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The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 3

by David Joynt on June 05, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 3

JOHN 6:35, 40

This connection between identity and authority is something we recognize everyday.  We don’t treat health advice from the UBER driver with the same seriousness as the analysis of a doctor.  We don’t ask an Inuit questions about Madrid—we ask a Spaniard.  We consult a fashionista not a physicist about wardrobe issues.  Authority comes from identity and experience.

Now it is often possible to separate a teacher and her message, of course, and to consider the truth of her claims apart from her identity and experience.  Truth claims are more than simply claims of personal authority, they are statements about the way things really are.  But in the case of Jesus this cannot be done because so much of his teaching is about his identity and authority.

 What do you make of the two claims in our two verses from John?

FAMILY TIME

Who do you turn to for advice?  (Beyond Mr. Google)

 

Tags: authority, identity, jesus, jesús, truth

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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