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Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood
All adults and teens are combined in the present cycle in our Adult Bible Classes. The classes are divided by men and women.
Both classes are working through the book Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem).
This book is available for purchase in the bookstore or may be downloaded for free at
http://cdn.desiringgod.org/pdf/books_bbmw/bbmw.pdf.
The ladies meet in the Judson Room and the men in the Activity Room downstairs. Several teachers share the teaching load on a rotating basis.
For the schedule of reading assignments click here.
Teachers for the men are: Al Aldrich, Pastor Mike Healan, Mike Kijak, and Jeff Walsh
Teachers for the ladies are: Amy Cyran, Mary Farley, and Linda Healan
Here is a description of the course as quoted from the Preface of the book:
“A controversy of major proportions has spread through the church.
“It began over 20 years ago in society at large. Since then an avalanche of feminist literature has argued that there need be no difference
between men’s and women’s roles, indeed, that to support gender-based role differences is unjust discrimination. Within
evangelical Christianity, the counterpart to this movement has been the increasing tendency to oppose any unique leadership role for men in
the family and in the church. ‘Manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ as such are now often seen as irrelevant factors in determining fitness for leadership.
“What has been the result? Great uncertainty among evangelicals. Men and women simply are not sure what their roles should be. Traditional positions
have not been totally satisfactory, because they have not fully answered the recent evangelical feminist arguments. Moreover, most Christians will admit
that selfishness, irresponsibility, passivity, and abuse have often contaminated ‘traditional’ patterns of how men and women relate to each other.
“But the vast majority of evangelicals have not endorsed the evangelical feminist position, sensing that it does not really reflect the pattern of Biblical
truth. Within our churches, we have had long discussions and debates, and still the controversy shows signs of intensifying, not subsiding. Before the
struggle ends, probably no Christian family and no evangelical church will remain untouched.
“We have edited this book in the hope that it might lead to a constructive solution to this controversy. . . . We want to help Christians recover a noble
vision of manhood and womanhood as God created them to be, hence the title, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. Our vision is not entirely the same
as 'a traditional view.' We affirm that the evangelical feminist movement has pointed out many selfish and hurtful practices that have previously gone
unquestioned. But we hope that this new vision-a vision of Biblical ‘complementarity’-will both correct the previous mistakes and avoid the opposite mistakes
that come from the feminist blurring of Godgiven sexual distinctions.”
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