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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@BMcfonzie @MikeWingerii Well, why don’t you show me the passage where Jesus tak

@BMcfonzie @MikeWingerii Well, why don’t you show me the passage where Jesus takes authority *OVER* His church and we can talk about it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@50ten3 @dalepartridge I see. Well, earlier in 1Cor 14 it says that if another p

@50ten3 @dalepartridge I see. Well, earlier in 1Cor 14 it says that if another prophet has something to share the first should be silent. So maybe if the pastors followed this and were silent if someo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@smashbaals God would be glorified if they stopped being so divisive about churc

@smashbaals God would be glorified if they stopped being so divisive about churches in their fellowship that have female pastors and start focusing on things that actually matter.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-06

@baptistvibes So Paul was not lord over anyone? Being lord only applies within f

@baptistvibes So Paul was not lord over anyone? Being lord only applies within families? Elders are not lords?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Yes, elders and pastors and overseers all require the

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Yes, elders and pastors and overseers all require the same things and are basically the same function. It is not about headship. Where is an elder referred to as the head of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@jsrrayburn @wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii I see. Please give me an example of w

@jsrrayburn @wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii I see. Please give me an example of what authority your elders have over you that any other believer doesn’t. Authority means that you have to do what they s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii You misunderstand me. I never once asserted female headship. Female leaders and elders, yes. Headship refers to something else in scripture in most contexts. If it was primary for the faith it would be in the creeds. We do...

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii You misunderstand me. I never once asserted female headship. Female leaders and elders, yes. Headship refers to something else in scripture in most contexts. If it was prim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii The text and the description shows she was a leader and that she was directing others. They were to accept her, and to give her help. Why? Because she has been the benefactor of many people. This is a per...

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii The text and the description shows she was a leader and that she was directing others. They were to accept her, and to give her help. Why? Because she has

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Male only eldership was not in the creeds and confessions. Read the Nicene creed again. That modern churches are doing it doesn’t make it a core doctrine. It is not a core doctrine and that’s why it should not be called he...

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Male only eldership was not in the creeds and confessions. Read the Nicene creed again. That modern churches are doing it doesn’t make it a core doctrine. It is not a core

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-04

@wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii There are no commands about a hierarchy of author

@wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii There are no commands about a hierarchy of authority between the husband and wife or between an elder and any other Christian. The authority is in the Word of God not a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-02

@tybobeam @MikeWingerii Is this man an overseer or just someone giving a speech?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-31

No one should have ever made it a matter of a confession of FAITH that only male

No one should have ever made it a matter of a confession of FAITH that only males can be elders. That’s where the division started for the SBC. Wolfe is an agent of that seed of division sown years

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 Please go back to the New Testamen

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 Please go back to the New Testament, not church history. List for me specific individuals who are called pastor, elder or overseer.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are believing (so they have to mature sufficiently to be ab...

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are belie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 James, please provide me a list of people explicitly identified as pastor or elder or overseer in the New Testament. What I am looking for is the name of a person and a statement clearly identifying them ...

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 James, please provide me a list of people explicitly identified as pastor or elder or overseer in the New Testament. What I am looking for is the name of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Notice in the ONLY passage that discusses authori

@JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Notice in the ONLY passage that discusses authority in the context of the relationship between the husband and wife, it says that each does NOT have authority. https://t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@autocorrect2_0 At least someone who truly lives like he describes won’t overrule his wife because it’s not about him or his timing or his desires but about serving her. Yes, the husband is to love his wife but ever wonder why the same passage doesn...

@autocorrect2_0 At least someone who truly lives like he describes won’t overrule his wife because it’s not about him or his timing or his desires but about serving her. Yes, the husband is to love h

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an el

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an elder given he is unmarried and has no physical children?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann Where are you getting that from? Pastors (poimen)?

