BIG DAY – Script Out and Role Play ALL the Details (Or Something Might Embarrass You)

1. The very first event of the 2014 Preaching Rally is this: PAIR UP
   1. Good ol’ rock paper scissors
   2. Got this idea at Winter Camp
      1. Bro. Ryan from Lighthouse LaVerne
      2. Working at Canyon Ridge
      3. Many of you may have done this before
   3. Once you LOSE
      1. You become the biggest cheerleader for your victor!
      2. You CHEER your head off as your opponent faces off against someone else
   4. Whoever wins, gets ALL the fans
      1. So by the end
      2. We’ll have a MASSIVE group of people cheering for you
   5. When it gets down to the end
      1. You’ll come up on the platform
      2. Battle it out in front of everyone
      3. Cheer like crazy for your champion
   6. Ready? Set… GO!
   7. WINNER receives… leftovers.
      1. If you were here last year,
      2. You may remember the theme was TIMELESS
         1. We haven’t even talked about this year’s theme yet
      3. You get a TShirt from last year
      4. As well as last year’s book
         1. Combined the three minibooks into one
         2. Now it’s got a shiny new cover
         3. Also available as an audiobook and ebook on Amazon
      5. Congratulations
2. Welcome
   1. Hello and welcome to our FOURTH annual Preaching Rally
      1. Some of you have been to ALL THREE before this
   2. How many of you
      1. First time here?
      2. Welcome!
   3. Today is all about one thing: our theme
      1. PURE LOVE
         1. The decorations will make sense here in a little bit
      2. But since it was the day after Valentine’s Day
         1. I wanted to focus on this topic of DATING
   4. Oh that makes everyone nervous
      1. Your church has its own rules
         1. Your youth group has its preferences
         2. Your rules allow you to
         3. Touch or not touch
         4. Date or not date
      2. I’m not here to overstep your church
         1. We’re here to just look at what the  Bible has to say about dating
         2. There’s not that much
   5. It has a lot to say about
      1. Marriage
      2. Purity
      3. And loving God
   6. So that is really what our focus is going to be on today
      1. Overall, do you love God more than you love your boyfriend or girlfriend?
         1. Is God in it?
         2. What’s your goal?
         3. Where are you going with this relationship?
         4. Is it pure?
         5. Or is it selfish?
      2. I hope today we’ll be able to help you with some of that
         1. Whether you’re dating or not right now
         2. I hope you came today thinking
         3. “God, I want your best for my life.”
         4. He’s got it for you
         5. In his time.
      3. So, today’s all about preaching
         1. It IS the Preaching Rally, after all.
3. Pastor Rench
   1. Our Pastor has been here almost 25 years
      1. My mentor and my father
      2. He will open us in prayer.
   2. Pastor—opening prayer

(Use Hand-held mic)
(Key changes)

Bible verse songs.

Open your Bible for the words.

Song – Micah 6:8

He hath shown thee, O man, what is good;

And what doth the Lord require of thee,

But to do justly and to love mercy,

And to walk humbly with thy God.

SONG – 1 Sam. 12:24 Only Fear the Lord

Only fear the Lord and serve Him with all your heart,

Serve Him with all your heart, serve Him with all you heart.

Only fear the Lord and serve Him with all your heart,

Serve Him in truth with all your heart.

For consider how great things He hath done for you,

He hath done for you, He hath done for you.

For consider how great things He hath done for you

So serve Him in truth with all your heart.

1. A CASE FOR BIBLE COLLEGE Youth Pastor giveaway (END 11:20)
   1. Appreciate all the youth directors and pastors in here
   2. Want to give you a book that we produced here at our church
      1. A Case For Bible College
      2. First half – some of the reasons our church encourages graduates to attend perhaps a year of Bible College
         1. Written to the parent
         2. Or to the person who’s not really convinced of WHY people go to Bible College
      3. Second half – written to the prospective student
         1. Written generally
         2. Applies to any Bible college
         3. How to prepare
         4. Academically
         5. Spiritually
         6. Financially, etc
      4. Written for our teens, first
         1. Then thought it might be a help
   3. There’s a bonus chapter at the end
      1. Written specifically for the college I graduated from
      2. Heartland Baptist Bible college in OKC
      3. Later versions of the book will have that chapter removed
         1. In case you’re planning on attending another Bible College
      4. Each college has its own little nuances about
         1. Campus life
         2. Professors
         3. The town its in, etc.
   4. So, these are available for sale – $10
      1. But free to all youth directors and pastors right now
2. Also want one representative from each church (pastor or youth pastor) to introduce your church and where you’re from.
3. Youth Pastors, please STAND
   1. Ushers will get around and get one to each youth pastor
   2. The rest of you can buy them if you want. ☺
4. Skit (11:20)
   1. At this time we’re going to have a completely non-spiritual skit
   2. In line with the theme

START 11:25

SONG – Psalm 19:14 – Let the Words of My Mouth (song 48)

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, (repeat)

O Lord, my strength and my Redeemer.

