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Everyday Saints Devotional 7

by David Joynt on January 08, 2022


MATTHEW 7:1 | 1 "Do not judge, so that you may not be judged.

Gratitude, as a practice, also prevents the acid of judgmentalism from corroding our hearts. An unduly critical spirit spoils our experience of our own lives. Currently in America, we hear much unbridled blanket criticism of our history. This is destructive. We have been far from perfect but hypercriticism is a form of judgmentalism. It is not mitigated or balanced by gratitude for all the many blessings we have inherited and all the sacrifices and hard work and accomplishments of previous generations. We then become ungracious in our discourse and unmeasured in our criticisms.

How do you distinguish discernment from judgmentalism?

 

Tags: discernment, judgementalism

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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