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Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 12

by David Joynt on March 12, 2020

Belong & Become, Week 2, Day 12

JOHN 14:18 | 18  “I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you.

There are no orphans in God’s kingdom. Jesus promises he will “come to” his disciples. He fulfilled this promise bodily through his resurrection. He will fulfill it finally by his return at the second coming. In between, however, he does go through his spirit. Unlike religious traditions that have a vague and numinous spiritual element, Christianity has a personal and concrete spirituality.

The spirit we have is Jesus’ spirit. The Lord we partner with now is the same one born of a virgin, who grew up in Nazareth and taught by the Sea of Galilee and in the Jerusalem temple. The Lord of my heart today is the historical Jesus, a concrete figure with specific teaching and view points. No one can separate the current “work of the Spirit” from the historical Jesus without running into heresy, subjectivity, cultural confusion, and ruin.

How concrete is your faith?

How scripture connected?

 

Tags: faith, resurrection, spirit

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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