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Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 2

How open are you to new relationships? Are you invitational?

by David Joynt on June 20, 2016

Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 2

JOHN 1:43
MARK 1:17

Jesus concentrated His teaching and attention on the most committed disciples—the people who would lead his Kingdom movement. But He never closed the circle. He refused to draw a boundary around His relationships and limit his contacts to a select few.

In fact, He remained “invitational,” — asking people to join His company and to take steps of faith and commitment. No one can be best friends with everyone, but there is a world of difference between living with an openness to new relationships and establishing an exclusive club.

How open are you to new relationships?
Are you invitational?

Tags: leading, people

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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