The deterioration of culture is first and foremost a spiritual issue.

Dr. Tony Evans lays out a blueprint for turning cultural collapse into kingdom impact.

Until the spiritual dynamics have been addressed, you cannot address properly the social or the economic or the political realms. This is the alternative broadcast featuring the

timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans. Trying to fix a broken world without

addressing its spiritual foundation is like trying to build a house on shifting sand. It's just not going to stand for

long. Today, Dr. Evans takes us back to the book of Nehemiah to show how true restoration in our

communities, our families, and even our nation begins with a return to God. Let's join him.

We have before us in the book of Nehemiah a man who took God seriously,

who took God at his word and found it not only good for his personal life, but his communal

and public life as well. The first thing that Nehemiah came the grips with was a theological

understanding of sociology, that the deterioration of culture is first and foremost a spiritual issue.

Until the spiritual dynamics have been addressed, you cannot address properly the social

or the economic or the political realms. Neomeyer, however, understood these principles and went

to God about the degradation of the deterioration that was now occupying the community of Israel.

The very first thing he did was pray.

We find at the end of chapter 1, verse 11, the conclusion of his prayer, O Lord, I beseech thee.

May thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant.

And the prayer of thy servants, who delight to revere thy name.

And make thy servant successful today, grant him compassion before this man.

Now I was a cupbearer to the king, and we defined a cup bearer as one who was an administrative

assistant to the king, tasted the king's food in case the one was trying to poison him,

set up the king's appointments.

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