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Body Building Daily Devotional - 37

by David Joynt on October 18, 2021


EPHESIANS 4:12 | 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ.

The basic strategy for all the leaders in the first Christian communities was a dispersal approach. They saw themselves as multipliers who were to equip the participants in their communities to accomplish the church’s mission.

Over time, many Christian groups lost this participatory approach. With special training centers and accreditation processes, leadership was modeled on the other professions of law and medicine. This professionalization though, runs the risk of creating passive communities of disciples who begin to see their role in terms of aiding ministries driven by expert clergy.

 

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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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