Men and Women Aren't as Predictable As We've Been Led to Believe
I've got a premarital counseling couple in front of me. They're bickering because one of them is always bringing up their feelings about their problems, and the other one is always trying to solve the other one's problems.
In your mind, which one is a man and which one is a woman?
Ezekiel, Husbands, and Christ
New Testament authors routinely took Hebrew Bible metaphors and redeemed them by re-reading and reinterpreting them through the lens of
The one time "authority" is used to describe marriage relationships
Conservative Christians love to obsess over who has the authority in a marriage between a man and a woman. They'll tell you about Ephesians 5 and Colossians 3. They'll talk about headship and wives submitting and the metaphor of Christ and the church.
Misused Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:12 "I do not permit a woman to teach"
There's a significant portion of the church that believes that women are not allowed to teach. Maybe they
Misused Scripture: Ephesians 5:23 "The husband is the head of the wife"
Headship ≠ Leadership
Setting the Record Straight
Last time I talked about how Ephesians 5:22 needs to be read in
Misused Scripture 6: Ephesians 5:21-22 "Wives Submit To Your Husbands"
If you've been around conservative Christians long enough, you've probably encountered the idea of "Biblical
Yes, Women Wrote the Bible
If you’ve ever looked at the “We Believe” statements on church websites, you’ll often come across a line
5 Things the Bible Does Not Say About Women and Wives
That they have one set of roles and men have another.
So God created humankind in his image
in the
