This conclusion (part II of the last week’s message) was my first engagement with 1Corinthians 11, back in 2004. The lines of gender that I saw in the Scriptures were emerging for me, and for many of the artists to whom I was preaching.
I have to note that there is an error I make in the sermon. I say: “Deuteronomy 22:5 is the earliest reference to transvestitism in the ANE.” This is false. Further research showed me that, while this is the earliest reference in the Bible, cross-dressing and gender-bending was already a long established feature of certain pagan cultures by mid-2nd millenium BC, the time of Deuteronomy. I would still argue that this law against cross-dressing is a universal moral injunction, but not on the basis given in the sermon.
Nonetheless, the message has several points of ongoing importance:
…that there are lines of the universe which you cannot color outside of,
…how the beauty of the dance overshadows both man and woman,
…how realizing your gender quickens you.
And especially:
…how we cannot get to the meaning of our genders without grasping that Jesus came as our Head.
Can you see the beauty of coloring inside these lines?
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