Speaker: Pastor Andy Searles

Sermon Series: Reboot

Scripture Focus: Nehemiah 2:11-20

Sermon notes are as follows:

Do Your Homework (11-15)

• Tiredness robs perspective, multiplies anxiety, makes new opportunities intolerably burdensome, and destroys our peace. If we don’t choose to rest, we will never be at our best.

• Leaders must live in reality, face facts honestly, and accept bad news as well as good.

Build the Team (16-18)

• Using the term ‘we’ and ‘us’ rather than ‘you’ and ‘them,’ Nehemiah unites a team where all can take ownership in the project.

• Nehemiah teaches us that leadership is “getting people to do what they ought to do because they want to do it.”

Overcome the Objections (19-20)

• Ridicule is “the weapon of those who have no other.” When you are ridiculed, though, realize that you are in the company of anyone who has done anything significant!

• We must treasure no ambition but the glory of God.