{"id":8767,"date":"2019-12-10T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8767"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:46:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:46:58","slug":"complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8767","title":{"rendered":"Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Today&rsquo;s Tension: Broad Versus Narrow Complementarianism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 2: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Different Intuitions and Pastoral Burdens<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 3: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How Do We Move Forward? A Biblical Understanding of Authority and Equality<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How Do We Move Forward? A Biblical Understanding of Abuse and Gender<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Part 5: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How Do We Move Forward: A Biblical Understanding of Church and Wisdom<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>* * * * *<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Part 4: How Do We Move Forward? A Better Understanding of Abuse and Gender<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Insofar as the culture outside the church seeks to erase gender and redefine sexuality, I believe the more generationally urgent need is to grow in our understanding of authority and equality. They pertain to the challenges we feel from the outside.<\/p>\n<p>Insofar as sinners in every generation tempt men and women alike to use whatever advantages they have to dominate others, we need a more biblical understanding of oppression and abuse. This is the more universally chronic challenge, and pertains to the challenges that arise inside the church and within our own hearts.<\/p>\n<p>I believe Al Mohler is correct: male superiority and failing to correct abuse are two blind spots complementarians need to do a better job of addressing. (That said, it&rsquo;s not clear<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1: Today\u2019s 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[1313,327],"class_list":["post-8767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning","tag-life-together","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8769,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8767\/revisions\/8769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}