August 2, 2022 Show with Jeremy Brandenburg on “Patriarchy: Repression, Obsession, or the Design of God?”

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I'm thrilled to have back as a returning guest today somebody who is becoming a very good friend of mine, a fairly recently installed pastor here in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Jeremy Brandenburg, a former

Army officer and the new pastor of Redeemer Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Today we are going to be addressing a very controversial issue, patriarchy, repression, obsession, or the design of God.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, Pastor Jeremy Brandenburg. Chris, thanks so much.

It's great to be with you. Well, tell our listeners, especially for the sake of those who did not hear you last time you were on the broadcast, tell our listeners about Redeemer Orthodox Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Redeemer OPC. We are a great bunch of folks saved, washed by the blood of Christ, and beloved by God the

Father. I thought you were a Presbyterian church, not a Baptist church. I was going to say,

I prayed for you today and God's blessing on your ministry, and I'm obligated to hold out hope that you will one day cross over into the true land of wisdom and blessing in the

Presbyterian church. But anyway, I'm really thankful for the ties between our two churches.

In fact, I wanted to throw a commendation out to John and Simon and all the elders at Grace, because I think they actually, on the topic of patriarchy,

I don't know that John would say he's patriarchal, he'd probably say he's a complementarian, but I think your church does a great job discipling men and women, but I know they have a program for fathers and sons, and I think that's great stuff.

But anyway, Redeemer, we're a little church on the corner of York and Petersburg.

We're about a stone's throw from Interstate 81, so if you're coming down the interstate, stop by and see us. We, praise the

Lord, we're a small sanctuary, but we're filling up. All the glory to God, people are coming, they're staying, which always amazes me, because it is a tremendous privilege to preach

God's Word, and it's a wonderful thing that people are being blessed here and built up in the grace of Christ.

And you are, and I'm not just flattering you here, or I should say I'm not flattering you.

I know you wouldn't. But you are a really extraordinary preacher. I had the privilege of hearing you preach when you were a guest preacher at the aforementioned

Grace Baptist Church of Carlisle, and that was a real great blessing and an edifying experience for me, hearing you preach.

Well, thanks, Chris. Like I said, I actually really enjoy getting together with John and Simon, and I'm very thankful for the connections, and the ongoing connections and the friendship between our churches.

Yes, and Simon just told me after Lord's Day worship that he would like to return to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio to discuss foundations of the

Christian faith, which was the theme of his sermon on Sunday, and I'm hoping that he sticks to his word and comes back on, because I really love interviewing him.

If anybody wants more information about Redeemer Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, go to RedeemerOPC .org,

RedeemerOPC .org. And as I said at the outset of the program, this theme today, patriarchy, is very controversial, especially since there are people who profess to be

Christians and some people who are Christians, but who have taken the term patriarchy, which they use to identify themselves, to an extreme which

I think is sinful and has really given a bad reputation to others that identify themselves with this label of believing in patriarchy.

But why don't you define patriarchy for us to start off? Sure. Well, that's the thing about things that God did in creation.

You don't, like, well, obviously you can dispute it, because we have people today who are disputing, you know, people saying,

I'm born a man, and then say, well, they wake up one day and they say, I'm a woman now, which, you know, we would say is the irrational tendency of the mind and the will and the heart because of the fall and because of the effects of sin.

But patriarchy, I mean, the very basic definition is father rule. And the thing

I really, I wanted to discuss this with you no matter what the next time you were going to let me be on your show.

So thank you, by the way, for having me back. But I felt even more empowered and emboldened to talk about this because I was very pleased to see an article, a blog, from Kevin DeYoung on Desiring God's website talking about patriarchy.

And he, it was, that's really interesting to me because there is a movement.

It's just, it's a hot topic right now. Biblical patriarchy, it's associated.

Many people, you say the name Doug Wilson, and the hair on the back of their neck stands up. They don't like him, even in Reformed circles.

In fact, I heard, I kind of got a sense for how disliked Doug Wilson is in talking to some

OPC ministers. And one man who I'd never heard say a bad word about anyone, Doug Wilson was mentioned, and he immediately had a strong reaction.

And I thought, okay. You know, Doug Wilson and his denomination, the

CREC, it's kind of their brand being very strong on male headship, not just in the church but in the home and in society.

They really commend it. They teach it. They encourage it. But it's spreading, and the influence is not just with that church and that denomination, but it's a hot topic right now.

But I would say the basic definition is father rule. And, you know, we need to, as we discuss this as Christians, we should always obviously come back to Scripture.

And if you look at the biblical account, you know, I think you see patriarchy all throughout

Scripture. You see it from Genesis 1. God created man, male, and female in his own image.

But you go to Genesis 2, and the further detail in the creation account is that Adam was created first, and Adam was created to be the first father of all mankind.

So it's not, to me, anything that is, you know, out of sync with the teaching of Scripture.

Well, as you know, the more common way that conservative and especially

Reformed congregations, fellowships, and denominations refer to their views of gender roles in the family and in the church, the more common way to describe this is complementarian.

And you have told me that you prefer the term patriarchy.

