Cheryl

Jennifer,
The last Pastor who told me that I would go to hell if I did not repent of teaching the bible to men, will not communicate with me about the women’s issue. He now says that he believes that somewhere along the line I will repent of my sin because he does believe I am a Christian sister. I told him that I will not be repenting of teaching the bible to men because scripture does not call it a sin nor does scripture tell me to repent of this “sin”. If I am wrong, then he should take the time to correct me. Since he doesn’t know how to correct my exegesis and he cannot answer my objections to his view and the contradictions that I have pointed out regarding his complementarian belief, he has chosen to not answer me and say that we must agree to disagree. I see him as a brother in Christ, but honestly if I was in his position and really believed that I was in sin, I would work hard to convince such a person from scripture of that fact. This failure to contend for the faith appears to me to be a serious flaw in their complementarian view.

Thank you for your blessings! I do believe that my brothers and sisters in Christ who are complementarians deserve my love and respect and I do desire to treat them this way every opportunity I have whether I agree with them or not on this secondary issue.