It is not an absolute surrender of her will. Submission refers to a wife’s divine calling to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership and help carry it through according to her gifts. Question 5: What do you mean by submission (in question 4 )? (See chapter 13 in Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.) The husband is to model the loving, sacrificial leadership of Christ, and the wife is to model the glad submission offered freely by the church. We believe the Bible teaches that God means the relationship between husband and wife to portray the relationship between Christ and His church. Question 4: What about marriage? What did you mean (in question 1 ) by “marriage patterns that do not portray the relationship between Christ and the church”? Moreover, the Biblical connection between family and church strongly suggests that the headship of the husband at home leads naturally to the primary leadership of spiritual men in the church. The fifth, six and ninth chapters of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood present detailed exegetical support for why we believe these texts give abiding sanction to an eldership of spiritual men. The most explicit texts relating directly to the leadership of men in the church are Question 3: Where in the Bible do you get the idea that only men should be the pastors and elders of the church? So it is unbiblical, we believe, and therefore detrimental, for women to assume this role. That is, men should bear primary responsibility for Christlike leadership and teaching in the church. We are persuaded that the Bible teaches that only men should be pastors and elders. Question 2: What do you mean (in question 1 ) by “unbiblical female leadership in the church”? (See the Rationale section of the Danvers Statement.) We believe that what is at stake in human sexuality is the very fabric of life as God wills it to be for the holiness of His people and for their saving mission to the world. But today it is esteemed lightly and is vanishing like the rain forests we need but don’t love. God’s gift of complementary manhood and womanhood was exhilarating from the beginning (Genesis 2:23). patterns of unbiblical female leadership in the church that reflect and promote the confusion over the true meaning of manhood and womanhood. homosexual tendencies and increasing attempts to justify homosexual alliances (see question 41).parenting practices that do not train boys to be masculine or girls to be feminine.marriage patterns that do not portray the relationship between Christ and the church (Ephesians 5:31-32).Biblical truth and clarity in this matter are important because error and confusion over sexual identity leads to: We are concerned not merely with the behavioral roles of men and women but also with the underlying nature of manhood and womanhood themselves. Question 1: Why do you regard the issue of male and female roles as so important? All of the questions and answers are available on-line from the menu below.
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