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Scripture Commentary article 2008-04-25

Partriarchy

One of the key differences between an egalitarian and a patriarchal marriage is in the area of authority and will. In a patriarchal marriage, the man is set up as the final decision maker of the home and he is given the right to make a decision for his wife even if it overrules her will

1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 7:5 Isaiah 1 Authority & Submission Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-04-12

Helpful Sites For Research On Egalitarian Views

I was also asked to have a place where we could list good blogs/web sites that promote godly views about women in ministry or issues of egalitarian marriage, etc. This post will be the permanent place to place links

Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2008-01-04

From Bobbed Hair Bossy Wives And Women Preachers To Woman Be Free

I am very pleased that Stan Gundry has given me permission to post his story about how he changed his view from a staunch complementarian to an egalitarian. I would also request that if you have a story about your own journey from prejudice to freedom in Christ regarding women in ministry that you e

1 Corinthians 11:5 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 1 Corinthians 7:4 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-12-05

Women Teaching Mens Prejudice And Gods Glory

Many complementarians have been so used to hearing what women are not allowed to do in the body of Christ rather than what scripture says women should do as followers of Christ, that the focus has become automatically set to see restrictions when the subject of women in ministry is discussed. With t

1 Peter 2:15 1 Peter 3:10 1 Peter 3:10-12 Women in Leadership Complementarianism 1 Peter 3
Scripture Commentary article 2007-11-23

Jesus Our Example Of A Godly Husband

What is the godly way for a husband to treat his wife. Should he take authority over her and make decisions for her by going against her will

John 13:10 John 13:4 John 13:5 Authority & Submission Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-11-03

Does Head Mean Boss When It Is Connected To The Body

This is the first in a series about marriage and the connection between marriage to women’s gifts in the church

Colossians 2:19 Genesis 2:23 Genesis 2:24 Genesis & Creation Headship & Kephale Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-10-25

Spiritual Gifts And Authority

What has the spiritual gifts got to do with authority. It has plenty to do with God’s granting us all authority to use our gifts as representatives of God himself

1 Peter 4:10 1 Peter 4:11 Matthew 10:1 Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-10-13

Gift Vs Office And Women In Ministry

Continuing in our series on the gifts and their use by men and women in the body of Christ, we come to an unusual passage where the gift seems not to be a thing but a person

2 Corinthians 11:13 2 Corinthians 12:11 2 Corinthians 12:12 Spiritual Gifts Women in Leadership
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-30

The Rest Of The Story 1 Timothy 211 15 And Matt Slick

> Proverbs 18:17 (ESV) The one who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him

1 Peter 4:10 1 Peter 4:11 1 Timothy 1:13 1 Timothy 2 Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2007-09-12

Spiritual Gifts A Means Of Unity

In Ephesians chapter four Paul gives us a glimpse of what the gifts of the Holy Spirit are meant for. Paul starts out with humility, tolerance and love:

Ephesians 4:12 Ephesians 4:13 Ephesians 4:2 Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary article 2007-08-16

Are Womens Gifts For The Common Good

Today I am starting a new set of posts on the spiritual gifts which are given to each person in the body of Christ. I would like to start with 1 Corinthians 12:7

1 Corinthians 12:7 Acts 1:13 Acts 1:14 Spiritual Gifts Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-12

Shaming The Head 2

Several posts back we talked about how Paul shows in 1 Corinthians 11 that the head covering shamed Christ. This post will discuss why a woman without her head covering shamed her head

1 Corinthians 11:3 1 Corinthians 11:4 1 Corinthians 11:7 1 Corinthians 11 Headship & Kephale
Scripture Commentary article 2007-07-09

Are Females Saved Just Like Males

Before we continue with our verse by verse through 1 Corinthians 11, I wanted to share a question that Jen had who watched my clip of “Women in Ministry Silenced or Set Free” DVD on YouTube. She said:

1 Peter 3:7 Ephesians 2:14-19 Ephesians 2:19 1 Corinthians 11 Women in Leadership Galatians 3:28
Scripture Commentary article 2007-03-24

Should Cbmw Fight Egalitarians

This week CBMW (the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood) released two audio tapes from the February 2007 “Different by Design” Conference held in Minneapolis Minnesota. ( ) I was amazed at the way that the gospel was connected to the gender issue in such a way that those who do not hold to pa

Exodus 4 Isaiah 1 Women in Leadership Complementarianism Debates
Scripture Commentary article 2006-11-07

What Is True Headship

With all of the talk on submission of a wife, we should at least grant that submission is not related to suppression of God’s gifts. In other words if a woman is gifted to teach, her submission to her husband and her desire to honor him should not be a means to stop her from using her God-given gift

Headship & Kephale Spiritual Gifts
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-31

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Why do you think creation sequence has to be rep

@grok @quathamer @dalepartridge Why do you think creation sequence has to be repeated for everything that happens in a worship service? Why is a descriptive event the rule for who teaches or preaches

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-09-30

@dallasreese @rcsprouljr I have spent 100s of hours speaking with mormons, have visited their services and seen their temple. I know what they believe and teach and agree that their views are fundamentally opposed to Christian doctrine in critical wa...

