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by David Joynt on June 16, 2025


2 CORINTHIANS 5:20 | 20 So we are ambassadors for Christ, since God is making his appeal through us; we entreat you on behalf of Christ: be reconciled to God.

 

Since we are associated with God as His followers, we carry His name, just as children in a family carry the surnames of their parents. Each of us either burnishes or besmirches our own names—and so it is with God’s name.

 

Israel’s role was to model God’s values and character to the broader world. Ours is to represent Jesus. This is our most sacred and important duty.

 

To represent Him we must know Him, just as an ambassador must know the will and wishes of the sovereign or leader she represents.

 

Do you know God well enough to represent Him?

 

 

Gracious God,

I want to see You more clearly, and know You more nearly, that I can follow You more closely and represent Your name more truly.

Amen.

 

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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