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Advent Week 4: The Bethlehem Way, Day 5

Are you risk averse or daring? What was the last daring thing you did for God?

by David Joynt on December 23, 2016


 

DANGEROUS
LUKE 2:15-20 
MATTHEW 2:16

The entry way of God into human history was also a dangerous way. An unattended stable birth was risky, partnering with an ordinary couple, counting on shepherds and foreigners, working without official Jewish approval and in the face of opposition was downright dangerous. Herod's murderous attempt to eliminate Jesus, described in Matthew, is just the most dramatic proof that the Bethlehem Way was fraught with risk and vulnerability. 

Are you risk averse or daring?
What was the last daring thing you did for God?

FAMILY TIME: What “dangerous things” might we do for God? Generate a list. (Make a friend with someone who is unpopular, give away something you value to someone who needs it more, etc.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tags: advent, bethlehem

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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