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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-23

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God doesn't forbid. We need those differences for a tru...

@StylesMcFiles @MikeWingerii I don't hate the differences that God designed into male and female. Assuming an inner motive of hatred is not cool. I just don't think we should be forbidding what God d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-14

@BahBahBased @smashbaals I am convinced by scripture that women are not excluded

@BahBahBased @smashbaals I am convinced by scripture that women are not excluded from serving as elders or pastoral work like counselling or leadership roles.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@MikeWingerii Not for church leadership. Question: can you show a case where an

@MikeWingerii Not for church leadership. Question: can you show a case where an unbeliever with two wives is forced to divorce one if he becomes a Christian?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-10

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Being the head can mean being first or given priority. It doesn’t therefore mean authority over like a master/slave. “To the Jew first then the Gentile” means the Jew is the head. Tha...

@alhakim120000 @squidgy201 @OldPhilos @UniqueBeing2024 @smashbaals Being the head can mean being first or given priority. It doesn’t therefore mean authority over like a master/slave. “To the Jew firs

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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 2024-10-05

@maclellanjames @ClintHumfrey That’s a great video! If only more complementarian

@maclellanjames @ClintHumfrey That’s a great video! If only more complementarians treated women as complementary counterparts in leadership and ministry.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-10-05

@ClintHumfrey I fail to see how there are categories being created outside of th

@ClintHumfrey I fail to see how there are categories being created outside of the Bible’s. The category is leadership, not “male” leadership.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-23

@PeterThreshwood @smashbaals When the focus is on the building the leadership an

@PeterThreshwood @smashbaals When the focus is on the building the leadership and church becomes distracted with doing what they were called to do. The focus on buildings started with Constantine.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-07

@CylonSaysNo @Synaptic_Rabbit @masonmennenga That’s quite convenient that the Roman Catholic leadership gave themselves sole rights to interpreting scripture. In scripture, what do we see? 1. We see the Bereans testing what Paul the apostle said ag...

@CylonSaysNo @Synaptic_Rabbit @masonmennenga That’s quite convenient that the Roman Catholic leadership gave themselves sole rights to interpreting scripture. In scripture, what do we see? 1. We see

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-06

@BoilerLevi @KaeleyT As an egalitarian, I’ve gotten along well in complementarian churches, though maybe it’s because my wife doesn’t feel led to preach or join the elders. Some comp churches won’t allow me to join the leadership team just for disagr...

@BoilerLevi @KaeleyT As an egalitarian, I’ve gotten along well in complementarian churches, though maybe it’s because my wife doesn’t feel led to preach or join the elders. Some comp churches won’t al

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-06

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul, the problem is that the texts used to support male exc

@KaeleyT @pauldirks Paul, the problem is that the texts used to support male exclusiveness for certain things like preaching, teaching men and other leadership roles are being misinterpreted.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-23

“A wife submitting to her husband is honouring his role as the loving head of th

“A wife submitting to her husband is honouring his role as the loving head of the family and taking a posture that acknowledges, encourages and follows his leadership in both words and actions as the

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-05

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen You are certainly free to believe th

@WagnerJere47288 @humanvideogamer @RenOfMen You are certainly free to believe that if you’d like. BTW, anyone who lives how they ought is leading those around them to follow. Your view of leadership

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-08-01

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-31

@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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

@prodigalsonpost @samuel_costner @WokePreacherTV It's hard to explain the entire

@prodigalsonpost @samuel_costner @WokePreacherTV It's hard to explain the entire letter in one post, though perhaps I should do that sometime. Paul gives directions on how to deal with false teachers

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-10

Jesus explains that leadership is serving and not about being served (which is h

Jesus explains that leadership is serving and not about being served (which is how the world sees leadership). Mt 20:25-28: "But Jesus called them to Himself and said, ‘You know that the rulers of th

Mt 20:25-28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-06

I find this statement from @MikeWingerii revealing. When someone says a woman cannot be a man I think of immutable differences not leadership. How do comps see the command for both to rule and women made in God’s image as limiting on women from auth...

I find this statement from @MikeWingerii revealing. When someone says a woman cannot be a man I think of immutable differences not leadership. How do comps see the command for both to rule and women

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-05

@slow_down_Jess I have a local pastor who says I am semi-pelagian but he still sees me as a brother in Christ. He just won’t allow me to ever be in leadership…like not even in 20 years kind of thing. He’s a pretty strong Calvinist, so I don’t think t...

@slow_down_Jess I have a local pastor who says I am semi-pelagian but he still sees me as a brother in Christ. He just won’t allow me to ever be in leadership…like not even in 20 years kind of thing.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-07-02

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden where Eve was made from and for Adam. Both were com...