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann Where are you getting that from? Pastors (poimen)? Which males are specifically called poimen in the New Testament?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann Do you think you are my ruler too? If you were my

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann Do you think you are my ruler too? If you were my elder, what authority would you have over me? Would you excommunicate me for believing that women are equal counterpart

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@TonyMacaroni22 @RickyDoggin Why do you quote this passage out of context? What

@TonyMacaroni22 @RickyDoggin Why do you quote this passage out of context? What relevance does this have to a woman who is in a debate? Is she teaching?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-24

@ronhenzel You eisegeted in another word which you then used to equate learning

@ronhenzel You eisegeted in another word which you then used to equate learning with “effectual” “divine” “revelation” bypassing the fact that an individual must actively learn. It isn’t passive, but

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-23

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel Yes, “taught of God” is passive—it means God is the one

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel Yes, “taught of God” is passive—it means God is the one doing the teaching. Being “taught by God” still requires hearing and learning (Jn 6:45), which are active responses.

Jn 6:45 commentary

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-22

@revjeffvox @FailingPastor Unless you are just reading the Bible, we are getting

@revjeffvox @FailingPastor Unless you are just reading the Bible, we are getting what you or the pastor thinks.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@MikeWingerii What I encountered is a termination w/o cause (official statement)

@MikeWingerii What I encountered is a termination w/o cause (official statement) and used a non-disparagement clause for both parties before releasing severance. When asked why the pastor was let go,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@StevenG57428175 Well, the idea that only baptized males can be deacons or priests or bishops has a few problems. 1. Believers are called a kingdom of priests (1Pe 2:5,9; Re 1:6;5:10;20:6). There is no longer a building that is a temple but each bel...

@StevenG57428175 Well, the idea that only baptized males can be deacons or priests or bishops has a few problems. 1. Believers are called a kingdom of priests (1Pe 2:5,9; Re 1:6;5:10;20:6). There is

1Pe 2:5 Re 1:6 debate

Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant its only men and then ignores it is in dangerous sit...

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen and obey? Why can women teach other women and ch...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Forms_Respecter When people get baptized, do you think that they should have to

@Forms_Respecter When people get baptized, do you think that they should have to acknowledge Jesus as Lord...and that elders must only be males? If not, then how is this primary? Will all those who th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Bigfoot_253 These are not fundamentals of the faith. When you get baptized, you

@Bigfoot_253 These are not fundamentals of the faith. When you get baptized, you don't say, "I believe in Jesus as Lord...and that only men can be elders." Only the essentials are put in the creeds.

@BMcfonzie @MikeWingerii Well, why don’t you show me the passage where Jesus tak

@50ten3 @dalepartridge I see. Well, earlier in 1Cor 14 it says that if another p

@smashbaals God would be glorified if they stopped being so divisive about churc

@baptistvibes So Paul was not lord over anyone? Being lord only applies within f

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Yes, elders and pastors and overseers all require the

@jsrrayburn @wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii I see. Please give me an example of w

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii You misunderstand me. I never once asserted female headship. Female leaders and elders, yes. Headship refers to something else in scripture in most contexts. If it was primary for the faith it would be in the creeds. We do...

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii The text and the description shows she was a leader and that she was directing others. They were to accept her, and to give her help. Why? Because she has been the benefactor of many people. This is a per...

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Male only eldership was not in the creeds and confessions. Read the Nicene creed again. That modern churches are doing it doesn’t make it a core doctrine. It is not a core doctrine and that’s why it should not be called he...

@wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii There are no commands about a hierarchy of author

@tybobeam @MikeWingerii Is this man an overseer or just someone giving a speech?

No one should have ever made it a matter of a confession of FAITH that only male

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 Please go back to the New Testamen

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are believing (so they have to mature sufficiently to be ab...

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 James, please provide me a list of people explicitly identified as pastor or elder or overseer in the New Testament. What I am looking for is the name of a person and a statement clearly identifying them ...

@JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 Notice in the ONLY passage that discusses authori

@autocorrect2_0 At least someone who truly lives like he describes won’t overrule his wife because it’s not about him or his timing or his desires but about serving her. Yes, the husband is to love his wife but ever wonder why the same passage doesn...

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an el

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann Where are you getting that from? Pastors (poimen)?