You think that complementarian perhaps is a deficient way of describing proper biblical gender roles.

Why don't you compare and contrast those two concepts? Right. Yeah, like you said,

I'm becoming less comfortable with that term. And, you know, I think it's important even to take a step back from the issue of patriarchy itself because we're not, as a

Christian pastor, I'm not trying to sit here and commend the concept of patriarchy. I'm trying to commend

Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel to every man and woman and child.

Tremendous implications for the church, for the individual believer, male or female, to understand or misunderstand who we are as created beings, created male or female, but both equally in God's image.

There's tremendous implications, and I think we're living with the fallout. It's one of the things that DeYoung mentions in his post that I thought was so helpful, just acknowledging the fallout for the last,

I'd say the last 50 years with the influence of the feminist movement. Moving away from, so with the term complementarian,

I just think it was a compromised position to make the biblical teaching on male and female gender roles and specifically male only, you know, having only men leading in the church, serving as officers, pastors, deacons, elders, whatever your polity.

The Bible teaches that men are supposed to lead in the church. Men are supposed to lead in the home. There's a presumption. It's a given.

Paul takes it as a given in 1 Timothy and other places where he talks about the qualifications for officer that the men are ordering their household well.

Now, we all know the women have a very important and high calling in the home. Women are the ones who can actually bear children and nurse children, and especially in most traditional

Reformed families and churches, you're going to see women stay at home. But men are expected and commanded and required biblically to be the leaders in the home.

So I've just found the more that I've thought about this, the more that I've looked at this not just in our current cultural context because we shouldn't say something.

We shouldn't embrace something just because, well, things are bad in the culture right now. We should do it. We should believe it because it's true and because it's biblical.

And the term complementarian, it just seems like a compromised position. And I think just to take a step back from this whole issue,

I think part of the problem here, and I would say it's a big problem, is that we have a tendency to avoid topics, to avoid issues and problems that have the potential to cause offense and not to kick a man when he's down or beat a dead horse.

The issues that are going on in the PCA right now, thankfully they had a positive vote. I saw a tremendous speech that was passed along to me from the

General Assembly from Palmer Robertson taking a stand against homosexuality.

There's a tremendous inclination. It's almost like our reflex as Christians right now to avoid giving offense.

But, Chris, the problem is that being a Christian of any stripe is becoming more and more offensive in our culture.

It's automatically offensive. So why should we shy away from any part of God's truth?

No, we shouldn't at all. We should commend all of it. Amen. So do you see things from your experience as a pastor observing how other churches are conducting themselves, families, how they are conducting themselves, as you visit these churches, as you visit homes, as you have conversations with pastors and fathers, are you seeing and hearing about things that you are finding less than biblical, deficient, problematic in the way that even those that identify themselves as complementarian are teaching about and putting into practice proper biblical gender roles?

Right, right, yes, yes. The answer is yes. And I actually will try to find, I've got Kevin DeYoung's article here in front of me, and I want to read some helpful quotes.

He says essentially that if all we're holding onto is this very thin definition of complementarity and that all

God requires is that we're all egalitarian, we all believe men and women are the same, totally equal before God's eyes, in the community, in the home, in society, and God just requires as kind of this tacked -on belief that men should be elders and pastors, and they should believe in the home.

But really, functionally, the more I— yeah, it's a problem.

It's a problem in the Reformed world that it's basically men leading in name only.

And I mean, it's one thing to believe in male headship.

It's another thing to actually practice it. And I say this as a fellow sinner and—

Sorry, there's a firetruck going by. I hope those people are all right.

But speaking of firetruck, you put, do you want emergency responders a truck full, and this is not meant to be offensive, do you want a truck full of women coming in when you're in a burning building?

No, you don't. You want strong men who are capable. I'm not saying there can't be any women involved, but you want strong men in the fire company.

You want men who are capable and who understand the expectations that are placed upon them.

So I think—so what I'm seeing is that, you know, one of the things that's really standing out to me is that even in the

Reformed world, we say, okay, male pastors, male elders, but it seems to me in my brief experience so far in the ministry that we accept that, but only insofar as those men are at least, they're not too strong, they're not too bold, they're not giving offense.

And that's where I think, again, to come back to this kind of parallel issue of giving offense, we don't just want to be offensive for the sake of angering people, but people are going to be angry with what we have to say, because what we have to say is that we're all sinners, we're dead in our sins, and only by turning to Christ in faith are we made acceptable to God.

So I think this is something where, because we've taken this very nominal kind of weak -sauce approach to male leadership, teaching our sons, teaching young men, there's all kinds of bad habits and practices, both in the church and in the family, where, you know, you see—one of the things— so one of the books

I wanted to mention that I'm reading, and I think we're going to read as a church, as a men's group, it's called

It's Good to Be a Man, and it's by a pastor named Michael Foster and another man from,

I believe from New Zealand, Dominic Nontennant. And it's a really good book, not endorsing every single thing that Michael Foster says.

