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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was single) or male but it certainly means monogamous...

@Gates_of_Derry @colinsmo Someone who advocates for plural marriages is clearly doing something that is not promoted in the New Testament. 1Ti 3:2 can’t mean that an overseer must be married (Paul was

1Ti 3:2 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@HuLatimer @colinsmo It’s false teaching and practice to have a godly woman teac

@HuLatimer @colinsmo It’s false teaching and practice to have a godly woman teach or pastor? Hogwash! The truth doesn’t depend on which vessel speaks it.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Do you interrupt your pastor when he is speaking

@Michael26576616 @oliverburdick Do you interrupt your pastor when he is speaking?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-12

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would

@smashbaals Many women agree that they should not be pastors or elders and would vote for only men to be pastors. Many men like myself believe that women can be elders and pastors. Why do you think

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

RT @KaeleyT: Quite pleased that enough people in the SBC are discerning enough t

RT @KaeleyT: Quite pleased that enough people in the SBC are discerning enough to reject the proposed ban on female pastors three years in…

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@smashbaals The SBC is not God nor the Bible. The Bible doesn’t have a problem w

@smashbaals The SBC is not God nor the Bible. The Bible doesn’t have a problem with godly women who are able to teach the truth from serving as pastors and teaching truth to anyone. The Bible has a p

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-11

@megbasham Why is this wonderful news? Why should the issue of female pastors be

@megbasham Why is this wonderful news? Why should the issue of female pastors be in any statement of faith? We shouldn't be separating from other churches because we disagree on secondary issues.

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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 2025-06-10

@50ten3 @dalepartridge Today it’s all about the pastor. It reminds be a bit of s

@50ten3 @dalepartridge Today it’s all about the pastor. It reminds be a bit of some things that were already in the church at Corinth who were following individuals… see 1Cor 1…. “I follow Paul…” or “

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@50ten3 @dalepartridge I see. Well, earlier in 1Cor 14 it says that if another p

@50ten3 @dalepartridge I see. Well, earlier in 1Cor 14 it says that if another prophet has something to share the first should be silent. So maybe if the pastors followed this and were silent if someo

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-10

@smashbaals God would be glorified if they stopped being so divisive about churc

@smashbaals God would be glorified if they stopped being so divisive about churches in their fellowship that have female pastors and start focusing on things that actually matter.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-06

@baptistvibes So Paul was not lord over anyone? Being lord only applies within f

@baptistvibes So Paul was not lord over anyone? Being lord only applies within families? Elders are not lords?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Yes, elders and pastors and overseers all require the

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Yes, elders and pastors and overseers all require the same things and are basically the same function. It is not about headship. Where is an elder referred to as the head of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@jsrrayburn @wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii I see. Please give me an example of w

@jsrrayburn @wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii I see. Please give me an example of what authority your elders have over you that any other believer doesn’t. Authority means that you have to do what they s

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii You misunderstand me. I never once asserted female headship. Female leaders and elders, yes. Headship refers to something else in scripture in most contexts. If it was primary for the faith it would be in the creeds. We do...

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii You misunderstand me. I never once asserted female headship. Female leaders and elders, yes. Headship refers to something else in scripture in most contexts. If it was prim

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii The text and the description shows she was a leader and that she was directing others. They were to accept her, and to give her help. Why? Because she has been the benefactor of many people. This is a per...

@wife2sirhusband @BronWen727104 @MikeWingerii The text and the description shows she was a leader and that she was directing others. They were to accept her, and to give her help. Why? Because she has

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-05

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Male only eldership was not in the creeds and confessions. Read the Nicene creed again. That modern churches are doing it doesn’t make it a core doctrine. It is not a core doctrine and that’s why it should not be called he...

@DavePellowe @MikeWingerii Male only eldership was not in the creeds and confessions. Read the Nicene creed again. That modern churches are doing it doesn’t make it a core doctrine. It is not a core

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-04

@wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii There are no commands about a hierarchy of author

@wife2sirhusband @MikeWingerii There are no commands about a hierarchy of authority between the husband and wife or between an elder and any other Christian. The authority is in the Word of God not a

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-06-02

@tybobeam @MikeWingerii Is this man an overseer or just someone giving a speech?

