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Invitation, Week 7, Day 48

by David Joynt on November 22, 2019

Invitation, Week 7, Day 48

LUKE 10:7-8 | Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house. Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you.

The gospel is about relationships. As Jesus’ emissaries we must adjust to the people we encounter. Their food habits may differ from ours, but he encourages us to favor connection over scrupulosity, giving disciples a let-off from food laws. Accepting others’ hospitality, receiving blessings from them with openness and grace, is part of ministry. It establishes bonds that allow others to receive from us.

Jesus wants his followers to seek and build relationships in the context of mission.

How do you build relationships?

Tags: grace, relationships, connection, hospitality, build, bonds

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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