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Body Building Daily Devotional - 44

by David Joynt on October 25, 2021


JOHN 17:8,17 | 8 for the words that you gave to me I have
given to them, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me.

17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

A second form of unity centers around the truths of the faith. In the traditional language of the church, it is doctrinal agreement, holding common beliefs about God’s nature and purposes, human needs and possibilities, the nature of salvation, the character and mission of the church, the authority of scripture, and the person and work of Jesus.

In John’s gospel, Jesus is the Revealer: “What you gave me, [He says to God] I have given to the disciples.” The word forgive, “didomai,” became a technical term for the substantive claims of the faith. What was “handed over” from the Father to Jesus, and from Jesus to the disciples, is “handed on” through the scriptures to each generation of followers.

What do you identify as central beliefs in your faith?

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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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