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@amandafromtx @shelt27467831 Ugh! Nothing like transparency to show that they are acting above board. Even my small sub 200 person church used the same tactic to avoid having to explain the real reasons why they let the associate pastor go. Supposedl...

@amandafromtx @shelt27467831 Ugh! Nothing like transparency to show that they are acting above board. Even my small sub 200 person church used the same tactic to avoid having to explain the real reaso

While it is true that if both partners don’t support each other, they will drag

While it is true that if both partners don’t support each other, they will drag each other down and they likely won’t reach their full potential, how can’t he see that the husband can easily do the sa

He notes that pastors often pull back on dealing with the sins of women because

He notes that pastors often pull back on dealing with the sins of women because they don’t want to get “feminist crushed” [4:07]. Swaying his hips, says the perceived reaction to this is “you’re just

What I noticed is that pastors that speak on male female relationships and advoc

What I noticed is that pastors that speak on male female relationships and advocate for the complementarian view spend a lot of time warming the audience up for what they are about to hear. Howerton d

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-22

RT @iheartJ37: @wadelentz @wadelentz, even if someone believes a female pastor i

RT @iheartJ37: @wadelentz @wadelentz, even if someone believes a female pastor is in “rebellion,” Jesus commands us (Mark9:38-41) not to in…

Mark9:38-41 general

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I’m confused—an entire set of requirements? Yes, Jesus is the “chief shepherd” and as such is the only one explicitly called out as a pastor. Peter exhorts the elders to shepherd. Ho...

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I’m confused—an entire set of requirements? Yes, Jesus is the “chief shepherd” and as such is the only one explicitly called out as a

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 So do we have

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 So do we have a single male in the New Testament who is explicitly called a pastor?

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I was wondering if you can find any New Testament elder or apostle or anyone that is called a pastor. But if you want to consider the Old Testament: “While he was still talking with ...

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I was wondering if you can find any New Testament elder or apostle or anyone that is called a pastor. But if you want to consider the

Ge 29:9 debate

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Sarah, please

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 Sarah, please find a male who is identified as a pastor. Please try. Let's say you find 1. Does that prove that women were not serving

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I'd like you t

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I'd like you to show me where anyone is specifically called a pastor⎯including a man.

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 So it's ok to instruct a room full of pastors but a woman can't lead a service for 45 minutes a week? Interesting. I absolutely agree that Paul includes a reference to Adam and Eve, t...

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 So it's ok to instruct a room full of pastors but a woman can't lead a service for 45 minutes a week? Interesting. I absolutely agree

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-06

@CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii He also says that women cannot “teach authoritatively”—but what does this even mean? Do we listen to a pastor or elder because they speak “authoritatively” (like the pope) or because they are Biblical and right? What would ...

@CaidenHooks @MikeWingerii He also says that women cannot “teach authoritatively”—but what does this even mean? Do we listen to a pastor or elder because they speak “authoritatively” (like the pope) o

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-06

@SindlandOz34748 @Darrin_Caudill @smashbaals @danielsilliman I’m not your pastor. I’m also not overturning the plain meaning of the text. The plain meaning is very clear and that Paul has been quoting from the letter from the Corinthians is uncontest...

@SindlandOz34748 @Darrin_Caudill @smashbaals @danielsilliman I’m not your pastor. I’m also not overturning the plain meaning of the text. The plain meaning is very clear and that Paul has been quoting

1Co 7:1 general

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-06

@SindlandOz34748 @Darrin_Caudill @smashbaals @danielsilliman When your pastor tr

@SindlandOz34748 @Darrin_Caudill @smashbaals @danielsilliman When your pastor tries to teach you about what the Bible says on say, the trinity, do you claim he is using word salads?

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@XianPatriot @Psalm2_12Xian @smashbaals @danielsilliman Explaining scripture is precisely what pastors and teachers do. I’d be happy to help you understand this one as well. Paul is quoting from the letter that the Corinthians wrote to him and in th...

@XianPatriot @Psalm2_12Xian @smashbaals @danielsilliman Explaining scripture is precisely what pastors and teachers do. I’d be happy to help you understand this one as well. Paul is quoting from the

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@SolSurvivor24 @SoberEvolutions @smashbaals @danielsilliman What does “usurp authority” mean? Are men allowed to do that? What authority does your pastor have specifically? When my pastor tells me something, I only listen a) if it’s benign and b) if...

