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Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 3

Have you ever stayed loyal to someone who was disloyal to you? Did you forgive them?

by David Joynt on July 05, 2016

Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 3

JOHN 6:52-59; 66-68

MARK 14:27

 

Jesus led with a loyal heart as well, embodying His Father’s covenant faithfulness. He too was loyal despite the disloyalty of his followers. When Jesus begins to teach about the cross and some of the more difficult aspects of his identity and path, the crowds begin to thin. His disciples remain and promise fidelity but abandon Him under pressure. He sees this coming and warns them, and then, tellingly, after the crucifixion and Resurrection, He finds and forgives them.

Jesus models a kind of suffering leadership that forgives disloyalty and calls people back into relationships, unbound by guilt and blessed by forgiveness and freedom. 

 

Have you ever stayed loyal to someone who was disloyal to you?

Did you forgive them?

 

 

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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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