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?
New Testament authors routinely took Hebrew Bible metaphors and redeemed them by re-reading and reinterpreting them through the lens of Christ. In my church'
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.
There's a significant portion of the church that believes that women are not allowed to teach. Maybe they can teach kids or other
Headship ≠ Leadership Setting the Record Straight Last time I talked about how Ephesians 5:22 needs to be read in the context of the verse
If you've been around conservative Christians long enough, you've probably encountered the idea of "Biblical manhood and womanhood" or
If you’ve ever looked at the “We Believe” statements on church websites, you’ll often come across a line like this: “The Holy Bible
That they have one set of roles and men have another. So God created humankind in his image in the image of God he created