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Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 7

Thank God for someone near you who regularly helps you.

by David Joynt on July 02, 2016

Leading With a Humble Heart: Day 7

JAMES 4:6

Individual humility also rests on the truth that we alone can do so very little. As part of a movement, we depend on each other. As members of our families, we need each other. Reinhold Niebuhr famously said: “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.”

 

Use this quotation today as a prayer. 

Thank God for someone near you who regularly helps you. 

 

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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