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The Other Jesus, Week 3, Day 2

by David Joynt on June 18, 2018

The Other Jesus, Week 3, Day 2

MARK 5:25-34

Part of Jesus’ ability to attract the struggling and the hurting was his willingness to go and find them. A second attractor was how he responded when they found him. The woman in our story is courageous to go into the crowd with her hemorrhage, and also wants to get helped anonymously, without recognition. Jesus stops to value and affirm her. These moments when the needy come to him, interrupting, reveal much about his desire to help them. He was available on their terms and timing and not only his own. This was a draw indeed.

When has need come to you?

How did you respond?

FAMILY TIME

What does it mean to be interruptible? Why is it important?

 

Tags: comforter, struggles

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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