Dusman

Excellent advice Don. Matt’s show (like most radio shows, excepting Greg Kokul’s 2 hour weekly apologetics show) is designed for the post-modern ear that is trained for 30 sec. sound bytes. This means that deep reflection and exegesis of any given passage is simply out of the question.

Another important point: To quickly counter CBMW’s claim that a first-glance, “plain reading” of these controversial passages is the appropriate way to read them can easily be countered with this statement: “That might sound good, but since when do Christians have a first-glance theology?” Then you could go on to say, “‘First glance’ Scripture reading is the stuff that the cults are guilty of and if we do what they do we’ll cause the Scriptures to contradict themselves . . . such as what happens when the complementarian says that 1 Tim. 2:12 is saying that a woman cannot teach a man true doctrine under any circumstances yet in Acts 18:26 we have Priscilla teaching Apollos the way of God more accurately. I guess Priscilla was in sin huh?” That’s the kind of tact that needs to be taken in 1.5 minutes or less.