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Scripture Commentary article 2006-07-02

Is There A Law That Forbids Women From Teaching Men

> Q: Isn’t there a law in 1 Timothy 2:11-15 that forbids women from teaching the Bible to men. Why are you disregarding this law

1 Timothy 2:11-15 Deuteronomy 19:15 Esther 1 1 Timothy 2
Scripture Commentary article 2006-03-11

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> Women in Ministry: Silenced or Set Free. ” as a whole is a very well produced and presented multi-media teaching series on the legitimacy and freedom of women to be in any ministry that God should call them to

1 Timothy 2 Women in Leadership Complementarianism
Scripture Commentary tweet 2026-02-13

@ronhenzel @CauseToKnow @RBM7211 @stablecross You and I are claiming to believe the same scriptures so it’s our explanation that is the debate. So if we have all the contingencies you noted: - the preached gospel - gift of faith - sovereign acts of ...

@ronhenzel @CauseToKnow @RBM7211 @stablecross You and I are claiming to believe the same scriptures so it’s our explanation that is the debate. So if we have all the contingencies you noted: - the pr

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-16

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Where does scriptu

@BeardedPresby @FoundersMin @tomascol @GundenGraham @davemitz Where does scripture state that only men are given this gift? The gifts are never restricted by male/female, or by ethnicity or by rich or

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-01

@AttorneyBrand God gifts those in the church for the edification of all. Excludi

@AttorneyBrand God gifts those in the church for the edification of all. Excluding half of the church from being able to edify the church limits the overall reach and effectiveness of the church in it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-11-01

@AttorneyBrand Aside from no longer prohibiting those whom the Holy Spirit equips and selects, it is for the very reasons why complementarians use to disqualify them: women bring different gifting and approaches which men tend to lack or be weak in. ...

@AttorneyBrand Aside from no longer prohibiting those whom the Holy Spirit equips and selects, it is for the very reasons why complementarians use to disqualify them: women bring different gifting and

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-10-03

@HvacRoar24011 Read it again..."they are beloved on account of the fathers" and

@HvacRoar24011 Read it again..."they are beloved on account of the fathers" and "for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable" -- Tell me, when was the gift and calling of God on the jews revoked

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-20

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst “Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy” (1Co 14:1) This is addressed to the whole church, not just men. Shouldn’t women pursue love and spiritual gifts? If they desire to p...

@ymmotrojam @MattSmethurst “Pursue love, yet earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy” (1Co 14:1) This is addressed to the whole church, not just men. Shouldn’t women pu

1Co 14:1 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Now if we look at 1Ti 3:1-7, we see: - Nothing forbidding women from serving, - Nothing forbidding singles or the childless, - There aren’t even any male pronouns. So I fail to understand why people forbid qualified, gifted ...

@robotcop1984 @sola_chad Now if we look at 1Ti 3:1-7, we see: - Nothing forbidding women from serving, - Nothing forbidding singles or the childless, - There aren’t even any male pronouns. So I fail

1Ti 3:1-7 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-13

@ronhenzel Ron, thanks for the reply. It’s been a while. I want to clarify what I meant: There is not one instance in the New Testament where an individual is directly called by the title pastor (ποιμήν). Eph 4:11 uses the noun ποιμένας (pastors) in...

@ronhenzel Ron, thanks for the reply. It’s been a while. I want to clarify what I meant: There is not one instance in the New Testament where an individual is directly called by the title pastor (ποι

Eph 4:11 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-09

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The purpose of the gathering is not to worship. It is not a temple where offerings are made to God and God is worshipped by following rituals. The purpose of the gathering is VERY clear from 1Cor 1...

@carol66944 @KennethOrtiz @BronWen727104 @Paula_333 The purpose of the gathering is not to worship. It is not a temple where offerings are made to God and God is worshipped by following rituals. The

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-07-06

@Prov_Standards There is no hierarchy for leadership because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. Leaders are only those who demonstrate by example and are gifted and capable of teaching what was passed onto them, and correcting error. The auth...

@Prov_Standards There is no hierarchy for leadership because we are all brothers and sisters in Christ. Leaders are only those who demonstrate by example and are gifted and capable of teaching what wa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-30

@MoonfireArt @rightresponsem Why doesn’t Paul say “so that those of you who are selected to proselytize like me”? Instead he says all people: “Yet I wish that all people (πάντας ἀνθρώπους, all people) were even as I myself am. However, each has his ...

@MoonfireArt @rightresponsem Why doesn’t Paul say “so that those of you who are selected to proselytize like me”? Instead he says all people: “Yet I wish that all people (πάντας ἀνθρώπους, all people

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-27

@PeterNDecker @ModChristChurch @sister_slay What you are describing is clearly grace + works. In the Bible, faith is contrasted with works. Grace is a gift given to every single human but it must be accepted. If you are human, you qualify! Faith is ...

@PeterNDecker @ModChristChurch @sister_slay What you are describing is clearly grace + works. In the Bible, faith is contrasted with works. Grace is a gift given to every single human but it must be a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Preaching isn’t what was done in the church but what was done out in the crowds. The church is meant to use its gifts for the mutual edification of each other. Church today doesn’t look like the church in the NT, but not ...

