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Leading With an Encouraging Heart: Day 5

Do you give others responsibility? What great experiences have you had of sharing leadership?

by David Joynt on July 21, 2016

Leading With an Encouraging Heart: Day 5

MATTHEW 10:1-10

 

One of the best ways to encourage someone is to give them responsibility. Jesus told his shocked disciples they were the salt of the earth and light of the world. But he also sent them out on mission trips and gave them the authority of his name and the assignment of preaching, healing, and teaching. Encouragement plus responsibility allows others to engage, strive, overcome, and succeed. Doing well and dealing with obstacles builds faith in God and in oneself.

 

Do you give others responsibility?

What great experiences have you had of sharing leadership?

Tags: encouraging, 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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