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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-09-27

@TebzSmith @Vee851010577151 @dalepartridge That’s because the religious leaders didn’t let them in. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not e...

@TebzSmith @Vee851010577151 @dalepartridge That’s because the religious leaders didn’t let them in. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of

Mt 23:13 general

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.

@TebzSmith @Vee851010577151 @dalepartridge That’s because the religious leaders didn’t let them in. "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not e...

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

@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...

@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...

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

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

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

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii And in the process I worked hard to prevent others

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I didn’t tell you the whole story, I just wanted t

@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 In the example you give, you seem to be saying that if a group of leaders all agree on something (whether right or wrong), you have to listen and only if you can find a bishop or governing body over the leaders can you a...

@ravensfoodblog @MikeWingerii I submit to any and all church leaders so much as

@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...

@Kevin_OrthoSP @WayLay18848 @rebelsquadron01 @smashbaals The church 'fathers' mostly seem to have an issue with female leaders. No surprise there. I just think they are wrong purely based on scripture. You think the church fathers are 100% correct i...

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

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

@MikeWingerii Lewis rightly pointed out that pride could be the ‘great sin.’ This applies as much to those inside the church as outside. It’s crucial church leaders ensure they lead with humility and not fall into the trap of pride, thinking they are...

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...

@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...

@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...

@harduppp @RevKimWChafee @TxPlainZoomer @LaMonteMom @Tibbetburritoo @IAmNOTALao

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

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

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

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

@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 It would seem that in holding to what they believe the scriptures to teach they are invoking a male domination and blessing it with “its scriptural”—and worse, if you don’t agree you are in rebellion to God and need to repent. This de...

@Flyoverland22 Jesus’ reason for choosing 12 Jewish males as his 12 apostles wasn’t communicated. It would be equally bad to presume that no Gentiles should be leaders because the first 12 were only Jewish or to limit to the first 12 when Jesus clear...

@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...

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

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

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

@MarshallAarron @ronhenzel No. You can keep your church with male only leaders b

@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 underscores the critical role of Scripture in the life a...

@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...

@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...

@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 ...

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

@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...

@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 ...

@Grump_Old_Man If God’s intent was to accept Gentiles fully and have them being pastors and leaders and preachers, why wouldn’t he have captured one Gentile sermon? See how this works Grumpy? Name anyone who is called pastor? How about anyone spec...

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

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

@Wisdom2Lead @pastordmack Consequences for sin in leaders are clear.

@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 ...

@StephenStaedtl1 @baste_goblin @DelaKram75 And not even 1% of all believers are

@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...

@MegaChurchMouse Curious you chose a verse in a passage that commends a bunch of female leaders. Question for you: could someone in a Pentecostal church quote the same verse if you try to correct their egalitarian teaching (that they have learned fo...

@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...

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