![]() ![]() Mixed-gender groups are led by both a man and woman. Men lead men’s groups, and women lead women’s groups. Gender-specific groups are led by a leader of the same gender. Groups Within Home Groups, Institute Cohorts, Student Ministry, Steps and Recovery Groups Men teach men’s environments, and women teach women’s environments. Gender-specific teaching environments are taught by a leader of the same gender. These men should seek out, equip and utilize gifted men and women to help lead, teach and shape these ministries. Mixed-gender teaching environments are overseen by elders and will be led by qualified men. Her own church adheres to what they call “ A generous complementarianism” and outlines standards for teachers in: “Teaching Environments in the Institute, High School, Ministry, Steps and Recovery Groups:” It grieves me to say this, but Jen Wilkin is a hypocrite. HypocrisyĮaston’s Bible Dictionary defines hypocrisy as “One who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not a dissembler in religion.” Yet she also pushes hard at programmatizing female leadership in the church without necessarily defining the nature of that leadership (narrow). She is unafraid to fill in the blanks on “Men are _” and “Women are _” and builds her argument for single-sex learning environments off of those differences. Source, Joshua week 3: Rahab Redeemed, from Flower Mound Women’s Bible Study | Podbay 2014Įven the liberal-ish 9Marks notes a concern with Wilkin’s version of complementarianism,įor instance, writer and speaker Jen Wilkin talks at length about design differences (broad). You know why? Because the very first step in degrading someone, objectifying someone is to look at them and say ‘not like me’. You know what God’s first word on men and women is? NOT ‘they are different’, THEY ARE THE SAME. She shall be called ‘like me’ because she is from me. ![]() She shall be called woman, from the word ish, which is ‘from man’. When he sees Eve he says she is like me, bone of my bone flesh of my flesh. She tells what Adam is thinking,Īs he sees all the animals he is thinking ‘not like me’. I’ll just give you the highlights really fast. I want to remind you tonight of the very first word on gender in scripture, and it occurs in Genesis chapter 1 and in chapter 2. One extreme is, men & women are completely interchangeable, and the other extreme is completely mutually exclusive, that they share nothing in common. We feel like we have to choose between two extremes. There’s a lot of chaos in the culture right now surrounding gender. We’ve lost a foundational thing that is really important for us believers. … The argument goes that in order for women to reach their full potential, and in order to have less cases of abuse, they must be allowed to fill preaching and teaching roles in the church. A major push in the SBC over the last few years has been toward women preaching in the main Sunday morning service. They are equal before God but each has his or her specific roles in the family, church, and society at large. In his essay reviewing the Christian documentary By What Standard, here, he said,Ĭomplementarianism is the Biblical understanding that men and women complement one another. We have “narrow/ broad complementarianism.” And then there’s egalitarianism. We have “generous complementarianism.” We have “hard complementarianism”. These days we have a confused understanding of what the doctrine of complementarianism is. In part 2 I took a look at Mrs Wilkin’s now-infamous menstruation eisegesis lesson, and this part 3 I will look at whether she actually lives out her proclamation that she is a complementarian woman, some other discernment issues, and conclude part 3 with a look at what the Lord means when He says do not move the boundary stones. In Part 1 I introduced this three-part series with some of the things I enjoy about Jen Wilkin, and also discussed how I go about reviewing a nationally known teacher’s doctrine, teaching, and lifestyle. ![]()
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