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Serving Together for Tomorrow: Day 2

How do you see the connection between witness and service? Do you know anyone who is skeptical of Christian faith?

by David Joynt on October 17, 2016


MATTHEW 4:23-5:2

When we embody God’s love in effective service, we win the right to be heard. Real love is an antidote to skepticism and a counterweight to the often negative portrayal of Christian faith in our culture. But though embodied love can -and should- prepare the way for witness; it should never replace it!

Jesus often stopped healing and helping in order to call people to faith and repentance. The good deeds we do, we do in His name, the name that is above every name, the name in which we are forgiven and saved from death and sin.

How do you see the connection between witness and service?

Do you know anyone who is skeptical of Christian faith?

Family Focus: Does your family ever service together? What kind of service would engage everyone in your crew?

Tags: serving, tomorrow

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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