Campus Ministry United

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Campus Ministry United
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Wes Woodell The New Cutting Edge

• Effective campus ministries have focus. . .
• EXTERNAL focus!

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Most Name Jump

• Call to mind the most evangelistic Christian you
  know.

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Notes Available

• http//www.randywillingham.com
• Go to Classes and click the link

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Influential ChurchMEN

• Tertullian Women are the devils gateway
• Augustine Women are not made in the image of
  God
• Aquinas / Aristotle Women are misbegotten
  males
• Luther God made Adam head of creation and the
  woman spoiled it all
• Barth The woman is ontologically subordinate to
  the man which is her head

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Influential ChurchWOMEN

• Mary Daley original sin is sexism. If were
  going to get anywhere we must castrate God
• Rita Brock The doctrine that only a perfect
  male form can incarnate God fully and be salvific
  makes our individual lives in female bodies a
  prison against God and denies our actual,
  sensual, changing self as the locus of divine
  activity.
• Hayward Believing in Jesus Christ as Lord is an
  insult to women because it condemns them to
  constantly lookup to a man for inspiration, for
  leadership, for role modeling, and for redemption.

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Mary Again

• Theres no way Jesus can save women because no
  man can enter the experience of a woman.

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What do we mean?

• Not about the role of women
• Not ultimately about gender stereotypes
• The church has embraced femininity in a way that
  rejects masculinity, and shapes its understanding
  by social science and popular culture rather than
  biblical revelation and Gods creative intention.

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Evidences of Feminization

• Internal Focus
• Love that Nurtures Embraces vs Protects
  Provides
• Family Focus
• Sin Passes for Women
• Feminization of Masculinity

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• The problem with the church today is that it
  focuses beyond itself too much. We need more
  internal focus. We should realize the church is
  like a family and if we do not care for our own
  family we are worse than unbelievers! Women tend
  to be more concerned about family and less
  concerned about such things as competition, ego,
  and achievement. Perhaps we could make the church
  more sensitive to itself if we could only
  straighten out the role of women question and
  unleash the most spiritual assett of the church
  the W O M E N!!!

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Last Night

• Community is not an end but a means.
• Wes Woodell, CMU, 2008
• Effective campus ministries have focus. . .
  EXTERNAL focus.
• Wes Woodell, CMU, 2008
• Christ centered community 4. Community core
  is sold out for mission as seen in 3 ways 1.
  Outwardly focused and constantly building
  relationships

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Love that Nurtures Embraces vs Protects
Provides
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Draws you in for a hug
Sends you out for a challenging job
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Family Focus
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Idolization of the Family Idealization of the
Family
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• and here I speak quite frankly as a bachelor,
  because it is a reason you can see better from
  outside than from inside. The relations of the
  family to the outer world- what might be called
  its foreign policy-must depend, in the last
  resort, upon the man, because he always ought to
  be, and usually is, much more just to the
  outsiders. A woman is primarily fighting for her
  own children and husband against the rest of the
  world.

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• Naturally, almost, in a sense rightly, their
  claims override, for her, all other claims. She
  is the special trustee of their interests. The
  function of the husband is to see that this
  natural preference of hers is not given its head.
  He has the last word in order to protect other
  people from the intense family patriotism of the
  wife.

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• If anyone doubts this, let me ask a simple
  question. If you dog has bitten the child next
  door, or if your child has hurt the dog next
  door, which would you sooner have to deal with,
  the master of that house or the mistress? Or, if
  you are a married woman, let me ask you this
  question. Much as you admire your husband, would
  you not say that his chief failing is his
  tendency not to stick up for his rights and yours
  against the neighbors as vigorously as you would
  like? A bit of an appeaser?
• Mere Christianity, 103.

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John 1925-27 ? . . .A Journey to the Pedestal
"Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his
mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and
Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother there,
and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby,
he said to his mother, "Dear woman, here is your
son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother."
From that time on, this disciple took her into
his home."
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Sin Pass - Men are carnal . . . Women are
spiritual

• CNN and Romans 323
• Blame rather than Responsibility

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Motherhood Selfless or Selfish?

• Then the mother of Zebedees sons . . . Asked a
  favor of him. She said, Grant that one of these
  two sons of mine may sit at your right and the
  other at your left in your kingdom.
• Matthew 2020-21

Other forms of murder have been justified as well
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Biblical Theology as Solution
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What About Men?
What About Women?

• Leave up toilet seat
• Shower Together!
• Advocate modesty, but would check out a skanky
  girl.
• Totally oblivious to hints
• Dont listen without want to fix
• Expect us to look like girls/women on t.v.
• Think any of our unhappy feelings mean that its
  that time of the month
• Never stop for directions

• Think theyre fat (insecure)
• Go to the bathrooms in herds
• React emotionally
• Get feelings hurt easily
• Tell us problems they dont want solutions to
• Read too much into things
• Dont fight fair

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Men and Women, Genesis 1

• Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in
  our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
  the sea and the birds of the air, over the
  livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
  creatures that move along the ground." So God
  created man in his own image, in the image of
  God he created him male and female he created
  them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be
  fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
  and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
  the birds of the air and over every living
  creature that moves on the ground."

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Men and Women, Genesis 1
Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in
our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of
the sea and the birds of the air, over the
livestock, over all the earth, and over all the
creatures that move along the ground." So God
created man in his own image, in the image of
God he created him male and female he created
them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be
fruitful and increase in number fill the earth
and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and
the birds of the air and over every living
creature that moves on the ground."
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Design of the Genders

• The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and
  flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman,'
  for she was taken out of man." For this reason a
  man will leave his father and mother and be
  united to his wife, and they will become one
  flesh.

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Three Curses

• So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you
  have done this, "Cursed are you above all the
  livestock and all the wild animals! You will
  crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all
  the days of your life. And I will put enmity
  between you and the woman, and between your
  offspring he will crush your head, and you
  will strike his heel."
• To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase
  your pains in childbearing with pain you will
  give birth to children. Your desire will be for
  your husband, and he will rule over you."

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Three Curses

• So the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you
  have done this, "Cursed are you above all the
  livestock and all the wild animals! You will
  crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all
  the days of your life. And I will put enmity
  between you and the woman, and between your
  offspring he will crush your head, and you
  will strike his heel."
• To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase
  your pains in childbearing with pain you will
  give birth to children. Your desire will be for
  your husband, and he will rule over you."

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Matthew 22 Temporary Nature of Marriage

• Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife
  will she be of the seven, since all of them were
  married to her?" Jesus replied, "You are in
  error because you do not know the Scriptures or
  the power of God. At the resurrection people will
  neither marry nor be given in marriage they will
  be like the angels in heaven

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Connection Self or Others?
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Gender Failure Results in Other Gaps
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Implications for Homosexuality

• The Diversity Claim Church or Culture?
• Theological /or Psychological Insight
• Debates of the Past vs Progress