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Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 4

Do you see potential in others? How do you help it be realized?

by David Joynt on June 22, 2016

Leading With People in Your Heart: Day 4

John 3:1-2, 7:50, 19:39

Leading with people in your heart means seeing potential in others. Jesus saw ambitious people, like James and John, as future humble leaders. He saw impetuous Peter as a potential wise decision maker. He saw the greedy Zacchaeus as a philanthropist, and the defensive Samaritan woman as an evangelist. In our scriptures today, the Nicodemus who visited Jesus by night to avoid anyone knowing, takes public risks to defend him and then to serve him.

Everyone around us has untapped potential. Our attitudes to them help or hinder the realization of their God-given possibilities.

Do you see potential in others?

How do you help it be realized?

 

 

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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