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God Created Man Male and Female: What Does It Mean to Be Complementarian?

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2012

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

God has designed men for Christlike servant-leadership, and God has designed women to honor and affirm her husband’s leadership.

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The following resource is from Desiring God.org.

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Let's pray.

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Lord from the South Campus to the North to downtown,

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Saturday evening, Sunday morning, Sunday evening.

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We are your people gathered under your word now, eager for you to speak.

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And so, Holy Spirit, come, I ask in the name of Jesus and control my mouth and my heart and my mind and

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grant ears to hear and may the transaction be saving and strengthening and

0:45.4

healing and unifying and reconciling and beautifying.

0:49.9

In Jesus' name, Amen.

0:54.0

One of the 30-year theological trademarks of our church is the way we understand the relationship

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between men and women in home and in the church and in society.

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If you want to put a name on the way of life that we love and teach it would be

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complimentarian with an E in the middle, not an I.

1:24.0

Built around the world, the word compliment, meaning complete or fill out, beautify.

1:35.0

In other words, when it comes to human sexuality,

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we believe that the greatest display of God's glory and the greatest joy of human

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relationships and the greatest fruitfulness in ministry come about when the deep profound differences

1:58.6

between men and women are embraced and celebrated as compliments of one another rather than nullified or diminished.

2:13.8

The intention of the word compliment or complimentarian to describe our view is to locate us in life between two kinds of errors.

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The abuses of women through male domination

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on the one side and the negation of gender

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differences when they have beautiful significance on the other side, which means

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