Watch Your Language! (Sermon 10/31/2010)

A plea to approach the subject of gender roles in Scripture with all the objectivity, humility and charity that we are able. A reminder that it is very difficult to identify the influence we feel from the “Zeitgeist”—the spirit of the age.

Resources available:

• Click here to listen to (or right-click to download) the sermon audio.
• The visual presentation is available in quicktime format in a low resolution or hi resolution (slower loading, better quality) version. You click in the movie window to make the first advance of the presentation, then either click, arrow-key or space-bar to advance each slide. Alternatively you can view the html version.
• You can download the main handout for the sermon, containing the central Bible passages that relate to gender roles and notes hi-lighting the main interpretational issues.
• There is also a list of all the non-literal uses of kephale (head) from the New Testament and all the uses of hypotasso (submit). These two lists will help give a feel for the meanings of these words.