Mary

Genwall, you brought up something I think is very important in comment #41: the difference between life in the flesh and life in the Spirit. I concluded a long time ago that embracing patriarchy even in its “mild” complementarian permutations, there is little or no control yielded to the Holy Spirit. I find no place for the Spirit in most of published comp doctrine. God does not force anyone to stop usurping God’s place as Lord of another’s life, or in the case of women in compdom, giving over to a man/men the place of control that God should have. Where the Spirit is not welcome and free to move, the Spirit does not enter.

It’s not unlike “Choose this day whom you will serve…”.