This morning we come to an extremely controversial passage of Scripture. It is a passage of Scripture that may infuriate some of you. As I read it you may wonder how anything so sexist could be written in the Bible, and you may wonder if you could ever embrace what this text is teaching. For this very reason many have tried to reinterpret this passage or simply ignore it. Others of you will simply be confused by this text. Maybe you'll be confused by the verses as a whole, or confused by certain portions of it. I'll tell you right here at the outset that I do not fully understand every aspect of these verses. But I am convinced that the main point is clear, and that it applies to us today and that it is our duty and our joy to submit to God's instruction concerning gender roles in the church. Our passage is 1 Timothy 2:11-15, but before we go there I first want to read from Ephesians 5. We will be talking about gender roles in the church, but I want to set that in the context of gender roles in the home, which is what Ephesians 5 speaks to.
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