PLACED Week 3: What's Your Section? | Three Hubs, One Mission

And when Jesus holds a church together, he doesn't do it through spectators. He does it through people who participate. And that's what you've just heard in Nehemiah chapter three. Everyone knew their part. Everyone carried their section of the wall. And so the the the question is simple, and it's actually quite confronting to each and every one of us here is, what's your section? What's your section? [00:34:31] (32 seconds)  #WhatsYourSection

And so today, don't ask the question, can I do everything? Ask, can I be faithful with my section? Faithfulness, not fullness. Just that section, not the whole wall, not someone else's section, yours. And then together with Jesus holding us together, let us start rebuilding. [01:06:29] (27 seconds)  #FaithfulWithYourSection

And if Jesus conquered death, then he can carry us through change. He can carry us through this construction period. He can carry us when we're scattered across locations. He can carry us when we feel unsure of our place. He can carry us when we're tired and we're wondering if we can keep going. Because Jesus doesn't say, build a wall. He says, I am with you always to the very end of the age. Always, not some sometimes, always. [01:05:56] (33 seconds)  #JesusCarriesUs

And here's the good news underneath this saying. Jesus never sends us to carry a section alone. He he says, I am with you always. He's not cheering from a distance. He's not waiting for us to get it right. Jesus is with us, which means that the question, what's my section, is not actually a question about pressure. Like, I'm not trying to pressure you pressure you into doing something. It's actually an invitation. [00:40:58] (37 seconds)  #NotAloneInvitation

I want you to hear this sentence clearly. God doesn't need everyone to do everything, but he does call everyone to carry something. If you step back, Nehemiah actually just shows us three simple things. And the first is this, everyone has a section. There were no spectators in this. Everyone had a section. The second was this, there was will willingness mattered more than status or skill. Third, when everyone carried their part, God completed the work. [00:47:19] (51 seconds)  #EveryoneHasASection

Right? People worked side by side. Verse four says some sections were repaired by the men of Jericho. Verse five says men of Tokoa. Verse seven, men of Gibeon and Mizpah. Right? They worked together. They worked in teams. No one rebuilt their section of the wall alone. Why? Because isolation kills. It kills momentum. It can kill us. But what happens is when we come into community, community sustains us. [00:48:52] (33 seconds)  #CommunitySustains

Here's the thing. Right? If we don't build people before we leave this building, we won't be just scattered all over the place. We'll actually be vulnerable. If we don't identify and train leaders now, we'll enter into this construction season quite unprepared for what is about to happen, and so this is what I've learned, and this is what I'm continuing to learn, that Jesus never designed his church to to depend on the one person or or a small group of people. He designed it so everyone carries a section. [00:37:13] (36 seconds)  #EquipEveryone

And scripture is actually quite clear about this, that God never replaces faithfulness. God never replaces faithfulness. He actually multiplies it. In in Psalm 78 verse four says that we tell the next generation what God has done so that they can so they can set their hope in him. And what many of you who have been here a long time have, have carried wasn't meant to end with you. It was meant to become the foundation for the next generation. [00:38:20] (35 seconds)  #MultiplyFaithfulness