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Day 5: Restoration

What expectations do you have for yourself as a person? How about as a disciple?

by David Joynt on April 14, 2016


JOHN 13:36-38

 

We all have expectations of ourselves. These expectations are crucial if we are to become the people God intends. We have to set goals, establish our aims and move toward them. Peter wanted and expected to be a loyal follower, someone whose commitment was real and strong. He could not imagine a situation in which he’d stop following Jesus, let alone a moment when he abandoned him. 

We need high expectations of ourselves if we are to achieve great things, but the higher our hopes for ourselves, the harder it is when we fail.

 

What expectations do you have for yourself as a person?

How about as a disciple?

 

 

Tags: restoration, devotional, encountering

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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