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Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 6

Pray today for a heart that resonates with others’ feelings. Call or write or text someone who needs you to identify with them.

by David Joynt on June 24, 2016

Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 6

LUKE 11:46
GALATIANS 6:2

Understanding others through exercising your moral imagination should lead to greater empathy with their struggles. One characteristic of Jesus’ leadership was empathy. He felt for the isolated tax collectors, the notorious prostitutes, the crippled beggars, and the broken people. Really seeing other people as Jesus did means identifying emotionally with their addictions, their besetting weaknesses, and even their petty foibles. Later in the series, we’ll emphasize the honest confrontation real relationships require, but a key part of those friendships must be empathy.

Pray today for a heart that resonates with others’ feelings.

Call or write or text someone who needs you to identify with them.

 

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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