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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-06-03

🧵 It seems @Brian_Sauve has the secret to solve all problems in the church. 🤯 You see, if you have only male leaders, all the problems just go away. 🙄 Brian thinks that if women are part of the team, that requires a “parallel system” to be constru...

🧵 It seems @Brian_Sauve has the secret to solve all problems in the church. 🤯 You see, if you have only male leaders, all the problems just go away. 🙄 Brian thinks that if women are part of the tea

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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 2024-05-31

@Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Not in the way that is being prop

@Reformed_Zoomer @MolderAnna26649 @Brian_Sauve Not in the way that is being proposed because we have leaders like Deborah and it seems it’s more of an issue for you than for them. But the church has n

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-31

@TonyMor52435077 @masonmennenga If we sat down for coffee, I could tell you stories about church behaviour, that of leaders and pastors. Again, my point is not that there are people failing—there are many, but that this is not the basis on which I b...

@TonyMor52435077 @masonmennenga If we sat down for coffee, I could tell you stories about church behaviour, that of leaders and pastors. Again, my point is not that there are people failing—there are

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-29

@ChristMount777 @JoWiKi Unity of the body is also very important. More important than you getting your way in everything or your own personal comfort. Your church may have only male leaders but cooperating with others that have female leaders means t...

@ChristMount777 @JoWiKi Unity of the body is also very important. More important than you getting your way in everything or your own personal comfort. Your church may have only male leaders but cooper

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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

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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

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-05-17

@coramdeo1 @NateSchlomann I’ve been a member at a church with which I had disagr

@coramdeo1 @NateSchlomann I’ve been a member at a church with which I had disagreements with on secondary issues. Is dividing over secondary issues only something that applies to leaders and not to t

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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 2024-05-04

@chopchopcda_ Does a husband have the authority to tell his wife to shut up duri

@chopchopcda_ Does a husband have the authority to tell his wife to shut up during a conflict? If the husband is to love his wife as Christ loves His church, where did Christ tell His church to "shut

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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 2024-04-26

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Women not serving as leaders is not established BIBLICA

@GetoD6812 @pastherandie Women not serving as leaders is not established BIBLICAL doctrine. I may not be welcome in the Orthodox Church, but that doesn't mean you should treat me as an unbeliever for

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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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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-24

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley When it comes to male only leadership and teachers, I a

@ronhenzel @AleahPursley When it comes to male only leadership and teachers, I and my wife can live at peace within this framework, but if it bothers us too much, certainly we can find another church

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-24

@pastherandie @bibleradioapp Yes, the idea that the husband and the wife are bot

@pastherandie @bibleradioapp Yes, the idea that the husband and the wife are both slave masters makes no sense. They are both servant leaders which that analogy doesn’t represent.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-23

@bibleradioapp It’s a give and take much of the time. On some things we just don

@bibleradioapp It’s a give and take much of the time. On some things we just don’t move forward until we have agreement. Leadership teams with multiple equal leaders have always existed. If you only

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-23

@ronhenzel This is not necessarily true. As an egalitarian, I believe I am following inspired scripture more closely than when I was a comp. That said, if the belief is that the Bible is clearly against women in leadership and one purposely goes aga...

@ronhenzel This is not necessarily true. As an egalitarian, I believe I am following inspired scripture more closely than when I was a comp. That said, if the belief is that the Bible is clearly agai

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-04-10

@MikeJGreiner @MikeWingerii I'm pretty sure that if we sat down and I asked you the questions raised by the text, I would have a faithful exegesis treating everything written as inspired and you would be left scratching your head with no answers and ...

@MikeJGreiner @MikeWingerii I'm pretty sure that if we sat down and I asked you the questions raised by the text, I would have a faithful exegesis treating everything written as inspired and you would

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-31

@scottspeig If it was just a salvific issue then Greeks, slaves and women (v28)

@scottspeig If it was just a salvific issue then Greeks, slaves and women (v28) would all be barred from leadership roles as those would only belong to Jewish males.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-30

@LynnCDell2 @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @peace_got @MikeWingerii How did I respond to the leadership? The only person that had any issue was my own pastor from Canada who was afraid that I might have been perceived as usurping th...

