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DAY 2: Restoration Reason Two

There is no real Christianity without a real Resurrection. Do you agree?

by David Joynt on April 11, 2016

DAY 2: Restoration Reason Two

1 Corinthians 1:15

Every Christian should regularly read this great chapter from Paul's letter to the church at Corinth. It summarizes why the members and leaders of the early church trusted in the truth and reality of the Resurrection. In verses 1-20, Paul makes a stunning move: he rests the entire validity of the Christian movement on the historical reality of Jesus' bodily resurrection. He produces a list of witnesses to the resurrection appearances of Jesus, and in doing so invite skeptics to question him. He rules out understanding the Resurrection as an internal or psychological phenomena and insists that the Christian movement has no point, no power, no proclamation, and no purpose without a genuine Resurrection. Christians lie in their claims, falsely represent God, and become objects of scorn and pity, if this one truth fails. Subsequent attempts to refrain the Easter event as a mass delusion, myth, or fabrication, run counter to the way early followers experienced and described it. They trusted and proclaimed an historical event.

There is no real Christianity without a real resurrection. Do you agree?

Tags: restoration, resurrection

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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