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Theology in the Raw

687: #687 - Can Women Serve in Positions of Leadership

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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On episode #687 Preston gives you a teaser of what is inside his Patreon membership. This teaser includes a clip where Preston shares his thoughts on women serving in positions of leadership in a local church context.

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0:00.0

Hello theology and raw listeners the following is a short teaser episode of a

0:04.8

patron only podcast that I recorded on where I am at on the question of women

0:10.2

leaders in the church I wrestle with both sides of the debate. I get really

0:14.7

raw, I get really personal. I hope you enjoy this teaser and if you want access

0:19.2

to this episode and other premium content please go to Patreon.com forward slash theology of the wrong. So that began to force me to kind of go back and think you know gosh is a

0:38.2

complimentarian position correct you know and a big one for me is the question

0:42.2

of why this is this is the big one for me is the question of why?

0:43.4

This is a huge one for me.

0:44.9

Why? Why can't women be leaders in the church?

0:48.6

Is it because they're not like smart enough?

0:51.3

Well, that's just biologically and factually untrue. It's because they're not maybe more

0:57.0

specifically they're not as just they're not discerning enough. And you do have the

1:02.1

passage in first thing with you to you, it says, you know,

1:03.7

Eve was deceived, you know, not Adam. And I heard people make the argument, you know,

1:08.9

well, women are, you know, they're just as valuable as men, whatever, they have gifts,

1:12.2

talents, but but they do lack the discernment and and men are more

1:17.8

discerning than women let me say this and this is a Patreon account so it's not general public, so I can be, I can kind of think

1:24.8

out loud and I hopefully I won't get tons of angry emails.

1:27.4

Let's just assume for the sake of argument that women were generally more discerning than women.

1:35.0

Like what if it was like a 60-40, even 70, 30?

1:39.0

And you do have sex differences, okay?

1:41.0

You have, you know, women are more agreeable than men.

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