Here’s a great video on complementarianism (or biblical gender roles) from The Gospel Coalition featuring John Piper, Tim Keller, and D. A. Carson (HT: JT). I found all three panelists’s remarks stimulating (and I enjoyed Carson’s anti-Zwinglian militarism at around the 9-minute mark!).
Piper, as Piper does, got ramped up in the first part of the video, and said some truly inspiring things about the need to guard this doctrine and not shrink back against the rushing tide of culture. His boldness, clarity, and zeal for the gospel is as inspiring to me today as it was thirteen years ago, when I first heard of him. Both he and Carson made painstakingly clear that the church must speak up about this issue, costly as this may be, culturally speaking.
I am thankful that TGC is hosting such nuanced and helpful video discussions, and I hope this video proves constructive to you as you sort out this issue. God’s glory is in this.
I attended a church that had women teaching men and had women put in
positions of authority over men. My spirit began to feel very uncomfortable
whenever exercised those positions. One night when a woman was teaching I asked the Holy Spirit if it was right or wrong for a woman to teach men and have authority over men in the church. The Holy Spirit said, “If God had wanted women to teach men and have authority over men in the church He would never had said in 1 Tim 2:11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women[c] will be saved through CHILDBEARING—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.” Women can either live by God bible or the Feminist bible.