Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning (Part 2)

Part 1: Today’s Tension: Broad Versus Narrow Complementarianism

Part 2: Different Intuitions and Pastoral Burdens

Part 3: How Do We Move Forward? A Biblical Understanding of Authority and Equality

Part 4: How Do We Move Forward? A Biblical Understanding of Abuse and Gender

Part 5: How Do We Move Forward: A Biblical Understanding of Church and Wisdom

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Part 2: Different Intuitions and Pastoral Burdens

As much as anything, the differences between the broad and narrow corners of the complementarian camp root in different instincts and different pastoral burdens.

DIFFERENT INTUITIONS

In the home, for instance, one husband and wife will read the Bible and feel burdened for the wife to remain at home while the children are young, while another Christian couple won’t. What’s the difference? The two couples have different instincts based on how they were raised, the friend groups they keep, the church they attend, the decade they occupy, the social class they occupy, and what’s generally treated as “normal” around them.

Scripture commands both couples to conform their minds to God’s version of right and normal. Still, both couples can’t help but pick up their Bibles and begin the discipleship process affected

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