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Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 5

What characterizes the voice of the shepherd? How do you recognize Jesus’ voice in your life?

by David Joynt on August 25, 2016

Leading With an Ordered Heart: Day 5

JOHN 10:14-16
1 JOHN 4:7-12

An ordered heart, that recognizes the centrality and necessity of faith, has some great advantages. Instead of being subject to the demands of the world with its many different voices, insisting on so many conflicting standards and goals, we have one Voice to listen to in all circumstances. There is one definition in the Bible, of success, one picture of character, one great book of wisdom, and one set of central commands: love of God and neighbor. There is one Supreme Example of what it means to be fully human—Jesus Christ. We know from His life definite truths and principles—humility is better than pride, forgiveness is superior to bitter revenge, identity is a gift as well as a project, confession, and repentance make room for grace, obedience is the route to freedom.

What characterizes the voice of the shepherd?

How do you recognize Jesus’ voice in your life?

Tags: leading, ordered

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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