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Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 3

Do you have a “critical realism” about your investments? What can VPC do to better earn your investment? Pray that our church will grow like a mustard seed.

by David Joynt on July 26, 2016

Leading With a Committed Heart: Day 3

MATTHEW 13:31-34

The implication of yesterday’s devotional is that we must not be sentimental about how we invest our resources. Instead, every church and every member must adopt a critical Kingdom realism about what they choose to invest in. At VPC, we must be realistic and critical about mission partnerships, testing them for fidelity and effectiveness. Within VPC, each of us must also be critical of VPC—our church must earn your investment through work that draws and makes disciples, and mission that addresses hard problems with actual solutions.

 

Do you have a “critical realism” about your investments?

What can VPC do to better earn your investment?

Pray that our church will grow like a mustard seed.

Tags: commitment, leadership

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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