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Body Building Daily Devotional - 46

by David Joynt on October 27, 2021


JOHN 15:5 | 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.

Another sort of unity is hidden in these verses too. It is convivial or social unity. Jesus explicitly tells His disciples, at an earlier point in the final discourses, that He “no longer calls them servants, but friends.”

When two people share a deep appreciation of a mutual friend, they are already connected in one sense. When two people both share a deep friendship with Jesus then they have much common ground and they share the gift of His Spirit, which is directing and shaping their lives. It can be hard to enter a new church, or even a new group within a church, until you realize you have the greatest friend ever in common.

Who are your closest friends?

What makes them close?

Tags: friends, close

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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