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Nehemiah. Volunteer Driven Projects. Volunteers Have Initiative Volunteers Must Coordinate Volunteers Should Choose Areas They Care About Volunteers Are Not Feeble Volunteers Deserve Recognition Volunteers Should Appreciate & Celebrate Progress. Needs Everyone Can Help With. Helpers
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Volunteer Driven Projects • Volunteers Have Initiative • Volunteers Must Coordinate • Volunteers Should Choose Areas They Care About • Volunteers Are Not Feeble • Volunteers Deserve Recognition • Volunteers Should Appreciate & Celebrate Progress
Needs Everyone Can Help With • Helpers • Special Skills • Teachers • Deacons • Elders • God • Burden Bearers (4:10,17) • Builders (4:18) • Trumpet Players (4:20) • Nobles & Officials (4:19) • Governor (4:23) • King (2:8)
Godly Volunteers Face Special Challenges • For Hard Working Volunteers • Discouragement from Without (Ch. 4) • Outcry’s from Within (5:9,15) • For Hard-Working Leaders • Attacks On Your People • Attacks On Your Person • Attacks On Your Influence • Attacks On Your Courage
The Project Is Completed • (Nehemiah 6:15-16) So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul, in fifty-two days. When all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding us saw it, they lost their confidence; for they recognized that this work had been accomplished with the help of our God.
Godly Volunteers Continue To Serve God • Dedication to God’s work, not just the leader. (7:66-73) • The Governor • 1,000 gold drachmas, 50 basins, 530 priests’ garments. • The Heads of Households • 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,200 silver minas. • The People • 20,000 gold drachmas, 2,000 silver minas, and 67 priests’ garments.
Godly Volunteers Take A Personal Inventory • Gaining Understanding • Group Study 8:1-12 • Family Leadership 8:13-18 • Personal Repentance 9:1-3 • Group Study 9:4-38 • Rebuilding Their Spiritual Lives • We will observe all of God’s Commandments 10:1-29 • Reform Their Relationship 10:30 • Reform Their Worship 10:31-33 • Reform Their Stewardship 10:34-39 • Time Passes & People Drift 11-12
Godly Volunteers Want To Be Held Accountable • Nehemiah Provides Accountability • (13:7, 25) • Nehemiah Is Willing To Act Zealously • (13:8-9) • Nehemiah Is Willing To Rebuke Others • (13:10-14) • Nehemiah Is Willing To Intervene • (13:15-22) • Nehemiah Is Willing To Discipline • (13:23-31)