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Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 3

Are you task-oriented? Are you "interruptible"?

by David Joynt on June 21, 2016

Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 3

LUKE 9:51-53

 

To be genuinely invitational, we must be "interruptible." Jesus was what we would term “task oriented.” He didn’t just wander around Galilee from encounter to encounter. By mid-point of his ministry, he had the end in mind and began to move toward Jerusalem. He engaged in recruitment, mentoring, discipling, and intensive training to prepare his followers for their future leadership roles.

Yet, he was eminently interruptible. People with questions or problems could find a space in his calendar, a spot in his diary.

 

Are you task-oriented?

Are you interruptible?

 

 

 

 

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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