The Summit Church The Greatest Threat to Your Calling
Mar 29, 2026
A look at how internal compromise can be more dangerous than outside attacks. Discussion of financial selfishness, predatory practices, and economic injustice within communities. Exploration of generosity as a practical response and leadership rooted in humility and reverence before God. Practical calls to serve, give, and put others first.
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Internal Compromise Is The Biggest Threat
- The greatest threat to God's work is internal compromise rather than external opposition.
- Nehemiah shifts from external critics in chapter 4 to internal exploitation in chapter 5, showing corruption within the community undermines the mission.
Economic Injustice Drives Spiritual Decline
- Economic injustice and callousness toward the poor are treated as sins that drive away God's blessing.
- Greear links predatory lending, unjust hiring, and legal manipulation among wealthy Jews to spiritual decline in Jerusalem.
Give Generously And Engage The Vulnerable
- Give generously and expose yourself to suffering rather than isolating from it to experience God's practical blessing.
- Greear recommends Serve Saturdays and church budget support as ways to engage the quartet of the vulnerable locally.