Lin

“This is a gross overstatement. Not all who believe in the male headship define is a ‘dominant’ husband. How many times do people need to be told that comp theology is not about domination whether in relation to marriage, church or the Trinity.”

Then what is it? Is there no authority involved at all?

If “headship” (not in scripture) is not authority then what is it to you? Authority can be dominant or benevolent. But either one is dominant. Leadership is authority whether positional or influential. You just cannot escape this no matter how many nice adjectives Piper uses to soften the blow.

There is no such animal as ‘servant leader’. It is an oxymoron and everyone knows it. It was coined by Ken Blanchard years ago for mega church pastors to soften the authoritarian chain of command structure during the rise of the mega in the US. So many were used to congregational polity and ‘servant leader’ helped make the transition to a special class of leadership running the church.

What you are trying to pass it off is as a “benevolent dictator”. You just do not use those words because it does not go over so good.

The bottomline is you believe men over women. The man has to be in charge of the adult woman. (she remains a perpetual child spiritually because she can never outgrow her ‘authority’)

But Jesus Christ preached and modeled SERVANT. Not as glamorous, I admit, but the truth.