Some evangelicals consistently pride themselves in staying 'true to the Word' while reducing the role of women to secondary status.

These people will cherish the all encompassing retort, "read and obey the Bible; 1 Timothy 2:12,"

do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

Of course, anybody who has done just that--read the Bible--will recognize that when it comes to 'proving a point' there exist spectrums of understanding throughout scripture. Where one passage will tell women to be silent, another will praise those who preach and prophesy (1 Cor 11:2-16).

....woman who has her head uncovered while praying or prophesying disgraces her head, for she is one and the same as the woman whose head is shaved.

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I sometimes wonder if mitigating risk is a form of failure. Trying to make sure you have an error free model BEFORE actually trying a new idea out is a sure fire way to never succeed.

This is the wrong way to go about church planting because no church plant would ever succeed without a form of innovation. You can't take (despite what many book crazed pastors think) an idea from a study guide and use it as your own. You have to contextualize.

But you can't innovate or contextualize if you don't actually PLANT A CHURCH.

No amount of books, conferences, study guides, guest speakers, models, or observations will prepare you for something new unless you actually try it out for yourself. Continue reading →

If I was a bit more cynical I'd opt to go viral with some clever method of ridiculing Christian Zionists for their exceptionally damaging take on the gospel message. Wouldn't YOU think twice before giving a standing ovation if you knew you'd be blasted in your social networks for ignorantly proclaiming that Israel State = Jesus coming back?

The Christian Zionist movement is cleverly shrouded behind the guise of evangelical fundamentalism, yet it looks more like a well-oiled Republican warmongering machine bent on destroying all hell-bound Arabs in the name of their American Jesus.

Make no mistake, there is not one ounce of truth behind their reasoning.

Don't forget, YOUR brothers and sisters in the region aren't Jews, they are the indigenous CHRISTIAN ARAB PALESTINIANS. (And no, this isn't a call to anti-Semitism.)

Pastor Hagee in Jerusalem 3/8/10 (Part II) from Max J Blumenthal on Vimeo.