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Questions Week 3 Day 4

by David Joynt on May 17, 2017


DAY 18

GALATIANS 3:26-28 | ACTS 2:17-18

 

The N.T. also has lots of texts supporting female leadership. Peter uses Joel the prophet’s prediction of a time when sons and daughters will prophesy as a way to understand Pentecost. Mary and Elisabeth exercises prophetic roles at the birth of their sons, Jesus and John, in Luke’s infancy narratives. Paul includes two female names, Junia and Julia, in the list of church leaders in Romans 16. (Although in a few later texts of the Bible, scribes “fixed” this by changing the names to male forms.) Paul stresses that in Christ there are no longer “male and female—slave or free” in Galatians 3.

 

 

Why do you think the church has sometimes ignored these scriptural texts or downplayed them?

 

 

FAMILY TIME—

Tell a family story about a strong woman in your family tree.

What made her special?

 

Tags: female 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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