Rise and Rebuild: So What, Now What?

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Sermon Reflections: Rise and Rebuild: Two Questions. So What? Now What?
Date: 2 June 2024
Speaker: Lead Pastor Tammy Long
Sermon Text: Luke 4:18

Sermon Quick Summary

For the past few weeks, we have been in the Old Testament book of Nehemiah. The theme has been repairing broken walls in our world, such as systemic injustice and inequalities, broken relationships, broken emotional, physical, mental or spiritual health, and broken financial realities. The list of brokenness in our world is endless. Brokenness can cause us to grieve, mourn, pray, and celebrate spiritual renewal as we listen for how God would have us repair and restore what is broken.

Two lingering questions for us today are the following: (1) So what does this all mean for us? (2) What would God have us to do next? Three people shared personal testimonies about how they felt God leading them to respond to broken walls in their personal lives. Then the mission team who went to Atlanta shared how they saw God at work and the call to repair broken walls like Nehemiah in our partnership with New Life Covenant Church. This partnership follows the declaration of Jesus when he declared in Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to set the oppressed free.”

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We pray to God to strengthen us with God’s grace, that we may be agents of reconciliation and builders of what is broken in our communities.