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Broken and the Blessed Week 4, Day 6

by David Joynt on February 03, 2017


DAY 27

1 CORINTHIANS 12:4-7

How strong is your sense of belonging to a community, being part of a group? Hebrew culture was less individualistic than ours, stressing the way relationships to family and tribe and ancestors and nation shaped personal life. We tend to see what differentiates rather than what unites, what is unique rather than what is shared. To the Old Testament and New Testament mind, collective identity and responsibility were just as important as individual identity and responsibility.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach?

Do your relationships help you understand your identity?

 FAMILY TIME—

Finish the sentence “I am…..” by using only terms of relationship. (I am son, daughter, etc.)

 

 

 

Tags: community, devotional, 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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