He's pretty out there on social media. But they point out—they make a very helpful point about tendencies in churches that— these churches may not be led officially by women, but he's saying there's an effeminate tendency that is bad, it's unbiblical, it's not

Christ -honoring. And they point out these two things, that when women are holding power in a church, whether it's official or unofficial, they say two things tend to happen.

And these are the two things. One, they strive to include anyone agreeable, regardless of error.

And two, they strive to exclude anyone disagreeable, regardless of orthodoxy. And you see what goes by the wayside there.

It's orthodoxy. It's biblical fidelity. And that's not good. Yeah, well, do you think, to start with, just to give the benefit of the doubt to some people, pastors, leaders in churches that have been very cautious about how they teach and practice the concept of proper biblical gender roles, that they do have this caution because they know of abuse that has taken place.

They know that there are perhaps women who never are given any sphere of influence and activity at all to use their gifts, even with other women.

They know of marriages where husbands are tyrants and may be abusive to their wives emotionally, mentally, and even physically.

And the church is so warped in its hyper -patriarchal ideas that they do nothing to discipline the men.

Right. I mean, I could go on and on with these kinds of things. So, don't we have to make it clear, extremely crystal clear, because of these things that have occurred, especially perhaps the previous generation.

But I know from hearing the testimonies of not only women, but even men who would share your understanding, our understanding of gender roles, who have seen these things happen.

Don't we have to make it very clear that we are not endorsing anything that even comes remotely close to that?

Yeah, no, we're certainly not endorsing anything like that. And it's a distortion that's kind of just taken root in our culture, and it's one of the things that DeYoung talks about in his post, about the fact that patriarchy is just automatically a bad term.

It only means bad things. But the reason that is, because it's been just talked about that way, that's an important part of it.

But, yeah, when men fail, women suffer, children suffer.

But the solution is not to then say, well, the men can't be in charge, so the women should be in charge.

If you want women to be protected, if you want women to flourish and thrive, single women, young girls, young women, older women, married and unmarried, if you want women to thrive, then you need men to be strong and to live godly, upright lives, understanding the whole counsel of God for life in the church, in the community, everywhere.

And so, to me, the antidote to abuse is not to have, well, let's put men on the side and let's bring in these outsides.

One of the things that was debated at our General Assembly, which is very, you know, a cause of no small amount of conflict, was this idea of bringing in an outside organization to help us, you know, find out abuse and then discover abuse and deal with abuse.

And, you know, I'm not against any looking for wisdom and insight under the sun, as one of my seminary professors would talk about it, even secular wisdom and insight to understand how to love and minister to everyone in the church better, especially women.

But if you want to protect women and if you want to protect children, you need strong, godly,

God -fearing men who are going to hold other men accountable. The reason these situations happen is because there's men who are not doing their duty before God and before the women, the wives and the mothers in the church.

So I would say the antidote is not to then, you know, push the men aside and say, okay, now we need the women to be in charge, but it's actually to, not that we don't listen to the women.

That's not the point at all. Women have a vital voice. I'm preaching on Psalms and Proverbs throughout the summer, and I just preached from Proverbs 1, and right at the beginning of Proverbs, he says, hear my son.

Listen, my son, to your father and your mother. You know, part of the emphasis, the positive emphasis, of restoring the biblical notion of patriarchy, of godly father rule, is that mothers would be empowered also and understand, that women would understand the vital role they have in the family to teach and instruct their children, especially their boys, because we live in a very confused time when it's viewed as a bad thing to be a male and it's a good thing to be a female, even though we don't even understand what that is anymore.

We don't even have a common consensus about Chenter at all. But yeah, no, it's important.

I'm glad you brought that up, because we're not, I am not commending or arguing for any form of male domination.

But the fact is, even in the Gospel, this is one of the things that, again, coming back to theology, Chris, as I've thought about this, as I've reflected on Scripture and what all this means, male and female, every believer worships the

God -man every Sunday and for all eternity, Jesus Christ. That is a profound and sublime reality, that God became a man.

He didn't become a woman. And we're not going to be able to work out all of the full meaning of that in this interview, but that matters.

And we should think about that. We should meditate on that reality that Jesus Christ is, now and forever, the

Son of God, united to a human nature as a man.

And these realities, as Paul says in Ephesians 5, are reflected in marriage. And he says there, what does Paul say in Ephesians 5?

He says, husbands, love your wives as your own flesh. That's not what the world says.

That's what God says in the Bible. You're not going to find that anywhere in secular culture. That's the gospel. That is the

God -ordained, Christ -exalting vision of marriage and family in the church.

It's husbands loving their wives and wives submitting to their husbands. So obviously, from what you've said, the way a church should make sure that they are addressing gender roles biblically and adopting a correct and biblical form of patriarchy.

First and foremost, they need to study the Scriptures on these things. It would even be wise to hear what great teachers of the past and present have said about these things, although obviously nothing is inerrant other than the

God -breathed Scriptures. But it's foolish to ignore the great teachers that God has blessed the church with.

And then, to appoint leaders in your church, appoint men in your church that are truly qualified to uphold the leadership roles to which they are appointed.

That they are not appointed because they're just very brilliant or just extremely gifted orators or just a heck of a nice guy.

