WWUTT 1895 Q&A Where We’ve Been, Before You Were Born, Theological Hot Takes

Where We’ve Been and Why the Podcast Was Delayed

Did God choose you for salvation before you were born? What are some theological takes that might get you into hot water? What kinds of biblical opinions does the world hate Christian women for having?

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Here once again is Pastor Gabe.

And here is my special guest, Becky Hughes. Hello! Because I don't think you've been on in March at all. Maybe not. Have you been? I don't know. So this is your first episode in March? It's been a long time.

It's almost my first episode in March. That's true. So we—. You've been in trouble. We haven't been—I've been in trouble? Yeah. People have been emailing. Oh, okay. Calling, texting. I said a couple of days ago, hey, if you've been wondering where we've been at, where we've been at, then listen to the—listen to the Friday episode and we'll talk about it.

So the first thing you say on this episode is, well, you've been in trouble. What? I'm just kidding. So why has Gabe not been on? Well, he's been in trouble for something, apparently. Oh, no. Not anywhere close.

He's been busy. Yeah. It's been super busy. It's been a combination of some different things. So if you'll remember back to the start of March, if you were listening to the episodes then, you'll know that my voice was really struggling to hang on.

Oh, yeah. I remember that. I wasn't able to get through entire lessons. I'd have to stop. You wouldn't know that because I just seamlessly was able to splice it all together. Yeah. But it was rough. I was pretty froggy.

Yeah. So I'd have to stop and get some water and let my voice come back and then resume the lesson. So I wasn't able to record ahead to get all the episodes done for when I went to the Shepherds Conference.

Right. And I took a recorder with me because I thought, you know, whatever house we stay in, maybe I'll be far enough away from everybody else that I'll get to record. But yeah, even when I was in California, I still had a hard time holding on to my voice.

And the house that we were in was pretty echoey anyway. Oh, yeah.

And there were idols everywhere. So everything was covered. All religions were covered.

That's right. The bedroom that I was staying in, there was a little Buddha statue and there was the Our Lady of Guadalupe over here. I'm like, wow, whoever owns this house is just trying to cover all our bases, apparently.

So anyway, yeah, while I was there for Shepherds Conference, I was gone for a week. I obviously wasn't able to do any episodes there. And before we left, before I went to California, I had just finished putting the drywall up in my studio where we are sitting.

So we're at home. We are. Our first episode from home. We've been living in this house for two years. We bought this house in March, two years ago. That's right. And finally, we're broadcasting from home.

Every episode I've done from my office at the church, but now we're home, still carpeting the walls, still trying to get like the echo out of this room.

Building the Home Studio and Dealing With the Echo

Yeah, the sound getting it better.

Not quite there yet. So you still kind of if you're just driving in the car, you don't even notice all the noise that's going on around you. You can't hear the extra echo. But if you're listening to us in your headphones and you're probably like, OK, this might notice a little more.

Sounds a little more hollow. Yeah, we can hear it really well, especially with how sensitive these mics are. And I've got these ultra high tech headphones that I'm wearing. I've never I only bought these like a week ago.

I don't know if I'm going to keep them. I might return them. But they still they still sound great. Yeah. I almost wonder if they're too good because I'm hearing more than I probably want to hear. I can hear that bug buzzing right outside the door there.

We're experiencing a an infestation of mayflies right now. Yeah. All over the place. Crane flies. Crane flies. Yeah, there you go. That's what they're called. Anyway. They're huge. I'm way off topic. Yeah.

So all of that was going on. Anyway, I finished the drywall. That has nothing to do with why we have it. Yeah. None of that has to do with why we have it. We've been carried away by crane flies. They're huge.

Anyway. Go ahead. So what was I saying? You were in California. I finished the drywall. Yeah. Before California. Finished the drywall, went to California, came back. I had already moved the equipment out of my office.

And so I thought, OK, I'm not on the podcast right now. I'm going to use the time to finish the studio. So for like, it was almost two weeks, but not quite. From 10 p .m. to 2 a .m. for four hours after the kids went to bed and you went to bed.

