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Introduction

One of the men in that Founders trailer said something like this.

If we can take a clear passage that says I do not permit a woman to teach

and turn it into something like I do permit a woman to teach in certain cases. We have gotten to the point where

anything goes. There is no stopping this thing. Which is simply another way of saying that the

breaks, which were not that great to begin with, have gone completely

out at the very top of the switchback widowmaker mountain grade.

And your average Southern Baptist will be quite surprised at how fast things can develop from here.

Like what? What do I mean? Oh, I don't know. Let's take an extreme example.

Like Christians suing other Christians when the Bible says not to, 1st

Corinthians 6th through 8. That might be a tell right there.

But let's not leave it at the mundane level of one Christian parishioner suing another Christian parishioner

over an investment deal gone bad, say, after that Corinthian bagel shop, once so promising, went belly up.

That was embarrassing enough that an apostle had to intervene.

People who were going to judge angels were calling upon unbelieving judges to handle their bagel dispute.

No, let's make our thought experiment even a bit more extreme. Let's have the head of a national

evangelical Christian ministry, Sue, a nationally known evangelical church.

Think that could ever happen? So here is a link to a New York Times article on a

lawsuit that has been brought against the Village Church,

pastored by Matt Chandler. And here is a snippet from that article.

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