Mika Edmondson Says Jesus Turning Water into Wine is a ‘Justice Situation’ + Mary, Not Joseph, Was His Primary Bible Teacher Growing Up
Mika Edmondson is a frequent Gospel Coalition contributor and the lead pastor of the Koinonia” campus of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, which is part of the conservative PCA. He is the husband of Christina Edmonson, who is the “scholar in residence” at his church and who is also part of the Truth’s Table podcast- a ‘Christian” talk show which for years she co-hosted with pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ pastrix known for her sermon about the queerness of the Trinity.
We last wrote about Edmondson after he suggested that Jesus’s sermon on the mount was primarily inspired by, if not directly taught by, his mother, Mary.
Now, appearing on a recent episode of the Truth’s Table podcast, he describes Jesus’ turning the water into wine at Cana as a ‘justice situation’ while making the baseless claim that Mary, not Joseph, was Jesus’ primary bible teacher.
Jesus frees men from the ideological bondage of chauvinism and misogyny. And that is actually good news to men. And certainly that is good news to women, absolutely that’s good news to women, but it’s also good news to men, right? For us to be free from the devil’s bondage that would cause us to believe that we are superior to women, right? Because that robs us of wisdom, right?
Because there’s wisdom that God has given women that we as men need to learn. And Jesus exemplifies this, right? His primary Bible teacher growing up was actually his mother. And you see that because Mary’s Magnificat comes out in themes on the Sermon of the Mount.
And when Jesus is going to actually show the very first sign of his public ministry, he does it really in many ways in collaboration with his mother who noticed a situation going on, a justice situation happening of a person, a couple that was without, and a couple that needed some resources.
And Jesus here, he is stepping in in collaboration with his mother. And so Jesus really exemplifies throughout his life our calling as men to submit to the wisdom of wise women.
