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The Upside Down World, Week 12, Day 6

by David Joynt on December 01, 2017


LUKE 12:47-48


We learn two crucial things about judgement for leaders in this passage. Judgement is in proportion to knowledge. If we understand God’s will and flaunt it, our punishment will be severe.

Unintentional errors receive lighter treatment. Now often, “ignorance is no excuse,” because we have no good reason for our lack of understanding. Sometimes ignorance too is culpable. But it is good to know God’s judgement is righteous and fair.


Have you ever lead badly but unintentionally?


Does this passage mean we should be patient with less experienced leaders?


FAMILY TIME— If you could lead something, what would you lead and why?

Tags: 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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