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Day 17: Direction

How do you define love? How does your picture of Jesus affect your definitions?

by David Joynt on April 26, 2016

Day 17: Direction

MATTHEW 22:37-37

The Living Lord directed his disciples to a new commandment: “Love one another as I have loved you.” In what sense is this a new command? Love is the central command and has a two-fold form: “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind, and...you shall love your neighbor as yourself” (on these two love commands hangs the law and the prophets).  Is the command to love not an old command?

What is new about the command is that it becomes personal and concrete—love as Jesus loves.

How do you define love? How does your picture of Jesus affect your definitions?

 

 

Tags: devotional, direction, encountering

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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