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1 Timothy 2:11-12 has been used as a "clear" mandate to silence
women in the church for over 1500 years. In What's With Paul &
Women? Jon Zens exposes the fallacies of this interpretation, and
opens up the meaning of 1 Timothy 2:9-15 using insights gleaned
from the Artemis-saturated Ephesian culture where Timothy was left
to stand against false teaching (1:3). Going beyond 1 Timothy 2,
this book covers the major issues in gender inequality with three
Appendices: one on the Ephesian social world in which 1 Timothy was
written, another on 1 Corinthians 14:34-36 and an extensive review
of John Piper's What's the Difference? Manhood & Womanhood
Defined According to the Bible. If 1 Timothy 2:11-12 and 1
Corinthians 14:34-36 have puzzled you, What's With Paul &
Women? will help in your quest to discern the mind of the Lord as
the gender debate continues.
There are 58 "one anothers" in the New Testament, 0 information
about "the pastor." According to how "church" is done in most
quarters, the existence of the church and all its eggs are put into
the one basket of "the pastor." C. Peter Wagner reflects this
general outlook when he asserts, "The local church is like a
company with one company commander, the pastor, who gets his orders
from the Commander-in-Chief... The pastor has the power in the
growing church... The pastor of a growing church may appear to
outsiders as a dictator, but to the people of the church, his
decisions are their decisions." There have been thousands of books
published about the aspects of church leadership, but comparatively
very little time has been spent on the necessity of the church to
"love one another," and all the rest of the one anothers that flow
out of Christ's new command. Based on observations since 1965, Jon
Zens' conclusion is that we need more and more of Christ, and less
and less of the traditional views of "leadership." This book sets
forth the Jesus-centered way of functioning as brother and sisters
in the Body of Christ... Contributors span from 1937 - 2013: Hans
van Campenhausen, Judy Schindler, Bruce Davidson, Daryl Erkel,
Matthew & Christa McKirkland, Hendrik Hart, Russ Ross, Lawrence
Burkholder, R.L. Wysong, Norbert Ward, Katt Huff, Stephen Crosby,
Fydor Dosteyevsky, H.L. Mencken, John Howard Yoder, and Frank
Viola... These authors take issue with the traditional
understandings of church life, and point the way to Christ, the
only rightful Leader of the ekklesia
To Preach or Not to Preach? questions one of the scared cows in the
modern church, namely the sermon, and the preeminence it s given.
Norrington s premise is not built on novelty or questioning just to
question. He goes back to the New Testament and shows that there is
no evidence for a a regular weekly sermon that believers are to
lean upon, and the whole church experience is to be wrapped around.
This book also shows how the sermon as it has come to be practiced
supplants the one-another ministries of everyday believers, and
stifles the expression of Christ in the ekklesia. To Preach was
originally published in Britain by Paternoster Press in 1996.It had
virtually no circulation in the States. Norrington died in 2007,
and his book nearly passed into oblivion. However, several
supporters banded together to reoffer this work. And with it, a
large additional section was added where Norrington responds to
reviews of his book. To Preach is a well-documented study that will
challenge traditional ideas, restore hope and function in the body
of Christ, and help us understand that "preaching" in the NT was
primarily a vital evangelistic activity directed toward
unbelievers.
The controversial book Love Wins suggests that all people will
experience redemption, and that no one will face the permanent
judgment of God. Christ Minimized? challenges such convictions, and
concludes among other things that "Paul did not comfort the
afflicted saints by saying that in the future their tormentors
would be reconciled to God. Rather, he comforted them by saying
they would be 'paid back' for touching God's anointed ones." Christ
Minimized? examines some traditional views of popular Bible verses,
hell, heaven, the afterlife and invites the reader to re-examine
commonly-held assumptions. It is a book that will take you deeper
into the eternal purpose of God in Christ.
Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor"
the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens
demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the
pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1
Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church
contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not
one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the
living church functions "with many parts."Jon dismembers the
traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two
new essays and a response to Eugene Peterson's The Pastor: A
Memoir, with three past articles and excerpts from his response to
Dr. Ben Witherington's review of Pagan Christianity.
Zens compares the patriarchy taught to families by the Roman
Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches in Holland with an aggressive
patriarchal wing of the home-schooling movement in America to show
that the earmarks of patriarchy doctrine result in varying levels
of abuse of young girls and wives.
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