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Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 1

What are the biggest shoes you’ve ever had to fill? Together the church is to act as the body of Christ. Do you find that to be an awesome assignment?

by David Joynt on June 26, 2016

Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 1

1 CORINTHIANS 12:20-27

Leading like Jesus means leading with a humble heart. Pride usually grows in proportion to success and in relation to ability and acclaim. Did anyone ever succeed like Jesus, during the initial stages of His ministry? He taught as no one ever had, He healed with power as no other, and there was incredible excitement at the prospect of Israel’s hopes coming true. Indeed part of our own humility comes from understanding His unique work and identity and then realizing as His followers that we are to continue his ministry.

What are the biggest shoes you’ve ever had to fill?

Together the church is to act as the body of Christ. Do you find that to be an awesome assignment?

 

 

Tags: leading, humility

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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