“I’m taking a little bit of time today, but I think it’s important. Because I know our church is not perfect and it’s never claimed to be,” Dooley went on to say. “But our church is full of good people, doing their best to love Jesus and follow him, who are determined to grow in their faith and raise their family well and do their very best to make a positive contribution to the community they live in, to pursue their dreams and serve and love others, and have a little bit of fun along the way. Because that’s okay as well, guys.”
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“And I think we can learn from Nehemiah’s response to his critics,” Dooley said. “In Nehemiah four, verse six, it simply said, after they had been criticized, ‘So we rebuilt the wall till all of it reached half its height, for the people worked with all their heart.’”
“I want to encourage you, church, we have walls to build and rebuild. There are enemies trying to distract us, but they will not distract or dishearten us. We will keep our hearts right before God, and together we will simply get on with building what he has called us to build: His beautiful church, across the earth,” Dooley concluded.
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