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Leading With a Generous Heart: Day 4

How could I tell salvation has come to your house?

by David Joynt on August 17, 2016

Leading With a Generous Heart: Day 4

LUKE 19:1-10

We learn two critical things about generosity from the Zacchaeus story. Both are dimensions of Jesus’ pronouncement, “Today salvation has come to this house!” 

This is a powerful claim—what does it mean? First, it suggests that Zacchaeus’ generosity toward those he has defrauded, which exceeded public and legal norms, is a sign of his new allegiance. Salvation is primarily relational, it occurs when we enter into a relationship with Jesus and come under his Lordship. The new allegiance of Zacchaeus is real, because his generosity shows his values are reflecting those of Jesus. He is behaving like someone with a new sovereign who lives in a new kingdom.

How could I tell salvation has come to your house?

Tags: generosity, 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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