@tybobeam @MikeWingerii Is this man an overseer or just someone giving a speech?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-31

No one should have ever made it a matter of a confession of FAITH that only male

No one should have ever made it a matter of a confession of FAITH that only males can be elders. That’s where the division started for the SBC. Wolfe is an agent of that seed of division sown years

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 Please go back to the New Testamen

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 Please go back to the New Testament, not church history. List for me specific individuals who are called pastor, elder or overseer.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are believing (so they have to mature sufficiently to be ab...

@JamesPelton18 @Calebclind231 @autocorrect2_0 I think you are mistaken. Think about it. 1Ti 3 also seems to suggest that an overseer must be a married man with more than one child all of who are belie

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-26

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 James, please provide me a list of people explicitly identified as pastor or elder or overseer in the New Testament. What I am looking for is the name of a person and a statement clearly identifying them ...

@Calebclind231 @JamesPelton18 @autocorrect2_0 James, please provide me a list of people explicitly identified as pastor or elder or overseer in the New Testament. What I am looking for is the name of

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an el

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann I see. In that case, is Paul qualified to be an elder given he is unmarried and has no physical children?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann Where are you getting that from? Pastors (poimen)?

@MissionaryJC3 @NateSchlomann Where are you getting that from? Pastors (poimen)? Which males are specifically called poimen in the New Testament?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-25

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann Do you think you are my ruler too? If you were my

@JonByers186054 @NateSchlomann Do you think you are my ruler too? If you were my elder, what authority would you have over me? Would you excommunicate me for believing that women are equal counterpart

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-22

@revjeffvox @FailingPastor Unless you are just reading the Bible, we are getting

@revjeffvox @FailingPastor Unless you are just reading the Bible, we are getting what you or the pastor thinks.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@MikeWingerii What I encountered is a termination w/o cause (official statement)

@MikeWingerii What I encountered is a termination w/o cause (official statement) and used a non-disparagement clause for both parties before releasing severance. When asked why the pastor was let go,

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@StevenG57428175 Well, the idea that only baptized males can be deacons or priests or bishops has a few problems. 1. Believers are called a kingdom of priests (1Pe 2:5,9; Re 1:6;5:10;20:6). There is no longer a building that is a temple but each bel...

@StevenG57428175 Well, the idea that only baptized males can be deacons or priests or bishops has a few problems. 1. Believers are called a kingdom of priests (1Pe 2:5,9; Re 1:6;5:10;20:6). There is

1Pe 2:5 Re 1:6 debate
Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant its only men and then ignores it is in dangerous sit...

@Forms_Respecter You cannot attach ordaining someone who is ostensibly living in sinful life with a woman who's only sin is that she is teaching truth as an elder. Yes, someone who says Paul meant it

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen and obey? Why can women teach other women and ch...

@JonByers186054 @_Nosoup4you__ What does "in a position of authority" mean? The scripture is the authority. Can the pastor tell me something other than what scripture already says and I have to listen

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Forms_Respecter When people get baptized, do you think that they should have to

@Forms_Respecter When people get baptized, do you think that they should have to acknowledge Jesus as Lord...and that elders must only be males? If not, then how is this primary? Will all those who th

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-20

@Bigfoot_253 These are not fundamentals of the faith. When you get baptized, you

@Bigfoot_253 These are not fundamentals of the faith. When you get baptized, you don't say, "I believe in Jesus as Lord...and that only men can be elders." Only the essentials are put in the creeds.

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine The requirements for elder are character qualifications and ability to teach, not whether you are male, female, Jewish, Gentile, married, single, short, tall, young or old, single, widowed, rich or poor. Paul's purpose was to stop the ...

@LovesSardine The requirements for elder are character qualifications and ability to teach, not whether you are male, female, Jewish, Gentile, married, single, short, tall, young or old, single, widow

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine Wow. So why didn’t God say “All female pastors will find their par

@LovesSardine Wow. So why didn’t God say “All female pastors will find their part in the lake of fire”? Wouldn’t that be clear?

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@ChrisGalanek @subq PS> You seem to be presbyterian. I happen to know others

@ChrisGalanek @subq PS> You seem to be presbyterian. I happen to know others in the PCA and they are very hostile to those who think women can be pastors. If you changed your view, you may be in se

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@Bigfoot_253 What do you mean? They missed this for 2000 years? It's a fundament

@Bigfoot_253 What do you mean? They missed this for 2000 years? It's a fundamental of the faith. "I believe in Jesus, fully God and fully man, born of a virgin, died on a cross...and in male only past

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@LovesSardine If someone believes they are following scripture, how is that pride? I believe scripture encourages those who have the appropriate character and ability and desire to serve as overseers⎯they desire a good thing! You cannot presume the ...

