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Leading With a Passionate Heart: Day 2

Are you good at connecting with others? Do you value intimacy with Jesus and with others? Who knows you are passionate about them?

by David Joynt on August 29, 2016

Leading With a Passionate Heart: Day 2

JOHN 14:23
JOHN 10:1-4

Jesus had a passionate heart! He had a passion for intimacy with people. His language shows this. He talks about indwelling, insisting that we can live “in” Him as he lives “in” the Father. He describes us as branches dependent on and connected to Him as the vine, or as sheep who know and trust their sacrificing Shepherd. He called his disciples friends and shared with them His prayers, His struggles, His emotions, His joys. He celebrated His friends’ successes and called them toward their best purposes.

Are you good at connecting with others?
Do you value intimacy with Jesus and with others?
Who knows you are passionate about them?

Tags: leading, passionate

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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