In Western culture, the Bible has provided the single most important sustaining rationale for the oppression of women…From the very beginning of the feminist movement to the present, the authority of Scripture has frequently been invoked by opponents in an effort to slow down or stop this kind of social change…
–Pamela J. Milne
Yet she will be saved…
–the Apostle Paul
In our march through Biblical books, our church finally (June, 2012) got around to 1Timothy 2:8-15, easily the most commented on passage in the book of 1Timothy since the 19th century. Passages like these were the source of my wife’s term, “a pew-gripper,” meaning sermons that make you scared because you don’t know how they will turn out.
It was a difficult passage for our ears. So, I took my time in the exegesis and application of the text. Consequently, it is one of the longest sermons I ever gave (over 53 minutes).
It starts w/a short history of the waves of feminism and its effect, even then, on the academy, which has led to efforts to do away with this text. The sermon then proceeds to what has been called, “the strangest verse in the New Testament.”
But it remains the case that God has women in our lives to help us grow as men, and we men are in theirs to help them flourish as women, “continuing together in faith and love” with each other. And so Christ’s salvation unfolds in our churches….
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