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Body Building Daily Devotional - 49

by David Joynt on October 30, 2021


JOHN 17:11 | 11 And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.

The unity Jesus wants for us is missional, doctrinal, doxological,  social, mystical, and final. It includes our present work and beliefs and worship and relationships, as well as our current spiritual experience and our future destiny.

This unity is something we must seek and pray for and discover. In a world that separates and divides, it is a task of large proportions. Yet it is also a gift we receive. It depends on the Father, who protects us from hurting one another or ourselves. He offers forgiveness when we fail and direction when we get lost. He is the ultimate one who brings us together and mends the brokenness in and around us.

Which kind of unity is hardest for you to achieve or receive?

Tags: unity, receive, achieve

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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