The Importance of Confession and Absolution

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In the New Testament, we have these lists of gifts that are given to all Christians. Those lists are not gendered at all. But then we have qualifications of church leadership. I think what's often done on the complimentary and end of the spectrum is that the things that are required, the capacity is required to be an elder, are also then therefore gendered masculine. And so people in the body ought to be teaching. People in the body can lead. There's things that we're all given and gifts that we'reAll given. If you don't hold them off. That's right. Exactly. So it's a matter of where you exercise them. And so those gifts can

The conversation of gender identity seems to have swept into every crevice of our culture. From debating gender “norms” to questioning the concept of biological gender completely, society has demanded to have a say in how men and women should understand themselves and the roles they play. But what are the ramifications of allowing the world to tell what we are to be instead of Scripture? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland untangle the narrative of creation as male and female and the importance of the differences we have been given by our Creator.