But like no, sometimes 0:37:28.960 --> 0:37:32.960 it is both like yes, like I want to be 0:37:33.320 --> 0:37:36.200 like holy and I want to be closer to God 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:38.400 in this one. But then also like I understand that 0:37:38.520 --> 0:37:40.839 like God made me where like I am a big 0:37:40.960 --> 0:37:46.640 feeler and I'm both I'm somewhere in between, and so 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:49.759 I feel like for me, it was really the permission slip, 0:37:49.840 --> 0:37:53.440 that I have permission to keep growing, and it's not 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:58.239 I'm not a failure because I'm somewhere in between and 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:02.200 I haven't yet arrived and I may never arrive until 0:38:02.239 --> 0:38:04.719 I get to Heaven, and that okay, as long as 0:38:04.719 --> 0:38:07.000 I'm on my constant journey to growth. 0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:09.800 You know what I loved from the sermon when he said, 0:38:10.520 --> 0:38:16.319 even when it's not all good, it's all God. And man, 0:38:16.520 --> 0:38:20.839 that's like, that's real faith to trust that, even when 0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:24.080 it's not all good, whatever you're going through in your life, 0:38:24.360 --> 0:38:27.120 to be able to say, I know this is all God, 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:30.879 and I know that it's not good now, but it's 0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:34.200 going to be good. That's right and so powerful. 0:38:34.880 --> 0:38:36.719 He also said it similar like this. 0:38:37.080 --> 0:38:40.200 He said, we're all something in between, so we can 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.480 all find ourselves in this, he said, and we need 0:38:42.640 --> 0:38:45.320 Jesus in between. And sometimes that's the part that I 0:38:45.360 --> 0:38:46.880 think is so easy for us to forget. 0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:49.479 Okay, let's get to mine. 0:38:49.960 --> 0:38:52.040 I wanted to go all the way back to the 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:56.480 beginning of the year when Pastor Stephen got out his guitar, 0:38:57.000 --> 0:38:59.919 so we had worship Pastor Stephen. 0:39:02.320 --> 0:39:05.279 And this sermon. It just really touched me. 0:39:05.440 --> 0:39:06.359 So check this out. 0:39:06.800 --> 0:39:10.479 It's amazing when you're in tune with the grace of God. 0:39:11.840 --> 0:39:15.239 It's amazing when you're in tune with the voice of God. 0:39:16.760 --> 0:39:19.960 When I'm in tune with you, Lord, I don't have 0:39:20.120 --> 0:39:23.520 to fight so much when I'm in tune. 0:39:23.280 --> 0:39:23.880 With you, Lord. 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:28.520 I don't have to manipulate so much. When I'm in 0:39:28.640 --> 0:39:32.320 tune with you, Lord, I don't have to defend myself. 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:36.319 You fight my battles when I'm in tune with you, Lord. 0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:41.120 Somebody say, Lord, I want to be in tune. 0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:42.800 With you. 0:39:44.400 --> 0:39:45.480 When I'm in tune with you. 0:39:45.600 --> 0:39:50.920 Lord, my problems look small. When I'm in tune with you, Lord. 0:39:51.920 --> 0:39:55.239 It feels like all things are possible when I'm in 0:39:55.320 --> 0:39:59.640 tune with you, Lord, I can scale a wall. When 0:39:59.680 --> 0:40:02.879 I'm in in tune with you, Lord, the giant looks 0:40:02.960 --> 0:40:05.920 like an opportunity, not a problem. When I'm in tune 0:40:05.960 --> 0:40:09.640 with you, Lord, I'm able to laugh at what used 0:40:09.640 --> 0:40:12.239 to make me cry. When I'm in tune with you, Lord, 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:16.240 I'm able to cry and know that tears don't last always, 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:18.080 but joy comes in the morning. 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:27.200 When I'm in tune with you, Lord. It's a beautiful 0:40:27.239 --> 0:40:28.160 thing to be in tune. 0:40:30.239 --> 0:40:34.400 This sermon was just like it's just one of those beautiful, 0:40:34.840 --> 0:40:36.920 comforting sermons. 0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:39.360 He said. I just thought this. 0:40:39.920 --> 0:40:42.640 Sometimes, don't you feel like somebody's pastor Steven will say 0:40:42.680 --> 0:40:44.120 something that sort of like sets. 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:46.760 You free from a certain way that you were feeling. 0:40:46.840 --> 0:40:49.600 And he said, from the same heart comes your greatest 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.520 fears and your greatest faith. 0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:55.719 And so then he said, therefore, your heart is a harp, 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:58.280 and it has to be tuned to truth. 