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Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Additional practical questions: interviewing women, women on church boards, women evangelists, conference speakers, voting for a woman president, women as bosses, stay-at-home dads.

Scope of practical questions raised by this debate

gender roles practical application women in leadership

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Video 3 will cover women in leadership in the Old Testament, including Deborah and egalitarian surveys of female leadership.

Series overview and roadmap

Judges Linda Belleville Deborah women in OT leadership

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-07

Video 4 will address women in the New Testament: women as apostles, elders, deacons, and teachers, including the Junia question.

Series overview and roadmap

women deacons Junia women apostles

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-14

Mike limits his analysis to husbands and wives, not all men and women; he will disagree with many complementarians on this. Preview of next video: women in OT leadership positions.

Scope limitation and series preview

women in OT leadership husband-wife scope series preview

Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

NT Wright on Romans 16: women as church leaders and Phoebe as letter bearer

Continuation of Wright's argument about Romans 16.

Romans 16 Romans 16:1-2 Junia N.T. Wright Romans 16

Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Church history: women had distinct ministry roles (baptism assistance, anointing); called deacons

Mike provides historical context for women's active ministry.

deaconess history women's baptism ministry anointing ministry

Mike Winger idea 2022-04-13

Fishing analogy: egalitarians reel in 'false positives' for women in leadership

Mike uses an analogy to describe the egalitarian evidence pattern.

false positives in exegesis egalitarian evidence critique

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-09

Apostle must mean highest leadership for egalitarian argument to work

Mike emphasizes a key logical requirement of the egalitarian argument.

apostolic authority apostolos

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-09

Option 1: Junia as highest-sense apostle (like Peter or Paul)

Mike examines the strongest possible egalitarian reading.

Romans 16:7 Junia apostolic authority Romans 16:7

Mike Winger idea 2022-05-09

Mike identifies equivocation in Wright's argument about apostle

Mike charges Wright with a logical fallacy.

Mary Magdalene N.T. Wright equivocation fallacy

Mike Winger idea 2022-06-20

Contemporary relevance: SBC debate on women in leadership

Mike notes the timing of his series coincides with a major denominational debate.

Southern Baptist Convention women in leadership debate contemporary relevance

Mike Winger idea 2022-07-18

Closing prayer: submission to God's word on marriage and church roles regardless of cultural pressure

Mike closes with prayer emphasizing trust in Scripture above cultural norms.

submission to Scripture cultural pressure closing prayer

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Both egalitarians and complementarians can learn from surveying OT women in leadership; complementarians tend to minimize these women.

Setting up the survey of OT examples

John Piper John Piper Deborah complementarianism

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

The OT records events in a very patriarchal culture — leaders are almost always men.

Initial perspective for approaching OT evidence

Old Testament women patriarchal culture

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

In their culture it was embarrassing that a woman beat Sisera — glory to Jael, shame to Barak — but this is not God's commentary against women leaders.

Interpreting the shame in the Barak-Jael narrative

Barak Jael male leadership

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Isaiah 3:12 — 'women rule over them' — used by patriarchalists to argue women as rulers is always bad in God's eyes.

Examining a key patriarchalist proof text

Isaiah 3:12 patriarchalism Isaiah 3:12 women as rulers

Mike Winger idea 2022-03-28

Don't base a view on an unclear passage — Isaiah 3:12 can be explained in either egalitarian or complementarian ways; Mike rejects the Davidic lineage/genetic argument.

Final assessment of Isaiah 3:12

Isaiah 3:12 hermeneutics biblethinker.org Isaiah 3:12

Additional practical questions: interviewing women, women on church boards, women evangelists, conference speakers, voting for a woman president, women as bosses, stay-at-home dads.

Video 3 will cover women in leadership in the Old Testament, including Deborah and egalitarian surveys of female leadership.

Video 4 will address women in the New Testament: women as apostles, elders, deacons, and teachers, including the Junia question.

Mike limits his analysis to husbands and wives, not all men and women; he will disagree with many complementarians on this. Preview of next video: women in OT leadership positions.

NT Wright on Romans 16: women as church leaders and Phoebe as letter bearer

Church history: women had distinct ministry roles (baptism assistance, anointing); called deacons

Fishing analogy: egalitarians reel in 'false positives' for women in leadership

Apostle must mean highest leadership for egalitarian argument to work

Option 1: Junia as highest-sense apostle (like Peter or Paul)

Mike identifies equivocation in Wright's argument about apostle

Contemporary relevance: SBC debate on women in leadership

Closing prayer: submission to God's word on marriage and church roles regardless of cultural pressure

Both egalitarians and complementarians can learn from surveying OT women in leadership; complementarians tend to minimize these women.

The OT records events in a very patriarchal culture — leaders are almost always men.

In their culture it was embarrassing that a woman beat Sisera — glory to Jael, shame to Barak — but this is not God's commentary against women leaders.

Isaiah 3:12 — 'women rule over them' — used by patriarchalists to argue women as rulers is always bad in God's eyes.

Don't base a view on an unclear passage — Isaiah 3:12 can be explained in either egalitarian or complementarian ways; Mike rejects the Davidic lineage/genetic argument.

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