@SolSurvivor24 @SoberEvolutions @smashbaals @danielsilliman What does “usurp authority” mean? Are men allowed to do that? What authority does your pastor have specifically? When my pastor tells me so

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Does your pastor tell you where you

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen Does your pastor tell you where you should go and what you should do? A leader is someone who serves by example, not by command.

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I was asked by the other elders of a church I was

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I was asked by the other elders of a church I was an elder at to step down. I declined. Was I obligated to step down?

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii ...women in leadership but are willing to work within a complementarian system and keep the peace, how is that a problem? There really was no sufficient answers to these things, but it did get this pastor to think as he ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii ...women in leadership but are willing to work within a complementarian system and keep the peace, how is that a problem? There really was no sufficient answers to these

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii In the example you give, you seem to be saying that if a group of leaders all agree on something (whether right or wrong), you have to listen and only if you can find a bishop or governing body over the leaders can you a...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii In the example you give, you seem to be saying that if a group of leaders all agree on something (whether right or wrong), you have to listen and only if you can find a b

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I've asked you for examples of what that authority looks like. You suggested that if a member asked you to step down you may not listen but if the pastor asked you to step down, you would. If the same reasons are given b...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I've asked you for examples of what that authority looks like. You suggested that if a member asked you to step down you may not listen but if the pastor asked you to ste

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Actually, I know something about that too. When I had two Mormon Bishops in my home, it was clear that God caused the fall so that they could become gods. So it was God's intention that man sinned. There is no overlap w...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Actually, I know something about that too. When I had two Mormon Bishops in my home, it was clear that God caused the fall so that they could become gods. So it was God's

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If women cannot teach or pastor men, why can’t the

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If women cannot teach or pastor men, why can’t they teach or pastor women? That has to be explained. So they could be teachers and pastors but just not over men? That mak

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii There are no verses of lists of sin that confirms

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii There are no verses of lists of sin that confirms that a woman teaching truth to men or pastoring is a sin. Deborah seems to be clearly violating this in the OT and God a

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You are the one that suggested asking you to resig

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii You are the one that suggested asking you to resign. Please, can you explain by giving me an example where you would listen to the pastor because of his authority but not

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii The corresponding idea is in 1Ti 4:12 “Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity." Paul encourages confidence and not shrinking back as he would n...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii The corresponding idea is in 1Ti 4:12 “Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity." Paul encourag

1Ti 4:12 debate

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If the pastor feels jealous of your ministry or fe

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii If the pastor feels jealous of your ministry or feels threatened by you, is that sufficient reason to demand you to step down because the pastor is an authority?

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Does "and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ" (Eph 5:21) not apply between you and the congregant if what the congregant stated was God's will? On what basis is a pastor or elder demanding you step ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Does "and subject yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ" (Eph 5:21) not apply between you and the congregant if what the congregant stated was God's will? On w

Eph 5:21 question

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yes, not everyone is an elder. Gifting and proven

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Yes, not everyone is an elder. Gifting and proven character are both imperative. Sorry if I misled you to think otherwise. But if the same thing was said by an elder or b

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Does your pastor rule over you? Please explain to

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Does your pastor rule over you? Please explain to me in what way(s)? I’m honestly curious. What can he command you to do that you would not listen to if anyone else said

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii An elder has a special function and gifting in the body, but all in the body have the same authority to make disciples and to teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded to his disciples. Function—such as oversight—is ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii An elder has a special function and gifting in the body, but all in the body have the same authority to make disciples and to teach them to obey everything Jesus commande

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I submitted to him by not forcing myself into leadership, but he doesn’t have the right to forbid what Jesus did not forbid, so he is in the wrong. If I am living in unrepentant sin and refuse to listen “even to the chu...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I submitted to him by not forcing myself into leadership, but he doesn’t have the right to forbid what Jesus did not forbid, so he is in the wrong. If I am living in unr

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii No doubt there are true boundary lines—but those a