@MarqueStuddock @smashbaals Preaching isn’t what was done in the church but what was done out in the crowds. The church is meant to use its gifts for the mutual edification of each other. Church toda

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@colinsmo Don’t you think your time would be better spent dealing with actually false teaching rather than chasing after which vessel is doing the teaching? So long as a person is of godly and exemplary character and sound in the faith and gifted to ...

@colinsmo Don’t you think your time would be better spent dealing with actually false teaching rather than chasing after which vessel is doing the teaching? So long as a person is of godly and exempla

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals What matters is not what specific body that God gifts and enables to serve Him, but that this person is of godly character and has the ability to teach and teaches the truth. That one is male or female is itself not the p...

@truth_john_14_6 @smashbaals What matters is not what specific body that God gifts and enables to serve Him, but that this person is of godly character and has the ability to teach and teaches the tru

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Leadership is about serving the team, not about authority over the team members. When it becomes about authority and hierarchy, it becomes about having to do what the leader wants rather than the leader organizing and he...

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Leadership is about serving the team, not about authority over the team members. When it becomes about authority and hierarchy, it becomes about having to do what the lea

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Why do you think nothing gets done? We all have th

@yallbenonsense @MikeWingerii Why do you think nothing gets done? We all have the same instruction manual. Some are gifted to serve as administrators or leaders and help organize and motivate those wh

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-24

👏 @KayArthur faithfully stewarded the teaching gift God gave her, despite restrictions in many churches due to complementarian views that barred women from leadership and ‘authoritative’ teaching. Thankfully, she did not let that silence her voice o...

👏 @KayArthur faithfully stewarded the teaching gift God gave her, despite restrictions in many churches due to complementarian views that barred women from leadership and ‘authoritative’ teaching. Th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-24

👏 @KayArthur faithfully stewarded the teaching gift God gave her, despite restrictions in many churches due to complementarian views that barred women from leadership and ‘authoritative’ teaching. Thankfully, she did not let that silence her voice o...

👏 @KayArthur faithfully stewarded the teaching gift God gave her, despite restrictions in many churches due to complementarian views that barred women from leadership and ‘authoritative’ teaching. Th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@RevBCD God is no respect or of persons and if He gifts someone and they have th

@RevBCD God is no respect or of persons and if He gifts someone and they have the requisite character and ability then they should be allowed to serve. Equal consideration is what egalitarian means.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Yes, I agree with all that, yet leaders are held to a higher standard. We are not to lay hands on someone who is new in the faith as they may become conceited. And they must be able to teach and be patient i...

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Yes, I agree with all that, yet leaders are held to a higher standard. We are not to lay hands on someone who is new in the faith as they may become conceite

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Agreed that there are certainly no ge

@carol66944 @JamesGi27467089 @MikeWingerii Agreed that there are certainly no gender-based roles. But there is the office of elder/overseer and deacon for which gifting alone is not sufficient. The in

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-05

@deadtosin610 I think this reminds us of how dependent we are on full time profe

@deadtosin610 I think this reminds us of how dependent we are on full time professional pastors. If we followed 1Cor 14 more closely, we would see the so often unused gifts the Holy Spirit has given f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-19

@WonderingBashir @ronhenzel Well let’s see—how would you like it if you were tol

@WonderingBashir @ronhenzel Well let’s see—how would you like it if you were told to be silent for your whole life and you had a gift and calling to teach or pastor?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-18

@KebRayGonzalez Yet Paul seems to desire singleness to be the norm and marriage

@KebRayGonzalez Yet Paul seems to desire singleness to be the norm and marriage the exception. “Yet I wish that *all men* were even as I myself am. However, each has his own gift from God, one in thi

1Co 7:7 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not t

@TheHustleCritic @MikeWingerii A lot has to do with pastors dominating and not truly shepherding and helping others develop in their gifting.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-02-10

@MikeWingerii And sometimes it’s men who underestimate the Holy Spirit’s gifting

@MikeWingerii And sometimes it’s men who underestimate the Holy Spirit’s gifting and choosing when it is pastoral gifts given to women and His selecting them for elders and overseers.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-27

@Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz @autocorrect2_0 This passage from Hebrews clarifies that one can be enlightened, taste the heavenly gift of salvation and become partakers of the Holy Spirit and still fall away and yes, lose what they exp...

@Rick07200430 @wichman_matthew @CherylSchatz @autocorrect2_0 This passage from Hebrews clarifies that one can be enlightened, taste the heavenly gift of salvation and become partakers of the Holy Spir

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-23

@prejoal @smashbaals In 1Co 14, Paul is admonishing everyone to seek the gifts and use them in a way that all in the church are edified. You seem to miss that Paul was quoting from the letter the Corinthians wrote and responding to or refuting things...

