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The Upside Down World, Week 12, Day 3

by David Joynt on November 21, 2017


LUKE 12:42-44


This parable in Luke 12:41-48 stresses how seriously God takes leadership. Leadership is exercised whenever we have people or projects entrusted into our care. Leadership is meant to be fruitful and prudent, providing for anyone for whom we are responsible. Good leadership evokes a free-floating beatitude, “Blessed is the servant who the master finds exercising this responsible leadership when he returns.” God entrusts us with one another and rewards our responsible care. His reward is more responsibility for more people!


Whom has God entrusted to you?


Do your responsibilities feel like a blessing?


FAMILY TIME— How do you define leadership? How does Jesus define it in this passage?

Tags: blessing, leadership

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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