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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-01

@FutureHOF3 Those that do not belong to Him are those who do not respond to the truth that He has revealed to them. Jacob and Esau represent two peoples (as God told Rebecca) and one day they will be reconciled. This idea culminates in the church whi...

@FutureHOF3 Those that do not belong to Him are those who do not respond to the truth that He has revealed to them. Jacob and Esau represent two peoples (as God told Rebecca) and one day they will be

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-29

@matthewweisser @BenZeisloft Our church puts up a guidance slide from 1Co 14 and

@matthewweisser @BenZeisloft Our church puts up a guidance slide from 1Co 14 and waits in silence for 5 minutes to see if anyone feels compelled to share something after the message. I find that is a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-29

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy In Romans 16, Paul mentions several women whom he praises for their work and contributions to the early Christian community, highlighting their roles and leadership. Here are the women mentioned: 1. Phoebe (Ro 16:1-2) - De...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy In Romans 16, Paul mentions several women whom he praises for their work and contributions to the early Christian community, highlighting their roles and leadership. Here ar

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-28

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy Not true. Barak was a capable man listed in Hebrews 11 as someone who achieved great things through faith. My church is not in any of the situations listed for any of the judges in the book of judges: Othniel, Ehud, Shamga...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy Not true. Barak was a capable man listed in Hebrews 11 as someone who achieved great things through faith. My church is not in any of the situations listed for any of the j

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-28

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy My church is not in the spiritual situation Israel wa

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy My church is not in the spiritual situation Israel was in for any of the judges, Othniel, Ehud, Shamgar, Deborah, Gideon, Tola, Jair, Jephthah, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon, or Samson

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-02-28

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy I don't decide whether someone is suited for a role based on situational details alone. My previous church was in a bad situation, but current church is not. My previous church's situation was primarily because of a bad mal...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy I don't decide whether someone is suited for a role based on situational details alone. My previous church was in a bad situation, but current church is not. My previous chu

@FutureHOF3 Those that do not belong to Him are those who do not respond to the truth that He has revealed to them. Jacob and Esau represent two peoples (as God told Rebecca) and one day they will be reconciled. This idea culminates in the church whi...

@matthewweisser @BenZeisloft Our church puts up a guidance slide from 1Co 14 and

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy In Romans 16, Paul mentions several women whom he praises for their work and contributions to the early Christian community, highlighting their roles and leadership. Here are the women mentioned: 1. Phoebe (Ro 16:1-2) - De...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy Not true. Barak was a capable man listed in Hebrews 11 as someone who achieved great things through faith. My church is not in any of the situations listed for any of the judges in the book of judges: Othniel, Ehud, Shamga...

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy My church is not in the spiritual situation Israel wa

@BogdanOancea77 @JoanBandy I don't decide whether someone is suited for a role based on situational details alone. My previous church was in a bad situation, but current church is not. My previous church's situation was primarily because of a bad mal...

@Jesusmyoverseer @igarglewithfire FYI, that idea about being the head of a churc

@Carol52538896 @Revelation_14_7 No, I don’t think I’m the only one. Luther, Ambrose and other church fathers were not “midwits” but certainly can be wrong on various matters. Do you subscribe to Sola Scriptura or SS + non-apostolic church fathers? O...

@TomWarlord @OnionPizza68693 @baste_goblin @NotFussedLogan @EchoToaster_ @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn They are the unbelieving nation which, only 1/3rd remaining, will all believe at the second coming of Jesus. So yes. Persecuting Christians? Same as...

@TomWarlord @baste_goblin @OnionPizza68693 @EchoToaster_ @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn My wife is self-employed and treats patients. She would be bored staying at home everyday as our kids are all in post-secondary and taking care of themselves. Every ...

@Revelation_14_7 The letter is written to a specific person, a man named Timothy

@OnionPizza68693 Sola Scriptura. Everything tested by scripture, not church hist

@OnionPizza68693 In 3 cases, the church I was attending changed denominations.

@OnionPizza68693 Sola Scriptura, not the Bible + church history. I've been a Ch

@OnionPizza68693 I don't know...been to several. Latest is Reformed Church of Am

@baste_goblin @TomWarlord @EchoToaster_ @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn Why do you think I don’t believe this? As the church willingly submits to doing what Jesus wants, so should the wife also do the same to their husbands…and husbands also to their wi...

@Revelation_14_7 @TomWarlord @baste_goblin @EchoToaster_ @Eric_Conn @StoneChoir Which churches are you referring to? I’m referring to the intention Paul had when he was alive which was a problem even in his day but which he suggests will get worse af...

@Revelation_14_7 @TomWarlord @baste_goblin @EchoToaster_ @Eric_Conn Indentured servitude is not wrong. We are all willing slaves of Christ and all are to serve one another in the body. But there should not be roles or relationships in the church whe...

@noahbergmann_ @TomWarlord @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn Was Paul’s letter written only to the male elders in Corinth? Really? “To the church of God which is in Corinth, *to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus,* saints by calling, *with all...

@MartinMarkLuth1 I only mentioned them because you seemed to think women preache

@MartinMarkLuth1 @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn A heretic, huh? So a godly woman teaching truth to someone is damnable heresy? Where do you find this "sin" in any list of sins? Go ahead and look for it. You are misinterpreting the scripture. You are fr...

@MartinMarkLuth1 @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn Women were elders and preachers eve

There are protestants who hold to the same belief, but it's not Biblical. Unfortunately, the Roman Catholic Church is wrong on this one too. The church is the body of Christ. "Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it" (1C...

