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There have also been mentions of this being a ‘virus’ and allowing Satan into the church. It really is incredible. It is as if Satan has found the perfect secondary doctrine to keep half of all Christians from proclaiming Christ and teaching scripture to anyone regardless of gender. And this misinterpretation of scripture is causing so many men and women to sin with pride and wanting to lord it over others.

I know nothing about IBC or even if they preach the primary gospel correctly or not. But, I am amazed they studied this for so long and did not see that women could be elders, too. Perhaps one step at a time?

Reading around the blogosphere, I am amazed at how many arguments that say scrpture teaches that women cannot teach men is based more on the ‘institutionalizing’ of the church. I have only started really seeing this for what it is. And the entire premise is wrong.

We see the word ‘office’ used a lot in these arguments and is not even in the Greek!. We see the words like ‘local church’, which could mean Lydia’s house in scripture, used to describe the institution/building we go to every Sunday with full time ‘clergy’  and a pulpit. Or they argue that what Priscilla did with Aquila is ok because they were not at ‘church’. This is the type of interpretation that makes Phoebe a mail woman instead of a minister (diakonos) and Junia a man! And that fact that women cannot be pastors when pastor is only mentioned once in scripture as a spiritual gift! Or that women cannot be elders but single men can!~

They are determined to live out and teach the consequence of sin from Genesis 3 as biblical. It is shattering to the Body and a diversion from proclaiming the Good News to everyone regardless of gender.