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Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 3

Is your background humble? Privileged? How do you feel about your origins? Do you treat everyone, no matter their background, in a similar way?

by David Joynt on June 28, 2016

Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 3

JOHN 1:43-46

Beyond His associations, there is further evidence for His humility from His background. When God came from heaven to earth, He did not occupy a palace, and He was not a figure of conventional power.  He worked as a carpenter and lived in a small village in an occupied nation at the far extreme of a hostile empire. His background shouted “ordinary” and “obscure” and “unimportant.” What good can possibly come from Nazareth!? This was a natural question for anyone, not just Nathaniel, to ask.

 

Is your background humble? Privileged?

How do you feel about your origins?

Do you treat everyone, no matter their background, in a similar way?

 

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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