Building Walls

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Building Walls Building Lives A Strategy
under Pressure! Nehemiah 4
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• ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN TEACHERS ATTACKS THE
  NATIONAL THEATRE FOR STAGING PHILIP PULLMAN PLAY
  UNDERMINING CHRISTIANITY

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• Facing up to Opposition and
• Being Under Pressure!

The strength of the labourers is giving out
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• THE VANISHING CONGREGATION!
• In a year one in eight lost!
• Sundays down 2 to 916,000
• Electoral Rolls down
• from 1,372,000 to 1,206,000

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Can they bring stones back to life from heaps of
rubble?
Lord it is such hard work being a Christian
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Do you want to leave as well?
Lord where else can we go?
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A Strategy under Pressure! Prayer Nehemiah 1
Passionate Nehemiah 2 Urgent Arrow Nehemiah
3 Honest Realistic
Hear us God for we are despised!
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• A Strategy under Pressure!
• Encouragement
• Nehemiah tells it as it is warts and all!
• John Bunyan
• Discouragement

If Satan cannot win the Christian by flattery he
will endeavour to weaken him by discouragements!
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• A Strategy under Pressure!
• Encouragement
• Exhaustion!

Its always easier to begin a work for God than
continue it
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• A Strategy under Pressure!
• Encouragement
• Feeling Overwhelmed

In the history of the Church pessimism has been a
greater problem than atheism
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• A Strategy under Pressure!
• Encouragement
• Intimidation

Wherever we turn they will attack us!
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A Strategy under Pressure! Encouragement

• Two months ago at St. Pauls
• Vision and plans to equip the church for mission
  and ministry
• BUT
• Two months ago at St. Pauls
• No money pledged
• No-one to implement the plans
• Nowhere to meet on Sundays

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A Strategy under Pressure! Encouragement

• Today at St. Pauls
• 1,254,227 pledged
• BIG Team
• Here at the Priory

Be encouraged. Remember the Lord our God is
great and awesome
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A Strategy under Pressure! Practical
Wisdom Leaders, builders, soldiers, parents,
children, families, ordinary people All were
involved in the challenge of Building Walls
in so doing God was Building Lives
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Building Walls Building Lives Swords and
Shovels Faith and Action!