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Leading With A Courageous Heart: Day 4

Is there a struggler near you who needs help to get on the path? What do you make of the revolution?

by David Joynt on June 08, 2016

Leading With A Courageous Heart: Day 4

MATTHEW 9:9-13

This action by Jesus was connected to a more general campaign He undertook that was radical and dangerous. Not only did He issue a general indictment, erasing the line between the righteous and the unrighteous, but He insisted that righteousness was connected to mercy. The willingness to help a struggling sinner, and not the desire to separate or condemn her, was the genuine mark of righteousness. This is a revolutionary insight in the history of religion.

Is there a struggler near you who needs help to get on the path?
What do you make of the revolution?

Tags: courageous, leading

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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