Women Pastors, Women in Ministry, and Understanding God's Design - BreakPoint This Week
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
John and Maria discuss a recent retort by Harvard's Cornell West to Howard University's decision to dissolve their classics department. They also discuss how the federal government's actions to expand unemployment benefits is playing out in the marketplace. To close the first segment, Maria asks John to comment further on a recent action by Sweden to remove puberty blocking medications from the approved treatment of gender dysphoria.
John and Maria then discuss the role of women in ministry, an issue that became a hot topic recently after Saddleback Church welcomed a few women to their staff as pastors. Reactions from within the Southern Baptist Convention have many wondering about the way culture shapes our understanding of Scripture. John provides clarity in presenting a Christian worldview response that reflects God's communicated design for the role of pastor in the church.
John then speaks to a recent decision by the Supreme Court to hear a case involving abortion laws and state's rights, offering a picture of the role of government and the responsibility of Christians in understanding the purpose and design of government.
To close, John responds to a recent Christianity Today article that challenged where religious freedom protections are found. John and Maria share critique on the article, calling listeners to understand the Christian view of freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Breakpoint this week where we're talking about the new stories of the week from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your co-host, Maria Bear, with the Colson Center for Christian Worldview, alongside our president, John Stone Street. |
| 0:13.3 | And, John, our listeners are going to be hearing this on Friday while we are right in the thick of our Wilberforce weekend. |
| 0:19.4 | Are you excited? |
| 0:19.7 | I know. That means two things. |
| 0:26.0 | Number one is we're recording this kind of early in the week. So if we missed a incredibly big story and it's tone deaf that we're not talking about it, that's our best excuse. The second thing |
| 0:30.9 | that that tells us is that if we say anything that really tick somebody off, we can be blissful |
| 0:35.8 | about it at least until, you know, early |
| 0:37.8 | next week. |
| 0:38.4 | So if you email us and great anger, just know that we'll get back to you eventually. |
| 0:44.0 | Oh, I'm always blissful about it. |
| 0:46.1 | But you, oh, you mean blissfully unaware. |
| 0:48.1 | Blissfully unaware, which is different than blissfully, intentionally. |
| 0:52.1 | Just intentionally happy about it. |
| 0:53.9 | Intentionally, yeah, that's right. |
| 0:55.0 | So I'm going to be like emceeing part of our weekend in Fort Worth and I'm very excited to |
| 1:01.0 | meet so excited to meet so many people, people that come, but also team members at the Colson |
| 1:06.0 | Center that I have yet to actually meet in person. |
| 1:08.0 | When you speak in front of people, do you get nervous still? |
| 1:13.0 | Sometimes. It kind of depends, and I'll leave it at that. I have so many questions. |
| 1:19.0 | There's things that I could say that, like, qualify that. I don't know how to say it to qualify |
| 1:23.2 | it without sounding like kind of an arrogant jerk, so I'm just going to let it go. |
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