Resolving Problems within

A man heard his daughter and some of her friends arguing loudly in the back yard. He went out and reprimanded her. “But Daddy,” she protested, “we were just playing church.” Ouch! It’s sad, but true, that the church of Jesus Christ has often been marked more by factions than by fellowship. In the history of the church we have seen that when the devil could not destroy the church by persecution, the next thing he did was join it!

If you have been a Christian for very long, you have probably heard of or experienced a church going through a church split. Jesus said, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand" (Matthew 12:25). This Sunday we move into chapter five of Nehemiah to examine how Nehemiah handles Problems From Within.