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All You Need is Love Daily Devotional -45

by David Joynt on May 25, 2021


1 CORINTHIANS 12:12 | 12 For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

Don’t be discouraged by Paul’s realistic appraisal of human sight and understanding. Christian community helps correct our vision. We have a past community of brothers and sisters, stretching across two millennia, who offer us insight. They do so from a vast array of different time periods and cultural settings. Further we learn, via accountable and intimate friendship, what typically obscures our perspectives. We can become acquainted with our own individual astigmatisms, our blind spots. We can learn to see the world from others’ angles. People older and younger, folks with different educations and backgrounds, all become resources.

Who do you enlist to clarify your perspective?

Who do you help see more effectively?  

Tags: perspective, clarify

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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