Cheryl Schatz

David,
Welcome to my blog and thank you for your thoughts on Piper. I have looked at what John Piper has to say about women outside the abuse area and in fact he is on my DVD “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free?” regarding those views. He has some very faulty views that need to be addressed.

I understand your wanting to defend him because you feel that he has been very helpful to you on other areas. I am not saying that John Piper is not a Christian nor that he has no helpful things to say. But on the areas of women in ministry and abuse, he is not helpful. Calling verbal abuse as verbal unkindness minimizes the sin. He is not alone, though, so he is not being singled out with this kind of attitude. There are many pastors who minimize the man’s sin in marriage and push the woman to “submit more” to fix the problems. I think that it is time to wake the church up to the problem so that pastors will become educated not only to the problems but to appropriate and godly solutions. Allowing sin to continue and practiced against us is not helpful for our husbands.

In my DVD I treat John Piper with respect as I do all the other theologians who have very bad theology on women. If you can help him in this area, I think it would be wise, for he may have no idea how many women and how man marriages that he is hurting. His responses on being smacked around and on “verbal unkindness” are typical of those who are hierarchist and so I don’t think that we would get much different an answer from John Piper even if he had time to think about it longer.

Thanks again for dropping in and if I can be of service, I am willing to help out. In fact if John Piper is willing to dialog, I am certainly willing to communicate with him.