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@onegospel2021 @MikeWingerii Pathetic? This is not about sin. It is secondary, like Calvinism. Where is a godly woman teaching truth or pastoring ever called a sin? Where is it listed in any list of sins? Your claim is thoroughly and completely unju...

@onegospel2021 @MikeWingerii Pathetic? This is not about sin. It is secondary, like Calvinism. Where is a godly woman teaching truth or pastoring ever called a sin? Where is it listed in any list of s

@ncksmith @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Mike sees male-only leadership as simply a matter of ordained order. He learns from women theologians, behaves in an egalitarian manner towards decision making with his wife, and is generally wanting women to pa...

@ncksmith @Crystalisives @MikeWingerii Mike sees male-only leadership as simply a matter of ordained order. He learns from women theologians, behaves in an egalitarian manner towards decision making w

@JonKismetCalvin @peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Mike still listens to women which is great. He just thinks that God wants there to be an authority ranking between male and female and only males...

@JonKismetCalvin @peace_got @ScottCross_8 @pastherandie @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii Mike still listens to women which is great. He just thinks that God wants there to be an author

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Ok, now I'm curious. I'd really like to understand your position. So only men can be pastors and leaders, so their is a hierarchy between leaders and congregants, right? Then only leaders can exer...

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Ok, now I'm curious. I'd really like to understand your position. So only men can be pastors and leaders, so their is a hierarchy between leaders a

@pastherandie @peace_got @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii As I was looking for another church, I asked the pastor if he was ok with someone who is egalitarian. Would he allow me to lead in some capacity or would I never lead anything. He said the latter, ...

@pastherandie @peace_got @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii As I was looking for another church, I asked the pastor if he was ok with someone who is egalitarian. Would he allow me to lead in some capacity or

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Not true. My last church had a mix of comp and egal. They only allowed men as lead pastor. I didn't agree with it, but tolerated it as a secondary issue. Egal is NOT the central issue. If it bothered m...

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Not true. My last church had a mix of comp and egal. They only allowed men as lead pastor. I didn't agree with it, but tolerated it as a secondary issue

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii We also have a plurality of

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii We also have a plurality of elders who are all at the same level serving UNDERNEATH the body. They subject themselves and their desires to serve th

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii You don't believe in hierar

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii You don't believe in hierarchical authority? I thought you believed only men have authority in the church and only men can be leaders. Did I read

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Egalitarians don't believe

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Egalitarians don't believe the Biblical model is hierarchical authority. You can't presume your model on us.

@peace_got @JollyStine @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii You can't just keep restating like a dog with a bone. There is no imperative in there, Paul doesn't use the usual word for authority⎯in fact, its a word only used about 8 times in antiquity ...

@peace_got @JollyStine @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii You can't just keep restating like a dog with a bone. There is no imperative in there, Paul doesn't use the usual word for authority⎯in fact

@peace_got @JollyStine @LaMonsterMom @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Ok, let's say that you and your church only have men in leadership. Will that make you happy? Or do you have to squeeze all egal...

@peace_got @JollyStine @LaMonsterMom @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Ok, let's say that you and your church only have men in leadership. Will that

@ThomasPurell @ScottCross_8 @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii What a

@ThomasPurell @ScottCross_8 @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii What authority do you exercise over your wife uniquely? You win every argument but you are just ‘nice’?

@peace_got @JollyStine @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii The great commission doesn’t have the word “gospel” in it. Read it again. You believe women can make disciples of all nations (no restriction ...

@peace_got @JollyStine @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii The great commission doesn’t have the word “gospel” in it. Read it again. You believe women

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Of course you c

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Of course you can take authority that you were not given. That’s on you though.

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Also you only h

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Also you only have what God has expressly given and he has not given the husband authority over his wife except related to the equal au

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Please give me

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Please give me examples of when you exercise authority in your home. If you have authority but don’t exercise it then what does that me

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii You said she has authority

@peace_got @pastherandie @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii You said she has authority over men. That’s what she was responding to.

