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The Other Jesus, Week 2, Day 3

by David Joynt on June 12, 2018


MARK 10:23-27

Yet Jesus does, in the case of the rich young man, recommend liquidation. He does say that for many people, riches are an obstacle to Kingdom life: “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God!” Now there is a tendency to think that Jesus’ warning to the wealthy must be meant for someone else, with resources far greater than we have.

But before we put ourselves in the safe non-wealthy category, we should pause and consider our relative wealth. We may not be billionaires, but in comparison to almost everyone alive today, and everyone who ever lived in the past, our standard of living is extremely high. We eat, we travel, we access knowledge, and we are served, in a greater way than royalty was in most of human history!

Thank God for your standard of living.

FAMILY TIME

How do you define “riches’?

 

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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