Vintage Character – Nehemiah

This weekend I will be wrapping up the Vintage Character series talking about Nehemiah.  He is one of my favorite people in all the Bible.  If you’ve never read his story, he doesn’t have as much of a personal disadvantage to overcome (like the other characters we’ve look at from the Bible) as he does a national disadvantage.  Well…Nehemiah was a cup bearer, which means he had to take a drink of the king’s wine before the king did to see if it was poisoned, so I guess you could call that a disadvantage.  You never had to ask a cup bearer if he had a good day at work because if he came home alive…it was a good day.  Anyways, we can learn a lot from Nehemiah and the way he led through the national disadvantages he faced. 

On a different note, for those of you who attend the Lino Lakes campus, the 11am service is full.  And by full I mean anytime a service is more than 80% full the perception is it’s full.  We’ve been over the 80% mark for a long time, so I’m asking those of you who are regular attenders to think about moving to any other service but 11am.  4 or 6 on Saturday or even the 9am on Sunday has more room.  The reason this is so important is because people who are brand new to church, or far from God, typically come to the 11am.  If we don’t have room, we can’t accomplish the mission God has given us: To reach people for Christ. 

If you go on Saturday night, thank you, keep it up.  But if your schedule will let you, please consider making a move off Sunday at 11am to a different time.  You’ll be helping Eagle Brook accomplish our mission by doing so. 

P.S. Don’t forget it’s daylight savings time this weekend.

~ by ebcpastorjason on March 5, 2009.