Comments on: Show Me The Money

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:49:15 +0000

re. your question in 299: if you’re asking this as a “geographical” or “apostolic” question, yes, I WAS in the “South”. Kris has my e-mail, feel free to ask her. I don’t remember your story and whether we have connecting points.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:58:00 +0000

5sneakers
Well said.
Chuck

By: Steve240

Steve240 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:25:12 +0000

I find this sad if SGM is not teaching about what happened with the Puritans. Wouldn’t studying and teaching make a whole lot of sense? Wouldn’t it be good to learn from their mistakes and try to learn from them to help reduce chances of repeating what happened with them? Maybe they should sell on their book table books that discuss the problems that evetually happened etc?

Of course one sided teaching happens with other things SGM teaches. Josh Harris doesn’t share the problems that have happened with his “alternative” to dating. SGM also hasn’t shared other problems and mistakes they have made in the past.

Bringing up problems with the Puritants might also teach regular SGM to be critical thinkers and from what I have read here SGM certainly doesn’t want that. ;-)

By: 5sneakers

5sneakers — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:06:56 +0000

I think 5yearsinPDI in #310 gives the most accurate representation in scripture. I agree that semantics is an issue. But to say that the complementarian view “cannot be scripturally supported” at all is not true. And to say that “women are equal to men within the Body of Christ” is absolutely very true. The Complementarian view never implies that women are not equal. It only implies some differeng roles, they are equal image bearers of God that are equal in worth and value and importance.

By: sjcalhoun

sjcalhoun — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:13:51 +0000

Claireon,
Thanks for #306 and #313, they are very helpful.

By: nickname

nickname — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:01:34 +0000

One of the last SGM conferences I attended was the Women’s Conference where Elisabeth Elliot was the guest speaker. I was embarrassed that this woman came to share her life with us, yet we didn’t have the courtesy to select a single worship hymn that she could sing along with. I was so struck by the disjointed nature of the event that I didn’t stay through the whole conference.

I hope ol’ Lars told CJ that the esteeemed Ms. Elliot certainly had the good sense to pick out her own darn dungarees and his, too.

By: Defender

Defender — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:31:47 +0000

Thanks acme.
I did a little google since my last post, and can find no mention of her being married. I’m wondering because she is highly touted by some in the church we currently attend.

Clarion, Re #316.
I laughed till I fell out of my saddle.

“What the hell..?” CJ thought, “Tisk, tisk. Ineffective male leadership.”

By: musicman

musicman — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:42:37 +0000

Clareon-

Thanks for sharing a bit of your journey…

By: acme

acme — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:17:07 +0000

Miss DeMoss was single at the retreat I went to at CLC – but I couldn’t tell you exactly when it was — sometime this century — and yes, I remember thinking that yeah, I had great theories about marriage too when I was single.

By: Defender

Defender — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:43:03 +0000

acme,
I popped in to read up for a few moments, I just want to understand you correctly.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss is Single, and yet teaches married women how to be married??

Please correct me where I am wrong here.
(Yeah, it’s OK to correct this man, he won’t turn you into the SGM Police.)