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Nehemiah - Bible Sunday #1 - Coggle Diagram
Nehemiah - Bible Sunday #1
Disruption
Reopening plans
Yearning to return to familiar
How will we rebuild?
How experience spiritual renewal together?
Where are the resources we need to face the world with courage?
World feels like a less certain place as we emerge from pandemic
How will we support each other?
Let's look to the Bible - to God's word
Nehemiah (OT)
Israel recovering from disruption & experiencing spiritual renewal through God's word
5th c BC - Exile
100 years before Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem - forced many out of homeland
By the rivers of Babylon Psalm 137
70 years on Persians took over - started repatriation
Their lockdown had been hard
But rebuilding was going to be even harder
Trying to get back to a new normal
Rebuilt temple (ref Nicky's sermon)
Us?
Nehemiah came back and rebuilt the walls of the city
Physically secure but hungry for spiritual renewal
Ezra returned
Nehemiah was a visionary leader - Ezra a Bible teacher
In N 8 Ezra takes the lead
Bible passage
Three ways the Bible - spiritual renewal
Divine watering hole
Larger story that gives hope
Helps us cultivate community
Song and prayers