Female Ordination and the Making of the Gay Clergy

It is evident that there are still multiple bodies upholding female ordination or some variation thereof. The SBC has an identity problem, which Beth Moore and others created.

The Southern Baptist Convention continued to bleed even after the positive movements during the Convention. It is evident that there are still multiple bodies upholding female ordination or some variation thereof. I argued back in 2021 that the SBC has an identity problem, which Beth Moore re-introduced in the Trump era. When she left the SBC, she left at the right time to offer the convention some hope of moving in the right direction.

The biblical arguments for male headship in the Church are vast, ranging from the man’s role under the creation order ( I Tim. 2), the qualification for elders (I Tim. 3), his function in the liturgical order and decency of worship (I Cor. 14), and his significative symbol under the new man, Jesus Christ (Eph. 4-5). These are presuppositions in the history of redemption, and exceptions are theological judgments imposed on God’s people.

Additionally, the East and the West have carefully crafted the liturgical service with a man in mind. Christ is the perfect priest and was enfleshed in a male body. Therefore, the liturgy starts with male vocal cords and ends with male vocal cords. The man gathers and calls and leads and protects. God decided on such things in the Old and New Testaments, happily moving against cultural norms, pagan norms, emotional norms, and sexual norms. God structures his creation in a Trinitarian fashion and therefore, each actor functions according to his purpose and each actress functions according to her purpose. The script is given and we act out our parts. In the Christian script, the male clergy does not stand above the people of God lording over them, but they stand in their midst, just as Christ stands in the midst of his people.