Charming and able to captivate people with their conversation and so on.

They need to be really worthy of the task that has been entrusted to them.

Right. Yeah. And this is something that men and women both need to understand and believe and embrace.

Because women in the church are also part of the, you know, women in our church vote. And that's not going to change.

So women, as they're assessing men for leadership in the church, and as younger women are looking for a man that they want to marry, they should have a very clear idea of who fits the mold and what man is understanding

God's call on his life, God's requirements for men. You know, there's a danger here of denigrating or neglecting women.

But I'm not so afraid. The more I think about this and the more I pray about it, the more I kind of move forward with this, the less fearful

I am of that. Because when men are being called to live as servants of Christ in the church, in the home, in their workplace, there's only going to be—it's only going to benefit women.

And, you know, part of this is correcting the way women think about these things, too. And if you—what is the—by osmosis, we are in our culture, we're a part of our world, but we're also separate.

We can't—Paul talks about the fact that we can't, you know, go out of the world. We can't leave it. We're Americans.

We're living in Western society. We're living in American culture. And the dominant message is that there's something bad about being a man and there's something wrong with you.

And that's not true biblically. The thing that's wrong with you is sin, and that's been taken away in Christ.

But there's nothing—it's not as if God made a mistake in Genesis 1 and then Jesus came and he had to correct it, and we're all supposed to be more like—all the men need to be more like the women, and there's something more righteous about being a woman.

That's why I like the title of Foster and Tennant's book, It's Good to Be a Man, because it comes right out of Genesis 1.

But there is the potential to make it sound as if women are second -class citizens, that they're less valuable to the

Lord, and that's not it at all. But it's about commending and understanding and believing what

God has revealed in special revelation, the Scriptures, and in general revelation in creation.

And we're part of creation, male and female. Well, we have to go to our very first break right now. If anybody would like to send in a question of their own to Pastor Jeremy Brandenburg, whether you agree with what he is saying, whether you disagree, whether you're somewhere in the middle,

I'd love to hear from women, too, to have their two cents added to the discussion.

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Or you're just a person who perhaps disagrees with the leadership in your church over this issue, no matter what side you stand on.

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There could be a host of reasons why you would want to remain anonymous if the issues are personal and private.

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Our theme is Patriarchy, Repression, Obsession, or the Design of God.

And we do have a listener who is a mutual friend of both

Pastor Jeremy and myself. In fact, he's been a guest on this program on a number of occasions in the past.

He's been a co -host with me on this program and he is a former colleague with Ken Ham, the world -renowned

Christian young earth creationist. Charlie is the founder and director of his own ministry called

Six Day Creation and he's actually going to be my guest a week from today. August 9th,

Tuesday, August 9th, to discuss a new book he has written after the very tragic loss of his son after a suicide.

So I'm urging everybody to mark their calendars for Tuesday, August 9th, to hear what

Charlie has to say about a very important and rarely discussed topic, the

Christian and suicide, and we're looking forward to having Charlie on. And I'm thankful and grateful to him for being willing to discuss openly on a radio program such a very private and intimate and painful subject.

But Charlie asks, can women be deacons in a Bible -believing church?

Well, I think the answer is to, oh, hi, Charlie, by the way. Charlie and Terry have become very dear friends and I love them both and I knew that Charlie would be listening, and so no surprise that he's a first question.

But also I'm really glad that you are going to have Charlie on, and obviously incredibly sad and devastating for Charlie and Terry to lose their son the way they did.

But I am so proud of Charlie and Terry, and I've told them that the way that they are going through this is bringing glory to God, and it's showing the power.

You know, Charlie and Terry are not getting younger. They're not spring chickens, as we say, but I have seen, and they've been a blessing to me just to visit with them and to see the power of Christ in each of them and the grace that he's given them to walk through this very, very difficult valley.

So I look forward to listening next week and to reading Charlie's book.

The short answer is no. You know, there's churches that have,

Reformed churches even, that have deaconesses, and biblically, you know, it's very clear.

It's talking about men, men being appointed as deacons and elders.

There's nowhere in the New Testament that I know there's some of the language in Romans about the women who helped

Paul, the women who, by the way, were vital to his ministry. But, you know, a lot, and we tried, part of the big problem here with the whole, you know, issues of gender dynamics, male and female, the roles in the church, is we try to take the exception and make that the rule.

Like people say, well, look at Deborah. You know, she was a prophetess. Well, it was the book of Judges.

And look at Anna. She was a prophetess when Christ came. Well, she wasn't a priest. The priests were only men.

So we try to take the exceptions and make that the rule. Biblically, no, women cannot be deacons.

And I think churches that, you know, I actually grew up in a church with deaconesses, and the church that I grew up in, 10th

Presbyterian in Philadelphia, has been able to kind of maintain that, the distinction there. And they haven't, you know, people say, oh, it's a slippery slope.

That's not true in every case. It's not always the case that a church that has unordained deaconesses, they end up going the route of, well, then you have women who are ordained deacons, and then women elders, then women pastors.

I just think it's not a good move. It's not a wise thing to do. I think there's many ways to build up the role of women in the church.

