This sermon series has been going on for 15 weeks now. While we may have gained some insight or new convictions, many of our lives look the same now as they did 15 weeks ago. How do we begin to implement God’s plan for us to influence others with our lives? Why don’t we start? Nehemiah 11 shows the slow beginnings of reinhabiting the city of Jerusalem after the wall was complete. It is apparent that it was much easier to rally people to build the wall than it was to rally people to live within the city that the wall fortified. This is because we as people get more excited about an event that has a start and end date than we are about day to day obedience. We love to build the big things, but we rarely like to live the normalcy of life in the thing God has called us to. We look for the big thing to do for God while neglecting the small moments of obedience. Because of this, we need accountability around the small steps of faith that we can easily neglect. God works mightily in the small incremental steps towards him, we just need to be comfortable starting small.