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The Originals, Week 5, Day 1

by David Joynt on February 04, 2018


WEEK 5 | MARK

 

DAY 29 | JOHN MARK AND THE GENTILE QUESTION

ACTS 15:1-21

 

 

John Mark was a young man and a new Christian at the very
beginning of the church. The internal debates in Acts, which tells
the story of these beginnings, reveal sharp divisions over the
focus of the church's mission. Should the Jewish disciples of
Jesus try to make Gentile converts? And if so, should they
become Jewish first? In our passage, we see a first ever session
meeting called to wrestle with these crucial issues.

 

This debate reveals characteristic human resistance for the idea of  God doing something new. Yet our God is a God who does new  things, starts new ventures, calls new people, and teaches new  truths.

 

 

What new thing is God doing at VPC?

 

 

What new thing is he doing in your life?

 

Tags: god, life, new things, vpc

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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