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Leading With a Just Heart: Day 5

Read Isaiah 58 and notice all the things that break God’s heart. Which of these things breaks your heart?

by David Joynt on July 14, 2016

Leading With a Just Heart: Day 5

ISAIAH 58

 

Jesus’ leadership critique is drawn from the prophets. Here is the classic chapter on His theme. When justice is divorced from worship, then our prayers and offerings become meaningless. Religious observance is hollow when violence lurks, when workers are oppressed, when there is hunger and homelessness, because God’s values and laws are ignored. The Sabbath cannot be separated from the week or our lives become bifurcated, and the righteousness we are told to hunger for fails to resemble the deep desire of God for healing and wholeness in the lives of the broken.

 

Read Isaiah 58 and notice all the things that break God’s heart.

Which of these things breaks your heart?

 

 

 

 

Tags: justice, 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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