@Unashamed_Chuck I believe that Paul’s use of the Greek word kephale is not about authority or leadership but has to do with the source relationship between the husband and the wife coming from Eden w

Ge 1:28 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-25

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals And effeminate is the man taking care o

@DWorldviews @_JacobLovelace @smashbaals And effeminate is the man taking care of the household tasks while the wife works? Allowing her to co-lead the family? Sharing leadership with women in church?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-19

@JasonClark829 @smashli1228 @BenZeisloft I don't think Ben is a 'fake Christian'

@JasonClark829 @smashli1228 @BenZeisloft I don't think Ben is a 'fake Christian' because he is convinced that scripture requires male-only leadership.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

RT @kenschenck: I affirm women in all roles of ministry leadership on the follow

RT @kenschenck: I affirm women in all roles of ministry leadership on the following basis: 1. Women arguably play every such role in Scrip…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-18

@Vincent98V @slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale I think I’ll let God dec

@Vincent98V @slow_down_Jess @cjohnsonn0311 @_AndrewHale I think I’ll let God decide if he is going to kick me out of heaven because I shared the leadership of the family together with my wife. BTW, al

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-17

@Flyoverland22 1Co 14:34-35, 1Co 11:1-16, 1Ti 2:11-15,3:1-13, etc all have reasonable explanations showing how these are not forbidding women or enforcing gender hierarchy or gender roles in church leadership. This is certainly not an issue where one...

@Flyoverland22 1Co 14:34-35, 1Co 11:1-16, 1Ti 2:11-15,3:1-13, etc all have reasonable explanations showing how these are not forbidding women or enforcing gender hierarchy or gender roles in church le

1Co 11:1-16 1Co 14:34-35 1Ti 2:11-15 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-16

@jin_484 @Oneantifem Those differences are essential to leadership. To discount the way that women lead and refuse to work together with them as leaders means they don’t benefit from men and men don’t benefit from women. You also must not be married...

@jin_484 @Oneantifem Those differences are essential to leadership. To discount the way that women lead and refuse to work together with them as leaders means they don’t benefit from men and men don’t

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-16

@Eric_Conn But the oldest position is that of Jesus and the apostles—mutual subm

@Eric_Conn But the oldest position is that of Jesus and the apostles—mutual submission and equal opportunity for both men and women to serve in any leadership roles or as teachers and preachers.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-15

@FreeAme19691836 @Eric_Conn While it has certainly not been the popular view and

@FreeAme19691836 @Eric_Conn While it has certainly not been the popular view and the vast majority have refused women leadership roles in the church, here's a couple slides from a presentation Craig K

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-15

Further, there are egalitarian churches who are absolutely obeying God’s command

Further, there are egalitarian churches who are absolutely obeying God’s commands. They have studied and see how it’s not a sin for a woman to be in leadership. They see how no one is explicitly state

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This underscores the critical role of Scripture in the life a...

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This unders

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-14

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This underscores the critical role of Scripture in the life a...

@BenjaminGi44877 @sandye000 @Eric_Conn Paul’s purpose is to ensure that Timothy, as a “man of God,” is fully equipped and prepared for every good work, fulfilling his ministry effectively. This unders

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@BrandonGra53760 @kodysamnanveth @rofbethany Is this what you are referring to? - So there are hard and fast role boundaries not to be crossed by the husband and wife? - The wife submits to the husband's leadership which implies that the wife does no...

@BrandonGra53760 @kodysamnanveth @rofbethany Is this what you are referring to? - So there are hard and fast role boundaries not to be crossed by the husband and wife? - The wife submits to the husban

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@Grump_Old_Man @DBryanRhodes @ronhenzel @Gates_of_Derry @CalebDixonSmith Complementarians exist in quite a range. My last church only prevented women from the lead pastor role. Some prevent women from any leadership role. Others prevent them from ser...

@Grump_Old_Man @DBryanRhodes @ronhenzel @Gates_of_Derry @CalebDixonSmith Complementarians exist in quite a range. My last church only prevented women from the lead pastor role. Some prevent women from

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-12

@smashbaals Which is why we should not forbid women from serving in whatever capacity and gifting that God gives them! We should not be needlessly dividing Jesus’ church over these secondary matters. One church has male only leadership and another ...

@smashbaals Which is why we should not forbid women from serving in whatever capacity and gifting that God gives them! We should not be needlessly dividing Jesus’ church over these secondary matters.

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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 2024-06-09

@Grump_Old_Man @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @smashbaals Again, you presume things: 1. That equal opportunity must mean we should see equal representation of M/F 2. That the NT explicitly names all pastors/elders 3. That God designates leadership to b...