@LynnCDell2 @ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @peace_got @MikeWingerii How did I respond to the leadership? The only person that had any issue was my own pastor from Canada who was afra

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-30

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @peace_got @MikeWingerii Tom, so Jesus words only lasted for a very short time? Although He already had apostles he didn’t mention them or leadership of any kind, so his words were merely a suggestion ...

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @peace_got @MikeWingerii Tom, so Jesus words only lasted for a very short time? Although He already had apostles he didn’t mention them or leadership o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-30

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeW

@ymmotrojam @ronhenzel @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @peace_got @MikeWingerii So no mention of apostles or leadership? Again, what’s missing? Are you saying following what Jesus said is not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-29

@FreeAme19691836 @subq @MikeWingerii Sounds good, Russell. The great commission is to make disciples and teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded his disciples. That doesn’t preclude dealing with divisive issues and helping people to know what s...

@FreeAme19691836 @subq @MikeWingerii Sounds good, Russell. The great commission is to make disciples and teach them to obey everything Jesus commanded his disciples. That doesn’t preclude dealing with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-25

@JustinPickerel @MikeWingerii Justin, respectfully—no. Everyone has something incorrect. We need to be convinced that we are wrong, and this is a secondary doctrine just like Calvinism. Mike thinks it has greater impact because in his opinion it affe...

@JustinPickerel @MikeWingerii Justin, respectfully—no. Everyone has something incorrect. We need to be convinced that we are wrong, and this is a secondary doctrine just like Calvinism. Mike thinks it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-24

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland Where are women forbidden from Se

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland Where are women forbidden from Serving as leaders and pastors?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-24

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland Are women supposed to submit to n

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland Are women supposed to submit to not taking leadership roles in church? Are women supposed to submit to male only pastors (since there are no female past

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-24

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland The complementarian argument is t

@TheMuppetPastor @ScottCross_8 @GinaACleveland The complementarian argument is that because of biological differences, women are to submit to men (not mutually) and are not to hold leadership roles. T

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-24

@biblemarriages @kgaugelo_N @SupermomShayla If that was the case, polygamy would be encouraged in the New Testament. Rather, it is clearly not encouraged. Monogomy is a requirement for leaders. And for all, in the context of asceticism and the probl...

@biblemarriages @kgaugelo_N @SupermomShayla If that was the case, polygamy would be encouraged in the New Testament. Rather, it is clearly not encouraged. Monogomy is a requirement for leaders. And f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-24

@ymmotrojam Let’s remind ourselves about the oral traditions of the Jewish leaders. “And He said to them, ‘Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: “This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me. ...

@ymmotrojam Let’s remind ourselves about the oral traditions of the Jewish leaders. “And He said to them, ‘Rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: “This people honors Me with

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-23

@kgaugelo_N @SupermomShayla God tolerated polygamy in the Old Testament. The clear ideal is monogamy. Polygamy creates problems and marriage to one spouse is hard enough without competition and feeling like your husband has split affections and perha...

@kgaugelo_N @SupermomShayla God tolerated polygamy in the Old Testament. The clear ideal is monogamy. Polygamy creates problems and marriage to one spouse is hard enough without competition and feelin

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-22

@ymmotrojam @Happy_AHeathen @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Ok, let me rephrase, you are the one who believes the Bible is forbidding, just like the Pharisees and the Jewish leaders in the time of Jesus who...

@ymmotrojam @Happy_AHeathen @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Ok, let me rephrase, you are the one who believes the Bible is forbidding, just like the Pharise

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-22

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Tom, I’ll go to the church without leaders who believe that they as men are the only ones who the word came to and the only ones who the word comes forth from. I...

@ymmotrojam @CherylSchatz @JollyStine @pastherandie @ronhenzel @peace_got @MikeWingerii Tom, I’ll go to the church without leaders who believe that they as men are the only ones who the word came to a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@Torncurtainorg @AngEngland @JollyStine @DustyMayT @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7

@Torncurtainorg @AngEngland @JollyStine @DustyMayT @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Jesus also didn’t appoint Gentiles to leadership. He left a few matters for the church to work out. 😉

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@StevenMKestner If they have the requisite character, able to teach, are sound i

@StevenMKestner If they have the requisite character, able to teach, are sound in the faith and are otherwise not disqualified, and they have the desire, then yes. Scripture does not forbid someone f

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@Torncurtainorg @ScottCross_8 @JollyStine @DustyMayT @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii In addition to Scott's question, my question is why the physical aspect of protection has anything to do with leadership in church. Women have the instinc...

