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Leading With a Courageous Heart Day 3

It takes courage to see how broken we are as people. Do you agree? Have you ever faced a mob?

by David Joynt on June 07, 2016

Leading With a Courageous Heart Day 3

ISAIAH 53:6
JOHN 8:7


Jesus’ response showed immense courage. Facing a mob led by Israel’s leaders, a mob armed with stones, He intervened and protected this unnamed woman. He did so by inviting “anyone who is without sin to cast the first stone.” This question stopped the angry crowd, which melted away. It takes courage, when facing a crowd, to indict the whole group by implication. Jesus challenged, in effect, not the justice of her case, but the fitness of the accusers to stand in judgement. Jesus has the courage to indict the world—even as He sets about saving it.

It takes courage to see how broken we are as people. Do you agree?

Have you ever faced a mob?

Tags: courageous, leading

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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