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Broken and the Blessed Week 7, Day 6

by David Joynt on February 24, 2017


DAY 48

1 PETER 5:5-6

In our series, we remind ourselves that we are broken and blessed. When we are engaged in peacemaking and justice seeking, it is very easy to demonize our opponents. In politics, we often have to take sides to make progress, but as Jesus’ followers, we must resist the tendency to locate evil only outside ourselves, on the “other side of the issue.” This leads to scorched earth strategies and to a politics of destruction, which we see in our own American discussions. We are all broken and must maintain a genuine humility in our seeking of justice and building of peace.

Pray for a spirit of humility in conflicts.

Pray for a change in American political life.

 

FAMILY TIME:

Take an issue where you disagree. Change sides and argue the other person’s viewpoint.

 

Tags: broken, peacemaking

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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