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Growing Joy June 5 Devotional

by David Joynt on June 05, 2023


PHILIPPIANS 2:20 | 20 I have no one so like myself who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare.

The church is a network of networks. All networks require integration and management. Each of us has our own individual set of friends and family and neighbors, our own contact list, and each of us is the manager of that network. For a body of believers to thrive and withstand challenges, it must not be a collection of individual networks but an integrated group.

 

This happens when we introduce friends to other friends! As we do this, we widen and deepen the circle and thicken the overall network of relationships—spreading joy. This is what Paul is doing by preparing to send Timothy to the Philippians, helping his dearest colleague become a friend and shepherd in their community. Linking friends multiplies joy.

 

Do you effectively link friends?

 

Is your network open or closed?

 

 

Gracious God,

May I be a generous friend, who links my contacts in a growing circle of joy. Guide me in deepening Your great kingdom network.

Amen.

 

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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