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Broken and the Blessed,Lent Day 8

by David Joynt on March 08, 2017


DAY 8

DEUTERONOMY 5:1-21

 

The second function of the divine law is to order common life, restraining evil and preventing chaos. What would life look like if we all stole with impunity or showed no respect for human life, hurting others indiscriminately? Thomas Hobbes called it the war of all against all. All the institutions of modern life depend on shared norms of honesty and cooperation that would be impossible if we had no boundaries to protect family life, property, and well being.

  

Which one of the 10 Commandments is most consistently broken?

 Why did you choose the one you did?

 

 FAMILY TIME:

Take a commandment from numbers 5—10 and describe what would happen if this were generally ignored.

Tags: 10 commandments, boundaries

About the Author
David Joynt

Dave Joynt began his service as a pastor at Valley Presbyterian Church in Paradise Valley, Arizona in September 2014. This meant a move away from the Northeast, where he has a long history, growing up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and then serving congregations in Delaware and New Jersey for a total of 23 years.

Dave was nurtured in a great church in Bethlehem where his parents, Anne and Carey, served as elders. He graduated in classics from Lehigh University where his Father taught, and then from Oxford, where he met his wife Julia. Ordained in 1988, he completed a Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1993.

He and Julia have a son, Tristan, and a daughter, Madeleine.

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