Status Updates From Neither Complementarian nor...

Hierachy was also present among Jesus's followers, where status was determined by the lenght and degree of each person's association with Jesus.

Paul warns that if anyone destroys God's holy temple, God will destroy that person (1 Cor. 3:17) Causing division in the church is a desecration of God's temple. 😥🤔

The Bible’s primary call to women is the same as its call to men: “Follow Me.” ... it's not about roles but Christ-like character 💓

Is more time and energy spent trying to establish male authority and leadership or wrestling with what that might actually look like since Christ talked about the first being last and leaders being slaves?
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Historian have noted that throughout American history, public thought and religious life have consistently impacted each other, and evangelicals are not expeption. 😥

Egual opportunity in ministry was a "biblical principle" because "the God who created the sexes did not discriminate between them."
---- The unfairness of a churc order that limited ministry opportuniteis for women was seen to deny their full personhood in Christ. 🤔

Finley believed church should "never rest until...every form of iniquity (should) be driven from the earth.

Charles Finney's theology>>> his belief that every Christian must be "useful." For Finney, whose ideas had a profound impact on reforms such as the Grimkes, salvation entailed turning from selfishness to benevolence, which would be manifested in good works.💪

As Hardesty observed, "What women really want is a choice."

"The women's movement...encouraged me to appropriate the freedom for which Christ has set us free (Gal.5:1) 🔥

The proper perspective, therefore, is not to ask whether one can still sin but to see implications of being someone who has been freed from the power of sin through Christ and how this impacts one's desires and goals.
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To see grace in terms of what it allows one to do (i.e., to sin) is to live according to the old mind-set.

As Tannen and George have noted, there are significant limitations in assuming thate the truth of an issue is to be found in one of two sides.

parachurch organizations had been formed to support each position:
* CBMW /The Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood >>> representing complementarians AND
* CBE/ Christians for Biblical Equality >>> representing egalitarians