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VPC 2.0 Daily Devotional-47

by David Joynt on November 19, 2020


ACTS 2:44 | 44 All who believed were together and had all things in common.

 ACTS 4:32 | 32 Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private
ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.

 Yet another encouraging aspect of community life was the sense of common life, the intangible blessing of being “one.” This took tangible form in meals, worship times, fellowship, and shared resources. There is a mystical connection, an oneness in the Holy Spirit, that is felt when God’s people share their lives and ministry. It is deeper and richer than ordinary friendship. It is a unity of heart and soul, in Christ.

 Have you known the joy of His connection, built on practical sharing and issuing in mystical union?

 Does it encourage you?

 

Tags: union, connection

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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