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Your Church, God's World - Day 31

by David Joynt on November 20, 2018

Your Church, God's World - Day 31

MATTHEW 5:13-14 | You are the salt of the earth; but if salt has lost its taste, how can its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled under foot. You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.

Do you see a gap between Jesus’ worldwide vision and the capabilities of his little band of followers? Right from the start, this discrepancy did not seem to bother him. In his sermon the Mount, way back at the start of his ministry, he was already identifying his disciples as the salt of the entire earth and the light of the whole cosmos!

Not the salt of Galilee or Palestine or the Mediterranean area. Not the light of Jerusalem or the Middle East. Wow. And yet, as I write today, the Bible has been translated into 2642 languages! In 1920, there were 600 million Christians. In 2010, 2.3 billion! There are believers in every country in the world.

Have you ever worshipped in a different country?

 

What sort of experience did you have?

 

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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