Posted in Authority and leadership, Authority and Women, CBMW, Complementarian errors, Ephesians 5, Injustice towards women, Marriage and women in ministry, Opposing viewpoints, Prejudice in the church, Southern Baptists, Spiritual gifts, Women serving in the church on Jan 8th, 2012
In my last post I presented one of the best sermons that I have ever heard on Ephesians 5, regarding the evidence of Spirit-filled lives for both men and women. This post is on the opposite of the Spirit-filled life which is an influx of worldly infection through male-centered pride. The outgrowth of this [...]
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This post is the essence of the sermon Spirit-Filled Living part 1 by Pastor Darrell Johnson of First Baptist Church, Vancouver, BC, Canada. If you would like to listen to the entire sermon, you can listen to the sermon here. Spirit-Filled Living Part 1 The revolutionary and alternate understanding of human relationships in Ephesians 5 [...]
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Our discussions on Ephesians 5:22 has sparked a flurry of comments with literally hundreds of comments later and seemingly no end to the “iron sharpening iron” discussion between egalitarians as well as complementarians. This is the place where the discussion will continue as my blog has a habit of blanking out all of the comments [...]
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In our continuing topic of common objections to women in ministry, the objection is raised that women cannot have authority in the church since wives are under their husband’s authority. The concern is that if women had leadership roles in the church, then their leadership role would be in submission to their own husbands. So [...]
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Posted in 1 Corinthians 11, 1 Corinthians 14, 1 Timothy 2, 1 Timothy 3, Adam and headship, Authority and Women, Blogs by others, Complementarian errors, Injustice towards women, Man as Priest of the home, Marriage and women in ministry, Opposing viewpoints, Spiritual Abuse, Submission, Women serving in the church on Aug 14th, 2009
On John Piper’s web site is posted a question that someone asked of him about the application of complementarianism that affects women. The question is: Do you think complementarianism is so important to some people that they deny women more opportunities than the Bible denies them? I was shocked at John Piper’s response. You really [...]
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How does 1 Peter 3:5, 6 with the Bible’s use of the word “obey” affect wives and in particular women in ministry? Some say that wives are to “obey” their husbands in everything and that this makes the husband the “lord” or “master” of the wife. Many hierarchists will reason that it follows then that [...]
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In conjunction with my new series on marriage started with my previous post and the question of whether a wife is to have a man take authority over her (as if her husband is required to rule her), click here to read an excellent blog article about the best example of a New Testament “God’s [...]
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This is the first in a series about marriage and the connection between marriage to women’s gifts in the church. Some people in an effort to keep women’s ministry gifts away from the benefit of men, teach that the term husband as the “head of the wife” means that men are to have authority over [...]
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Well part one of the relocation of our ministry and the move of our household has occurred and we have a two week break before we go into phase two of the move. This week I am going to try to catch up on the comments and questions that I need to respond to on [...]
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