And now I've got four. This is time that I'm usually spending recording. But now I'm going to spend from 10 p .m. to 2 a .m. working on this room. So I was finishing the touches on the drywall. I was getting the mudding up.

I've been cutting carpet and hanging that on the wall since I'm trying to carpet the wall. I got a rug at Walmart and laying all that out and everything. Hanging the door, that was a bear. I still really didn't even get it straight.

It closes. It does. Yeah, that works. It latches. Anyway, that was my first time ever hanging a door. And I don't think this door was exactly straight anyway.

Usually they're not true to exact, but true to measurement. Just like the floor wasn't even.

There's different things. So this is the first time I've ever studded a room and hung drywall, like did the whole thing. Yeah, by yourself. By myself. I've been at various processes of it with other people, but I've never done the whole thing by myself.

And put a window in and all this other kind of thing. So there are things when doing this that I'm going, okay, so next time I do this, I needed a stud there, didn't think I was going to need one, that sort of thing.

I got all the studs spaced exactly right. But there's still a stud could have gone there in the corner where the drywall joint, anyway, all that other kind of thing. Help you out a little bit. Right. So I figured things out that I'm like, now I know what I did wrong, I could do this better next time.

But nonetheless, I've got a nice little eight foot by eight foot box. That he finally finished. That I finally finished. Well, finished. Yeah, it's still working on, but usable. We can sit in and we can record in here.

The sound quality is not to where I want it to be yet to record scripts for what videos and to resume Bible recording. But it's good enough for us to be here and record this podcast. So here we are recording from home.

And this isn't the final studio. This is just something that I wanted to throw together quickly in the garage. So we've sectioned off a point of the garage for this. I'm still going to do the other one outside under the deck, which I did the video of.

For those of you who had followed the YouTube channel.

Anyway. And when that happens, I get this room as my craft room.

This will be Becky's room to do with whatever she wants to.

Yeah, it'll be fun. But it's a great room. Thank you.

It's coming together. Yeah. You're welcome. I think so. This is not our final setup for the desk. I'm using TV trays right now. They wobble a little bit. No, we got the microphones on these TV trays. The desk that I'm going to set up, actually, I can't put the microphones on it.

So I'm trying to figure out something else that I got to do. Yeah. Trial and error. Still working all this out. This is the Friday edition of the broadcast, and we take questions from listeners. And you can send those questions to whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com.

Now since we haven't done a Friday broadcast in like three weeks or something, I don't have a lot of questions to pick from here. In fact, really all I've got are I meant to open with this, but we've already talked for 10 minutes.

I'm not going to do this over again. Meant to start with these emails. These are the kinds of emails that I've been getting over the last few days. This is why I said he was in trouble. Right. Yeah. See, that would have given back story to your comment if I had started with these emails.

Sorry. So this is I like to jump the gun. Oh, I jumped the gun, I think. Well, no, you did. That's right. I did. Because you made the comment first. Uh-huh. Mr. Kiyoki from Hawaii. Aloha, Pastor Gabe.

None of my podcast apps have anything from what newer than March the 6th. Are you all taking a break or should I get a new podcast app? Oh, don't get a new podcast. Nope, we're still here. And really, even

Oh, podcast app. Never mind. Even if we were to change the podcast service, which I'm using Podbean, not planning on changing, but even if I were to change it, you would still be able to get it on iTunes or if you're listening on Spotify.

Only if you're using Podbean would you have to change your podcast app. I got you. But if you're using any other podcast app, it should still work on any of those apps. Sorry, I'm having to check my mic here for some reason.

Next one. This is from Deb in Duluth, Minnesota. Hello, Pastor Gabe and Becky. I'm writing because I'm concerned about how you're doing. You have not posted to your podcast since March 7th. I am not on Twitter, but in doing a search, I believe the last Twitter post I saw was around the same time.

I don't know. I guess, was I not posting from Chevcon? I thought I was posting Twitter.

