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Leading With People In Your Heart: Day 1

Who lives in your heart? How much room is in there?

by David Joynt on June 19, 2016

Leading With People In Your Heart: Day 1

1 JOHN 4:7-8

You can’t love people in general, at least not if you want to love as Jesus loves. His love is not a grand sentiment for humanity, but a particular affection for individuals, people with names and addresses. After all, “humanity” is an abstraction—it is actual folks that are real. Just as love, to be genuine, must be personal, it also must be concrete. When you love someone, you think about them, communicate with them, and pray for them. They live in your heart.

Who lives in your heart?
How much room is in there?

Tags: leading, people

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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