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Questions Week 18, Day 7

by David Joynt on September 02, 2017


 

REVELATION 21:1-6

JOHN 14:1-6

MATTHEW 22:1-10

 

 

The Kingdom is a social reality. Every image Jesus uses to describe the life to come and the restoration of all things is a social image. The New Jerusalem is an urban social picture, the great feast is a celebratory social image, the newly-built room in God’s house is a family metaphor. The Kingdom itself, which Jesus initiates, and eventually perfects, is a broad social idea that implies a region of people under divine sovereignty. Why, if our future with God is social, should our present be solitary!?

 

 

Which of these images is your favorite?

 

 

Why?

 

FAMILY TIME—

What is your favorite family celebration?

Why?

 

Tags: god's house, kingdom

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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