I'm pretty sure you were. Yeah, anyway. But, I mean, that might not have pulled up for her. Oh, could have been.

I don't know. I have checked your Facebook and your blog and website, but I don't see anything that says you were going on vacation or anything. Well, if you check my Facebook page, you don't see anything on there since 2020.

That's a long time. Because I don't have access to that Facebook page anymore. So, there's a Gabriel Hughes Facebook page out there.

Oh, I think she might have been the what? Maybe the what Facebook page. Yeah. Yeah.

It could have been that one. She said, on March 7th, yeah, when I listened to your podcast on March 7th, you didn't say anything about taking a break. I'm a regular listener and your podcast is one of my favorites, as well as your YouTube videos.

I was feeling concerned, so I thought I would drop you an email. I am praying for you and hope all is well with you and that I somehow missed an announcement that you were taking a break. That's so sweet.

If I knew that I was going to take a break, I would have said so in that episode. Yeah, it just kind of happened. It just happened. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that's, yeah. I took the time off with no warning.

Even Fred, our friend at Grace To You, even he DMed me and he's like, hey, where are you? And he saw me at ShepCon. Yeah. So, even he's going, where are you? You made it home, okay, right? Yeah, right.

Did your plane crash? What happened to you? This is from, this is from Virginia in Alaska, Virginia in Alaska. Okay. So, she says, hi, I obviously do, oh, wait, by the way, she sent this to our church.

The church email? So, this email did not come directly to me. It went to our church and our secretary forwarded it to me. So, she says, I obviously do not go to FBC Lendale, but I would if I was in the area just to listen to Pastor Gabriel Hughes as I do listen to his podcast faithfully.

I just wanted to ensure that he and his family are doing okay. He hasn't posted a podcast Bible study since March 6th. I saw he posted a What YouTube video about a week ago. Yeah, I posted that when I was actually sitting at one of those tables where the cabanas usually are at ShepCon and I uploaded a What video from there.

Nice. Yeah, I was still doing stuff even though I wasn't on the podcast. She says, anyway, I'm just a concerned listener reaching out and praying that he's doing all right. I also miss his Bible teachings.

Thank you and God bless. Oh, that's so sweet. So, the secretary forwarded that to me and said, I thought you might want to respond to one of your listeners. It's important. Thank you, Virginia. We sure appreciate your care and concern.

Obviously, I'm fine. I've just been on an unexpected hiatus. Yeah. But hopefully, I'm caught up and now that I'm home, it'll be the sort of thing where the kids go to bed, Becky goes to bed. Yeah. I pop in my studio and record like we were doing when I was in Kansas.

It'll be a lot more convenient. Yeah. So, you have no excuses now to miss any. I don't.

I'm just kidding. It's still extremely annoying how echoey it is in here. I know. My Isaiah study from yesterday was late because I can't tell you the number of times I sat down here and started recording it.

I'm just super distracted by all the echo. I'm just like, oh, I can't do this. So, I'd close the Bible. One o 'clock in the morning, I climb into bed with Becky. I was like, I didn't record anything. It was so grumpy.

I couldn't get it going. So, since we don't have any other questions from listeners to respond to because we've not been on for a while, I'm going to jump to some Twitter things here. I did a Twitter poll.

Did God Choose You for Salvation Before You Were Born?

Okay. So, here was the Twitter poll. The question that I asked, Christian, do you believe that God knew you and placed his affection on you and chose you for salvation before you were born?

Knew you and placed his affection on you and chose you.

For salvation before you were born. Of course. Yeah. So, I had 1 ,904 votes. Oh, wow. That's quite a few. 95 answered yes. Wow. I had no idea I had that many reading on Twitter who were Calvinist. 95%.

Out of 1 ,904 votes, I expected the answer given by followers that it was going to swing in the answer of yes. I didn't think the gap was going to be that wide. 95 answered yes.

5 answered no. Now, I have been guilty of trying to scroll up and accidentally clicking on one I didn't.