@prejoal @smashbaals In 1Co 14, Paul is admonishing everyone to seek the gifts and use them in a way that all in the church are edified. You seem to miss that Paul was quoting from the letter the Cori

1Co 7:1 general
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-16

@wheresurhusband @Eric_Conn I’m no beta. Why is allowing qualified and gifted wo

@wheresurhusband @Eric_Conn I’m no beta. Why is allowing qualified and gifted women to lead alongside of qualified and gifted men mean I’m beta?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-16

@Eric_Conn Every cell in my body has XY chromosomes. I have a wife and 3 adult c

@Eric_Conn Every cell in my body has XY chromosomes. I have a wife and 3 adult children. I’m a masculine man. And I still think competent gifted women should not be prevented from being leaders in th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-01-13

@smashbaals If churches want to grow, they should follow 1Co 14 and encourage al

@smashbaals If churches want to grow, they should follow 1Co 14 and encourage all to participate according to the giftings God has given them.

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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 2025-01-02

Scripture calls us to judge leaders by their character, not their gender. Women

Scripture calls us to judge leaders by their character, not their gender. Women are clearly among those who have been gifted by God and called to lead and not excluded based on their gender. Let's not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-24

@IiiPaulus @ScottRoberts That's not quite how it works. Faith is an admission of

@IiiPaulus @ScottRoberts That's not quite how it works. Faith is an admission of weakness and transference of trust to the one who is able. Faith is not a gift, salvation is. Gifts have to be accepted

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-14

In the case of complementarian (C) and egalitarian (E) differences, it can be ha

In the case of complementarian (C) and egalitarian (E) differences, it can be hard to remain in a C church that prevents you from serving how the HS is gifting. Or you may feel that your E church is

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-10

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace 1Co 14 is all about everyone desiring the gifts for the edification of all—including prophecy. No distinction was made suggesting this was only to males. The part in v34-35 is a quote from the letter from the ...

@PatrickHen1776 @AJMxya @harmonizedgrace 1Co 14 is all about everyone desiring the gifts for the edification of all—including prophecy. No distinction was made suggesting this was only to males. The p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-09

@PatrickHen1776 @harmonizedgrace We are equal partners like Adam and Eve were be

@PatrickHen1776 @harmonizedgrace We are equal partners like Adam and Eve were before the fall. Like how the NT church should see male and female—we need both as leaders as they each bring different gi

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-03

Since the authority is in the Word and not the messenger, whether the one servin

Since the authority is in the Word and not the messenger, whether the one serving as pastor is a male or female is irrelevant. Yes, it's about God's gifting. We should never limit the Holy Spirit fro

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-12-02

@wrightdjohn @ProvisionistP Is that should the same as "should not commit adulte

@wrightdjohn @ProvisionistP Is that should the same as "should not commit adultery"? So for you, it's a sin for a woman to lead even if she's theologically solid and a gifted teacher?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii Yes, your logic about being able, skilled or gifted doesn't mean we should do that thing, but you have to provide clear scriptural commands or declarations of sin in order to declare something as disallowed. Stealing is cl...

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii Yes, your logic about being able, skilled or gifted doesn't mean we should do that thing, but you have to provide clear scriptural commands or declarations of sin in order t

1Co 6:9-10 Eph 4:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-25

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii In that way of arguing, then men are gifted to lead o

@thomas1sams @MikeWingerii In that way of arguing, then men are gifted to lead other men (excluding women and children and teenagers). Last I checked, men seem to believe they get to lead everyone as

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-09

@leahtrell @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii The model is multiple elders with those who

@leahtrell @iheartJ37 @MikeWingerii The model is multiple elders with those who are gifted and qualified being recognized so that the church can go to them for help. Women having the option to go to q

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@ThomisticRednek @AnneEChisholm @FrMatthewLC The evil of excluding gifted and qu

@ThomisticRednek @AnneEChisholm @FrMatthewLC The evil of excluding gifted and qualified women from leadership does not prevail as they are able to find another church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-06

@robertbrln @ClintHumfrey I think @ClintHumfrey is ok with women teaching just not holding office of elder. But if they can teach and correct (and have the requisite character and gifting) why can’t they lead? He even thinks they can be deacons who ...

@robertbrln @ClintHumfrey I think @ClintHumfrey is ok with women teaching just not holding office of elder. But if they can teach and correct (and have the requisite character and gifting) why can’t t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-23

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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-13

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I appreciate that your desire is to submit to the scriptures. That is an excellent attitude. But is it possible that you may be misunderstanding God's req's? I agree that gifts should ...

@ThatSarahLynn @JamMom89 @Yeshua438849431 @firegirl2510 @Chad4328 I appreciate that your desire is to submit to the scriptures. That is an excellent attitude. But is it possible that you may be misund

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@JohnMoo26668690 @smashbaals @danielsilliman Refusing someone because of their ethnic origin, their socioeconomic status or whether they are male or female should have no place in the church. It should be based on gifting, character, truth, etc. You...

@JohnMoo26668690 @smashbaals @danielsilliman Refusing someone because of their ethnic origin, their socioeconomic status or whether they are male or female should have no place in the church. It shoul

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