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Real Devotional 31

by David Joynt on May 31, 2022


JAMES 2:4 | 4 Have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

Using wealth, or any other arbitrary criteria to rank others introduces an ambiguous and sometimes arbitrary criteria into Christian community. But far worse, it misses the true way we evaluate others, a way that is completely independent of their wealth, status, race, or social standing.

The virtues we admire in the community of Jesus are humility, generosity, servanthood, sacrifice, integrity, faith, kindness, and love. These spiritual characteristics are independent of the other criteria used outside the church to assess others.

Do you judge others by their spiritual character?

Tags: character, spiritual, judge

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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