Zeke Shatzer’s Reviews > Complementarianism: A Continuum of Perspectives on Men and Women in the Church > Status Update

“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 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