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The Upside Down World, Week 9, Day 2

by David Joynt on November 06, 2017


LUKE 14:15-16


Now there are legitimate excuses for missing events. There are health problems, work conflicts, and prior engagements. But what constitutes a legitimate reason for ignoring or rejecting an invitation from God? Some people find God threatening, they see His authority as a diminution of their own sovereignty. Others carry resentment against God, nursing a grievance from a loss or disappointment. Many don’t believe the invitation is genuine, or they think a God gathering will be inevitably dull or pedestrian.

The church exists to issue God’s invitation in a way that His children will not resent or misunderstand.


Do you know anyone who doesn’t understand God’s invitation?


What issue underlies their confusion?



FAMILY TIME— A Christian is God’s love letter to the world. Talk about this.

Tags: invitation, love letter

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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