About Us

Open Door Baptist Church Is Staying On the Wall!

            In Nehemiah chapter six, we find that the people of Jerusalem had, so far, completed building the wall around the city. In verse one, the enemies of Israel found out about the completion of the wall and decided to test the faithfulness of Nehemiah. They began by asking him to come down off the wall into the valley of Ono for some, ”dialogue”.  The valley of Ono represents compromise.
       
             So, some may say! But this is exactly what our enemy, Satan, tries to get God’s people to do every day. He tries to get them to compromise. When God’s people build a wall in their lives, mark it down Satan will try to get them to come down into the valley of Ono.

             Compromise is all around us. It comes in every shape and size. It looks appealing. It may even come wrapped up in some form of godliness. Mark it down; the Devil wants us to compromise. He wants us to compromise our beliefs and our children’s future. He wants us to compromise our stand on the Bible and our standards of holiness. He wants us to compromise as to not “offend” those around us.

              Walls are meant for our protection and security. We must not come down!

 Nehemiah had a great work going for the Lord. The people were excited. The city of Jerusalem was being rebuilt.  However, just as there were those who were critical of the work and critical of Nehemiah, there will always be those critical of us and our work but we must stay on the wall ! To come down now would be to jeopardize the work! Nehemiah would not come down. So to, like Nehemiah, should we be. This is what Open Door Baptist Church wants to be – a people busy doing God’s work. There is too much at stake. There is too much to do. We are STAYING ON THE WALL!