Discord Among God’s People

Discord Among God’s People

Nehemiah 5:1-19
Whenever God is at work, the enemy will never be far behind. Nehemiah always seemed to be facing new problems and challenges. But in today’s passage the difference is that the problem came from within his own people. Jews were exploiting fellow Jews resulting in poverty, resentment and disunity between them. So serious was the problem that Nehemiah stopped work on the wall to address it. People matter more than building programmes and institutional structures. Unless Christians genuinely love and practically care for one another, our ministries are doomed. Does the gospel make a real difference to our fellowship?