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“Schreiner observes [in Interpretation], ‘In approaching Eve, then, the serpent subverted the pattern of male leadership and interacted only with Eve during the temptation. Adam was present throughout and did not intervene….Thus, the appeal to Genesis 3 serves as a reminder of what happens when God’s ordained pattern is undermined.”
-Pg 188

“As George Knight explains [in Authenteo], submission ‘in the NT is not regarded as cringing servility under a domineering person but as a willing submission to a recognized authority.’” -Pg 187

“As Kathy Keller says, ‘The difficulty of exercising one’s gifts in the role to which one has been assigned…applies to men as much as to women. Not all men aspire to the gender roles that are given to them….Jesus is the reason you can trust that God’s justice is behind your assigned gender role.’” -Pg 109

“Paul says that in the marriage relationship we are to see something of the relationship between the Father and the Son (1 Cor 11:3). In the husband’s headship, we are to see a reflection of the headship the Father has over the Son in their relationship.” -Pg 106

“…we should not disconnect God’s differing design of men and women in creation and in marriage from the way we function in the church.” -Pg 103

“The role of helper [that the woman is given in Genesis 2:18] has no inferiority or weakness in it. God is the primary one in the Bible who is described as our helper.” -Pg 101

“Because a first century practice may be difficult for us to understand does not mean we relegate it to irrelevance [with the excessive use of Bible background information that does not help us understand the clear teaching of a text] but do the hard work of discerning what it should look like in our day.” -Pg 100

“…the prohibition Paul gives [in 1 Timothy 2:12-14] is not founded upon one gender being more susceptible to deception than the other, but rather upon the creational design and what happened when the design was abandoned.” -Pg 83

“In worship, man plays a role: he is an emblem of the image and glory of God, and God’s glory should be on full display….Woman also plays a role; she is an emblem of the best of man—she is his glory. And the glory of man should be covered so as not to distract and take away from the glory of God. Even the angels…reveal this for us [in Isaiah 6:1-3].” -Pg 78

Found this helpful to understand 1 Cor 11

“I heartily affirm the giftedness of women and their vital importance to the church. But, as in all other areas, the boundaries of what is appropriate must be set by God’s Word and not by cultural pressures or personal preferences.”
-Pg 70

“Teaching—passing in the apostolic deposit while explaining and applying Scripture—was authoritative instruction in a way that prophecy was not.” -Pg 63

“The reference to Phoebe toward the end of the letter and the way she is referenced fits the pattern of both Pauline letters and broader Greco-Roman letter writing. Thus, it seems most likely that Paul is identifying Phoebe as a trusted friend who is delivering the letter to the Romans.” -Pg 61

“The basic idea of the [Greek] work [diakonos] is not service…but of serving as a representative or agent of another.” -Pg 59

“To say 1 Timothy 2 does not apply to [teaching the Bible in] schools moves toward treating its application to the church as an oddity rather than part of the good way God created the world.” -Pg 56

“…public teaching of God’s Word by women to men is expressly forbidden in 1 Tim 2:12.”
-Pg 54

“God created the world with sexual differentiation at the heart of what it means to be human beings made in His image.” -Pg 50

“Complementarianism… [is] the belief that God made men and women equal and distinctive; equal in value and dignity, and distinctive in certain roles and responsibilities.” -Pg 49

“When prominent women exercise their divinely given gifts for their divinely established tasks in concert with important men engaging missionally to accomplish the Lord’s plan, complementarity as men and women filling out and supporting one another relationally, vocationally, and nationally leads to flourishing.” -Pg 33

“Complementarity is God’s design for His male and female image bearers to fill out and mutually support one another relationally and vocationally, as well as in the family and church, for their individual and corporate flourishing.” -Pg 20

“Paul’s words in Galatians 3 were not intended to address matters of service within the church but offer a reference to equality in salvation.”
-Pg 13