Want to click on yet. Well, somebody did comment, I clicked on the wrong one, but the answer is yes. Yeah. Totally been there. Yes. So, it was probably 96 said yes and then 4 said no. Yes. That's probably what it was.

Yes. That's probably accurate. Some of the other comments, just a nobody said, I don't understand it, but I believe it because God said so. Amen. Nathan, the unworthy prodigal said, well, the Bible says almost exactly that.

So, Ephesians 1, 4 through 5 among several others. And here's what we read in Ephesians 1 verses 4 through 6. He chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we would be holy and blameless before him in love.

So, not just he chose us for salvation, but he chose us that we would be holy and blameless before him. Yeah. If you've been justified, you're going to be sanctified. Right. Verse 5, by predestining us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, which he graciously stowed on us in the beloved.

Amen. Cage Stage Calvinist said, yes. And then quotes Titus 1, 2, in hope of eternal life, which God who never lies promised before the ages began. I told him, well, you missed the first verse. Titus 1, 1, for the sake of the faith of God's elect.

Paul an apostle for the sake of the faith of God's elect. Yeah. Jake from Raleigh, North Carolina. Well, if he didn't, I know I couldn't have chosen myself. So true, me too. Rick from Atlanta. He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.

Second Timothy 1, 9. Dennis from Chicago. You are violating the complex question fallacy, but by and large, the answer is no. In that yes leads to a deterministic system. Remember, then the opposite must be true.

That renders humans without free will, strips away justice and makes the creation a mechanistic toy. Okay. So he was definitely a no. He was definitely a no. How do you reason that biblically? Where does that come from in scripture?

Yeah. Wayne in Australia says, if God is truly eternal and omniscient, then the answer is yes. Amen. So there you go. There was my Twitter poll question. Got a couple of other Twitter things and some responses to these Twitter things to go through.

Theological Hot Takes That Draw Fire

But before I get to the one that I asked, I got to set this up a little bit here. All right. So there's an account on Twitter named Smash Bales. Okay. So smashing, like smashing idols.

Oh, okay. But Smash Bales. I was thinking like hay bales at first. I was a little lost. I didn't get it. I get it now.

You're not from Kansas. No, not at all. Sorry. Smash hay bales. You ought to come up with a parody account. Call him Bales. B-A-L-E-S, Bales. There we go.

That's so much more clear now. Okay, keep going.

All right. Anyway. So, you know, the image of, you know, we generally don't talk about movies. We don't endorse TV shows or anything like that on the broadcast. But here I'm going to have to, to set this up.

Okay. But you know, the movie Tangled. Yes. The Disney film. Yes. About Rapunzel. Now, the male character in that show, Eugene Fitzherbert, goes by the alias Flynn Rider. Right. Now, there's the scene in that movie where they're in the Snuggly Duckling, which is a bar.

And there's a lot of, you know, ruffians. And thugs. Thugs and ruffians. That's what they call them. And Rapunzel sings this song about this dream that she has. And so, they tell Flynn that he needs to sing.

And he says, no, I don't sing. And he sits back and crosses his arms. And then they draw their swords on him. So, you've seen this image of Flynn Rider with the swords drawn. Like, dozens of swords that are pointing right at him.

And then he breaks into song after that, too. Right. Because it kind of has to. Right. Avoid being slain. So, there's this still image of Flynn with all those swords pointing at him. And this has become a meme.

Uh-huh. And so, people will use that meme whenever they say something controversial. Right. Because they know it's going to mean people around them are going to draw their swords. Sure. So, Smash Bales posted that image of Flynn Rider with the swords on him.

And he said, what's your theological stance that would get you in this position? Oh, yeah. Okay. Now, this was hugely responded to on Twitter. Yeah, I remember a little bit about it. In fact, Not The Bee grabbed it.

Oh, really? And they did like a whole huge thread of just a ton of responses. Oh, wow. And it was pretty interesting. I'm going to read some of the more positive ones. I think I have a few negative ones in here, or those that I wouldn't agree with.