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann Do you think you are my ruler too? If you were my

@TonyMacaroni22 @RickyDoggin Why do you quote this passage out of context? What

@ronhenzel You eisegeted in another word which you then used to equate learning

@Glory2God777 @ronhenzel Yes, “taught of God” is passive—it means God is the one

@revjeffvox @FailingPastor Unless you are just reading the Bible, we are getting

@MikeWingerii What I encountered is a termination w/o cause (official statement)

@StevenG57428175 Well, the idea that only baptized males can be deacons or priests or bishops has a few problems. 1. Believers are called a kingdom of priests (1Pe 2:5,9; Re 1:6;5:10;20:6). There is no longer a building that is a temple but each bel...

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant its only men and then ignores it is in dangerous sit...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen and obey? Why can women teach other women and ch...

@Forms_Respecter When people get baptized, do you think that they should have to

@Bigfoot_253 These are not fundamentals of the faith. When you get baptized, you

@LovesSardine The requirements for elder are character qualifications and ability to teach, not whether you are male, female, Jewish, Gentile, married, single, short, tall, young or old, single, widowed, rich or poor. Paul's purpose was to stop the ...

@LovesSardine Wow. So why didn’t God say “All female pastors will find their par

@ChrisGalanek @subq PS&gt; You seem to be presbyterian. I happen to know others

@Bigfoot_253 What do you mean? They missed this for 2000 years? It's a fundament

@LovesSardine If someone believes they are following scripture, how is that pride? I believe scripture encourages those who have the appropriate character and ability and desire to serve as overseers⎯they desire a good thing! You cannot presume the ...

@JackmanRobert That said, no where in scripture is a woman "forbidden" to be a pastor/elder/overseer. You are obviously reading this into the text. We don't have anything like that "an elder must not be a woman" for example. 1Ti 3:2 is using the male...

@JackmanRobert I agree that elders are pastors in scripture. Overseer / elder / pastor are used interchangeably. I don't see elders are rulers of a church either, though them all meeting together to discuss matters of doctrine is wholly consistent wi...

@NateSchlomann 1) I think I can agree with you. So I'd like you to show me where God clearly "commands" that an elder must not be a woman. 2) Nature (ie. animals) teaches that some animals dominate others. So we are to follow what the animals do? Ho...

@JonByers186054 What do you mean by "position of authority over a congregation"? What authority does the pastor have over you? What does he tell you to do that someone else couldn't? I'm genuinely curious. Also...we test against scripture not agains...

@JoeAdrian256 And notice that 1Ti 3 speaks of children (plural) and infers that they are believing. Does that mean you are not qualified to be an elder until you have at least two children old enough to choose to believe for themselves? Paul also did...

@JoeAdrian256 I referenced 1Co 7 because Paul clarifies that he is single and advocates for others to desire to be single which would mean that if they all followed his advice, there would be no elders whatsoever! But see, you note as I did "...but *...

@JonByers186054 Not one female elder or pastor in 2000 years? You're kidding, ri

@JonByers186054 Wait, hang on, where is it in God's law that a woman cannot be an elder or leader? How is it that God chose Deborah to be the judge of all Israel and its prophet? Leading others to teach truth and lead others into the truth⎯regardles...

@JoeAdrian256 The interesting thing is that many feel that a married man being a

@JoeAdrian256 Thanks for continuing to discuss. I appreciate you pushing back and clarifying your position again. "...a married woman to be a pastor to one man..."⎯this is a curious framing of what I'm saying. I'm actually saying the person doesn't ...

@StandAndKnox Paul simply connected this wife who was deceived and her husband (

@dale621 @StandAndKnox Even Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies (circa 180) doesn't

@Meritocrating @_Nosoup4you__ @FavaAnthony @_NoSoup4You_ Which passage are you referring to? Gen 3:16? God didn't command Adam to rule his wife but this was a consequence of sin. I'm saying Adam didn't have to rule his wife and would have done better...

@JoeAdrian256 Oh...and here's someone I'm sure who think that a female pastor is

@StandAndKnox Hang on, I was making brunch. So what you seem to be suggesting is that saying that women are not forbidden from serving as elders means that they are elevating themselves to be first? So any woman who ends up serving as an elder⎯say in...

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@ChrisGalanek @subq PS> You seem to be presbyterian. I happen to know others