Imagine a talented, energetic woman in a church. Dr. Bruce Ware says, if she wants to live out

biblical roles, she may find herself, sitting under the teaching of a man knowing she could be doing

a better job. But in the process, having this great confidence of heart knowing that she is following God's ways in this.

You're listening to the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Wachlmuth, co-author of True Woman 101.

For April 17, 2018.

Thank you. 2018. God created men and women to be equal in value, but he gave them different roles in the church. That's what the true woman

manifesto describes. You can read that important document at revive our hearts.com.

But of course, what's far more important is what the Bible says. Our guest today has studied this topic thoroughly.

Nancy's here to introduce him.

Well, I'd like to welcome back to Revive Our Hearts, a longtime friend, Dr. Bruce Ware, who's a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

He and his wife, Jody, have been longtime friends and cheerleaders for Revive Our Hearts, encouragers of my life and this ministry.

And Jody is with us behind the class there in the engineer's room in the studio today, smiling

and praying and encouraging.

And Dr. Ware, thank you so much for going where angels fear to tread in this series

on biblical womanhood, but I'm so grateful for your input and instruction in that.

Oh, thank you, Nancy. It's really a delight to be with you.

And these are important matters, so it's a pleasure to be able to talk them through with you.

And we're living in a day when there's a lot of confusion, a lot of biblical error as it relates to the roles of women and men.

Over the last couple of programs, we've talked about God's vision for manhood and womanhood,

particularly in the home. But I want to shift gears today and talk about what that looks like

in the church. Now, there are a lot of different opinions on this, and we see in the religious

news today some whole denominations that are wholesale throwing out the

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