Titus 2, let the older women teach the younger women. Women are supposed to teach.

There's a place for women to be teaching. And, you know, how are younger women supposed to learn if older women aren't teaching?

So there's a proper place for women teaching in every church, not just some churches. This is the apostolic constitution, as one of the church fathers

I read in preparation for my sermon on Sunday referred to it. This is our church constitution as a whole, church

Catholic, small c Catholic. This is for everyone, not just for, well, our church believes this. Well, if your church believes the

Bible, every church, every Christian church should have women, godly older women, teaching younger women.

And I think it's appropriate for women to be teaching children, young boys and girls.

I think the older children get, the more important it is to have men involved. In fact, that's one of the things

I'm praying for and wanting to see in my church is more men involved in the Sunday school program, especially at the older levels because, you know, young men need godly examples of men teaching and leading.

So that is my answer to Charlie. And folks,

I want to give you Charlie's website for his ministry. It's sixdaycreation .com

and the word six is spelled out. It's not the number. It's S -I -X, sixdaycreation .com.

Quick humorous story. I don't know if you heard this story, Pastor Jeremy, but I was at an event where Charlie was the keynote speaker and I was sitting at the banquet table with his lovely wife

Terry and I leaned over to Terry and I said, Hey, Terry, did you know that Charlie and I went to the same high school in Amityville, Long Island, New York?

And she said, Oh, did you graduate together? And Charlie's about 20 years older than I am.

Charlie's on the better end of that question. Yeah, you're both New Yorkers, but we don't hold it against you.

And looking forward to the interview, Charlie. One thing to say about that, the way that Charlie worded it,

I think we have to be somewhat careful. And you did include this in your answer to a degree.

But when he says, Can women be deacons in a Bible -believing church? There is a church whose pastor

I consider to be one of my greatest living heroes of the faith, John MacArthur. And although I don't agree with everything that John MacArthur believes and teaches and everything that Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, practices, they are dispensationalists.

But I think that that is really not the primary thrust of John MacArthur or his church.

They share the treasure, just as I do, the precious doctrines of sovereign grace and many other things.

They have deaconesses, but they view that role as not being an office of the church.

They don't believe that those women have any authority over men in any way, shape, or form, nor do they ever teach men.

So I just wanted to make that clarification that I think that you could be a Bible -believing church and an error on something.

Right. And I just thought I'd throw that in there. We have to go to our midway break right now.

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Arnie in Perry County, Pennsylvania, who asks, Pastor Jeremy, I'm still not really getting the gist as to how patriarchy is significantly different, or different at all, than complementarianism.

Is it just the word that bothers you, complementarianism, because maybe it has too many loopholes attached to the name?

Great question. I think patriarchy, and how is it different from complementarianism, it's a difference in emphasis, and I think if you look at the way people use the term complementarian, and I think there's lots of people and lots of men, pastors in the

Reformed world, who would use the term. Kevin DeYoung in his article says he's still going to use the term, that's great, but I think it's very revealing that he's even writing this.

I think it's a response to the trend that's kind of highlighting, or pulling back the curtain, so to speak, on the fact that it's such a compromised term to make what the

Bible actually teaches less offensive and more palatable to people who aren't

Christians, and even to make Christians look less crazy in the world. But the question is, what are the differences?

Well, I think if you believe that the Bible is supporting patriarchy, or teaching patriarchy, then it means father rule.

It means that men are created to rule, and it's not just that, well, men have to be, because God said so, men have to be, only men can be the leaders in the

Church. It's like, no, the difference is that to say that you believe patriarchy is biblical, and that it's

God's design, it means that God designed for men to lead. He designed for Adam and Eve.

They complemented each other. Adam needed Eve, and Eve needed Adam. But Eve, the woman, was created to be

Adam's helper. And Adam was created to lead and to rule, and it was a co -rule.

They were king and queen together, I think we can say, and fully affirmed, but men are given the gifts to lead, and when men exercise those gifts, not just in the, yes, in the

Church, yes, in the home, and really and fully in the home. It's not just a nod to, well, because the

Bible says that we have to let the husband know. Husbands need to lead with full authority and conviction in the home, and women should be building up their husband in the eyes of their children, in the eyes of their

Church community, in the eyes of their non -believing community. Women should say good things about the husband.

You know, one of the things I'm always talking about with my wife is how, in popular culture, to be a man is kind of a joke.

You know, we watched this one show, and it just, it really infuriates me how, well, there is one guy on the show who's a strong male leader.

He's a strong leader. Would this be the Munsters? I'm just curious. Say that again?

I'm sorry? You said the Munsters? Yeah, I was just joking. You know, but if you just, if you look at any, you know,

I could use this one particular show as an example. If you look at pop culture, you look at the way men are even spoken about, look at the way men are portrayed in movies and TV.

By and large, they're a joke. The dad is always a doofus, and what

I'm saying is, Dad, you're not a doofus. Dad, you are given strength and ability and gifts to lead, and you must lead, and you must exercise strength in a

Christ -exalting and confident way in your family, in your workplace, because that is

God's design. So it is, in that way, I think it is different than what a lot of people mean by complementarianism.