@LovesSardine If someone believes they are following scripture, how is that pride? I believe scripture encourages those who have the appropriate character and ability and desire to serve as overseers⎯

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JackmanRobert That said, no where in scripture is a woman "forbidden" to be a pastor/elder/overseer. You are obviously reading this into the text. We don't have anything like that "an elder must not be a woman" for example. 1Ti 3:2 is using the male...

@JackmanRobert That said, no where in scripture is a woman "forbidden" to be a pastor/elder/overseer. You are obviously reading this into the text. We don't have anything like that "an elder must not

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JackmanRobert I agree that elders are pastors in scripture. Overseer / elder / pastor are used interchangeably. I don't see elders are rulers of a church either, though them all meeting together to discuss matters of doctrine is wholly consistent wi...

@JackmanRobert I agree that elders are pastors in scripture. Overseer / elder / pastor are used interchangeably. I don't see elders are rulers of a church either, though them all meeting together to d

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@NateSchlomann 1) I think I can agree with you. So I'd like you to show me where God clearly "commands" that an elder must not be a woman. 2) Nature (ie. animals) teaches that some animals dominate others. So we are to follow what the animals do? Ho...

@NateSchlomann 1) I think I can agree with you. So I'd like you to show me where God clearly "commands" that an elder must not be a woman. 2) Nature (ie. animals) teaches that some animals dominate o

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 What do you mean by "position of authority over a congregation"? What authority does the pastor have over you? What does he tell you to do that someone else couldn't? I'm genuinely curious. Also...we test against scripture not agains...

@JonByers186054 What do you mean by "position of authority over a congregation"? What authority does the pastor have over you? What does he tell you to do that someone else couldn't? I'm genuinely cur

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 And notice that 1Ti 3 speaks of children (plural) and infers that they are believing. Does that mean you are not qualified to be an elder until you have at least two children old enough to choose to believe for themselves? Paul also did...

@JoeAdrian256 And notice that 1Ti 3 speaks of children (plural) and infers that they are believing. Does that mean you are not qualified to be an elder until you have at least two children old enough

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 I referenced 1Co 7 because Paul clarifies that he is single and advocates for others to desire to be single which would mean that if they all followed his advice, there would be no elders whatsoever! But see, you note as I did "...but *...

@JoeAdrian256 I referenced 1Co 7 because Paul clarifies that he is single and advocates for others to desire to be single which would mean that if they all followed his advice, there would be no elder

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Not one female elder or pastor in 2000 years? You're kidding, ri

@JonByers186054 Not one female elder or pastor in 2000 years? You're kidding, right? More than half of the underground church leadership in Iran is female. But my first question is for you to show me

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JonByers186054 Wait, hang on, where is it in God's law that a woman cannot be an elder or leader? How is it that God chose Deborah to be the judge of all Israel and its prophet? Leading others to teach truth and lead others into the truth⎯regardles...

@JonByers186054 Wait, hang on, where is it in God's law that a woman cannot be an elder or leader? How is it that God chose Deborah to be the judge of all Israel and its prophet? Leading others to te

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 The interesting thing is that many feel that a married man being a

@JoeAdrian256 The interesting thing is that many feel that a married man being a pastor to a single woman which is frequently problematic isn't a problem also. The way to resolve this of course is to

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@JoeAdrian256 Thanks for continuing to discuss. I appreciate you pushing back and clarifying your position again. "...a married woman to be a pastor to one man..."⎯this is a curious framing of what I'm saying. I'm actually saying the person doesn't ...

@JoeAdrian256 Thanks for continuing to discuss. I appreciate you pushing back and clarifying your position again. "...a married woman to be a pastor to one man..."⎯this is a curious framing of what I

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@StandAndKnox Paul simply connected this wife who was deceived and her husband (

@StandAndKnox Paul simply connected this wife who was deceived and her husband (not deceived and silent, likely an elder) with the situation in Eden where Adam was informed and silent and only Eve was

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Scripture Commentary tweet 2025-05-19

@dale621 @StandAndKnox Even Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies (circa 180) doesn't

@dale621 @StandAndKnox Even Irenaeus’ work Against Heresies (circa 180) doesn't claim that female elders is a heresy.

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