Building Strong Families

Just as the Father and Son are equal in deity and equal in all their attributes, but different in role, the husband and wife are ...

throughwhom are all things” (1 Cor. 8:6). Nowhere does Scripture reverse this and say that the Son created “through” the Father. ...

has been demonstrated by the eternal Son of God forever. It is His glory, the glory of the Son as He relates to His Father. In m ...

KEYISSUE4: THEEQUALITY ANDDIFFERENCESBETWEENMEN AND WOMENAREVERYGOOD In today’s culture we might be embarrassed to talk about Go ...

women are equal in value before God. It does not suppress women’s gifts and wisdom and insight; it encourages them. This created ...

is designed by Him to show equalityand differenceand unityall at the same time. It is a great mystery how this can be so, and it ...

breakthroughs, any new discoveries that lend any substantial strength to their position. It seems to me that many people in lead ...

affirming biblical principles, as the Southern Baptists did. Others are establishing egalitarian principles as part of their pol ...

on biblical manhood and womanhood to their governing documents is that I believe this is a “watershed issue.” Many years ago Fra ...

ious kinds of false teaching to exist in the church, probably in every generation, and by these false teachings God tests His pe ...

70 BUILDINGSTRONGFAMILIES THE EFFEMINATE LEFT THE COMPLEMENTARIAN MIDDLE THE VIOLENT RIGHT NO DIFFERENCES EGALITARIANISM EQUALIT ...

The Key Issues in the Manhood-Womanhood Controversy 71 Natural Temptation: unlimited Moving “contrary to nature” Natural desires ...

The Left Column: No Differences.On the far left, the differences in the persons of God are abolished and the differences between ...

“mutual submission” within the Trinity. They deny that there are any gender-based role differences in marriage.^54 Within marria ...

more valuable, and the weaker person is devalued, for “might makes right.” In this view, God is not viewed as a Trinity but as o ...

poor and weak, while all property is held in the hands of a few who are very powerful. In education, the “No Equality” viewpoint ...

against women just takes that idea one step further and begins to treat them as objects and as unworthy of dignity and respect. ...

We are equal, and we are different, and we are one! There will be a delight in God’s plan for sexual expression, but it will be ...

the differences between men and women. But we must steadfastly and patiently hold to the middle, with the help of God. By now it ...

depth of our interpersonal relationships, our equality and differences in mar- riage and other interpersonal relationships, our ...