And I think, again, the complementarianism was a compromised position. I don't know if the term was coined by John Piper and Wayne Grudem, but they certainly were a big part of promoting it in their book on biblical manhood and womanhood.

But it's simply acknowledging the fact that men were created to rule. And some of the best quotes come from secular authors.

One of the guys that Kevin DeYoung cites is a man named Stephen Goldberg, who wrote a book called

The Inevitability of Patriarchy, and he says that Goldberg thinks his book has set a world record for the number of times it was rejected by publishers.

He was rejected 69 times by 55 publishers, because the term is so unpalatable.

Well, why is it unpalatable? Is it only because, yes, there's bad patriarchy, there's bad fathers, there's bad male leaders?

No, it's because anything that is truly God's design is going to be resisted by sinful human nature.

So I hope that answers the question. I could go on for quite a while. But I think it also is just simply acknowledging and embracing, not downplaying and negating the real differences between men and women.

One of the other things, there's physiological differences, there's biological bodily differences. They're not just, you know, a lot of people say, well, if we just socialize our children differently, society would be different.

You know, you see the way some of these countries are going and companies, even the corporate influence on, the corporate attempt to make everything gender neutral.

Well, if we just socialize boys and girls, they'll all be the same. No, that's not true. There's no way to eradicate the differences between boys and girls.

And if you're a parent or a grandparent or if you have nieces and nephews and you're around little kids, you see from the moment they are born, boys and girls are different and these differences are

God -given. And so therefore, they're God -glorifying. One of the things that's very interesting in this article by DeYoung, he points out how from the very moment of birth, he says this, one -day -old female infants respond more strongly to the sound of a human in distress than a one -day -old male infant.

Just think about that. From the moment of birth, from before birth, we're designed, we're made with these inherent innate differences and they're not bad.

There's nothing wrong with women who are living as women, as God created them.

There's nothing wrong with men. God didn't make a mistake in creation. And by the way, I would say that a particular dad or dads might be doofuses, but they can't be content in remaining that way.

They've got to, especially if they're Christians, their duty is to repent of being a doofus, being somebody that is allowing their wife and giving her the burden that is unwarranted to place upon her, the role of leader in the family.

As I've repeated many times in this show, I think that a man who seeks to be a tyrant in his home over his wife and children, he is a doofus.

He's a doofus if he is not asking his wife for her counsel and advice, especially in areas where she may have vastly more experience than her husband, or knowledge, might even be the role her employment has for her that has given her, you know, a great amount of information.

The husband would be stupid not to get his wife's counsel. And lest we forget about a very biblical concept of a godly woman that is not the stereotype that feminists like to accuse anyone who is conservative of embracing that the wife is merely to be barefoot and pregnant and never stray from the kitchen and the bedroom, let us not forget

Proverbs 31, where there is a lot of extremely complimentary, and there's no pun intended there, complimentary verses,

God -breathed verses about a woman who is to be viewed as a woman who has worth far above jewels.

You're talking about things like, let's see here, she brings her food from afar.

She rises also while it is still night and gives food to her household and portions to her maidens.

She considers a field and buys it. From her earnings, she plants a vineyard.

She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong. She senses that her gain is good, and we could go on and on with the images of this godly woman that utterly annihilate the view of a woman as a household slave.

So I just wanted to remind our listeners about that as well, and that these are God -breathed truths. So therefore, obviously, since you are a man who treasures and boldly proclaims the inerrancy of Scripture, you would not see any of this proverb in contradiction to patriarchy.

No, not at all. In fact, I think there is, in God's design, in the way that he made men and women, and the way that God has designed for the church and the home and the family and the community to function, there is a place for women to exercise their

God -given gifts, their intellectual abilities. I like to point out, we actually read through Proverbs as a family for devotions, and the passage you just mentioned,

Proverbs 31, I made it a point to stop and say to our kids, I said, you know why we have the home that we have?

I said, because of your mommy, because I was busy. We moved here last year, and I was neck deep in figuring out how to be a pastor, and it was my wife who was looking up properties and setting up times for us to go, and by the grace of God, we have a nice little home in Carlisle, and it's not because I was doing the work, it's because my wife was doing the work.

So it's a great misnomer. It's a stereotype. Honestly, it's a disparaging, very disparaging stereotype of stay -at -home moms, of women who are living out their

God -given calling, both as wives and mothers, and as grandmothers. I try to, I'm very thankful for, this is not true in every marriage.

We have people in our church who, the wives are in the workplace. We have many couples where the wife and the mother is at home, and it's not always possible because of financial burdens, but I would say that every couple should look, as much as they are able, to have the wife and the mother stay home with the children, because I think that is

God's design, and women are just equipped. Again, look at the biological realities.

Men cannot have babies. Men cannot nurse babies, regardless of what you hear in the insane swirlings in our current cultural moment, but men and women, it takes a mother and a father to raise children, and we don't say because,

I had a professor in seminary that I really loved. His name is Kent Hughes. He pastored a big church in Wheaton, Chicago.

