Jason Oliver

Hi Cheryl,

How’s your research going. I hope and pray it’s going well. I am familiar with the Bayly blog. Some of the posts regarding evangelical egalitarians are just plain horrific. I’ve been noticing a trend in the American Christian blogosphere for so-called conservative, orthodox evangelical Protestants’ rhetoric to be manipulative, divisive, and just plain pugnacious all in the name of God’s glory. These practices do more harm than good for the advancement of the Gospel. They tend to be overzealous about correct doctrine (even if they are right on essential matters) they tend to minor on correct behavior and speech towards others.
I confess the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the authority of the Holy Scriptures, and affirm the ecumenical creeds of the Christian faith. But since when did complementarianism a very recent theological development become the test for Christian orthodoxy?

This doctrine is based on fear due to societal change, not careful, prayerful reflection on Holy Scripture and in conversation with the Great Tradition of the Church (not that I hold Tradition on equal status with Scripture, just that it’s helpful to look and our elder brothers AND sisters in Christ for wisdom and weight against Scripture).

This really put egalitarians in a theological predicament regarding fellowship. We don’t hold much in common with theological liberals but we are scorned by evangelical complementarians. Lord help us to endure and give our brothers and sisters on the other side of this issue have are heart of charity towards us and let us do the same.