Okay. But here's some of those comments. Oh, first of all, here's what I said. So, I shared that meme from Smash Bales. Uh-huh. And responded to it. And I said, the Chosen is unbiblical and blasphemous, sowing division and confusion, causing more harm than good.

The writers have little regard for the text, and they have shown no understanding of the gospel. True. Got about a thousand likes on that one. So, it was one of the more liked responses to that particular meme.

Pastor Boye from Nigeria said, pastors are first brothers in Christ before they are pastors. Whenever the clergy stop seeing themselves as firstly brothers before anything else, we breed a culture of lack of accountability.

The church needs to be taught to see the clergy as both brothers and then leaders. Okay. I can kind of see that, yeah. So, establishing accountability, that's a good take. Right. That's a good take. I don't know that that's necessarily a sword-drawing take.

Among Big Eva people. I mean, maybe it's that way in Nigeria.

Could be. And, in fact, there was another comment here. Could be a cultural thing. Yeah. This other comment here from Majin, Nigeria. He said, the goal of evangelism is to reconcile people to God. The goal is not to get people to speak in tongues.

Yeah, see? I mean, we have that in America, too. We do. It's just not that prevalent. Yeah. Like, there's plenty of circles I can say that in. Nobody's going to draw a sword against me on that. Right.

But maybe in Nigeria, it's so prevalent that that's a really controversial take for them to make. Yeah. But we agree with it. Yeah, absolutely. You see some commonality between both statements. When you look into that word faith and that heavy Pentecostal movement, pastors are elevated to this position of, like, don't touch my anointed.

Right. And it's also that same group of people that will say, to prove that you really have the Holy Spirit, you have to show that you're speaking in tongues. So I can see how prevalent that Pentecostalism is in Nigeria would prompt both of those comments.

Yeah. From Pastor Boye and from Maj. Man, that's sad. Yeah. Abe, not Lincoln, said, Christians put way more faith into demons and evil than angels and things that are good. That's interesting. I don't know that I agree with it, but it's going to make me kind of, like, tune into that a little bit more.

Yeah. You hear people talking about the presence of demons and evil things more often than you hear them talking about, like, the good things that God is doing for us.

I don't know. I mean, in the part of country that we're in, there's a lot of both, I would say.

Well, yeah, we're in East Texas where everything is very optimistic. Yes. Very, very optimistic. As far as our surrounding Christianity is concerned. Yeah. Which is great.

Yeah. But I can see that. I would have to, yeah. Like you said, it's thought provoking.

Yeah, it's going to make me listen to it a little bit more. See if I hear that more. Are people talking about, you know, the devil oppressing me more often than they're saying, but the Lord is protecting me?

You know, that sort of thing. Yeah. Duke in Georgia, every human is a creation of God, but only a born again believer can be considered a child of God. That's right. Yeah. As we were just talking about being adopted into the family of God when I was reading from Ephesians 1 earlier.

That's something that a lot of people don't understand. Everybody is like, oh, everybody's a child. Oh, yeah, sure. Oprah said that. Yeah.

That's from the Church of Oprah. It's a popular thing. Everybody's a child of God. Bryson from Murfreesboro, Tennessee. I don't think I ever say that right. The first time I try. I'm not going to attempt it.

Bryson said, God doesn't love everyone. He hated Esau. Yeah, that'll get a sword drawn on you, saying that. That's a toughie, too. Matt, who's a Methodist pastor in Alabama, said, the New Testament does not forbid women from preaching and serving as pastors.

Yeah, that'll get the sword drawn. It'll get the sword drawn. It'll get a sword drawn from Orthodox biblical Christians. Yep. That's where the sword will come from. And by drawing a sword, I mean, they'll draw their Bibles and say, no, it says explicitly that a woman cannot teach or have authority over men.

1 Timothy 2, 11 and 12.

And isn't the Bible referred to as the sword? Yeah, right. It is the sword. It's the sword of the Spirit. In the Bible.

