Reboot: Getting Going!

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.