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SixTen:
Recently, the SixTen leadership team met to discuss teaching topics going through the fall. This Sunday, October 3, we will begin a series on 1 & 2 Timothy. These lessons will be expository in nature, which means they will be taught verse by verse. Four years ago, Nate and Kim led a leadership seminar on Cornell University’s campus, in which they taught from these two books. Here is an outline from that seminar, which we will use as a guideline this fall. Take a look!
From Justin Taylor:
John Piper and Wayne Grudem in 50 Crucial Questions About Manhood and Womanhood: An Overview of Central Concerns About Manhood and Womanhood:
When someone asks if women are weaker than men, or smarter than men, or more easily frightened than men, or something like that, perhaps the best way to answer is this: women are weaker in some ways and men are weaker in some ways; women are smarter in some ways and men are smarter in some ways; women are more easily frightened in some circumstances and men are more easily frightened in others.
It is dangerous to put negative values on the so-called weaknesses that each of us has. God intends for all the “weaknesses” that characteristically belong to man to call forth and highlight woman’s strengths. And God intends for all the “weaknesses” that characteristically belong to woman to call forth and highlight man’s strengths.
Even if 1 Timothy 2:14 meant that in some circumstances women are characteristically more vulnerable to deception, that would not settle anything about the equality or worth of manhood and womanhood. Boasting in either sex as superior to the other is folly. Men and women, as God created us, are different in hundreds of ways.
Being created equally in the image of God means at least this: that when the so-called weakness and strength columns for manhood and for womanhood are added up, the value at the bottom is going to be the same for each. And when you take those two columns and put them on top of each other, God intends them to be the perfect complement to each other.
From Marry Well:
This article is written to women, but it is definitely applicable to men as well. Enjoy.
Choosing to marry a man — whomever he is — inevitably involves compromise (on his part, and yours). That’s why it’s not truly settling. It’s just making a decision. Something we do every time we pick one thing over another. In most areas, it’s called being decisive. For some reason we’ve made indecision noble when it comes to dating.
What’s needed is a new, objective standard for what makes a good match, because, for a Christian woman, there are some non-negotiables for choosing a mate. Thankfully we have a standard that’s completely reliable.
Read the entire article here.
