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Questions Week 18, Day 2

by David Joynt on August 28, 2017


 

1 CORINTHIANS 3:9

 

 

Even if solitary Christianity were possible, how would individual Christians fulfill God’s purposes and obey his commandments? Jesus told his disciples to reach every ethnicity with his saving and liberating message. He called on us to care for the sick and needy to represent the love and justice of God to the world. Do any of these gigantic assignments sound doable by solitary individuals? No way! Only churches, and preferably churches in partnership, can respond to these awesome tasks in ways that build the Kingdom.

 

 

Which of the church’s assignments most excites you?

 

 

Which do you find a little frightening?

 

FAMILY TIME—

What task in your home is most “shared?”

How does it work?

 

Tags: partnership

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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