A.
There are no such thing as “manhood” and “womanhood”—the only difference is physical
“We know that women have babies and men do not. But other than that, the differences between men and women are not entirely clear .”
--Sarah Sumner, evangelical feminist
“Once sexism is abolished the world will become, apart from a few anatomical differences, a perfectly equitable androgynous place.” --Christine Gorman, Feminist Author
“And when you make the male and the female into a single one so that the male shall not be male and the female shall not be female…then you shall enter the Kingdom.” Gospel of Thomas , 22.
“The revolutionary members of the women’s movement say that our sexual relationships are fundamental to all our other institutions and activities. If one could profoundly change the relations between the sexes, they contend, one could radically and unrecognizably transform society.” --George Gilder
B.
Any distinction in roles is a power grab—it automatically leads to inequality, oppression, and abuse
* Thus, the world argues that we are morally obligated to abandon distinctions between the genders.
C.
Men are Caricatured as either lazy/passive or abusive/controlling
* Homer Simpson vs. Archie Bunker
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Women are also Caricatured as either sex objects or who lead/dominate men
* Brittney Spears vs. Hillary Clinton

A.
God did not create Androgynous beings, but Men and Women
Genesis 1:26-28 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.
And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 2:18-24 8 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him"… 21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. 22 And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 Then the man said, "This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man." 24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
B.
Sexuality/Gender affects almost every part of a person’s life
A.
Mark Dever
“It is my best and most sober judgment that this position [egalitarianism] is effectively an undermining of —a breach in—the authority of Scripture…It seems to me and others
(many who are younger than myself) that this issue of egalitarianism and complementarianism is increasingly acting as the watershed distinguishing those who will accommodate Scripture to culture, and those who will attempt to shape culture by
Scripture…Of course, there are issues more central to the gospel than gender issues.
However, there may be no way the authority of scripture is being undermined more quickly or more thoroughly in our day than through the hermeneutics of egalitarian readings of the Bible. And when the authority of Scripture is undermined, the gospel will not long be acknowledged. “
B. Martin Luther
“If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christianity.
Where the battle rages the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides is mere flight and disgrace to him if he flinches at that one point.”

Teachers: Mike Kruger and Bill Macurda
Description: Scripture is clear that manhood and womanhood are the beautiful handiwork of a good and loving God. John Piper, in his book What’s the Difference?, declares that “God designed our differences, and they are profound.” Yet, in many ways, the world around us, and even the church, has lost sight of these differences. When rightly understood according to his Word, God’s vision for both men and women is not oppressive, prideful, or self-promoting, but, are “fulfilling in the deepest sense of that word.” Come join us for this important class as we seek to recover the biblical teaching on manhood and womanhood
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Jan 2 nd : Setting the Stage in Culture: The Secular Feminist Impulse (Mike)
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Jan 9 th : Setting the Stage in the Church: The Tragedy of Feminist Agnosticism
(Bill)
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Jan 16 th : Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (Mike)
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Jan 23 rd : Complementarity as God’s Design in Creation (Bill)
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Jan 30 th : Complementarity as God’s Design in Marriage (Charles)
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Feb 6 th : Defining Male Headship According to the Bible (Mike)
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Feb 13 th : Defining Female Submission According to the Bible (Bill)
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Feb 20 th : Male Leadership in the Church (Mike)
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Feb 27 th : Objections, Questions, and Answers (Bill)