Terran Williams

@PrestonSprinkle @StrongBadian @RawTheology Ready when you are brother! @PrestonSprinkle

@StrongBadian @TerranWilliams4 @RawTheology I've LOVED my brief interactions with Terran on email!! I just need to comb through his book, first :)

I really hope that @TerranWilliams4 and @PrestonSprinkle have a conversation and I get to listen in... maybe a @RawTheology ? 😃

Honoured to have been invited to share my journey and make a new friend in @sheilagregoire youtube.com/watch?v=A-kVdA…

My plea to @TGC: keep the main thing the main thing. Do what you can to equip and strengthen local churches. Let the gender of leaders and preachers be an open-handed issue.

Here is the great irony — @TGC essentially deploys a few women to strengthen its influence in undermining the contribution of tens of thousands of other women in local churches everywhere.

@TGC The Gospel Coalition, with its enormous influence on the worldwide church (6 million readers), has made some progress in bringing women to the table. A few women help lead it now and preach at its conferences @jenniferwilkin @RebeccMcLaugh @courtneydoctor @melissabkruger

@rickpidcock And they don't publish articles like this one: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

One of the obnoxious parts of what I do is having to continually read articles from Desiring God and The Gospel Coalition. I just read one from DG that had the heading, "Glimpses of a Manly Soul." I thought to myself, "Oh boy. Here it goes." 1/4

@BethMooreLPM Here's my and Andrew Bartlett's thoughts about the matter: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

I’m trying to keep quiet because I’m no longer SBC but here’s what I know: how few of you — and none I even know — were trying to steal your senior pastor’s desk, pulpit or parking place. Now, I’ll go back to trying to keep my mouth shut re: SBC but you keep your Bibles open.

Sisters in Christ, your gracious Savior whom you follow and by whom you were called and from whom you’ve learned the truth of the gospel and for whom you labor and for whose sake you show up sees you, loves you and knows. Keep going. Jesus is worthy of your all.

@blondeorthodoxy And all this angst for nothing. Maybe give me this a read: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

@bcastlemiller Agree! You might like this one we just wrote; terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

A church leader once told me my husband was the head of the household (and therefore responsible for a small ministry decision - but I knew we had made that decision together). I thought, “I don’t think that’s in the Bible?” So I looked and it wasn’t.

@nickmobrien Agree. You might like this one we just wrote: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

@justinsytsma Justin, you might like this one I just wrote: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

@bezalelplace Agree! Give this a read: terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

What really IS so terrible about sisters in Christ standing shoulder to shoulder, heads held just as high, feeling the glory of the call &authority of Jesus on our lives as our brothers? What IS so terrible about that to make it fought as if it’s *filthy* &we have no right to it?

Slaves, Women and Southern Baptists. After the Holy Post podcast covered part 1, here's part 2. It tells how tribal loyalty blocks the pursuit of truth and blanks the lessons of history. @bethallisonbarr @NijayKGupta terranwilliams.com/women-slaves-a…

@MikeWingerii Parenting. Using your gifts to serve church and society. Bringing in income. These are human roles, not men's or women's roles. Julie and I have 5 kids and we team together to do those three things. None of this compromises our society, our family, our church, or my manliness.

Maybe complementarian views are less about women’s roles and more about men’s roles. When women do men’s roles, society loses men, families lose men, churches lose men, males lose manliness. The reverse also seems true. When men imitate women, women disappear. What is a woman?

@MikeWingerii @RickWarren I've informed Rick Warren about Andrew Bartlett and my engagement with your exegesis @ terranwilliams.com/articles/ That's a free online resource worth checking out?

@RickWarren Please publish your exegesis (online for free?) or just refer to an egalitarian book you agree with. You’re seeking to influence many people on the grounds that your exegesis changed your mind but you don’t share it in any detail (as far as I can find). Instead you use rhetoric.

My biggest regret in 53 years of ministry is that I didn’t do my own personal exegesis sooner on the 4 passages used to restrict women. Shame on me. I wasted those 4 yrs of Greek in college & seminary. When I finally did my proper “due diligence”, laying aside 50 years of

@MikeWingerii I doubt any of them made the same effort as Andrew Bartlett and I did to 1) not misrepresent you 2) listen to you very carefully 3) respond to your clear invitations to provide this critique and 4) give the critique in the respectable manner we have given it.

Why don’t you respond to so-and-so Mike? Today alone I’ve got three different critics making video content on me. One calls me a servant of Satan, one is… odd, and one treats me as a brother but just dropped 15 hours of content on a series I did four years ago. All today. Everyone is more than welcome to make all the content they want, including putting devil ears on my head for their thumbnail (classy!) but it’s just not sustainable to actually respond to most things. I actually wish I could go through, consider, and respond to all of these sort of things. Either to show where they are incorrect, or to say “yep, you’re right, I was wrong.” But reality doesn’t work that way, and wisdom doesn’t allow me to be constantly distracted from my focus. Some will still be sending me messages about how I’m irresponsible, cowardly, or that I know I am wrong and won’t admit it (on whatever particular issue they happen to be focused on) and I suppose those accusations do bother me to some degree. Oh well. My hope is that people who are really paying attention will be equipped to sort through this stuff on their own. If I’ve done a good job as a teacher then I’ve likely prepared them for alternate views. My one tip, make sure to listen to me in context and not just to take someone else’s synopsis as accurate. That tends to be important.

Here's the myth that drove the Southern Baptist Convention to remove all churches who have female pastors and teachers. terranwilliams.com/the-myth-that-… @bethallisonbarr @NijayKGupta @BethMooreLPM

@laurambarringer @bethallisonbarr And if a man gets lost and asks a woman for directions, she may give him directions but only a way that doesn't betray her mature femininity or cross his mature masculinity, says Piper.

This whole paragraph about John Piper by @bethallisonbarr is jaw-dropping. What in the actual…???

@johnnarae Here's many in Africa (and the Middle East and South East Asia): terranwilliams.com/women-who-are-…

Alright y’all- let’s do a super list of amazing female pastors, scholars, theologians, & authors that have been influential in your life/faith. Drop names below so I can follow them all! 👇