Welcome back to the Ask Pastor John Podcast. Tim, podcast listener, writes in to ask this. Pastor John,

I always thought a complimentary in view was the right view. But after seeing different churches go

against this view, I ask, is there a biblical right or wrong view? And then he says 1st Timothy 2,

11 to 15, 1st Corinthians 14, 34 to 36, and 1st Corinthians 11, 2 to 16. More specifically,

is God pleased with both a complimentary in view and a egalitarian view as long as we see crisis,

our deepest joy and highest treasure. What advice do you have for people who have trouble

answering this? In other words, is Christian hedonism only for complementarians? Several things

come to my mind to say when I hear that cluster of questions. And the first is that I'm sure

many of our listeners don't know precisely what these two terms complementarianism and egalitarian

ism refer to. They're probably blurry. If they've heard of them at all, they've heard different

things. So I don't like fuzziness. I don't like ambiguity. I don't want to talk about something

that people don't know what he's talking about. So let's spend some time with definitions.

Here's what I mean by complementarianism and egalitarianism. Complementarianism is a way of thinking

and living that flows from the conviction that God created human beings as male and female,

equal and worth, both in the image of God, both heirs of the grace of life,

both fully capable of direct allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ,

and both fully redeemed from sin in Jesus, both destined for eternal joy and eternal significance

as children of the creator of the universe. And that male and female are designed by God and

appointed in his word for some distinct and complementary roles in life, owing to the fact that

they are male and female. That's where the word complementarian comes from. God intends for the

differences between men and women to find expression in complementary relationships as taught in

scripture. For example, Ephesians 5, 22 wives submit to your own husbands as to the Lord for the

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