VISION (3 OF 6)
Scripture: Nehemiah 2:11-20, Nehemiah 3:1-32
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Vision (3 of 6)
Series: re:Solve
Dave Gustavsen
Nehemiah 2:11 - 3:32
I want to extend a welcome to our entire church family, whether it's at our Lincoln Park Campus or our Acoustic Service or online-great to have you with us.
We're taking six weeks to walk through the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, which is the historical account of a group of people who made a resolution: they decided they would join together and build something bigger than themselves. And we chose this because I really believe all of us are meant to be part of building something that's bigger than ourselves. Life is too short, and life is too valuable, and there's too much suffering in the world...to waste our lives on self-centered resolutions.
So...the passage we're going to look at today brings up the concept of vision. Let me give you a simple definition of vision: Vision is a clear picture of a better future. Make sense? Vision is just a clear picture of a better future. And all of us know that sometimes a vision really sticks-people rally to it, and it takes off. Other visions just kind of fall flat. When President Kennedy said, ''We're going to put a man on the moon by the end of this decade,'' that vision stuck! And it happened! When President Ford said, ''We're going to convert America to the metric system,'' didn't stick so well. So why do some visions stick, and others not so much?
Think about your own life for a minute. Have you had big ideas or dreams that never went anywhere? Is it possible the reason other people never got on board, or that you gave up, is because your plan lacked the right kind of vision? Vision is so important. So let's see how that played out for Nehemiah, and then we'll talk about what it means for us.
Quick review: Nehemiah was a Jewish man living in Persia in the 5th Century BC, because the Jewish people were in captivity to the Persians at that time. Nehemiah lived very comfortably, but in chapter one he got news from the homeland that ...
Series: re:Solve
Dave Gustavsen
Nehemiah 2:11 - 3:32
I want to extend a welcome to our entire church family, whether it's at our Lincoln Park Campus or our Acoustic Service or online-great to have you with us.
We're taking six weeks to walk through the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, which is the historical account of a group of people who made a resolution: they decided they would join together and build something bigger than themselves. And we chose this because I really believe all of us are meant to be part of building something that's bigger than ourselves. Life is too short, and life is too valuable, and there's too much suffering in the world...to waste our lives on self-centered resolutions.
So...the passage we're going to look at today brings up the concept of vision. Let me give you a simple definition of vision: Vision is a clear picture of a better future. Make sense? Vision is just a clear picture of a better future. And all of us know that sometimes a vision really sticks-people rally to it, and it takes off. Other visions just kind of fall flat. When President Kennedy said, ''We're going to put a man on the moon by the end of this decade,'' that vision stuck! And it happened! When President Ford said, ''We're going to convert America to the metric system,'' didn't stick so well. So why do some visions stick, and others not so much?
Think about your own life for a minute. Have you had big ideas or dreams that never went anywhere? Is it possible the reason other people never got on board, or that you gave up, is because your plan lacked the right kind of vision? Vision is so important. So let's see how that played out for Nehemiah, and then we'll talk about what it means for us.
Quick review: Nehemiah was a Jewish man living in Persia in the 5th Century BC, because the Jewish people were in captivity to the Persians at that time. Nehemiah lived very comfortably, but in chapter one he got news from the homeland that ...
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