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In "The Persistence of Patriarchy," Eggebroten writes about "the wide reach" of complementarian views of manhood and ordering doxycycline online without a precription womanhood among conservative Christians. Her article is subtitled, "Hard to ordering doxycycline online without a precription believe, but some churches are still teaching about male headship." Hard to believe?

Can anyone really be surprised that this is so? In some sense, it ordering doxycycline online without a precription might be surprising to the generally liberal readership of Sojourners, but it ordering doxycycline online without a precription can hardly be surprising to anyone with the slightest attachment to ordering doxycycline online without a precription evangelical Christianity. Nevertheless, Anne Eggebroten's article represents what I call a "National Geographic moment"-an example of someone discovering the ordering doxycycline online without a precription obvious and thinking it exotic and strange. It is like a ordering doxycycline online without a precription reporter returning from travel to a far country to explain the ordering doxycycline online without a precription strange tribe of people she found there-evangelical Christians believing what ordering doxycycline online without a precription the Christian church has for 2,000 years believed the Bible to ordering doxycycline online without a precription teach and require. So ... what is so exotic?

She begins her article at Grace Community Church in California, where, in her words, "God is ordering doxycycline online without a precription male, all the pastors, deacons, and elders are male, and women are ordering doxycycline online without a precription taught to live in submission to men." That is ordering doxycycline online without a precription a snappy introduction, to be sure, but it requires some unpacking. When Eggebroten says that, at this ordering doxycycline online without a precription well-known evangelical church "God is male," she is ordering doxycycline online without a precription echoing the arguments of the late radical feminist Mary Daly, who ordering doxycycline online without a precription famously asserted that "if God is male, then male is God." At Grace Community Church, as in the ordering doxycycline online without a precription Bible, references to God are masculine, but God is not claimed to ordering doxycycline online without a precription be male. Interestingly, she also missed the fact that Grace considers the ordering doxycycline online without a precription role of the deacon in terms of service, rather than ordering doxycycline online without a precription authority, so women in fact do serve as deacons with responsibility for ordering doxycycline online without a precription particular ministries.

Nevertheless, Eggebroten is ordering doxycycline online without a precription certainly onto something here, especially when Grace Community Church is contrasted with the ordering doxycycline online without a precription Episcopal congregation visited by her husband on that same Sunday. In that ordering doxycycline online without a precription church, a woman is preaching the sermon. We can't miss the point when Eggebroten writes, "These two different worlds exist side by side: congregations where ordering doxycycline online without a precription men and women are equal partners in service of Jesus Christ, and ordering doxycycline online without a precription others where gender hierarchy is taught as God's will and ordering doxycycline online without a precription the only truly biblical option. On Sunday morning we all drive past one flavor of gender teaching to ordering doxycycline online without a precription worship in another."

Well, on this ordering doxycycline online without a precription Sunday Anne Eggebroten did not drive past Grace Community Church. Instead, she heard a ordering doxycycline online without a precription sermon by Dr. John MacArthur, who for more than 40 years has ordering doxycycline online without a precription served as pastor of the church. Beyond that, MacArthur has become one of the ordering doxycycline online without a precription most respected and influential preachers of our times, with perhaps the ordering doxycycline online without a precription most widely-disseminated ministry of exposition in the history of the Christian church.

Eggebroten enjoyed the sermon, remarking that MacArthur's message was "excellent." She added, "I guess that's how mega churches get started." Well, one can hope.

The central part of her report from ordering doxycycline online without a precription the trenches at Grace Community Church comes from an experience at a ordering doxycycline online without a precription visitors' reception after the sermon. Eggebroten asks a woman there (a ordering doxycycline online without a precription physical therapist with a degree from the school where Eggebroten teaches), "Is women's submission to their husbands stressed in this church?" The answer, of course, was yes.

It appears that ordering doxycycline online without a precription Eggebroten could hardly have been surprised, for she wrote,

-At least things aren't as extreme as they sound on the ordering doxycycline online without a precription church Web site. There, I had listened to Anna Sanders lecture women on how to ordering doxycycline online without a precription live in submission to their husbands. "We need to ordering doxycycline online without a precription beat down our desire to be right and have our own way," she had ordering doxycycline online without a precription said, citing John Piper,Nancy Leigh DeMoss, and Martha Peace-all authors published in the ordering doxycycline online without a precription last decade. "It's his way, his rights, his expectations, and ordering doxycycline online without a precription his plans.... Be a helper."-

So, there was little ground for ordering doxycycline online without a precription surprise when Eggebroten asked the question at the visitors' reception. But there was more to come. She writes, "I'm stunned to find that the 300-student Master's Seminary on the church campus enrolls only men."

Well, let's see. The Master's Seminary, according to it's own mission statement, "exists to ordering doxycycline online without a precription advance the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ by equipping men to ordering doxycycline online without a precription be pastors and/or trainers of pastors." The logic is ordering doxycycline online without a precription simple and straight-forward. The church believes that the Bible restricts the ordering doxycycline online without a precription office of pastor to men. The Master's Seminary trains only pastors and ordering doxycycline online without a precription trainers of pastors; thus, it limits admissions to men. What could possibly be ordering doxycycline online without a precription stunning about that?

