In the opening of Nehemiah, we discover that God had a plan for His people and He had a man chosen to do His work. Learning from Nehemiah, we can establish building blocks within church ministry to care for God’s people and purposes. While our work is different, we must respond to the urgent work of the Gospel. Alistair Begg teaches that as in Nehemiah’s day, God uses ordinary individuals placed in strategic positions to accomplish His purposes.
1The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah.
Now it happened in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Susa the citadel,
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