Leadership is Male: What Does the Bible Say? - Softcover

Pawson, David; Elliot, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0981896138 ISBN 13: 9780981896137

Publisher: True Potential Publishing, Incorporated, 2009

Synopsis

David Pawson provides a clear, detailed biblical exposition on what can be an explosive issue. With leadership gender questions being debated in many churches, this book assists, informs, and teaches what the Bible tells us about the male leadership. Leadership is Male is a great study for any Christian, male or female, who wishes to understand what the Scriptures say on what has become a major doctrinal matter. Foreword by Elizabeth Elliot

About this title

About the Author:

David Pawson occupies a key position among British Christian writers. His best-known work, Unlocking the Bible, continues to be a worldwide bestseller in print, audio and video formats. Unlocking the Bible and other works such as The Normal Christian Birth have been called Pawson's legacy to the church. Pawson is known for accepting biblical text as the authoritative word of God while explaining its meaning and context in a practical and understandable language. Because he follows the teaching of Scripture where it clashes with church tradition, his books are often controversial. Studying for an advanced degree in theology at Cambridge University, under the influence of liberal educators, Pawson lost his trust in the Bible and very nearly his faith in God. After a short spell in ministry for the Methodist church, he regained his trust in the infallibility and inerrancy of the Bible while a chaplain in the Royal Air Force of Great Britain. During this period he decided to preach the Bible systematically from start to finish. The results among the servicemen surprised both him and them, and confirmed to him Scripture's inspiration. Since then, his preaching has either been Bible study or topical studies based on a detailed, contextual examination of what the Bible says. As pastor of Guildford Baptist Church (the Millmead Centre), Pawson established a reputation among both evangelicals and charismatics as an effective and balanced expositor of the Bible. Under Pawson s ministry, Millmead became the largest Baptist church in Britain. The church was unusual in that attendance was double the membership number; people regularly came from London to hear Pawson preach. From here his teaching tapes became popular worldwide. Behind the communist Iron Curtain, these tapes struck a chord with the persecuted church. Missionaries and spiritual leaders in far-off corners of the world, without the opportunity to sit under a regular teaching ministry, became a significant audience for Pawson's preaching. Millions of David's messages on cassette tape (CD, DVD and MP3 today) have been distributed around the world. David Pawson lives near Basingstoke, Hampshire in southern England with his wife Enid.

Review:

What a relief to find a bold book with a bold title on a subject most men won t touch with a barge pole! I don t know Mr. Pawson, but surely he is a bold man. He faced the cost of putting his obsolete and offensive (his own words) viewpoint into print and went ahead and did it anyway with scholarly care, with grace and courtesy. I hope and pray that people will read and heed what he has written. The issue of so-called equality of men and women touches the very foundation of Christian faith, for it goes deep into the nature of God and the great mystery of which the much-maligned apostle Paul writes in his letter to the Ephesians. For years I have watched with increasing dismay the destruction the feminist movement has wrought in the world, in the church, in Christian homes and marriages, and in personalities. I have studied the tortuous arguments of those who would persuade us that Galatians 3:28 cancels everything the author says elsewhere in his epistles about the vital distinctions between men and women. I have listened to the endless discussions of Paul s rabbinical prejudice and cultural insularity. I have delved into treatises on the meaning of the Greek word hypotasso, ( to arrange under , to be under obedience , to put under , to subdue unto , to subject to , to be in subjection to , to submit self unto ), and I have on a few occasions been asked (as a traditionalist , whatever that means) to debate those who would rewrite history, literature, psychology and the Bible itself to make them palatable to the woman of the late twentieth century. I have done practically everything but jump up and down and scream about it. Here is a simple, sane, serious treatment of the subject by a man who loves God, respects women, and takes the inspiration of Scripture and the integrity of the apostles for granted. He deals with all the difficult texts. He tells us that his subject is not a clerical issue, nor is it hierarchical, situational, historical, or experimental; it is biblical. With that I agree wholeheartedly, but whether it can be settled, as he says, only by scrupulous exegesis I am not sure. I think it is even bigger, even deeper than that a theological mystery representing Christ and the church, bigger than exegesis, deeper than our deepest understanding. And such things will never be settled . Read this book. The exegesis points to the mystery. Mysteries are things revealed, not explained. Mysteries are always unsettling. --Elisabeth Elliot

David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)

David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)

David Pawson wrote this book in 1988 as an antidote to the great harm that feminism was doing both in the church and society in general. Twenty years later we are now having to pick up the damaged pieces of so many lives and marriages. If the church had listened to this warning by David Pawson much of the damage could have been avoided. Unfortunately certain sections of the "popular" church abandoned the word of God even to the extent of embracing some alleged "modern translations" of the Bible. Today's Christians really do need to read and re-read this book. --David Hughes (UK)

About this edition

• Publisher: True Potential Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0981896138
• ISBN 13: 9780981896137
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116