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Leading With a Courageous Heart: Day 2

Have you every faced a “no-win” situation? Has your credibility as a leader been on the line recently?

by David Joynt on June 06, 2016

Leading With a Courageous Heart: Day 2

JOHN 8:1-5

Why did this situation require particular courage? Well, it put Jesus Himself under a difficult kind of pressure. As a Jewish rabbi, He was in a corner, facing a quandary. If He stopped the execution, He’d be seen to be undermining the law and lose credibility. If He did not, a woman would die, and lose her opportunity to grasp the forgiveness Jesus offered to sinners and strugglers. The character of His ministry and His legitimacy as a leader were simultaneously at stake. The more at stake, the more the pressure.

Have you every faced a “no-win” situation?
Has your credibility as a leader been on the line recently?

Tags: courageous, leading

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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