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Lead Like Moses Devotional 54

by David Joynt on August 04, 2022


DEUTERONOMY 6:2 | 2So that you and your children and your children’s children may fear the Lord your God all the days of your life and keep all his decrees and his commandments that I am commanding you, so that your days may be long.

Chain-link living sees life as including generational responsibilities. Good leaders mentor the next generation—they look downward toward children and youth and forward toward the future. They look upward at older generations and backward toward traditions and previous revelations. They look sideways at the examples of their peers and around at their own generation. They know their lives are embedded in a chain of life and they must be links between older and younger generations.

Do you live in a consciously intergenerational way?

How does our society tend to set generations apart and isolate them?

Tags: intergenerational

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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