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Questions Week 18, Day 3

by David Joynt on August 29, 2017


 

EPHESIANS 2:19

 

 

Not only is God’s mission impossible without community power, but our own individual development is equally hard when left to our own devices. Do you know why sports records fall? Why performances improve? It is largely driven by the way modern athletes employ teams of specialists to help them develop. Nutritionists improve their diets, and trainers their fitness, psychologists enlarge their poise under pressure and their concentration, and coaches perfect their technique. Our growth as Christians is hugely helped by mentors, teachers, encouragers, examples, and folk who keep us tracking and accountable.

 

 

Who is on your team?

 

 

In what area of your life do you need to be coached?

 

 FAMILY TIME—

What coach or teacher has helped you most in your life so far?

Do you have a spiritual mentor?

 

Tags: growth, mentor

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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