@pastherandie @peace_got @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Bizarre how she presumes he

@pastherandie @peace_got @bezalelplace @MikeWingerii Bizarre how she presumes her own view on you. Egalitarians don’t believe we take authority over each other. Bizarre…

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii No, it’s not that because Deborah was the authority over the nation of Israel that women can be pastors but it demonstrates that being in authority over men as th...

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii No, it’s not that because Deborah was the authority over the nation of Israel that women can be pastors but it d

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii I like Mike and have been listening for years. But he’s quite wrong on this one—which is actually fine, until he called all egalitarians to repent of their teaching and all comps and wo...

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii I like Mike and have been listening for years. But he’s quite wrong on this one—which is actually fine, until he called all egalitarian

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Great so you ar

@peace_got @ymmotrojam @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Great so you are egalitarian then? Or do you still believe your husband and pastor can arbitrarily “take authority” over you at will?

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii That idea that

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii That idea that a woman has the freedom to correct and rebuke and teach men except on Sundays between the hours of 10am and noon is just

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii So on Sunday he

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii So on Sunday he can teach authoritatively but on the weekday he just says “It’s my opinion”? Is that how this works?

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Haha! 😂 So why is God so worried about 2 hours on Sunday and not all the times people are teaching throughout the week? Even @MikeWingerii says that any time there is a service which m...

@ymmotrojam @peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Haha! 😂 So why is God so worried about 2 hours on Sunday and not all the times people are teaching throughout the week? Even @MikeWing

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii When you misrea

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii When you misread Paul’s intent by his words, then yes, you are making things up and binding people to them. https://t.co/ZQizsThBcj

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii So then Mike is

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii So then Mike isn’t pastoring nearly 700,000 viewers?

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Where is a godly woman forbidden from pastoring or teaching truth to others (inside or outside the church) including men? You literally are just making up rules because your bias is bli...

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Where is a godly woman forbidden from pastoring or teaching truth to others (inside or outside the church) including men? You literally

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Except that rul

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Except that rule is something men made up. That’s not what Paul said.

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Because God did

@peace_got @JosiahHawthorne @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @MikeWingerii Because God didn’t forbid women to pastor. There’s no need to obey man made rules.

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii So you

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii So you agree? Maybe think of her as the Supreme Court of the land. Highest authority over God’s people.

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeW

@peace_got @ScottCross_8 @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii You are completely making that up. Where does the Bible say that the men were weak? And even if God called wome

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Avoid Deborah because she shows a woman can be the voice of God to everyone in the theocracy of Israel before there was kings? Right….you are just pointing to how important sh...

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Avoid Deborah because she shows a woman can be the voice of God to everyone in the theocracy of Israel before there was kings?

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii You are treating egalitarians as though they are teaching equity. We don’t think it’s about equal outcomes. We just don’t think it’s a sin that a woman can lead. Just need one ...

@peace_got @5pur5y @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @pastherandie @MikeWingerii You are treating egalitarians as though they are teaching equity. We don’t think it’s about equal outcomes. We just don’t thin

@_enigmafic_ @deweese_abram @MikeWingerii Where did Abram go? Abram said if my calling goes against scripture than my calling isn’t from God. But what appears to be disobeying God could be what’s wrong… You honesty think it’s a sin for a godly woma...

@_enigmafic_ @deweese_abram @MikeWingerii Where did Abram go? Abram said if my calling goes against scripture than my calling isn’t from God. But what appears to be disobeying God could be what’s wro

@peace_got @pastherandie @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii I

@peace_got @pastherandie @JollyStine @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii I have sat under teachers for many years and never once thought that the preacher’s job was to take authority over me! I m

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @ScottCross_8 @MikeWingerii The history of the church post New Testament is not an authority. It may be a consideration but everything tests back to scripture. If you claim they understood scripture better than we can, ...

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @ScottCross_8 @MikeWingerii The history of the church post New Testament is not an authority. It may be a consideration but everything tests back to scripture. If you cl

@ReformedRant @CherylSchatz @AVER735 @MikeWingerii You have to actually demonstrate the claim that God gave Adam authority over Eve in creation. Any scholar would reject what? There is no evidence from the interactions between God, Adam, Eve and t...

