Above is a pic of my youngest daughter and me.
My Husband, My brother in Christ
Different by Design
Consider Complementarianism
My pastor has posted 2 articles lately on his website dealing with this issue. Please read them HERE and then HERE. There is a comment in the first one from an egalitarian that takes Grudem out of context. My pastor responded graciously with a God-honoring reply... which is typical of my pastor and his wife. :-)
A Call for Courage...
If you do not stand for Truth... you will fall for lies.
"...we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine,... but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—" Ephesians 4:15, 16
Mohler- "The fault lines of controversy in contemporary Christianity range across a vast terrain of issues, but none seems quite so volatile as the question of gender. As Christians have been thinking and rethinking these issues in recent years, a clear pattern of divergence has appeared. At stake in this debate is something more important than the question of gender, for this controversy reaches the deepest questions of Christian identity and biblical authority.
For too long, those who hold to traditional understandings of manhood and womanhood, deeply rooted in both Scripture and tradition, have allowed themselves to be pushed into a defensive posture. Given the prevailing spirit of the age and the enormous cultural pressure toward conformity, traditionalists are now accused of being woefully out of step and hopelessly out of date. Now is a good time to reconsider the issues basic to this debate and to reassert the arguments for biblical manhood and womanhood.
The most basic question in this controversy comes down to this: Has God created human beings as male and female with a revealed intention for how we are to relate to each other?
VIII. A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church, Part 5
This is my 8th of a series of weekend postings from Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth by Wayne Grudem. (Go to my category list on the right sidebar and you will see a "Biblical Womanhood" category that you can click on to see some of the rest of these posts or go to the archives at the top left sidebar.)
This post will be covering Chapter 2.5 and 2.6 on "The History of Male Leadership Throughout the Whole Bible" and "The History of the Church" (pages 82 and 83)
"From beginning to end, the Bible is simply not an egalitarian book." Grudem urges the reader to look at the Bible as a whole from Genesis to Revelation and point to "one example in the entire Bible of a woman publicly teaching an assembled group of Believers."
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VII. A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church, Part 4
I have been e-mailed various times from those who hold the egalitarian position wanting me to engage them on this topic on their blog. I have visited these various blogs and have come to the conclusion that they are so off doctrinally in so many areas that I would find myself wasting too much of my time. Therefore, if you hold the egalitarian position, you are more than welcome to comment here and e-mail me with questions. However, I encourage you to do your homework. Alot of what is being brought up, I have already addressed. So look in my archives and know that I would rather spend my time not having to do your homework.
I have not heard from Lorna (the woman preacher that often commented here on this issue). I think perhaps I need to make a public apology to her for failing to keep her confidence of trust. I have brought up our conversation here on other blogs and that was wrong. I deeply regret it and pray she forgives me.
As for Kimiam, the young lady that has left seminary and is under great trial from her family of woman preachers, we are still conversing via e-mail. She longs for your prayers.
Please read on...
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EXCITING NEWS
Ligon Duncan and hopefully the rest of the T4G crew are planning to start blogging through the T4G statement to give some context to it. (By the way, this will replace my Friday weekly posting on Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth for this week. This is way too important to gloss over.)
Here are links to their recent posts on the Egalitarian vs. Complimentarian issue.
Undermining Tolerance of Egalitarianism by Mark Dever
More on T4G and Complementarianism by Ligon Duncan
The Glory of God and the Question of Gender by Al Mohler
Deliberate Complementarian Pastors by CJ Mahaney
VI. A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church, Part 3
Women have a very definite and respectable place in the church but it is not in the pulpit or in any teaching position over men.... so what CAN women do?
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V. A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church, Part 2
This is my fifth of a series of weekend postings from Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth by Wayne Grudem. (Click the archives on the left sidebar to find the other related postings that are in Roman numerical order.)
Also, I will list page numbers in parentheses from the book that these excerpts can be found on.
Chapter Two: A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church in "The relationship between the family and the church" (80)
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IV. A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church, Part 1
"Prove all by the Word of God; measure all by the measure of the Bible; compare all with the standard of the Bible; weigh all in the balances of the Bible; examine all by the light of the Bible; test all in the crucible of the Bible. That which can abide the fire of the Bible, receive hold, believe, and obey. That which cannot abide the fire of the Bible, reject, refuse, repudiate, and cast away." -John Wycliffe
This is my fourth of a series of weekend postings from Evangelical Feminism and Biblical Truth by Wayne Grudem. (Click the archives on the left sidebar to find the other postings.)
Also, I will list page numbers in parentheses from the book that these excerpts can be found on.
Chapter Two: A Biblical Vision of Manhood and Womanhood in the Church
In light of the seemingly high numbers of posts on the direction of the church right now, including a well-written article by Dan Phillips at Pyromaniacs on women dressing modestly in the church as well as Phil Johnson's Modest Church Attire post, I am excited to post these excerpts this morning
Read how this picture of manhood and womanhood works itself out in the church:
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Shut-Up and Scrub the Toilet
This is from a Biblical Womanhood newsletter: (All I can say is *shew* I'm not the only woman willing to speak out LOUDLY against feminism... she took the words right out of my mouth.)
Dear Friends,I'm always amazed at how when I barely even broach the subject of feminism, I have an onslaught of self-proclaimed feminists who write me trying to set the record straight. I'm sure these are well-meaning people, but their sugar-coated message that feminism is "all about choice" is dead wrong. While feminism has afforded women a few new choices in the last 30 years -- like the so-called "right" to murder babies or to divorce husbands for no reason -- feminism, at it's root, is nothing about choice.