@Torncurtainorg @ScottCross_8 @JollyStine @DustyMayT @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii In addition to Scott's question, my question is why the physical aspect of protection has anything to do

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@Torncurtainorg @DustyMayT @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingeri

@Torncurtainorg @DustyMayT @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Just not as leaders of the church, right?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@DustyMayT @Torncurtainorg @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Mike says he is a soft complementarian but he doesn't like using the word soft as he thinks it does affect all of life even outside of church and family. However, he be...

@DustyMayT @Torncurtainorg @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Mike says he is a soft complementarian but he doesn't like using the word soft as he thinks it does affect all of life

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@carmony_bryce Huh? There's a lot of protestant churches that forbid women from

@carmony_bryce Huh? There's a lot of protestant churches that forbid women from any leadership roles... just so you are aware.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-20

@Torncurtainorg @DustyMayT @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Now you are saying senior leadership. That’s a nice change. My previous church did this too. It takes complementarians time to catch up and many believe that as long as...

@Torncurtainorg @DustyMayT @JollyStine @Crystalisives @Gabe_Torrez7 @MikeWingerii Now you are saying senior leadership. That’s a nice change. My previous church did this too. It takes complementarians

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-19

@SwordMasterPub @Trish_NI Leadership roles are roles of submitting to serve the

@SwordMasterPub @Trish_NI Leadership roles are roles of submitting to serve the needs of others by helping them mature in Christ. They are not "lording over" roles. And, BTW, the function of episkopē

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @JollyStine @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Nope. Noth

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @JollyStine @pastherandie @MikeWingerii Nope. Nothing in scripture is being rejected. If you think male only leaders is orthodox then you have already clearly strayed fro

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii No. The church only has one head, that is Christ. The Waldensiens had female leaders and they were pre-Luther. But that doesn’t matter because you are making this a game about majority vote ...

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii No. The church only has one head, that is Christ. The Waldensiens had female leaders and they were pre-Luther. But that doesn’t matter becau

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@haymes_joshua For me this has nothing to do with culture and everything to do w

@haymes_joshua For me this has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with a careful reading of the intent of scripture. I’m not a progressive. Only women can give birth and men are built mo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-16

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii If you think that egalitarians are saying that men are supposed to have babies, then no wonder you reject it. It’s a straw man. We believe men and women are complementary too, and they comp...

@ThomasPurell @sailemptyskies @andrewjritchie @MikeWingerii If you think that egalitarians are saying that men are supposed to have babies, then no wonder you reject it. It’s a straw man. We believe

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@jhkrantz @pastherandie @ronhenzel @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul gives the proper order for dealing with false doctrine. A properly functioning leadership will curb false teaching by gently dealing with it. As...

@jhkrantz @pastherandie @ronhenzel @Christ_like_ish @JollyStine @peace_got @ymmotrojam @MikeWingerii Paul gives the proper order for dealing with false doctrine. A properly functioning leadership will

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@peace_got @iheartJ37 @JollyStine @pastherandie @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii But the priesthood is not the highest authority in the theocracy. It was leaders like Moses. Deborah was like the Moses of her time...

@peace_got @iheartJ37 @JollyStine @pastherandie @Robert_S_Morley @MargMowczko @CharmyRosewolf @JoanBandy @MikeWingerii But the priesthood is not the highest authority in the theocracy. It was leaders

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-15

@IceBucketsIBCM I'm not resisting God's word, though I do disagree with the complementarian version which has women being prohibited from places of leadership or "authoritative teaching" (whatever exactly that is...I think Mike thinks this is the tea...

@IceBucketsIBCM I'm not resisting God's word, though I do disagree with the complementarian version which has women being prohibited from places of leadership or "authoritative teaching" (whatever exa

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2024-03-14

@MikedAlamo @HannahJasmine13 @MikeWingerii Right, it’s your church. But I’m a man and I’m asking what you would restrict me from in your church given I believe the scripture is egalitarian in the involvement of women in leadership. I can live at peac...

@MikedAlamo @HannahJasmine13 @MikeWingerii Right, it’s your church. But I’m a man and I’m asking what you would restrict me from in your church given I believe the scripture is egalitarian in the invo

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