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Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 7

by David Joynt on July 09, 2016

Leading With a Loyal Heart: Day 7

Jonathan shows us how to make loyalty decisions. Rather than automatically choosing sides or following self-interest, he asks how God is at work and how he can further God’s action. His ultimate loyalty is to Yahweh. Seeing his father’s mad and unjust notions and David’s anointed leadership, he knows that God’s intentions and Israel’s future lie ultimately with his friend and not his father. He prevents his father from committing a wrong against David and God, but never abandons him.

His life makes the point that our loyalties to others must be ordered within our loyalty to God. Remaining loyal to Him is our best and final aim. Every other loyalty is subservient and secondary.

 

Is God your first loyalty?

Does your loyalty to God shape your other loyalties?

 

 

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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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