@Grump_Old_Man @Robert_S_Morley @ronhenzel @smashbaals Again, you presume things: 1. That equal opportunity must mean we should see equal representation of M/F 2. That the NT explicitly names all pas

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-09

@silentrnajority @russle_p2 I’ve been debating this issue because it is an issue affecting many women in the church. It also affects men who support women in leadership as 3 local churches I was interested in wouldn’t let me ever be a leader because ...

@silentrnajority @russle_p2 I’ve been debating this issue because it is an issue affecting many women in the church. It also affects men who support women in leadership as 3 local churches I was inter

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-07

@ronhenzel @megbasham Yes, it is enough for my own church to have female leaders

@ronhenzel @megbasham Yes, it is enough for my own church to have female leadership without the world watching my brothers tell them it is so wrong that we can’t cooperate. Some witness that is. The

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-07

@ronhenzel @megbasham No. Things got whacky during covid and I got forced out of

@ronhenzel @megbasham No. Things got whacky during covid and I got forced out of the leadership essentially for sharing my views about vax mandates in the church.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-06

@pastordmack King David also did some bad things. The felony conviction is clearly biased. I’m Al for separation of church and state. And for competent leadership. When the bad leaders are trying to crucify the opposition it’s like they are telling ...

@pastordmack King David also did some bad things. The felony conviction is clearly biased. I’m Al for separation of church and state. And for competent leadership. When the bad leaders are trying to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-04

@dantheman278 @Thygar @MikeWingerii That’s a reasonable definition I can agree with. And that’s why women and men need to work together in leadership. It makes for decisions that have less blind spots, a more diverse set of skills and strengths among...

@dantheman278 @Thygar @MikeWingerii That’s a reasonable definition I can agree with. And that’s why women and men need to work together in leadership. It makes for decisions that have less blind spots

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-04

@MikeWingerii I also find it interesting how those who advocate for male-only leadership in the church label themselves 'complementarians.’ This term suggests inclusion of both due to the complementarity of strengths rather than excluding women. I...

@MikeWingerii I also find it interesting how those who advocate for male-only leadership in the church label themselves 'complementarians.’ This term suggests inclusion of both due to the complement

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-01

@Reformed_Zoomer @j_robert_kirk @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Leading her into what? The faith? If she is more spiritual than you, you must lead her? Is that how church leadership is determined? No consideration of gifting or skill, just what’s in on...

@Reformed_Zoomer @j_robert_kirk @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Leading her into what? The faith? If she is more spiritual than you, you must lead her? Is that how church leadership is determined? No co

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-24

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn Do you have a scripture that says that men ruling is a blessing? Again, you are taking Is 3:12 out of its context. God’s judgment was to take all the faithful out of Israel leaving the incompetent and unfaithful...

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn Do you have a scripture that says that men ruling is a blessing? Again, you are taking Is 3:12 out of its context. God’s judgment was to take all the faithful ou

Is 3:12 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-24

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn If you are “going off scripture” then where does scripture say anything negative about Deborah’s leadership? You are interpreting and spinning it that way but that is not what scripture says. Isa 3 is not at all...

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn If you are “going off scripture” then where does scripture say anything negative about Deborah’s leadership? You are interpreting and spinning it that way but tha

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-22

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn The authority to rule over creation was given by God to both the man and the woman in Ge 1:28. Ge 3:16 is God speaking to Eve about what will happen not God commanding Adam to rule over his wife. The idea of male...

@KillmanBuck @JoInAthensGa @Eric_Conn The authority to rule over creation was given by God to both the man and the woman in Ge 1:28. Ge 3:16 is God speaking to Eve about what will happen not God comma

Ge 1:28 Ge 3:16 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-09

#SBC's decision to amend in June could oust self-governing, Biblically faithful Baptist churches like FBCA that have had female leaders for 100 years and cooperated with SBC for ages. Putting debatable issues like women in leadership into a statemen...

#SBC's decision to amend in June could oust self-governing, Biblically faithful Baptist churches like FBCA that have had female leaders for 100 years and cooperated with SBC for ages. Putting debatab

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-29

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The idea of gender-roles is not something that the Bible introduces. The differences are what make mixed male-female leadership teams more effective. Women think differently and men tend to get stuck in linear thi...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham The idea of gender-roles is not something that the Bible introduces. The differences are what make mixed male-female leadership teams more effective. Women think d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-29

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham These are differences of bodily functions and no one is suggesting that a father should become a mother or a mother should become a father. We are simply asserting that there are no Biblical restrictions on leade...

@PastorRobMonroe @KaeleyT @megbasham These are differences of bodily functions and no one is suggesting that a father should become a mother or a mother should become a father. We are simply assertin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-24

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie First, God commanded the woman to rule, so ruling creat

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie First, God commanded the woman to rule, so ruling creation is not a sin. Leadership is not a sin. Desiring to be an overseer is a good thing.

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