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Invitation, Week 7, Day 45

by David Joynt on November 19, 2019

Invitation, Week 7, Day 45

LUKE 10:3 | Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves.

I love the honesty of our Lord. He pulls no punches—acting in his name means moving toward a plentiful harvest in a dangerous environment. Lambs have a hard time with wolves!

Jesus gives no starry-eyed picture of perfect Christian impact, shorn of challenge, immune from failure, moving only forward with inevitable progress. The proclamation of Jesus’ lordship in the kingdom of God will generate opposition and resistance. “Blessed are those who are persecuted for my sake.“

Forewarned is forearmed. Do you agree?

What opposition have you faced?

Tags: christian, opposition, progress, resistance, wolves, lambs

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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