Meeting as a Mandate

Series: Nehemiah

Category: Our Pastors

Speaker: Christopher Shipster

Passage: Nehemiah 10:39

Summary: What does it mean to make a house, a home? There is a universal recognition that a home is more than a shelter from the elements, there is a deeper significance to it. The Greek historian, Thucydides, writing around the time of Nehemiah's reform, notes that "It is the people, not the walls, that make a city." So what is it going to take for Jerusalem to become a city once more?

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What does it mean to make a house, a home? There is a universal recognition that a home is more than a shelter from the elements, there is a deeper significance to it. The Greek historian, Thucydides, writing around the time of Nehemiah's reform, notes that "It is the people, not the walls, that make a city." So what is it going to take for Jerusalem to become a city once more?