When We Care Enough To Confront

What do you do when things are rolling along and suddenly, out of nowhere, a problem bursts into the open which threatens the whole work? This is exactly the situation Nehemiah faced in Nehemiah 5. The work was moving forward. Every man had his job and they were busy about the work. The work was going so well that Nehemiah could report, in spite of the opposition of Sanballet and Tobiah, "the walls were half built because the people had a mind to work." Suddenly, there was an outcry of the people. Morale took a nose dive. A problem that had festered beneath the surface unexpectedly broke forth. How is a leader to respond? What steps is he supposed to take? Nehemiah will show us.
I. The Situation (v. 1-5)
II. The Confrontation (v. 6-13)