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

Be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord.

While you’re standing, turn to Genesis 2:24

Excellent singing today.

I hope that verse is your prayer. “God, let everything I say, and even what I think be acceptable to you.”

I want you to have complete control of my emotions, my relationship with my boyfriend or girlfriend, or my future boyfriend/girlfriend

I want everything we talk about to be acceptable to you

I want everything I think about her to be acceptable to you

I want all my thoughts about him to be pure and acceptable to you.

Like I said earlier, the Bible doesn’t say a lot about dating.

It talks about AUTHORITY

It talks about PURITY

It talks about MARRIAGE

But not so much about the process!

Today, I hope the Preaching Rally is a help to you.

1. My Plan (BEGIN 12:14. END 12:15)
   1. We won’t have a formal invitation till the end
      1. Just want to draw your attention to the PLAN PAGE at the bottom of your notes
      2. Won’t take the time now, but please take time to write out a plan.
      3. More on that later.
2. Calvary servers
   1. Dismissed now
3. 10 minute break
   1. About to take a 10 minute break
      1. Head out the back doors
      2. Restrooms
         1. fellowship hall
         2. OR to the left out the doors
      3. Get ONE ice cream sandwich
         1. In honor of our Ice Cream Sundae Relationships session
   2. 10 minutes—head back up here
      1. In five minutes you’ll get your 5 minute warning
      2. They should start herding you
4. DISMISS BY who REGISTERED first
   1. These are the ones who actually filled out the registration form online
      1. If I miss you
      2. Don’t crucify me
      3. If you didn’t know about the registration form
      4. I’m sorry
         1. Better luck next year
         2. Don’t crucify me
      5. If you say, “I got a call and I told them I was coming.”
         1. I’m sorry
         2. Don’t crucify me
         3. But that’s not the registration form
   2. Calvary – lets take ours last
      1. Let the guests get theirs first.
5. [Registered Churches]
6. DISMISS – RUN-UP TRIVIA (12:20)
   1. In honor of the super bowl
   2. Let’s think about some football teams
      1. If you know the right answer, run up and say it in the mic
      2. If you’re right, your church is dismissed (start at end of list)
   3. “Dollar for Corn”
      1. Buckaneers…
   4. Not sinners but
      1. Saints
   5. 7 squared
      1. 49ers
   6. young and fast horses
      1. colts
   7. people from the lone star state
      1. Texans
   8. Credit card users
      1. Chargers
   9. David could stone them
      1. Giants
   10. One time British enemies
       1. Patriots

I Am a C(ong)

I am a C

I am a C-H

…

I am a Cong

I am a Cong Hong

…

Psalm 9:1-2

9:1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart;

I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing

praise to thy name, O thou most High.

Mixed Ensemble gets in place

1. Mixed Ensemble
   1. The Mixed Ensemble has been working on a song that ties in to the theme today
      1. The idea of dating is not about dating at all
      2. The idea of today
         1. Is more about focusing on God
         2. More than focusing on who I’m going to date, how emotional I should be, etc.
   2. Before you are a husband, you’re a Christian
   3. Before being a good wife, you’re called to be a godly lady
      1. Your passion should not be for the person you’re dating
      2. But your main passion should be for God.
         1. The Mixed Ensemble is going to be singing about that concept in just a little bit
2. But first I want to introduce our preacher
   1. Bro. David Hetzer is a church planter from San Marcos
   2. Graduate of Heartland Baptist Bible College in OKC
   3. And a frequent preacher at teen rallies like this
      1. And teen camps
      2. We have the privilege of having him at our custom camp this year at Ironwood
         1. We get the best of both worlds from Ironwood
         2. Incredible program so I don’t have to be the game man, the skit man, the police man, the activities man, the lifeguard, and the everything go-to man
         3. The camp will run all that
         4. We get to use their
         5. Facilities, counselors, activities, etc.
         6. And we also get to control the service times
         7. Choose our own speaker
         8. He will be allowed a lot of freedom
         9. That perhaps we have never had in years past
      3. We get to choose our own preachers now
         1. Bro. Jason Gaddis is coming next year
         2. And this year, like I said, we get to have Bro. Hetzer!
      4. So I can’t wait
   4. I was talking to a friend of mine who runs his own camp
      1. He’s had Bro. Hetzer preach for him each year for about three years straight
      2. He grew up in the camp ministry (my friend did)
      3. And said Bro. Hetzer was one of the best camp preachers he’d ever heard.
   5. Why?
      1. First and foremost, he’s biblical
      2. You’re not going to make decisions based on an emotional story he tells at the end
      3. Crying at the altar
      4. And you don’t know why
   6. You’ll be confronted with the Bible
      1. And that’s the kind of people we’ve always had preach here
      2. So that your decisions are rooted in the Scripture.
3. So now, enjoy the special from the Mixed Ensemble and then, Bro. Hetzer, you come preach for us.

