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Broken and the Blessed Week 4, Day 5

by David Joynt on February 02, 2017


DAY 26

2 KINGS 23:1-5 

Individual repentance led to collective repentance. The “we” follows the “I”. Josiah had all the priests, all the leaders, and all the people listen to the words of the book of the law. He led them in a set of confessional acts. He destroyed the shrines and cultic practices of the false gods his people had been following.

Corporate confession and repentance is key for the church. We need the mutual accountability, mutual honesty, and fresh spiritual power that can only come when we humble ourselves before God. Examples of both holiness and unholiness can inspire our humility, once we recognize that we are more than a collection of individuals pursuing personal growth, but are instead a body that fails, confesses, grows and serves together.

 The willingness of the church to admit its own brokenness is vital to its spiritual strength. Do you agree?

FAMILY TIME—

How good are you, as a family, at forgiving one another and moving forward?

 

Tags: devotional, repentance, the broken and the blessed

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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