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Invitation, Week 1, Day 4

by David Joynt on October 09, 2019

Invitation, Week 1, Day 4

MATTHEW 11:29a | Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart.

Jesus’ invitation honors us. He wants to do life with us, to be involved, to keep and bless and guide us, bringing out our best. It honors us also because it requests a response. We are not passive  partners getting grace in the mail. We must “take his yoke”, making a decision once and then many times more, that we will partner with him in our work, our friendships, our decisions, our love life, our recreation, and every other area. He believes in our growth and potential! He expects us to learn, develop, grow, evolve. He will not force us of course, his way is gentle and humble. He invites and does not compel. He recommends but does not force. He appeals, he empowers, he persuades with the weapons of truth and love and mercy.

He wants to be your teacher. How are the tutorials going?

 

Tags: growth, gentle, relationship, humble, yoke

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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