@dallasreese @rcsprouljr I have spent 100s of hours speaking with mormons, have visited their services and seen their temple. I know what they believe and teach and agree that their views are fundamen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-29

Eby thinks @seanfeucht is using worship music to go after gay people? 🧐 I guess

Eby thinks @seanfeucht is using worship music to go after gay people? 🧐 I guess that means our politicians think that church worship services are targeting gays too… https://t.co/mk7NZiRRN1

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-21

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So then if this is nothing more than the other times in the chapter where Paul tells the other to be silent, if a woman has a prophecy or scripture or song or…, can she speak? Because I haven’t yet gone to a ch...

@carol66944 @ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst So then if this is nothing more than the other times in the chapter where Paul tells the other to be silent, if a woman has a prophecy or scripture or song or…,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-19

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst One more question for you: 3000 people became believers on the day of Pentecost and they were constantly adding to that number. Do you believe that they were having meetings of 5000 or more on a weekly basis? Our church ...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst One more question for you: 3000 people became believers on the day of Pentecost and they were constantly adding to that number. Do you believe that they were having meetin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-12

@BronWen727104 But weren't deacons specifically chosen to so that the elders could focus on teaching, doctrine, correcting issues, etc., and the deacons take on the other service tasks? Doesn't mean that they couldn't be pastoring or couldn't teach, ...

@BronWen727104 But weren't deacons specifically chosen to so that the elders could focus on teaching, doctrine, correcting issues, etc., and the deacons take on the other service tasks? Doesn't mean t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The way we do our services today resembles nothing of the way meetings were in Paul’s day. It’s likely why few ever mature to become teachers or elders and few participate other than singing. BTW, ...

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The way we do our services today resembles nothing of the way meetings were in Paul’s day. It’s likely why few ever mature to become teachers or eld

1Co 14:30 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-08

@iroquoisplskn87 That’s a false dichotomy. Egalitarianism is not the absence of order but the presence of mutual submission (Eph 5:21), shared responsibility, and co-laboring without rank-based domination. Anarchy rejects all structure; egalitarian...

@iroquoisplskn87 That’s a false dichotomy. Egalitarianism is not the absence of order but the presence of mutual submission (Eph 5:21), shared responsibility, and co-laboring without rank-based domin

Eph 5:21 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@OrinRomine Where does scripture say “in a worship service”? Our modern concept

@OrinRomine Where does scripture say “in a worship service”? Our modern concept of a ‘worship service’ is foreign to the New Testament.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick This was never about hierarchy, but about

@FNANVG @LionofJudah444 @oliverburdick This was never about hierarchy, but about service. It’s about serving another’s needs above your own desires. And Christ absolutely does this for His church and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-04-30

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have fi...

@path1_one @rightresponsem I am a mutualist⎯mutual cooperation and service, not an advocate of chaos. “He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning (archē), the firstborn from

Col 1:18 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-13

@Vibeauxs @Eric_Conn As for 1Pe 3:1, submission and service is not specific to o

@Vibeauxs @Eric_Conn As for 1Pe 3:1, submission and service is not specific to one gender but to all. Peter says to the husbands “in the same way” (1Pe 3:7) showing the instruction is the same for the

1Pe 3:1 1Pe 3:7 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-10

@Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @AletheiaHS @subq @immrbloo On what basis do you make the claim that I'm just giving lip service & living in unbelief? I am simply saying that your claim doesn't match up with scripture. That Christ's faith is give...

@Glory2God777 @ManassehRJones @AletheiaHS @subq @immrbloo On what basis do you make the claim that I'm just giving lip service & living in unbelief? I am simply saying that your claim doesn't mat

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

Your view assumes gender is the key difference, but Paul’s focus is on character

Your view assumes gender is the key difference, but Paul’s focus is on character qualifications, not a categorical distinction. ‘Likewise’ strengthens inclusion, connecting women to deacons and mainta

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

If women were entirely excluded from church leadership or service roles, Paul co

If women were entirely excluded from church leadership or service roles, Paul could have specified it. Instead, ‘likewise’ supports the idea that women are included in the qualifications being discuss

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-03

Church leadership isn’t about being the sole decision-maker, a *president* or restricting service if the person is only able to have one child. God gifts and calls people to serve, and they should be allowed and recognized by the body, not restricted...

Church leadership isn’t about being the sole decision-maker, a *president* or restricting service if the person is only able to have one child. God gifts and calls people to serve, and they should be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-28

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Where is unilateral authority here? You argue as

@IemSparticus @harmonizedgrace Where is unilateral authority here? You argue as if authority inherently excludes mutual submission, but Paul’s words reject authoritarian patterns by focusing on servic

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-06

@DirtBoyFarms @ruthmperry @iheartJ37 @harmonizedgrace If Biblical submission is service and service is submission, then how is it that all are not mutually submissive including husbands to wives in addition to wives to husbands? Do you believe the hu...

