Monday Morning Perspective

Well I can hardly believe we are through with our journey through Nehemiah. I love this book! Every week I was amazed at how timely and relevant it was, but that's just God! His Word is alive and active and every word speaks to us and our situation.

Yesterday we saw a surprise ending to the book in chapter 13. We saw Nehemiah return from Susa and he wasn't a happy camper. By the way, I loved the details on the travel time and mileage. Chalk that up to my love for details. Anyway, Eddie asked us some questions that went along with the message that were challenging and certainly worthy of sitting down and thinking through, being totally honest with ourselves. 

1.  Are you as close to God as you used to be? Has there been a drift or a circumstance that just sent you quickly away from God?

2.  Is there a Tobiah in your temple you need to get rid of? Has he crawled up on the throne of your life and taken over?  

This one is worth watching online if you missed yesterday. 

We start a 4 week series on the end times in 2 weeks and what better or easier time to bring someone. People are always curious when you talk about that especially with our world the way it is now. John shared with our students Wednesday night the statistic of how many people have never even invited someone to church, not share their faith, but never even invited someone. That's amazing. Just invite them or bring them with you. Eddie will do the gospel sharing for you. He does an amazing job presenting the gospel the end of every message. All we need to do is get our lost friends there. And statistics tell us that an overwhelming number of people say they would go to church if someone just invited them. Let's get busy! It starts with caring enough about someone to not want them to spend eternity in hell separated from God. Another question to end with this morning...do we care enough?