In marriage, husbands and wives are to submit to one another, yet there are gender specific expressions: husbands model themselves in relationship with their wives after Jesus’ sacrificial love for the church and wives model themselves in relationship with their husbands after the church’s willingness to follow Jesus. We believe both men and women were created by God to equally reflect, in gendered ways, the nature and character of God in the world. Here is a summary of ’s position and what we will defend in these articles: Thanks for making the time to read this first one. They are long because we must get into the substance of the arguments these men and others like them make on what the Bible teaches. ![]() This is the first of several long posts on these topics. If you want a single book that presents an alternative point of view to Hicks and McKnight, we recommend that book. This series of posts are intended to be a Q&A-type companion to Renee Sproles’s book, On Gender: What the Bible Says About Men and Women and Why it Matters. In addition to Hicks’s Women Serving God, we will also engage with an influential book that comes to the same conclusions as Hicks’s: Scot McKnight’s Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible. Thus begins a series of questions and answers, by contributors, engaging with these stories. Inviting the reader to listen to all the varying stories to gain understanding, we contributors have done just that, and we believe that Hicks’s story fails to understand the truth about gender as revealed in Scripture. The problem is, what if the story isn’t true? Or only partly true? Or what if it’s influenced by other stories from our culture that are not true at all? But if you want someone to love the truth, you should tell them a story.” Hicks’s book tells a lot of stories.Īs Christian musician and novelist Andrew Peterson says, “If you want someone to hear the truth, you should tell them the truth. ![]() We find the story of Hicks’s journey from rigid patriarchy to egalitarianism, the stories of church history and its various positions on the subject of women in ministry, the stories of women in the Bible, the overarching story of Scripture, and ending with stories from three women. Who doesn’t love a good story? John Mark Hicks’s new book, Women Serving God: My Journey in Understanding Their Story in the Bible, is full of them.
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