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Which is the birth that saves?

Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | 51 Comments »

If, as John Piper says (thanks to Scot McKnight @ Beliefnet), the church is propagaged by spiritual rebirth and not physical birth, then what does this do to the complementarian plank based on I Timothy 2:15, that women are saved through childbearing? (And therefore women should get married and bear children, if they are able?)
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Driscoll not PG about Sex. Amen!

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on July 12, 2009 | 116 Comments »

This post was originally on my blog and touches on the controversial pastor, Mark Driscoll, over whom I have been having an interesting exchange at Church Discipline.  I have observed that debate about him inevitably turns into comp-egal discussions, so I’m posting it here to get the blog rolling.
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Axiom: If you want to get conservative church folk [...]

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Why do the New Calvinists insist on Complementarianism?

Posted in New Calvinists, complementarian, egalitarian, tagged , , on July 6, 2009 | 18 Comments »

David McKay reports on discussion of a connection between Calvinism and Complementarianism among today’s New Calvinists.

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If, Then…

Posted in Uncategorized on July 2, 2009 | 10 Comments »

The following is a slightly altered version of Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem.
What do you think? Does it work?
If…
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all [ ] doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can [...]

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