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The Upside Down World, Week 12, Day 4

by David Joynt on November 29, 2017


LUKE 12:45-47


Some leadership is not blessed by God. It is condemned. A leader entrusted with others’ welfare who is neglectful will be punished. In our parable, Jesus offers us a scenario where a leader given responsibility while his master is away, stops expecting his imminent return, and turns to dissipation, and indulgence, “eating and drinking and getting drunk.” Such a leader stops caring about his charges and their needs for support and sustenance and focuses exclusively on his own desires. This meets with the severest penalty!


What leads Christian leaders to apathy?


Do you believe in judgement?




FAMILY TIME— What is an unselfish leader focused on?

Tags: blessing, 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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