1. My Plan (1:20 – 1:25 TOTAL)
   1. Please turn in your booklets to the notes
      1. Session 2 –  “…we purely…”
      2. My plan—bottom
   2. Take another minute to fill that out, please.
   3. Be specific with it
      1. I’ve made a once-for-all choice to ____
      2. I plan to (END 1:23)
2. Lunch
   1. Back door
   2. Down the sidewalk
   3. First double doors into fellowship hall
   4. Restrooms in the fellowship hall
3. Dismissal (START DISMISSING 1:24) Someone with…
   1. Largest shoe
   2. Shortest girl
   3. Drove longest time
   4. Biggest Bible
   5. Longest bus
   6. Most seniors
   7. Most 7th graders
   8. Said AMEN the most
   9. On time to PR?

SONG – I Am a C(hicken)

I am a C-hicken

I am a C-hicken H-icken

I am a C-hicken H-hicken R-hicken I S-icken

1. GAME
2. Rounds 1 and 2
   1. 4 volunteers
      1. 2 (guy/girl?) – identify items
      2. 2 (guy/girl?) – taste test (if girl is brave enough)
         1. “identify the soda”
         2. may not be the common types
         3. It won’t be bugs or anything like that
         4. But you may not want to be someone who gets sick easily
      3. Send ALL out the door to Pastor’s office
      4. CASSI – Set up props
   2. Round 1 – touch
      1. PERSON #1
         1. “There’s 6 items
         2. You have 2 minutes
         3. Identify as many as possible
         4. Or the fastest time wins
         5. First 4 items – hand
         6. Last 2 – face only
         7. I can’t promise these things won’t move or bite or whatever
         8. Ready… GO!
      2. PERSON #2
         1. Same 6 items
      3. WINNER – best time
         1. Gets gift from Bro. Ryan
   3. Round 2 – taste  
      1. Setup time
         1. Cassi pours
         2. Garret (quietly) reads labels
         3. Set bottle at front of table visible to audience
      2. PERSON #3
         1. “There are 6 cups
         2. 2 minutes
         3. Identify the flavor
         4. Don’t have to swallow if you don’t want to
         5. If you hate it, there’s a big cup to spit into
         6. Ready… GO!
      3. PERSON #4
         1. 6 NEW cups
         2. 2 minutes
         3. ID flavor
         4. Swallow or spit
      4. Breakdown – don’t throw bottles away
         1. Keep for maybe another dare round?
         2. Extra points?
         3. WINNER – See Bro. Ryan
3. Round 3 and 4
   1. Youth leader edition!
      1. Round 3 – Any man/wife brave enough?
      2. Round 4 – Need 2 youth pastors (bravest of all!)
         1. No sissies, please
      3. CASSI – Set up props
   2. ROUND 3 – Husband/wife [*SKIPPED]
      1. WIFE
         1. “Same as round one
         2. 6 items
         3. identify 4 – hands
         4. identify 2 – face
         5. 2 minutes
         6. Ready… GO!
      2. HUSBAND
         1. Same items as she had
      3. Winner – See Bro. Ryan
   3. ROUND 4 (final) – Youth Pastors
      1. Bravest of all
      2. YOUTH PASTOR #1
         1. Same as round one
         2. I can’t promise it won’t bite, move, or whatever…
      3. YOUTH PASTOR #2
      4. Winner – See Bro. Ryan
4. Now lets enjoy the concluding SKIT.
   1. SKIT 3.

2:25 – 2:30

SONG – Thank You Lord

Thank you, Lord, for saving my soul,

Thank you, Lord, for making me whole;

Thank you, Lord, for giving to me

Thy great salvation so rich and free.

1. The following song kind helps reiterate the point we are making through the Preaching Rally this year.
2. But this session is kind of the summary to everything we’ve been preaching so far
3. Bro. Hetzer, after the Mixed Trio sings, please come preach for us.
   1. PREACHING STARTS AT 2:30

1. Invitation
   1. Spiritual decisions are being made
2. My Plan
   1. Don’t let the decision just be emotional
   2. One area I hammer the MOST
      1. Is the application
      2. Anyone can KNOW they should be pure
   3. What are you doing now?
3. God’s been speaking
   1. There’s no doubt about that
   2. Everyone grows at his own rate
   3. But this book is the same
   4. The preaching’s the same
      1. It now rests on you
   5. We pray you REALLY take this week to heart
   6. Next year
      1. You have the dates for next year
      2. Plan on it!
   7. You’ve been given reminders of this year
      1. Pen
      2. Bookmark
      3. Think back and say, “That’s when God helped me
   8. I hope it’s been a profitable day
4. Have a safe trip home
   1. You’ll really enjoy the theme next year
      1. Little twist in the format. You’ll see.
   2. Someone ______________ – CLOSE IN PRAYER