So I'm drawing that sword on Matt. I mean, it's astonishing how clear it is. And the Bible even goes further than saying women can't be pastors. They can't even function in the role. That's the description that you have there in 1 Timothy 2, 11 and 12.

So it's really astonishing that there's still anybody that insists that according to the Bible. Like, I get that there's people out there that will say, well, that's dated anyway. Like, that's not relevant to us now.

See, logically, that makes more sense that you're trying to downplay. Well, see, that was 2 ,000 years ago where it was only in Timothy's context or whatever else. But for somebody to outright say that the Bible does not forbid women from being pastors.

That's astonishing.

Anybody even attempts that. Well, I mean, didn't one of the translations try to make everything, oh, he, she, him? Oh, yeah.

Well, I mean, there's plenty. There's several translations doing that. Yeah.

So, I mean, maybe they have that translation. Neutralizing the pronouns. Yes, that's what it was. Maybe they're reading that one. I don't know.

No idea. I don't know. Anyway. He's just Methodist. Sure. And I highly doubt I have many Methodist listeners, but anyway. Tom from New York. Modern Israel is a pagan nation and Christians should not support it.

Hmm. Yeah, that'll get a sword on you. Definitely. Plenty of Zionists out there. Not going to take to that one. No. Joel Webben, who is from Right Response Ministries. By the way, I just was a special guest on Joel's podcast.

Oh, yeah. Earlier this week. So, look up Right Response Ministries. So, you did do a podcast. I did do a podcast. Not my own. I was on somebody else's. But we talked about the chosen. Some of the problems with the chosen.

Yeah. So, I talked about it with Joel, so I wouldn't have to talk about it with you again. Thank you. I appreciate that. We could give the chosen a break for a Friday episode.

I like to sleep after the podcast. Everything get all worked up.

Not get all cranky about it. So, Joel said, it is shameful for a woman to speak in church even if it's just making the morning announcements. What? Yeah, like, you know, if a woman comes up and makes the announcements in church.

Okay. Like, she leads the announcements. Uh-huh. Yeah. He's saying it's shameful for a woman to speak in church even if she's leading the announcements. Shameful. Okay. Well, that's what it says in 1 Corinthians 14.

It's shameful for a woman to speak in church. She should ask her husband at home. We're going to get to some more of that coming up. Because, like I said, this is actually building up to the question that I asked on Twitter.

We haven't even gotten there yet. We're just reading responses to smash bales. Uh-huh. Okay. Keep going. Okay. Adam Page, pastor friend of mine in Florida. He said, the existence of hell glorifies God.

Uh-huh. True. Adam also said, tongues mean languages, not gibberish. Thank you. Actual known human languages, not speaking in, you know. Your own. I thought I bought a Kia, but I bought a Honda. So weird.

All I said was, I thought I bought a Kia, but I bought a Honda. Uh-huh. Yeah. Where was I at? Okay. John, who is part of the Orthodox Church. Okay. He said, marriage lasts in heaven. All sacraments leave a lasting stain on the soul.

And if we resurrect the body and we're made one flesh in marriage, therefore marriage lasts in heaven.

I thought it was until death do you part. Until death do you part. Right. That's the vow.

Why is that the vow? Why is the vow not forever and ever?

Because it was in the Bible somewhere. I don't remember where though.

Yes. Yes. Jesus said in Matthew 22, 30, in the resurrection, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like the angels in heaven. Uh-huh. So marriage is an earthly relationship that we have.

That is to be a picture of the way that Christ loves the church. Uh-huh. Paul goes into that in Ephesians five. So when we are in heaven and the church is consummated to Christ. In glory. Uh-huh. That's our marriage.

Right. So you're not going to have the spouse that you had on earth. And remember what prompted Jesus saying that was the Sadducees coming with this question of, hey, a woman's husband died. His brother married her.

He died. Then his brother married her. So whose wife is she when she gets to heaven? And that's when Jesus responds, you don't understand the scriptures. Right. In heaven, there's not marriage and being given in marriage.

