a concern to pray and support suffering believers in some particular part of God’s world. Nehemiah wasn’t parochial in vision or concern; he had wide horizons, and that concern drove him not to depression or a fatalistic attitude but to God in prayer. Richard Lovelace, in his classic book The Dynamics of Spiritual Life,4 describes how there was revival somewhere in the Western world each generation after the Reformation. When the church was in trouble or facing a big challenge, people were called