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Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 5

Does Jesus’ revolutionary teaching about humility reflect your understanding of the truth about human beings? Does it resonate with your view of yourself?

by David Joynt on June 30, 2016


GENESIS 3:19
PSALM 90:1-3

Jesus’ Kingdom values are not simply a reversal of the social scale of power and authority. They reflect a truth about all people, regardless of the rung they occupy. We are all fragile, all limited, all broken, all needy, all on the road from dust to dust. And we are all in equal need of God’s grace and love and forgiveness!

Despite the pretensions of our achievements, or the supposed nobility of our birth, we are, in fact, small and vulnerable creatures with moral and spiritual flaws which we cannot fix on our own. We all have lots of reasons to be humble!

 

Does Jesus’ revolutionary teaching about humility reflect your understanding of the truth about human beings?

Does it resonate with your view of yourself?

 

 

 

Tags: humility, 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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