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Questions Week 18, Day 6

by David Joynt on September 01, 2017


 

COLOSSIANS 4:7-17

 

 

Individualists who resist connecting with spiritual communities also forget that these communities have needs! The Body of Christ needs members with gifts and passions. When we withdraw, we miss the chance to bless others, to give our particular gifts to the whole. Who knows, in advance, how God will use them to make a church stronger and to enhance the faith of others? Not only do you need the church—the church needs you.

 

 

How many ways of blessing others can you find in this short note in Colossians?

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

How have you served the church?

What gifts do each of your family have to bless our community?

 

Tags: bless, church, gifts

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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