Yeah, I've interviewed Kent. Yeah, I think you told me that before. Yeah, he's a very good and godly man, and he was raised by his mother, and I believe his aunt.

He says, I was raised by women, and Kent is a man's man. He's a very godly man.

He wrote a book recently re -released on disciplines of a godly man, and his father died when he was young.

We don't take the exceptions, though, and say, well, this is equally as good, or it's the same.

No, I mean, you see, there's so much fallout in our culture today with the frequency of single motherhood, with the absence of fathers.

This is not good, and it's not God's design, and if we're looking to God, we're looking to his word for all of the wisdom that we need to live in a way that pleases him, and that is a blessing to each one of us if it means following the pattern that he has laid out and living in his grace according to the design that he created, and that is good for both men and women.

We have an anonymous listener who says, Can you provide for us any telltale signs that a man who is either seeking leadership in your congregation or seeking to begin to court your daughter, or if a woman is single and men are approaching her romantically, how they could weed out those that you believe would become not only inappropriate leaders in a church, but leaders in a family.

I'm immediately reminded of a book that was written over a decade ago by Votie Balcombe, What He Must Be If He Wants to Marry My Daughter, published by Crossway.

But anyway, you got any ideas? Yeah, it's a great question. I think you should look at the whole man.

You should look at, honestly, his background, his parents, his family life. We have young men in our church who want to be married and want to find a good and godly woman, and the advice

I give them is live the way that God wants you to live now and be pursuing the things that are pleasing to Him.

Being in worship regularly, being in the Word, having a vocation and sticking with it, not going from job to job, looking at the whole man, look at his devotion to the

Lord. You know, not every man is going to be as fluid and as fluent in prayer or as drawn naturally to spiritual things, but no matter what the measure of faith that you have, this is one of the things

I wanted to say. If you are going to be a husband and then, if the

Lord wills, a father and have children, you are the spiritual leader in the home, regardless of your wife's interest or aptitude for theology and for the

Scriptures and for teaching the Bible. So, yeah, you should look at who...

First of all, you just have to get to know them, of course. That's obvious. But find out, ask questions, like, how did you come to know the

Lord? What is your devotional life like? Who are some Christian men that you look up to and admire and respect?

You know, there's guys we could name who are not believers, who have a tremendous amount of influence and a wide audience with young men because of their, you know, emphasis on building men up.

You hear the term, the manosphere and red -pilling and all of this. But, you know, if we don't want our young men to be captured by those kinds of influences, captured and captivated, then they need to be looking to godly leaders, godly men in the

Church. And seeing them, you know, I think of the verse from Hebrews where, remember your leaders, those who spoke the

Word of God to you. You know, ask a man who his influences are. Who is he listening to? What kind of stuff is he...

You know, podcasts are huge today. Are you listening to... Are you having good godly influences or are you listening exclusively to to men who aren't very wholesome?

By the way, folks, I would heartily recommend after this show is over, at some point, that you listen to a recent interview with a very godly young woman,

Katie Garraway, the daughter of a very long -time friend of mine, Pastor Vincent Sawyer of Victory Baptist Church of Port Charlotte, Florida.

Katie and her husband, Caleb, they operate a ministry called

Remnant Ministries and she was recently on the program, July 19th, in fact, to discuss courtship and its advantages over dating.

And she had a lot to say about things very similar to what this listener asked.

So I highly urge that you look that up. Look up... You could even just type in the search engine

Katie Garraway, G -A -R -R -A -W -A -Y. And speaking of Votie Baucom, I can imagine the terror that must go through a young man's mind as he is seeking the approval of somebody as imposing and ominous as Votie Baucom, a very large, muscular man who is a martial arts champion, although a very gentle and soft -spoken man as well.

But I am sure that he can strike tough. Not a man you're going to mess with. Right. Let's see here.

We have Bobby in Hartsdale, New York, who has a question for you.

He says, Do you think that this has to be a subject of study, that pastors begin to gather men in their congregations together for Bible studies and small group studies in the event that a church really needs to be transformed over this issue of patriarchy?

Yes, absolutely. Thank you for the question. I think it needs to be happening.

I happen to be Presbyterian, so at our regional and national levels, it's a body of men.

I think there needs to be... One of the things that I started when I got here, and I think it's still going, and we've got a good group of men who come on a regular basis.

It's an encouragement to me, but we meet twice a month, very early in the morning for prayer.

I was very, very encouraged. We had some visitors, some very special friends of mine who came and visited our church, friends from my time in the

Army. They just happened to be in town, and they visited. My friend's wife commented to me.

She said, It really, really stood out to me that in worship, the men in your church were singing.

I think the same would be true if someone visited Grace Baptist. When you hear men singing, it really leaves an impression.

And so, yeah, to answer the question, absolutely, this is something that needs to be studied. It's something that needs to be taught.

I preached from Proverbs 1 on Sunday, and I made it a point to speak to the young men and to say to them,

As go the young men, and as go the men of the church, so goes the church. Not to say...

I mean, women have done phenomenal things in church history. Christian women are doing phenomenal things today.

