The Pilgrimage

One of the things churches need to do is celebrate victories, and one of the greatest victories the Lord has given us recently is our giving to the Lottie Moon Offering for International Missions during the Christmas season.

Our goal at Bethel was 115K, a very, very challenging goal.  By God’s grace, we were able to give over 126K this year!!  This is reason to give praise to God!  It is something to celebrate!

Let’s celebrate God’s grace in enabling us to give.  2 Corinthians 8-9 make it very clear that when we give generously it is evidence of God’s grace.  Let’s celebrate it!

Let’s celebrate what God is going to do through this offering.  Our hearts should throb with excitement about how the Lord is going to use this money.  As an IMB Trustee I can tell you it will be well-spent.  It will be used for the sole purpose of reaching people all over the world for Christ.  We will meet them in heaven one day.

Let’s celebrate that God has enabled us to be a part of the most strategic enterprise in the universe.  Nothing…absolutely nothing…is more strategic than being part of the team that is at the point of the spear in reaching the last, the least, and the lost for Jesus Christ.  You are a part of that team. 

Thanks for your strategic Kingdom investment this Christmas, church!