As Eggebroten acknowledges, seminaries that ordering doxycycline online without a precription train for roles beyond the pastorate may enroll women for ordering doxycycline online without a precription those programs without compromising this conviction. But Master's does not offer those programs, so what is possibly shocking?

In the ordering doxycycline online without a precription course of her article, Eggebroten continues her reports of conversations with members of the ordering doxycycline online without a precription complementarian tribe before getting to the more deeply theological portion of her essay. In this ordering doxycycline online without a precription passage she gets to the core issue:

-Here's the ordering doxycycline online without a precription question: Is God permanently committed to the kinds of social hierarchy that ordering doxycycline online without a precription existed in the first and second millennium B.C.E. and continued until recently, when ordering doxycycline online without a precription education and voting were opened to women? Or does the vision of Paul in Galatians 3:28-"There is ordering doxycycline online without a precription no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or ordering doxycycline online without a precription free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you ordering doxycycline online without a precription are one in Christ Jesus"-take precedence?-

At this ordering doxycycline online without a precription point the agenda becomes clear. Eggebroten argues that the church has ordering doxycycline online without a precription simply perpetuated the patriarchal traditions of the Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures that ordering doxycycline online without a precription formed the social context for the early Christian church. Against these she contrasts the ordering doxycycline online without a precription Apostle Paul's beautiful declaration in Gal 3:28-"There is ordering doxycycline online without a precription no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or ordering doxycycline online without a precription free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you ordering doxycycline online without a precription are one in Christ Jesus."

But this ordering doxycycline online without a precription is the kind of sloppy and agenda driven exegesis that ordering doxycycline online without a precription reveals the desperation of those who would reject the New Testament's limitation of the ordering doxycycline online without a precription office of pastor to men. In Gal 3:28 Paul is ordering doxycycline online without a precription clearly speaking of salvation-not of service in the church. Paul is ordering doxycycline online without a precription declaring to believers the great good news that "in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith" (verse 26). He concludes by affirming, "And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (verse 29).

To read Gal 3:28 the ordering doxycycline online without a precription way Eggebroten reads the verse, you would have to believe that ordering doxycycline online without a precription the Apostle Paul was in direct contradiction with himself, when he restricts the ordering doxycycline online without a precription teaching office to men in letters such as 2 Timothy and ordering doxycycline online without a precription Titus.

Or ... you ordering doxycycline online without a precription can try to deny that Paul actually wrote those latter letters. Eggebroten accuses conservative evangelicals of ignoring "evidence that the ‘pastoral epistles' (1 and 2 Timothy and Titus) were written in honor of Paul long after he died and ordering doxycycline online without a precription reflect a second-century debate over women's roles in the ordering doxycycline online without a precription church-whether to conform to social customs for the sake of winning converts, or ordering doxycycline online without a precription to advocate radical social equality (and even celibacy) in the last days before the Second Coming."

What this ordering doxycycline online without a precription reveals, of course, is the argument of many evangelical feminists that ordering doxycycline online without a precription we can discard the teachings of the Pastoral Epistles. We can ordering doxycycline online without a precription keep the Apostle Paul we like (taking Gal 3:28 out of context, for example) and disregard the Paul we do not like.

Nor are ordering doxycycline online without a precription the Pastoral Epistles the only biblical texts subverted by this line of argument. With reference to ordering doxycycline online without a precription 1 Cor 14:35 ("Let a woman learn in silence with full submission"), Eggebroten suggests, among other options, that "verses 34-35 began as someone's marginal comment, later copied right into the text."

With this ordering doxycycline online without a precription approach to the Bible, you can simply discard any text you ordering doxycycline online without a precription dislike. Just dismiss it as a marginal comment, or deny that ordering doxycycline online without a precription Paul even authored the text. This is where the denial of biblical inerrancy inevitably leads-the text of the ordering doxycycline online without a precription Bible is deconstructed right before our eyes.

"So what ordering doxycycline online without a precription is the will of God for women today: silence or ordering doxycycline online without a precription preaching, subjection or mutual submission?" Eggebroten asks. She adds, "Many Christians in all denominations, including evangelicals aren't even asking this ordering doxycycline online without a precription question any more-yet the neo-patriarchal movement remains widespread."

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In what ordering doxycycline online without a precription sense can any of this be bent to fit within evangelical identity? This essay reveals again how these arguments-and the ordering doxycycline online without a precription magazine that publishes them-are so very distant from the beliefs of most evangelicals. If there is ordering doxycycline online without a precription anything genuinely shocking about this article, it is the fact that ordering doxycycline online without a precription the writer would attempt to lay claim on evangelicalism.

In yet another twisted use of Scripture, Eggebroten concludes by citing Gal 5:1, "For freedom Christ has ordering doxycycline online without a precription set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to ordering doxycycline online without a precription a yoke of slavery." As Paul asserts, in Christ we are ordering doxycycline online without a precription free from the slavery of attempting to prove our righteousness by the ordering doxycycline online without a precription Law. Paul is not liberating the church from the Bible.

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