@powerisnotmine @joyklaprade Causing any division⎯if it is unnecessary (which means it is related to primary issues)⎯harms the body. Are you the kind of person that is into cutting off healthy body parts? Excluding churches over secondary disagreem...

@Alicia_Bittle_ You sound like you are referring to the church. Such focus on one specific person aside from Christ Himself, no matter how righteous you think they are, is not good. Mary is equal to any faithful believer. Hailing someone is calling ...

@Tingamabobz @GeauxGabrielle @myteacherafreak @MissBNasty And just after Paul quotes from the letter from the Corinthians, Paul says to those who are trying to silence half the church, “What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto y...

@timotheeology @beherleader @FoundersMin @tomascol @conservmillen Origen is like many others, even those who were in the Church of Corinth which Paul rebukes by saying: “What? came the word of God out from you [men]? or came it unto you [men] only?” ...

@Alicia_Bittle_ @herreisenheim00 @lebell79 @roserobins017 Was that only on Sunda

Another common argument complementarians give is the role the wife plays to symb

@SansFollowers @ronhenzel @aaron_p_edwards They may be swayed by publishers, fellow colleagues, the culture, or even church culture which doesn’t like change. They may also be persuaded by other scriptures which appear to contradict the prevailing i...

From tweet to text, our clash began, On female leads, the church's ban. You veered, citing division's role, I argued context, seeking whole. Yet 'context' turned a foggy screen, Your counter, circular and lean. In verses brief, our saga told, A danc...

@SimonReye @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @TarienCole The early church still got a few things wrong. It got the Gentiles wrong and needed correction on that several times. In Acts 6, they are just doing what comes natural to them—picking men. You cannot take a...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel No person whether male or female is considered one of the 12 foundational Apostles upon which the church is built. Apostles after the 12 were those sent out to plant churches like Barnabas. An elder is just a deacon who serve...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Because the church did something doesn’t mean it is a pre

@PrayTh3Rosary @LilaGraceRose The church fathers were not I fallible interpreters of scripture. While we can learn from what they wrote and consider their reasons if they provide them, we have to always point back to scripture as the authority. Unfor...

@AsherJacob23060 @ronhenzel I see many cases of women leading in various capacities in the mission field. They are translating scripture, leading house churches, counselling men and women and generally doing the hard work of discipling and putting th...

@ronhenzel Interesting, Ron, because I know very few egalitarians who agree with

@endofanepoch @0x49fa98 I see⎯so the history of the church is a perfect represen

@ronhenzel @LynnCDell2 And why he might be obscuring the name of a specific deceived married woman in the church at Ephesus whom Timothy would readily recognize without naming given Paul’s comments. Paul told us: “remain…so that you would instruct *...

@TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz Or it makes it about hierarchies of authority which

@DiscoverJesus3 @TWFtrish @ronhenzel @NBidnz I wouldn’t say that last statement as many have come to Christ in patriarchal and complementarian churches. As an egalitarian I have no problem working with complementarians who sincerely think this is the...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel There we go again—judicial authority. This is all about authority of one gender over the others or hierarchy of authority within the church which is what Jesus spoke against clearly to his apostles. And curiously you say that w...

@LynnCDell2 @ronhenzel Jesus also came as a Jew. All His apostles were Jewish. Yet we don’t have only Jewish male pastors and elders. Remember how they were confused on that in the early church too and how God had to show them that the Gentiles were ...

@DoreenVirtue @lovesickscribe Hi Doreen! People who see 1 Tim 2:12 as forbidding godly women from teaching true doctrine to anyone whether in the pulpit or out of the pulpit (does that matter? was there a pulpit in the early church?)⎯these misinterpr...

@ronhenzel Why do complementarians keep asserting that this is all about "authoritative teaching"? Please, help⎯what precisely is this authoritative teaching that only men can speak in the church? Is this something extra-Biblical like what car I sho...

The White/Flowers debate on “Does John 6:44 Teach Unconditional Election” coming up on March 7 will certainly be interesting. I too have been called a semi-Pelagian preventing me from holding any leadership position in a Reformed church. 😔 https://...

Wolfe wants all SBC churches to be complementarian. He equates this with conservative values and upholding scripture, but it’s just his interpretation of secondary issues that he wants to *force* on all. This is not a gospel issue. It should not divi...

@Lazicus520 @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals Two points: 1. The 70 were prior to the church. 2. In the earliest times of the church before the incorporation of Gentiles was clear, the disciples would have defaulted to what they knew previously, so the fac...

@Lazicus520 @VoterTrump2024 @smashbaals Not only did priests have to be men but also Jewish and of only one tribe (Levite) and they had to be without defect. Everything you are referring to is before the start of the church, before the resurrection a...

@KimberleeJayneW @MikeWingerii Good questions. 1. Church discipline is not something done by the elders as so many seem to think. There is no explicit elder involvement in Matt 18:15-20. They could be one or more of the witnesses, but not necessari...

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@noahbergmann_ @TomWarlord @Revelation_14_7 @Eric_Conn Was Paul’s letter written only to the male elders in Corinth? Really? “To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, saints by calling, *with all...

Wolfe wants all SBC churches to be complementarian. He equates this with conservative values and upholding scripture, but it’s just his interpretation of secondary issues that he wants to force on all. This is not a gospel issue. It should not divi...