Nehemiah

Rebuilders are Prone to Wander

Rebuilders are Prone to Wander

How do we stay dedicated?

1. Stay Distinct
2. Stay Generous
3. Stay Rested

Keep Building God’s House

1. With distinction
2. With generosity
3. With trust

Rebuilding Requires Rededication

Rebuilding requires Rededication

1. In purity
2. With singing
3. With generosity

Rededication

When a community has been in decline or some good habits have fallen off, rededication is often in order. This passage shows us how to rededicate our church to the Lord.

Rebuilding Requires Recovenanting

After confessing their sins, the people recovenant and take an oath to uphold all of God’s law.  In today’s passage we learn about the essence, specifics, and fruit of recovenanting.

Recovenanting

For love to really flourish, commitment and accountability are necessary. They’re also scary. In this passage, we see what rebuilding a church community through recovenanting looks like.

Rebuilding Requires Repentance

Rebuilding Requires Repentance

1. God is good.
2. We are not.
3. God is still good.

Repentance

Typically when confronted with wrongdoing in our lives, we minimized our fault while exacerbating others’. In this passage, we see true repentance is the opposite: Honesty about God’s goodness and our fault, but with ultimate hope in God’s goodness.

Live the Word

In this passage, when God’s people study God’s law they immediately obey. Likewise, we too ought to do what the Bible teaches.

Always Reforming

Any time you talk about rebuilding a community, you have traditionalists who want to keep everything the same and revolutionaries who want to rip up everything. When rebuilding the church however, we’re not after traditionalism or revolution: We’re after reformation.

Rejoice in the Lord who Rebuilds

Rejoice in the Lord who rebuilds.

1. Rejoice through celebration.
2. Rejoice through generosity.
3. Rejoice in God’s Word.

Rejoicing When You Don’t Feel Like It

Don’t you sometimes just not feel like coming to church or rejoicing in the Lord? In this passage, God’s people didn’t either, but they were still called to, and given good reasons to. This shows us that rebuilding requires rejoicing.