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Invitation, Week 4, Day 22

by David Joynt on October 27, 2019

Invitation, Week 4, Day 22

JOHN 1:39a| Jesus said to them, “Come and see.” 

We can hesitate to invite someone to come to VPC. What if we don’t choose the right words? What if we send the wrong message? What if the invitee feels pressured or uncomfortable? What if I say too much or too little?

Jesus was the greatest thinker and teacher of all time–to get his invitations were very simple. “Come and see!” It is not the elaborate character of the invitation that matters, but the sincerity and warmth of the inviter.

What would you like your friends and family and neighbors to “see” at VPC?

 

Tags: teacher, message, pressure, invite, invitation, warmth

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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