I just read something from Johnny Erickson Tata, and so powerful, her witness and her testimony and the amazing reach of her organization to people with disabilities.

It is unbelievable, and we praise God for it. But there is a wonderful godly

Christian woman who's also Reformed and believes in the place of the husband and the male leaders in the church.

So absolutely, this needs to be taught. It needs to be properly understood, because when it's improperly understood, then yeah, you have abuse, you have all kinds of problems.

But I would say, just from my anecdotal, very still new to the pastorate perspective, the trend and the tendency today is for men to not lead and to not exercise the authority with the boldness and the strength that we need to in order for the church to be functioning properly.

We have CJ from Lindenhurst, Long Island, New York, who says,

Don't you think that the church needs to be very careful not to even unconsciously adopt the world's understanding of manliness when they are seeking for leaders?

There are men that fit the stereotype of machismo who are arrogant, which can be mistaken for honorable sense of confidence.

And there are men who are bullies, and on and on we could go in describing men that are very often the world's perfect picture of masculinity, and yet they are a danger to the church, in my opinion.

What say you? Yes, absolutely. That's a great point, and thank you for raising that.

Yeah, there is a, and I see it even in kind of the

Christian manosphere world, there's this kind of caricaturish concept of the man and the masculine guy, and there's distorted and bad ideas of what it means to be a man and to be a leader.

However, I will say this, the best thing to do is, again, come back to the Word of God and come back to the Lord Jesus Christ, because as I study the

Scriptures, I'm preaching through the book of Mark. I took a break during the summer, and I'll start up again in September.

As I reflect on the character of Christ, Jesus perfectly balances tenderness, and He is

Himself the Son of God, and He's full of love and compassion and mercy, but Jesus also is full of perfect strength.

So the short answer is to come back to Christ and to look at Him, to look at Jesus, to know

His love and His mercy, and to be shaped by Him. That's the way to avoid every manner of error, including having men who are toxic and abusive and domineering.

But I would say, again, to me, where we are today, the tendency is far more in the opposite direction, where men are reflexively not leading and not stepping up and not speaking in ways that they need to be into every kind of issue.

You know, I mentioned a story on Sunday during my sermon. I had a friend of mine who was getting some work done on his home and some repair work, and the insurance company was involved, obviously, and then they had a contractor, and the contractor said to him, don't worry about the deductible.

I'll just charge that to the insurance company. You know, it takes courage, and it takes a certain amount of boldness to, first of all, to just not go along with that.

It takes some moral backbone to say, no, I'm not going to do that, and then also to confront the one who's trying to basically steal and have no integrity.

That's the kind of masculine leadership that we need, men who are not afraid to take a stand and to live as godly

Christian men in the world, and it needs to be at every level and every place and every community, and it's going to have a tremendous effect.

All right, we have a question from an anonymous listener that I'm going to ask you now and have you answer when we return from our final break.

Sounds good. The listener says, it is not my intention to get your guest in trouble, but I was wondering what his views are on women being leaders in industry, in the workplace, and in politics.

All right, we'll get you to answer that when we return from our final break.

It's going to be much shorter than the other breaks. If you have a question that you would like to ask also, please send it in immediately because we're rapidly running out of time.

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Yes and to address the first part of the question you're not going to get me in trouble with anybody

I think my elders understand where I'm coming from and I think they appreciate watching me you know this is a personal emphasis of mine in our church and I hope in the community to encourage men and challenge men to step up to the plate

I think yes women can you know I can't tell a woman in my church that she's in sin for pursuing political office or looking for to be a leader in business or education but it's just it's not going to be the norm it's never going to be the norm because men were created to rule and to exercise authority and you know look at the vast expanse of human history and it's yes there's terrible examples of repression and control and abuse but that's not a reason to jettison and get rid of God's good design with men leading with God glorifying strength so women can do

Calvin said a woman can be queen she just can't be a pastor and I just think it's important to remember what are the what are the

God -given innate differences between men and women and you know are you are you exercising are you leading are you are you doing what you're doing as a woman you know one of the things the army

I'll just say this I got a message from a friend who was at the National Infantry Museum outside of Fort Benning and there was a little display for the first woman company commander and obviously celebrating that fact and talking about the gender -integrated army you know one of the things about seeing women in the military and there are plenty of women in the military my alma mater the

United States Military Academy has an ever -increasing number of women who attend but to me as I look at the way that women are used and the way that they serve the closer it tends to obliterate or it tends to that's a strong word but it tends to diminish their femininity and it tends to cause them to look more and more like men and so depending on what field you're in you know there's fields that are more conducive to a woman you know acting like a woman and leading like a woman instead of trying to be a man and I mean that both in demeanor and attitude and speech and in appearance so if that makes sense yeah and I would even add to that it really troubles me to see women wearing a police uniform fireman's uniform fireperson's uniform especially when you hear about requirements being diminished and made easier for ladies to be involved in those things

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I just it bothers me greatly and I think it's putting women in and that's not because I have a poor view of women

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I want to thank everybody who listened and I want you all to always remember for the rest of your lives that Jesus Christ is a far greater