0:40:58.320 --> 0:41:01.600 And the whole sermon he's talking about tuning your heart 0:41:02.000 --> 0:41:05.680 to truth and being able to hear what God is 0:41:05.719 --> 0:41:06.160 saying to you. 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.920 And so then like as the sermon. 0:41:08.719 --> 0:41:12.080 Progressed, though like first I got a hug and then 0:41:12.320 --> 0:41:15.160 I got a little what would we say earlier, a little. 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:16.880 Push because he said. 0:41:16.760 --> 0:41:18.360 Tuning feels like tension. 0:41:19.040 --> 0:41:23.040 And it's like, when you think about tuning your heart 0:41:23.200 --> 0:41:25.480 to God's word and to God's praise, you. 0:41:25.520 --> 0:41:27.480 Think it's gonna be like warm. 0:41:27.280 --> 0:41:30.640 And fuzzy feeling, but actually it feels like tension because 0:41:30.640 --> 0:41:32.320 there's something that happens. 0:41:32.280 --> 0:41:35.239 That draws you closer to God. 0:41:35.400 --> 0:41:39.400 And then I just like again he ended gave us 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:42.399 some homework, and the homework was so good. 0:41:42.680 --> 0:41:47.160 He said, pause, tune, praise. 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:53.600 Repeat, and it's like, oh, okay, so Monday morning, when 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:59.080 I feel the tension, pause tune, Praise repeat, over and 0:41:59.280 --> 0:42:01.800 over and over again. And it was just something so 0:42:02.080 --> 0:42:06.400 practical that really just gave me the momentum. 0:42:06.040 --> 0:42:08.240 For the year that I just really needed. 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:11.279 Yeah, so good. He said, this is how I wrote 0:42:11.320 --> 0:42:14.000 it down. God's not changing his standard to fit you. 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:18.040 He's going to bring you up. And that was so powerful. 0:42:18.120 --> 0:42:20.319 Sometimes I don't know if it's just a weird thing 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:23.319 I do, but sometimes after I hear sermon, I'll write 0:42:23.360 --> 0:42:27.000 down in my notes like how I'm feeling or like 0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:28.120 what it's speaking to me. 0:42:28.520 --> 0:42:29.120 Yeah, And. 0:42:30.840 --> 0:42:34.000 I literally wrote to myself. This is really funny. Reading 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:35.920 it back, I was like, I know, it couldn't have 0:42:36.000 --> 0:42:37.759 just been me. This had to be thousands. I was like, 0:42:37.800 --> 0:42:40.160 but something shifted in me during that sermon. I've got 0:42:40.200 --> 0:42:42.600 some tuning to do. Yeah, And so it was one 0:42:42.640 --> 0:42:45.160 of those types of messages. And so I'm so glad 0:42:45.200 --> 0:42:47.440 that you picked that one because it's really great to 0:42:47.520 --> 0:42:49.680 just sit here and even revisit it going into the 0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:52.200 new year about like we've got some tuning to do 0:42:52.400 --> 0:42:53.600 going into twenty twenty five. 0:42:53.840 --> 0:42:56.960 Yeah, And he talked about how setting our heart is 0:42:57.040 --> 0:43:01.919 a decision. Yes, yes, it's not as not default, which, 0:43:02.000 --> 0:43:06.520 by the way, I mean one of the greatest illustrations truly, 0:43:06.719 --> 0:43:10.279 but like if also, like heading into this next year, 0:43:10.400 --> 0:43:14.239 we're all wanting to set goals. Those goals are going 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:19.880 to be accomplished or met through decisions, daily decisions, or 0:43:20.000 --> 0:43:21.920 if we want our minds stayed on Christ, if we 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:25.799 want our hearts to remain filled with peace that comes 0:43:25.840 --> 0:43:30.080 through decision, not just because we decided one day and 0:43:30.400 --> 0:43:32.360 thought that was going to be the default that lasted 0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:33.359 us for the next month. 0:43:33.520 --> 0:43:38.000 He's us guitar players tune in between songs, you know, 0:43:38.040 --> 0:43:41.920 what I mean. It's this, It's this rhythm of the 0:43:42.000 --> 0:43:45.080 constantly tune one part of the message. He was talking 0:43:45.080 --> 0:43:50.400 about being tuned to tradition, and that's the hardest to change. 0:43:51.080 --> 0:43:51.239 You know. 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:53.120 How do you tune to truth when this is what 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:56.840 my mom did, this is my granddad, this is and 0:43:57.080 --> 0:43:59.080 I'm tuned to something that I've seen over and over 0:43:59.120 --> 0:43:59.600 and over again. 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:02.759 But pause and ask yourself the question, is it the truth? 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:04.600 Is this what God says? 0:44:04.880 --> 0:44:05.080 Yeah? 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:08.880 And if not, that tension, yeah, you know what I mean. 0:44:08.960 --> 0:44:11.000 Being able to commit to that, I think is faiful. 