Uh-huh. So it won't matter. That's only a relationship we experience here. Uh-huh. It's not a relationship that we continue in glory. Right. Now, I love my wife. And I love you. I would spend forever with her.

And we will in a certain sense. We just won't be married in heaven, but we will spend forever together. Sure. But the Lord has decided marriage is just an earthly covenant. It is not a heavenly one. And I'll enjoy it while we live.

While it lasts. Exactly. I don't know how to say that. We're sanctifying each other. Yes. Preparing each other for that day. Yes. So amen to that. But yeah, this is another example of John. There's a verse that plainly states there won't be marriage in heaven.

Right. And yet he's saying exactly the opposite. It's even a red letter. Because we get a resurrected body. Yeah, it's even in the red letters. Because we get a resurrected body. Therefore, being one flesh.

He's trying to go. He's trying to reason that. With earthly logic. Instead of understanding what the scripture says. Yeah. Paul would have said you're foolish for saying that. Because the body that we are resurrected with.

Is not like the physical body. Right. So read 1 Corinthians 15 on that. Mike. In Jacksonville, Texas. Which is not far from here. The local church is near the Jordan River. You should not be baptized in the Jordan River.

Also, if you've already been baptized as a believer. You should not get re-baptized anywhere. Even the Jordan River. Amen to that. Yes. Samuel C., our friend from slow to right. He says. What an anxious soul needs most.

Is a preacher. A biblical counselor. Not a psychologist. So true. Amen to that. And Samuel. That'll have some swords drawn on you. Even in evangelical circles. That'll get some swords drawn on you. Michelle Leslie.

Minister of music. A .k .a. worship leader. Is a pastoral position. Which only biblically qualified men. Should fill. Good job, Michelle. Yeah. And in fact. She leads us into now this next part. Okay.

So I took that concept. With the Flynn Rider. Swords drawn. And it was because somebody. Somebody had responded to that. It was a woman that responded to that. With Flynn Rider and the swords pointing at him.

And said I'm a woman. So I'm not a guy in this position. And then she answered a question. And when I read that. I was like yeah. Somebody should make one with Rapunzel there. With the swords drawn on her.

And I thought who better to do it. 15 minutes to kill. So I took a picture of Rapunzel. And put her in there. Now my girls. Aria who's eight. And Mariah who's six. They were totally enamored with this.

So they see daddy working on his computer. They come over and they're looking over my shoulder. And I'm doing something with Rapunzel on the screen. And they're like. What is going on? What is daddy doing?

Why is there Rapunzel? Why is he replacing Flynn Rider with Rapunzel? And telling mom. Because they're asking me what are you doing? They don't know what a meme is. I don't know how to explain this to them.

So they run to Becky. Why is daddy doing this? What is daddy doing? Why is he replacing? What's a meme? It's like a meme? What's he doing? It's a sticker. So they watch me do that. And they're just enthralled with it.

So yeah. I made the picture of Rapunzel now in the place of Flynn Rider with the swords.

I always think of memes as like your virtual bumper sticker. Exactly. It's like bumper stickers.

That's why I call it a sticker. We're all bumper sticker makers now with these memes. So I put Rapunzel in that spot and I asked this question. Christian ladies, what's your theological stance that would get you in this situation?

Now in hindsight, I actually wish I would have worded it different. I said, what's your biblical stance? Because there were plenty that were coming up with unbiblical answers that you could just respond with.

No, that's unbiblical.

I said, what's your biblical stance? Yeah, I could think of quite a few like the homeschool groups that I've been a part of in the past. Some of the things that I want to say won't go over well. Yeah, right.

But as far as biblical,.

That's a whole other subject. So theological positions. What are your theological stances that will get these swords drawn on you? Lauren from Jackson, Mississippi. Parents should not force their daughters to get a job or go to college.

Instead, they should allow them the freedom and time to learn how to keep a home and or volunteer within the church. Fathers should care for their daughters until they marry and if they don't, for life.