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The Originals, Week 6, Day 5

by David Joynt on February 15, 2018


 

EPHESIANS 3:15

Families are a God invention. What a blessing to have a place
you are known and treasured, valued, and encouraged. When
families work well, they are launching pads into life. But the
most important function of a family is to help its members
connect with God's family. It is through God's family that we
find our eternal purpose and final destiny.

 

The current family paradigm stresses that keeping kids busy will
forestall trouble, but often busyness leads to eliminating or down-
grading connections to church. Good things become the enemy
of the best thing.

 

 

What is the best family you've ever seen?

 

 

What made them great?

 

Tags: families

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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