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Leading With a Generous Heart: Day 5

How has your experience of salvation changed you relationships?

by David Joynt on August 18, 2016

Leading With a Generous Heart: Day 5

LUKE 19:1-10

We learn a second thing from Zacchaeus and Jesus as well. Salvation is demonstrated by a change in character and attitude, by the advent of a new generosity. But that generosity is also the harbinger of radical and wonderful change in other relationships. Once Zacchaeus is connected to Jesus and he moves from being a selfish parasite to a selfless benefactor, then all his other relationships also change.

Salvation comes to Zacchaeus’ house in so many other ways! An outcast gained new friends and a new community and a new reputation. Someone known for greed became famous for generosity. A world of new kingdom relationships opened up for Zacchaeus, who underwent a revelation in self-perception and social image.

How has your experience of salvation changed you relationships?

Tags: generosity, leading

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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