@DirtBoyFarms @ruthmperry @iheartJ37 @harmonizedgrace If Biblical submission is service and service is submission, then how is it that all are not mutually submissive including husbands to wives in ad

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-05

With Christ, our service flows from love, not obligation. Paul’s challenge to wi

With Christ, our service flows from love, not obligation. Paul’s challenge to wives is to adopt this perspective—to willingly submit out of love, not fear or duty, just as they do for Christ. It’s abo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@MikeWingerii Authority is commanding demons to leave and they leave. Leadershi

@MikeWingerii Authority is commanding demons to leave and they leave. Leadership is service not command and control. Complementarians misunderstand leadership.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@Methodios007 Well, yes, that’s true, but I can see from scripture that these te

@Methodios007 Well, yes, that’s true, but I can see from scripture that these terms are not meant to be some sort of authority title but a position of service where the terms describe different aspect

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-27

@numeroustimes @ms_queenbitch0 @WGCrafts3312 @dalepartridge It starts with you and your lust issue. Sit in the front row. Find ways to deal with your own issues first. Or maybe you’d be open to supporting female pastors so they can have their own se...

@numeroustimes @ms_queenbitch0 @WGCrafts3312 @dalepartridge It starts with you and your lust issue. Sit in the front row. Find ways to deal with your own issues first. Or maybe you’d be open to suppo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-23

@ReformedCaio @ronhenzel Excellent observation. Given wives were already being treated as property and slaves of their husbands, what do you think Paul’s intent was here? I think it was to elevate how they saw their service. Rather than a position o...

@ReformedCaio @ronhenzel Excellent observation. Given wives were already being treated as property and slaves of their husbands, what do you think Paul’s intent was here? I think it was to elevate ho

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-13

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-09

@graceforprize @DBryanRhodes My wife and I always found ways to make it work. BT

@graceforprize @DBryanRhodes My wife and I always found ways to make it work. BTW, my church had Saturday evening services when we had that issue. So I don’t know what you are talking about.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-08

@chris_z_123 @ryancduff "It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ***to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up*** until we...

@chris_z_123 @ryancduff "It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, ***to prepare God's people for works of service, so t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@WordserviceDan Yes, let’s look at what Paul meant, shall we? https://t.co/ZQizs

@WordserviceDan Yes, let’s look at what Paul meant, shall we? https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@landjax @Charb_izard No, they do not establish authority as in any sort of forc

@landjax @Charb_izard No, they do not establish authority as in any sort of forced submission, but that of service. Perhaps you will listen to the Word Biblical Commentary on this? https://t.co/V3evjf

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@landjax @Charb_izard Elders have the authority to build up not to tear down. Th

@landjax @Charb_izard Elders have the authority to build up not to tear down. They have a responsibility and a service to perform which is not to take all the important tasks for themselves. Matt 18:

Matt 18:15-20 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@BrandonGra53760 @kodysamnanveth @rofbethany Leadership in the church is about i

@BrandonGra53760 @kodysamnanveth @rofbethany Leadership in the church is about initiative and service and is not to be like the world where leaders rule over people. What v21 says is reciprocal, one

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-09

@JimmyParker87 @RevChrisDavis No it’s not. I agree that scripture is 100% inspir

@JimmyParker87 @RevChrisDavis No it’s not. I agree that scripture is 100% inspired and sufficient and because of this I could see that it taught mutual submission and service not males ruling and only

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@PastorMark Encouraging people to seek more skilled labor is reasonable; calling

@PastorMark Encouraging people to seek more skilled labor is reasonable; calling service jobs "joke jobs" is not.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-26

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie No, you still have it wrong. Wives are to love their husbands too and the way that Christ loved is by serving to the uttermost. Wives are not called to be slaves of their husbands but to reciprocate the same service⎯though ev...

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie No, you still have it wrong. Wives are to love their husbands too and the way that Christ loved is by serving to the uttermost. Wives are not called to be slaves of their husb

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-23

@EManFleming Eve was described as a help to Adam which means he was the one with the need. This does not mean she was created for one way service to him. God is also described as our helper using the same Hebrew word ("ezer") used for Eve. This term...

@EManFleming Eve was described as a help to Adam which means he was the one with the need. This does not mean she was created for one way service to him. God is also described as our helper using the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@Dan_NY_Giants @MikeJGreiner @MikeWingerii Right, Mike's view is that women are

@Dan_NY_Giants @MikeJGreiner @MikeWingerii Right, Mike's view is that women are limited to not being elders nor acting like elders (which he says means speaking authoritatively or speaking in a struct

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