Zachary M. Garris > Quotes

“Christianity is a masculine religion. Men have authority, and as go the men, so go the women and children. Yet we are facing a crisis of masculinity in the church. Men have failed to lead, including our pastors, and now our women are acting like men and our men like women. To recover from this crisis of masculinity, we must start with God the Father. We must start with worship. Christianity has a masculine message of a husband who laid down His life for His bride. But we have an effeminate church preaching an effeminate gospel, proclaiming Jesus as Savior while ignoring His command for male rule in His kingdom.”
― Zachary Garris, Masculine Christianity

“Regarding modesty under the Seventh Commandment”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“WLC 123–133 on the Fifth Commandment—teaches that the husband has a special duty to enforce Sabbath observance in his family.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“In discussing masculinity and effeminacy, it is appropriate to address a problem that plagues modern man—the sin of “niceness.” Many men, especially Christian men, just want to be nice to people—nice in the sense of being agreeable and not wanting anyone to dislike them. However, the Bible does not call for men to be nice. Men should be kind and gentle at appropriate times, as these are fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23). But kindness and gentleness are not the same thing as niceness. Niceness is weakness. It is people-pleasing. Niceness is men trying to keep peace when there is no peace.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Masculine Christianity

“Men must also lead in training their children in the faith. God has commanded parents to teach God’s Word to their children—“these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise” (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). Paul echoes this when he writes, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4). Notice the instruction is specifically to “fathers” [οἱ πατέρες, hoi pateres].247 Though children are to obey both “parents,” honoring both father and mother (the Fifth Commandment), fathers have a special responsibility to raise children in the Christian faith (Ephesians 6:1-”
― Zachary M. Garris, Masculine Christianity

“This is consistent with Calvin’s comments on 1 Corinthians 14:34”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“feminism is an ideology that seeks to flatten the differences between men and women, particularly in the home, the church, and the civil government.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Do you value schooling that honors God and truly educates your children? Then leave the public schools. If we believe that God requires us to provide our children with a Christian education, then we will make sacrifices to make it happen. Surely the Lord will provide to make such obedience possible.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Thinking Biblically About Education: Why Parents Should Abandon Government Schools and Take Back Control of Education

“Samuel Willard (1640–1707)”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“We should also mention that the 2005 report of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP) and the 1988 report of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church took a similar view on 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 to that of DeYoung. (Like the PCA report”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“How could a company founded by J. Gresham Machen (along with Samuel Craig) come to publish such drivel? Ironically”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Keller added”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“DeYoung”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Indeed”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“This phrase has been promoted by Tim and Kathy Keller”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Indeed the mother is inferior unto the father, as concerning the law of the subjection of wedlock: besides that, weaker also in nature and kind, so that she is not unworthily called the weaker vessel of the Apostle Peter.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“A major part of the problem is the feminization of Christian publishing companies.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“some churches have allowed women to take on the duties of pastors and elders without the label.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Bullinger said, “Let the husband be the head of the wife, to wit, her adviser and counsellor, her ruler and guide, her sweet yokefellow and admonisher in all her affairs, her assured aid and faithful defender. Let the wife be obedient unto her husband, even as we see the members obey the head: let her yield herself to her husband to be ruled and governed; let her not despise his honest counsels and indifferent commandments.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“While Redeemer Presbyterian Church has not ordained women as pastors or elders”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Calvin”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“If Kathy Keller’s theology reflects that of her husband—and we have every reason to believe it does—then Tim Keller blurred the line between complementarianism and egalitarianism on the issue of women in the church.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“DeYoung rightly recognizes that prophetesses in the Old Testament—such as Miriam”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“DeYoung (and others”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Would the Reformers and the Reformed orthodox have allowed women to read Scripture or lead prayer in public worship? Would they have endorsed the refrain that “a woman may do anything a non-ordained man may do”? Would they have allowed women to teach seminary courses to men who are training for the ministry? Would they have taught men and women about vocation and never mention motherhood? The answer to these questions is an obvious no.”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“This is seen in the publication of Rachel Green Miller’s 2019 book”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Warfield’s point was proven by Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“As we will see”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“One of the problems with 20th-century liberal theology was that its proponents often affirmed traditional Christian language while redefining what they meant by it.20”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

“Henry said”
― Zachary M. Garris, Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers