In the book of Nehemiah, we see a leader heartbroken by a city in ruins. Not only did he mourn the rubble, but he also took it upon himself to rally the community to rebuild the wall, family by family, station by station. Today, as we look across the Buckeye State, we see a different kind of “wall” that has crumbled: the foundational sequence of life that leads to flourishing families and stable communities.
For many pastors in the pulpit, the results of this collapse are a daily reality. We see the young couples struggling under the weight of debt and unplanned crises. We see the "rubble" of a culture that has told our youth that their choices don't have an order, and the data shows the staggering price our next generation is paying.