HOW TO BEHAVE IN GOD'S HOUSEHOLD, THE LOCAL CHURCH - PART 2 (27 OF 44)
How to Behave in God's Household, the Local Church - Part 2 (27 of 44)
Series: The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
1 Timothy 2:8-15
Introduction
Our passage this morning is a puzzling one; it's a potentially offensive one; it's one that has certainly be misused and abused to demean women; meanwhile it's a passage that has more recently been ignored or dismissed as purely cultural and irrelevant to today's church. Beyond, however, these extremist views of misogynistic patriarchy and liberal feminism, even evangelicals have found themselves split over how best to understand Paul's instruction on women. Scholars and pastors who very much love the Lord and believe the Scripture is the trustworthy, inspired Word of God have taken contrarian views of this passage and of the wider issues of the role of women in the home and in the church.
Now, of course, we touched upon this subject back in October with our study of Ephesians 5. There I argued that what Paul and the rest of Scripture teach is that God created men and women to possess distinct roles in the marital relationship, but that those roles are to be oriented toward the mutual blessing and sanctification of the other. I argued for a stewardship understanding of the husband and wife where the wife is to recognized the God-ordained and given stewardship that the husband has been given over the wife and family, but the husband is to recognize the God-ordained and given stewardship that the wife has been given to bless her husband and children. Contra egalitarianism, I argued that Scripture does define distinct roles for the husband and wife, but contra complementarianism I argued that the husband ought not be viewed as the wife's authority but instead her means of blessing and sanctification.
1 Timothy 2 raises this issue once more, but in a different arena. Rather than looking at the place and role of women in the home, we look at the pla ...
Series: The Church at Ephusus: God's Calling, Empowering, and Instruction for the Church
Patrick Edwards
1 Timothy 2:8-15
Introduction
Our passage this morning is a puzzling one; it's a potentially offensive one; it's one that has certainly be misused and abused to demean women; meanwhile it's a passage that has more recently been ignored or dismissed as purely cultural and irrelevant to today's church. Beyond, however, these extremist views of misogynistic patriarchy and liberal feminism, even evangelicals have found themselves split over how best to understand Paul's instruction on women. Scholars and pastors who very much love the Lord and believe the Scripture is the trustworthy, inspired Word of God have taken contrarian views of this passage and of the wider issues of the role of women in the home and in the church.
Now, of course, we touched upon this subject back in October with our study of Ephesians 5. There I argued that what Paul and the rest of Scripture teach is that God created men and women to possess distinct roles in the marital relationship, but that those roles are to be oriented toward the mutual blessing and sanctification of the other. I argued for a stewardship understanding of the husband and wife where the wife is to recognized the God-ordained and given stewardship that the husband has been given over the wife and family, but the husband is to recognize the God-ordained and given stewardship that the wife has been given to bless her husband and children. Contra egalitarianism, I argued that Scripture does define distinct roles for the husband and wife, but contra complementarianism I argued that the husband ought not be viewed as the wife's authority but instead her means of blessing and sanctification.
1 Timothy 2 raises this issue once more, but in a different arena. Rather than looking at the place and role of women in the home, we look at the pla ...
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