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:11.359 Yeah. 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:14.800 This has been so much fun talking with all of you, 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:17.399 And I want to encourage you. If you're watching right 0:44:17.520 --> 0:44:20.640 now and maybe you have some downtime, The week between 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.880 Christmas and New Year's is like the weirdest week of 0:44:23.960 --> 0:44:27.960 the year, and it's like time between so slow, and 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.640 so I just want to encourage you to go back, 0:44:30.760 --> 0:44:33.000 find your favorite sermon of the year, watch it again, 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:36.480 find your notes, read through them, and rediscover some of 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.160 the things that God spoke to you in twenty twenty. 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:40.440 Four as you look forward to twenty twenty five. We've 0:44:40.440 --> 0:44:42.680 got the links to all of these sermons. 0:44:42.400 --> 0:44:44.920 Our favorites of the year, but you've got yours too, 0:44:45.520 --> 0:44:48.279 and they're all there available for you right here on 0:44:48.360 --> 0:44:50.560 the Elevation Church YouTube. And so I just want to 0:44:50.680 --> 0:44:54.160 encourage you to take some time to go back and 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:57.560 think about the things that God has spoken to you 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:00.160 this year and the things that God has done for 0:45:00.320 --> 0:45:04.200 you this year, because it has been an incredible year 0:45:04.440 --> 0:45:08.719 and God has sure been good to us, and as 0:45:08.760 --> 0:45:11.520 you've seen today, there is so much more to be 0:45:11.640 --> 0:45:14.400 grateful for and so much to look forward to. And 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:19.520 next year will actually be in our twentieth year of ministry. 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:23.000 I cannot believe it. So in February we will. 0:45:22.960 --> 0:45:28.240 Celebrate our nineteen year nineteen, but that launches our twentieth 0:45:28.640 --> 0:45:32.560 year of ministry, and we're making plans to celebrate big 0:45:33.080 --> 0:45:34.759 all year long. 0:45:34.880 --> 0:45:36.600 So more to come on. 0:45:36.719 --> 0:45:40.000 That, but make sure you stay tuned to Elevation because 0:45:40.320 --> 0:45:43.319 twenty twenty five is going to be incredible. So as 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:45.160 we close out this year, I just want to take 0:45:45.200 --> 0:45:47.560 a moment to thank all of you who have stepped 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:48.520 out in faith to be a. 0:45:48.560 --> 0:45:50.000 Part of our year in offering. 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:52.160 We didn't get to talk about that together, but your 0:45:52.640 --> 0:45:56.600 generosity is a powerful testimony of the impact that we're 0:45:56.640 --> 0:45:59.880 making together and it's helping to fuel the next season 0:46:00.440 --> 0:46:01.000 of our church. 0:46:01.120 --> 0:46:02.920 So thank you, thank you, thank. 0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:05.399 You for your partnership and what God is doing through 0:46:05.440 --> 0:46:09.400 this ministry. As you've seen today, this is solid ground 0:46:09.760 --> 0:46:12.920 to put down roots in and stay planted. This is 0:46:13.000 --> 0:46:16.080 a place where you can experience community. It's a place 0:46:16.080 --> 0:46:19.359 where you can hear from God every single week. It's 0:46:19.400 --> 0:46:21.880 a place where you can serve, and it's a place 0:46:21.920 --> 0:46:25.840 where you are truly making a difference. And if you 0:46:25.960 --> 0:46:28.480 hadn't had a chance yet, there's still time to be 0:46:28.560 --> 0:46:30.560 a part of our year end offering. All you have 0:46:30.640 --> 0:46:33.520 to do is go to Elevationchurch dot org and click 0:46:33.600 --> 0:46:36.880 the give now button by December thirty first, which is 0:46:37.200 --> 0:46:41.160 just two days away. So thank you for being with 0:46:41.320 --> 0:46:44.239 us today and let's step into this new year with 0:46:44.360 --> 0:46:48.080 our hearts full of faith and expectation. Let's keep moving 0:46:48.200 --> 0:46:52.080 forward and trusting God every step of the way. I 0:46:52.239 --> 0:46:55.480 cannot wait to see what's ahead for us, And I 0:46:55.600 --> 0:46:57.360 just want you to know that Pastor Stephen and I 0:46:57.760 --> 0:47:00.360 we love you, we're praying for you, and you're so 0:47:01.040 --> 0:47:04.560 grateful to get to do ministry with each and every 0:47:04.960 --> 0:47:05.320 one of you. 0:47:05.440 --> 0:47:06.080 I hope you have a. 0:47:06.120 --> 0:47:09.880 Blessed and happy New Year and I'll see you next Sunday. 0:47:11.680 --> 0:47:12.719 Thank you for joining us. 0:47:13.080 --> 0:47:15.480 Special thanks to those of you who give generously to 0:47:15.600 --> 0:47:19.040 this ministry. 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