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The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 5

by David Joynt on June 07, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 1, Day 5

JOHN 6:1-14; 22-51

 The hard saying for this week is embedded in the story of a miraculous feeding.  Jesus feeds 5,000 people with five barley loaves and two fish on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee near Bethsaida.  After returning from Capernaum he finds the crowds have followed him in search of a second meal.  This time Jesus offers himself as the only bread that can satisfy our deepest needs and longings and bring life.  This leads to the difficult saying in verse 53: “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you have no life in you.”

There are many reasons why people are interested in Jesus  What drives your interest?

FAMILY TIME

Food is perishable.  Show your children the labels on your food that indicate when it has officially “perished.”  What is imperishable about our relationship with Jesus?

 

Tags: fish, loaves, son of man, jesus feeds people, eat the flesh

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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