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The Other Jesus, Week 3, Day 1

by David Joynt on June 17, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 3, Day 1

LUKE 15:1

 Jesus attracted struggling people. Why was this? He made himself available to them by seeking them out, as he did with Zacchaeus, in Luke 19:1-9. Struggling people usually keep a low profile, particularly if ostracized by others. The woman at the well drew water in the hottest part of the day. Zacheus climbed a tree. Sometimes this is a “self-imposed exile” or voluntary isolation. On other occasions it is forced, as with the lepers or the demoniac chained in the graveyard in Luke 8:26-37.

Do you attract strugglers? If not, why not?

Have you ever sought out a struggler or sufferer?

 FAMILY TIME

Pray that God will use your family to help someone who struggles.

 

Tags: struggle, suffering

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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