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    Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
    Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
    Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
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    Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose

    Written by Aimee Byrd

    Narrated by Charity Spencer

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    This book dismantles every mistruth that you've heard about the role of women in the Bible, her place in the church, and the patriarchal lie of so-called “biblical manhood and womanhood.” In its place, Aimee Byrd details a truly biblical vision of women as equal partners in Christ's church and kingdom.

    The church is the school of Christ, commissioned to discipleship. The responsibility of every believer—men and women together—is being active and equal participants in and witnesses to the faith. And yet many women are trying to figure out what their place is in the church, fighting to have their voices heard and filled with questions:

    • Do men and women benefit equally from God's word?
    • Are we equally responsible in sharpening one another in the faith and passing it down to the next generation?
    • Do we really need men's Bibles and women's Bibles, or can the one Holy Bible guide us all?

    The answers lie neither with radical feminists, who claim that the Bible is hopelessly patriarchal, nor with the defenders of “biblical manhood,” whose understanding of Scripture is captive to the culture they claim to distance themselves from.

    Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood presents a more biblical account of gender, marriage, and ministry. It explores the feminine voice in Scripture as synergistic with the dominant male voice. It fortifies churches in a biblical understanding of brotherhood and sisterhood in God's household and the necessity of learning from one another in studying God's word.

    Until both men and women grow in their understanding of their relationship to Scripture, there will continue to be tension between the sexes in the church. Church leaders can be engaged in thoughtful critique of the biblical manhood and womanhood movement, the effects it has on their congregation, and the homage it ironically pays to the culture of individualism that works against church, family, and a Christ-like vision of community.

    Discussion questions and accompanying charts are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan
    Release dateMay 5, 2020
    ISBN9780310108733
    Author

    Aimee Byrd

    Aimee Byrd is author, speaker, blogger, podcaster, and former coffee shop owner. Aimee is author of several books, including The Hope in Our Scars, Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, and Sexual Reformation. Her articles have appeared in First Things, Table Talk, Modern Reformation, By Faith, New Horizons, Ordained Servant, Harvest USA, and Credo Magazine and she has been interviewed and quoted in Christianity Today and The Atlantic.

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    • 4/5
      Aimee Byrd gives us a lot to think about when it comes to church history and how the church treats women.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Growing up as a the daughter of an OPC pastor, I'm thankful to have been rigorously taught the Bible as a child. This has served as a great advantage to me! I'm blessed to know what Bible actually teaches as opposed to the stereotypical gender "rolls" mere humans would try to lay out. Nevertheless, the gender rolls infiltrate our church community. My parents were raised with those false ideals and the yellow wall paper certainly has taken its toll in reeking havoc in our lives. I love this book for calling out the contradict narratives of society's gender rolls verses what the Bible actually teaches! The author has put into words what I've always known to be true!

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I needed to hear this on a soul level. As a woman in ministry, I’m learning to navigate this world and shake off teachings that are just plain unbiblical.