Tim 'The Beez' Bertolet

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If a woman speaks to a crowd of pastors, is it evidence of her teaching men? Or is it only “teaching” if she uses Scripture? Or is it only wrong if she explains Scripture, and in that case, does it suddenly become “preaching” regardless of the setting? Or is it only preaching if there’s a pulpit involved? A Sunday morning service? A title? Meanwhile, the same movement insisting women must never “teach men” somehow has no issue platforming women like Megan Basham to address rooms full of male pastors when it serves their cultural or political priorities. So apparently a woman can instruct, influence, warn, persuade, and shape the thinking of men… as long as everybody agrees not to call it “teaching.” She can serve, sweat, pray, and deliver the same exact message about Jesus as any man she knows- as long as we don’t call her a pastor. If this doesn’t feel like God’s heart, I suspect it’s because we all pretty much know it’s not.

Speaking of citation, if you come across a work that cited your work but claiming the opposite of what you said, will you be happy? Of course not. We not only should read the work that we cite but we also need to understand it.

I bashed out 3,500 words today on Psalm 72. Some exegesis and some intertextuality. Amazed by how many echoes and allusions there are to Genesis!

For the record, this is the man Keller told us offered a “brilliant example of how to be Christian in the public square.” This is why I say concern regarding the inability Keller sometimes had to rightly discern a sound Christian witness from an unsound one is justified. It’s the same issue he ran into with his promotion of Francis Collins and Greg Johnson. So it wasn’t just what Keller taught himself that was sometimes an issue, it was also those he recommended we learned from.