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Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 7

Do you give others the freedom to fail? How often do you say “I told you so!”? How often do you say “I forgive you!”? What things did Jesus have to correct and forgive in our passage?

by David Joynt on June 25, 2016

Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 7

LUKE 9:46-56

Leading like Jesus means giving people the freedom to fail. When we are afraid to fail, we are often afraid to try and nearly always afraid to undertake anything risky or uncertain. Since we all do fail, unless those around us are gracious and forgiving, we will be haunted by guilt and crippled by regret.

Jesus held his disciples accountable, but also forgave their selfishness, slowness, fearlessness, ethnocentrism, pride, and lack of faith. Leaders can change the way others relate to their pasts. Previous errors become occasions of grace, moments of learning, and springboards into the future.

Do you give others the freedom to fail?

How often do you say “I told you so!”?

How often do you say “I forgive you!”?

What things did Jesus have to correct and forgive in our passage?

 

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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