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Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 6

Have you ever had conflicting loyalties? How did you resolve them?

by David Joynt on July 08, 2016

Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 6

1 SAMUEL 18:1-4; 20:12-15

 

David and Jonathan model loyal friendship in the Old Testament. Jonathan’s loyalty to David is particularly powerful, for it runs against the grain of his own interest and his father Saul’s wishes.

His father wants him to succeed as king and views David as a rival to himself and his son for the throne. Jonathan has promised to protect David and takes several personal risks in order to save him from Saul’s murderous plans. Nor does he simply abandon the mentally tortured king, remaining loyal to his father and eventually dying alongside him. He tries to combine family loyalty with friendship loyalty.

 

Have you ever had conflicting loyalties?

How did you resolve 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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