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Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 5

Do you experience the freedom of forgiveness? How heavy is your facade? Notice Jesus, the strong man, sharing from weakness in our scripture.

by David Joynt on August 11, 2016

Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 5

MATTHEW 26:36-38 

One of the beautiful things about forgiveness is the freedom that it can bring, including the freedom to be honest. Since we are forgiven by God, the Ultimate Judge, we are not under pressure to be perfect, or even to appear to be perfect. Since our admitted brokenness does not hold us back from divine favor and connection, we can accept our flaws and be honest about them. We waste less energy, because living as if we are faultless is exhausting, and the facade of our sanctity grows heavier and heavier.

Forgiveness allows us to acknowledge weakness and even to lead from it.

Do you experience the freedom of forgiveness?

How heavy is your facade?

Notice Jesus, the strong man, sharing from weakness in our scripture.

Tags: honesty, 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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