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Questions Week 2 Day 7

by David Joynt on May 13, 2017


DAY 14

ROMANS 12:18

 

 

I love the equality of leadership between lay and clergy in our own church. It provides me with the accountability and leadership opportunities, which I need to exercise my call. There are also many, many denominations within which I could never compromise, and so there are many denominations within which I could not pastor. Yet some of my dearest friends are folks from other faith backgrounds. Despite being in different organizations with some differences of perspective, it is powerful and beautiful to relate to other Christians as friends and followers of a mutual Lord. At VPC, we will look for ways to connect with other communities of faith to witness to the kinds of unity that we share and that God desires!

 

 

Pray for unity of relationship, belief, mission, worship, and spirit across denominational lines, knowing that our final unity will erase them!

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

Pray for another church this week. (Perhaps one where you have friends.)

 

Tags: leadership

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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