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Broken and the Blessed, Lent Day 32

by David Joynt on April 01, 2017


DAY 31

ROMANS 9:1-5, 11:17, 11:25-32

 

Despite all the new insights God gave Paul in the midst of his failures, the great apostle never lost his profound sense of being part of God’s chosen people. The new did not replace or diminish the old, but filled it full of meaning. The covenant, the promises, the law, the history of blessing and judgment, all of it was precious and vital. He wrestled with Jewish rejection of Jesus and saw its purpose within the Providence of God to be the extension of the Kingdom beyond Israel to the broader world. But he held onto hope for God’s original people too. 

 

Pray a prayer of thanksgiving for God’s people—Israel. 

 

FAMILY TIME:

If you have a family tree, show it to your kids.

If not, make one.

Discuss the way, as Christians, we have become part of God’s Jewish family tree, with people like Moses and Abraham as members.

 

 

 

Tags: family, thanksgiving

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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