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii No doubt there are true boundary lines—but those are established by Christ, not by the authority of an elder. I was barred from being a leader in a local church as I was

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Now, I would hope that an elder is one because of

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Now, I would hope that an elder is one because of their wisdom and knowledge of the scriptures and the gifting God has given to them, and I want to benefit from that.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-30

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’ve done that for non-elders too because I follow Eph 5:21. We are to subject ourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. I don’t ignore a brother or sister who says the same thing to me because they are not an elde...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’ve done that for non-elders too because I follow Eph 5:21. We are to subject ourselves to one another in the fear of Christ. I don’t ignore a brother or sister who says

Eph 5:21 general

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’m not sure what you mean by “teaching authority”

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I’m not sure what you mean by “teaching authority” ⎯ teaching, yes. But authoritative? What is authoritative is God’s Word which hopefully the pastor is representing well

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine If you read 1Ti 3 overliterally an overseer has to be married and have at least 2 believing children. Those who read “husband” and rather than asserting married say “must be male” are not taking the text literally as they c...

@curtisschlepp @JollyStine If you read 1Ti 3 overliterally an overseer has to be married and have at least 2 believing children. Those who read “husband” and rather than asserting married say “must be

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-19

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul uses this prototypically and so reaches for a specific word which illustrates what is going on⎯that a deceived and ignorant (and therefore unnamed) wife is teaching false doctrine and her undeceived husband (likely ...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii Paul uses this prototypically and so reaches for a specific word which illustrates what is going on⎯that a deceived and ignorant (and therefore unnamed) wife is teaching

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-16

@MeridithABlack @MikeWingerii Well, the reason I asked was because it was Mike that said that I need to repent for propagating what I believe the scripture teaches about women in pastoral ministry which disagrees with what he says it teaches—somethin...

@MeridithABlack @MikeWingerii Well, the reason I asked was because it was Mike that said that I need to repent for propagating what I believe the scripture teaches about women in pastoral ministry whi

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-13

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Given that only two men—Peter and John—are explicitly referred to as elders in the NT (and it is self identification), I’m quite surprised Carol listed these two Old Testament women as examples of elders. Does...

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry Given that only two men—Peter and John—are explicitly referred to as elders in the NT (and it is self identification), I’m quite surprised Carol listed these tw

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-11

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry That’s not what the Bible says. I missed

@StevenMKestner @carol66944 @JoelWBerry That’s not what the Bible says. I missed the “an overseer must not be a woman” part. https://t.co/EBzpnqJmk0

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-11

@Olrak67 @The_njp @Protestia Yes, because scripture doesn't forbid godly and com

@Olrak67 @The_njp @Protestia Yes, because scripture doesn't forbid godly and competent women from serving as pastors.

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

@ronhenzel And the witnesses don't need to be elders. And this is not a gang up of those who don't like the person. “I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen angels, to maintain these principles without bias...

@ronhenzel And the witnesses don't need to be elders. And this is not a gang up of those who don't like the person. “I solemnly exhort you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of His chosen

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

@Pastor_Gabe @JoelWBerry It's not a women's Bible study. And yes, the format was made for a video and not in front of a live audience. Do you really need me to show you one where she's in front of a live audience? What makes a pastor? Is it a label ...

@Pastor_Gabe @JoelWBerry It's not a women's Bible study. And yes, the format was made for a video and not in front of a live audience. Do you really need me to show you one where she's in front of a l

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

@Pastor_Gabe @JoelWBerry That’s easy. Kay Arthur for one. https://t.co/G9lNQRFh

@Pastor_Gabe @JoelWBerry That’s easy. Kay Arthur for one. https://t.co/G9lNQRFhis

@Pastor_Gabe @JoelWBerry That’s not true.

@conwarrior47 @TaraLynnSays @PastorMikeStone So your answer is Biden?

@conwarrior47 @TaraLynnSays @PastorMikeStone But it’s in the hands of each State

@conwarrior47 @TaraLynnSays @PastorMikeStone But it’s in the hands of each State, right? Biden wants RvW back and a vote for Biden is actually likely installing Kamala as we all know Biden won’t last

@PastorMark Maybe you remember the Proverbs 31 woman?