@ReformedRant @CherylSchatz @AVER735 @MikeWingerii You have to actually *demonstrate* the claim that God gave Adam authority over Eve in creation. Any scholar would reject what? There is no evidence

@peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Order means ti

@peace_got @JoanBandy @CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Order means time sequence not hierarchy of authority. I mean animals were made before Adam and they don’t rule him. The Jews were firs

@JoeVFarmer @Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii I think this should imply a level of maturity and knowledge in handling issues in the church. But the idea of the greatest being the one who is the slave of all should be a central tenet of biblical...

@JoeVFarmer @Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii I think this should imply a level of maturity and knowledge in handling issues in the church. But the idea of the greatest being the one who is the

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Gal 3:26 says all are “sons”—even Mike noted this. It may be why he is a “next life egalitarian” (my understanding of what I believe he said) as somehow he concludes there’s a requirement to have authority over...

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Gal 3:26 says all are “sons”—even Mike noted this. It may be why he is a “next life egalitarian” (my understanding of what I believe he said) as somehow he conc

Gal 3:26 debate

@TheInvisibleDan @MikeWingerii Yes, Mike says how loudly because he’s explaining that telling leadership is not enough. Suggesting friends leave too is important. Ok so let’s say Mike tells 3 friends and they all leave and they tell 3 friends and so...

@TheInvisibleDan @MikeWingerii Yes, Mike says how loudly because he’s explaining that telling leadership is not enough. Suggesting friends leave too is important. Ok so let’s say Mike tells 3 friends

@William34772026 That's close but doesn't quite fit all the details. Paul says in 1Ti 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct "certain people" not to teach "strange doctrines." The grammar in 1Ti 2:12 is singular and v14's "the w...

@William34772026 That's close but doesn't quite fit all the details. Paul says in 1Ti 1:3 that he wanted Timothy to remain in Ephesus to instruct "certain people" not to teach "strange doctrines." Th

1Ti 1:3 1Ti 2:12 debate

@Torncurtainorg @914Ann @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Doesn't mean authority. https://

@Torncurtainorg @914Ann @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Doesn't mean authority. https://t.co/8jcwsOdeoY

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii That that CEO stuff is how the world runs things. That's not how the church is supposed to work. Mutuality, willingly serving each other with the gifts God has given. You got the right word, but you think it ha...

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii That that CEO stuff is how the world runs things. That's not how the church is supposed to work. Mutuality, willingly serving each other with the gifts God has

Eph 5:21 debate

@CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii Whew! Thank goodness you escaped the inspired English KJV-O crowd. They are so legalistic about this translation it's crazy. Mark Ward wrote a fantastic book on this topic... "Authorized: The Us...

@CharmyRosewolf @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii Whew! Thank goodness you escaped the inspired English KJV-O crowd. They are so legalistic about this translation it's crazy. Mark Ward wrote a fa

Eph 5:21 1 Cor 7:4 debate

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Eph 5:21 covers that. It’s mutual…check the Greek. 1 Cor 7:4 shows the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, the only instance of gender authority and it’s …equal: "The wife does not have authority...

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Eph 5:21 covers that. It’s mutual…check the Greek. 1 Cor 7:4 shows the husband doesn’t have authority over his own body, the only instance of gender authority

@Torncurtainorg @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Sure but what right d

@Torncurtainorg @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Sure but what right do you have to prohibit her from working or leading in any context? What if she is a wealthy widow and has the time and m

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You think it’s a bad example? Why? Becau

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii You think it’s a bad example? Why? Because it clearly demonstrates that a woman having authority over men is a sin? Barak was never criticized for submitting t

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Maybe I’ll repeat myself more slowly so it sinks in as I think you still don’t get this. There only needs to be ONE WOMAN. One. With authority. Over the king and all the people. In a theocracy. So that prove...

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Maybe I’ll repeat myself more slowly so it sinks in as I think you still don’t get this. There only needs to be ONE WOMAN. One. With authority. Over the king

Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-11

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Her authority was not as a priest but as

@Torncurtainorg @AWoytuik @MikeWingerii Her authority was not as a priest but as the mouthpiece of God to the king and the people. Moses wasn’t a priest either…