{"id":8770,"date":"2019-12-10T22:36:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8770"},"modified":"2019-12-10T22:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T04:46:59","slug":"complementarianism-a-moment-of-reckoning-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8770","title":{"rendered":"Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning (Part 5)"},"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><strong>Part 5: Moving Forward: A Better Understanding of Church and Wisdom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WE NEED TO REMEMBER SCRIPTURE IS SUFFICIENT FOR OUR CHURCH AND MINISTRY STRUCTURES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe the Bible establishes two offices: elders\/pastors\/overseers and deacons. I also believe it limits the role of elder to qualified men, while men and women both can serve as deacons (or, if one prefers for women, deaconesses).<\/p>\n<p>What then shall we say a missions committee chairman is? An executive leadership team? A youth pastor who is not an elder? A women&rsquo;s ministry director? A pastoral search committee member? Do those positions come out of the elder bucket or the deacon bucket?<\/p>\n<p>The trouble, of course, is that many churches don&rsquo;t have a sharply defined understanding of what an elder or a deacon is. Plus, the Bible says nothing about these other positions. As<\/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":[327],"class_list":["post-8770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","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\/8770","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=8770"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8773,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8770\/revisions\/8773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}