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The Upside Down World, Week 9, Day 1

by David Joynt on November 05, 2017


WEEK 2 “GOD’S GUEST LIST”

LUKE 14:15-24


Invitations are risky. There are some parties you have to attend, like the ones thrown by your company or your boss or your sponsor. Not attending would risk your career or compromise your enterprise. But other parties are optional. Do they fit in the calendar? Will you enjoy the company? Are you in the mood? There are many factors that go into accepting or refusing an invitation. That means that from the point of view of the host, invitations are risky. Potential guests may decline, and the prospect of rejection hovers over every request.

God is the great inviter. Many people reject His invitations to life, to love, to celebration, to relationship.


What invitations have shaped your life?


Have you ever had an invitation rejected? How did it feel?



FAMILY TIME— How did the proposal moment happen in your relationship? Discuss with your kids the emotions that were involved? How is this like faith commitment?

Tags: invitations, proposal

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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