A Plain Answer: Masculine Christianity - Pastor Zachary Garris

Are men’s roles in leadership unique to men? Is God serious when he assigns the role of eldership in the church to men only? What about the authority assigned to a man in a Christian home? Years ago, these roles were not questioned, but today they are. We have seen the destructive effects of egalitarianism. The church suffers and our homes suffer. The Bible speaks to how men and women should behave and it ties such roles to the natural biological differences between men and women. The Bible teaches primary tasks and duties God has given to men, and to women. Today we interview a guest who has studied this topic deeply, using the original languages. He not only is ordained as a minister of word and sacrament but also trained as a lawyer.
Today we interview the author of the book "Masculine Christianity. Here is what the Amazon writeup has to say: The Western church has gone feminist. God has given men authority in the home, church, and society. Yet the church has rebelled against God’s design and embraced the unbelieving world’s teaching that women should take on the same roles and duties as men rather than focus on the home and children. Christian scholarship and Bible commentaries are dominated by feminist arguments that both husband and wife should submit to each other (“mutual submission”), that women may be pastors and preach sermons to men, and that the Apostle Paul’s teaching on men and women was limited to Greco-Roman culture and has been transcended by our unity in Christ.
Sadly, the conservative response to feminism—complementarianism—compromised several historic Christian teachings and has thus given feminism an even stronger foothold in the church. Many complementarians fail to root gender roles in the differing natures of men and women. As a result, they have refused to apply the Bible’s teaching about men and women beyond the home and church, leading to the embrace of women in civil office and military combat. In addition, the vast majority of complementarians have adopted the novel interpretation of 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 (“the women should keep silent in the churches”) that Paul only prohibited women from evaluating prophecy, which has opened the door to women preaching and teaching men in the church.
The result is that the Western church has become effeminate and weak. Pastors are afraid to teach important Bible passages on the roles and duties of men and women, and it is no surprise that young Christian women are trading babies for careers outside the home and that churches are regularly capitulating to subversions of biblical sexual ethics. What the church needs is to recover its masculine calling, where men embrace their God-given authority—and responsibility—in the home, church, and society. This book affirms the historic Christian teaching on men and women, critiques feminist scholarship, and urges complementarians to hold a more robust and consistent position. This is a call to return to the Bible’s teaching on men and women. This is a call to Masculine Christianity. Participants: Rev. Zachary Garris, Dan Elmendorf