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Faithful: Faith Shares, Day 16

by David Joynt on January 21, 2019

Faithful: Faith Shares, Day 16

ROMANS 1:16-17 | For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who has faith, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed through faith for faith; as it is written, “The one who is righteous will live by faith.”

Sharing your faith requires faith! When we have opportunities to talk about our faith in Christ, we have to believe that God will use our words. We must believe that we will be heard and that God is active in the life and heart of the person with whom we are talking. It can be difficult, sometimes, to believe that others can change and that hard hearts will soften. We must have faith in the power of the gospel. We must trust that the Spirit will give us the right words of response and the right timing when questions come.

Read these two verses from Romans 1.

Do you trust, like Paul, that the gospel has universal saving power for everyone?

 

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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