Reach This City: Protect This House!

Nehemiah 4:15-23

-We've been called to a personal building project. We are to build our relationship with Jesus, our relationship with our spouse, and we are to build and cultivate our children. What else are we called to build (think about singles or people without children)?

-Do you agree that while Satan is an enemy who seeks our destruction, we make his job easy and are often the primary cause of our own ruin? If so, in what ways do we bring destruction on ourselves?

-It's easy to determine how to defend things from an external enemy, but when our enemy is internal...when our enemy is ourselves...putting a game plan for defense together is more difficult. What steps can we take this week to protect the things we've built from our own inclination to destroy/neglect them?

-The Bible says that if we hold fast to the gospel then we are "being saved" (1 Corinthians 15:1-2). How might this truth help us develop that strategy for defending the things we've built against our number one enemy (ourselves)?

The Triad

-What did this text teach you about God?

-What did this text teach you about yourself?

-What are you going to do about it?