terriergal

Just might want to revisit this post’s idea again

The subject has come up with Brannon Howse and Chris Pinto going after Christine Pack for questioning Chris Pinto’s scholarship and sources:

http://lectionis.blogspot.com/2013/08/tale-bearing-from-house-to-howse.html

Basically, women aren’t allowed in the discernment blogosphere and they sure better not show up a man who is botching the job! Same old same old. It made me mad when Phil and Todd did this, and gave ammo to these guys who are so inept in the logic department as to be more and more an embarrassment to the church.

I agree with Biblical male headship in the church and family. However a male only has authority insofar as he is in sync with the Word of God. If he abuses his family the woman actually has a duty to speak and act against this with an aim to correct it from Scripture (without becoming abusive herself and without the AIM of taking over leadership, but to get the man to lead, ideally). Men also are told to submit to leadership in the church, and even so, the same justification men have from Scripture to speak out against pastors and elders in error gives women the ability to speak out against evil/error/abuse in the church or anywhere else, whether it is done by men or women. The order to submit is not an absolute. We see that very plainly in Scripture when authorities conflict with the Word of God, we are not to submit to the authority which is not in line with God’s word.