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A New Heart for the Valley Week 3, Day 2

by David Joynt on March 05, 2018

A New Heart for the Valley Week 3, Day 2

AN INVITATIONAL HEART

 

MARK 2:1-2

 

Life is shaped by invitations. Schools invite prospective students. Employers invite potential workers. Lovers invite their beloved to be partners for life. God is also a great Inviter, but he issues his invitations to growth, to work, and to loving relationship through us.

 

Behind these two verses, there are invitations and discussions. Decisions to check out this new prophet Jesus, from Galilee, are being made—word is spreading, person to person. In an age without “social networking,” just a few weeks into his ministry, Jesus is surrounded by a curious and eager crowd.

 

 

When did you last invite someone to church?

 

What motivates you to invite others?

 

What holds you back?

 

 

FAMILY TIME

What about your experience at VPC would you most like to share with someone else?

 

Tags: invitations, relationship

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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