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Your Church, God's World - Day 26

by David Joynt on November 15, 2018

Your Church, God's World - Day 26

JOHN 1:35-37 | The next day John again was standing with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, “Look, here is the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus. 

One major factor determining our impact on others is enthusiasm. John the Baptist was excited about Jesus. He identified him, in a public way, as God’s Messiah. Here, in the Gospel of John, he identifies him as the Lamb of God, the one who will deal with the world’s brokenness and sin. As Christians, deliberately or unconsciously, we send a signal to others via our attitude. John was fired up about Jesus, sending his own disciples off to connect with him, and describing him with exclamation points.

 Our excitement about Jesus must be more than intellectual. It is a by-product of our own experience of his goodness, grace, and direction.

 

 Are you excited about Christ? About knowing and following him?

 What stands in the way of your enthusiasm for Jesus?

 

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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