Asking for a really good friend.
What do the SBC leaders do with this verse
“In every place of worship, I want men to pray with holy hands lifted up to God, free from anger and controversy. (1 Timothy 2:8)
*men-ἀνήρ, ἀνδρός, ὁ (Hom.+, common in all the mngs. known to our lit.) a male person
① an adult human male, man, husband. From
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). In A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament
*Raising hands in worship is not a practice encouraged in the Southern Baptist tradition based on research. Why not??
I guess we can throw away what we don’t like and anachronistically expound what we do want. All for the sake of tradition🤔
In 2022, the SBC released the names of 700 Baptist pastors and leaders who were sexual abusers. The list has grown since. Should we say that men should not be pastors for this reason? Of course not! These are specific isolated issues that should not eliminate the entire male gender. That would be unfair and foolish. Good Bible examination shows the same scenario when Paul was addressing a specific church situation with disruptive women. How do we know? Because women were used as pastors, teachers, prophets, and apostles and commended by Paul. We just need to read the Bible without our religious, man-biased lens and see what Holy Spirit is teaching.
Paul wrote in Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
So why all the controversy. Again, just asking for my friend.
