Kevin DeYoung, Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction. Crossway, 2021.
Here’s a true story for you.
My friend met a new neighbor today pushing a stroller down Main Street. The idyllic scene presented a welcome throwback, but the sentimentality came to a halt when the father—obviously a man with an Adam’s apple, full beard, deep bass voice, and a 6’5” frame—chortled in a whiskey-cigar cough, “I go by the pronouns ‘she’ and ‘they.’”
So much for Main Street, thought my friend.
While not about transgenderism per se, Keven DeYoung’s excellent book, Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction, explains how our post-Obergefell and post-Bostock world necessarily produces a scene like the one my friend encountered.
In any given historical moment, the world might or might not heed the prophetic voice of the church. Yet we can be fairly certain that, when the church fails to speak with bold clarity about the God-made differences between men and women, their essential and ontological purpose and pattern, the world will that much more easily believe in the interchangeability of men and women. Eventually, no such essentialist categories of men and women may
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