Well, thank you so much for coming back tonight.

What I tried to do this morning was to give an introduction to why I think this issue of manhood and womanhood is so important by connecting it with the wider social, cultural issues of the day and show the link and why when I pose the questions of manhood and womanhood today I don't merely pose

them in terms of roles but also in terms of roles, but also in terms of nature and personhood,

because it seems to me that the denial of the fundamental important personal differences between male and female reality

are leading to the dismantling of creation

as God intended it to be and bringing catastrophic changes into our culture and in our social life that dishonor God and are bad for people and will be the undoing of our civilization if there aren't gracious

turnarounds. But I didn't do any serious biblical defending this morning and I promised that tonight I would try to take you to the scriptures.

I don't know whether you brought Bibles or not and I regret that I didn't prepare a transparency of the key text tonight, but I'll try to say the text as often as I can so that you can think clearly about it, and if you have a a Bible we'll certainly use it.

And then tomorrow morning, after I looked tonight at 1st Timothy 2 with you,

which talks about the role relationships of men and women in the church,

I'll talk about marriage tomorrow morning in chapel.

And another thing, if you looked at the titles on the piece of paper that was given to you, I not only

mentioned the body of Christ as a focus tonight, but the business world and the battlefield. And as I was talking with my assistant back at church whether I should do that or not we

decided it would be worth the risk because even though the Bible does not talk a lot about the role

relationships of men and women in the business world or on the battlefield say

in the Persian Gulf War.

Nevertheless, my conviction is that when it talks about the role

relationships in the home and in the family rooted in creation, not culture and not sin, there are

inescapable implications that if these differences that play themselves out at home and in the church are rooted in who we are by nature,

then things are going to be different in society as well. We don't cease to be male and female in the workplace.

We don't cease to be male and female inside a tank or a mig fighter or with our hands on an M16.

And therefore, if differences are implied in who we are by nature,

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