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Questions Week 10, Day 3

by David Joynt on July 04, 2017


 

DEUTERONOMY 10:17-19; 15:1-11

 

 

 

How do we judge the success of our societies? Do we use a utilitarian measure—the greatest good of the greatest number? God is not a utilitarian. Do we evaluate a society in terms of its levels of material success? Its standing in the world? Its power and influence?

 

Biblically speaking, the clearest measure of a society is the way it treats its neediest and most vulnerable citizens.

 

 

Pray for those in need in the U.S. generally, and in Phoenix in particular.

 

 

How do you define “national success?”

 

See how our scriptures reflect concern for the most vulnerable.

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

What makes America great?

 

Tags: phoenix, pray

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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