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Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 6

What benefits of honesty have you seen? Honesty is practice for heavenly relationships! Do you agree? Check out the penultimate sentence of 1 Corinthians 13—“now I know only in part, then I will know fully, ever as I have been fully known.”

by David Joynt on August 12, 2016

Leading With an Honest Heart: Day 6

PROVERBS 12:19A 

“TRUTHFUL LIPS ENDURE FOREVER!”

As we grow in the practice of honesty, benefits, as the accountants say, accrue. People are more real with us because they can count on a genuine response. Others trust us because they have seen a pattern of honesty in our statements. Progress begets progress, and gradually we become less prone to self-deception, less tempted to “spin” the truth, less likely to be silent when we should speak up. Honesty allows us to face problems more directly, and the strategy of denial loses its appeal.

What benefits of honesty have you seen?

Honesty is practice for heavenly relationships! Do you agree? Check out the penultimate sentence of 1 Corinthians 13—“now I know only in part, then I will know fully, ever as I have been fully known.”  

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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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