gengwall

It just goes to show how even fence straddling theology (the kind I am most exposed to) can suck you into a paradigm which throws you completely off the trail. We have been talking about this intensely for, what, over a month now, and I still had stuck in my head that 11-15 was somehow about ministry because the debate is always initiated with that viewpoint as the basis. I have been seeing things from the POV that 11-15 is not a universal, permanent instruction about women in church, but that it is just a local, temporal instruction about women in church. The reality is that it isn’t about women in church at all. Any talk of universal vs. local, permanent vs. temporal, is all one big red herring! I think I need an advil.