Maria’s Reviews > Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate > Status Update

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."