Jesus let a prostitute wash his feet with her tears. He stood in front of a vulnerable woman, pulled out of bed with a naked male synagogue attendee. Jesus made sure the woman at the well felt worthy of new life. He gave them honor and dignity their fundamentalist culture refused. The Jesus I follow-the Jesus Beth preaches-defended women against the religious establishment of his day. As his sycophant disciples cheered him on with hearty laughter, MacArthur sounded like two of my former pastors and dozens of chapel speakers.īecause that’s what the Jesus who made a woman his first evangelist would do, right? It was the same misogyny I had heard from the insecure, myopic leaders of my youth.
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Arrogance and ignorance dripped onto MacArthur’s microphone-and not just when he compared Beth to a TV jewelry salesperson. So, when I heard this weekend that MacArthur had told a frothing crowd of white men that Beth should “go home,” that she was a narcissist, and that the #metoo movement was a contrived nuisance of the church, I heard one of the largest record scratches of my life. In a city whose newspaper had just documented how 700 sex abuse victims had been silenced in their Baptist churches, rows and rows of women in front of me demonstrated a freedom to make their voices heard. At the same time, she exuded more humility than all of the fundamentalist pastors of my youth had amassed-combined. She taught exegetically but pulled in more supporting Scripture references (from memory) than most of the sermons I’ve heard in my life.
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I knew ladies in my church loved her video series and study guides, but I didn’t know enough about her to hold an opinion-let alone to be excited.īeth seemed to have researched this study more than I’ve researched my 50,000-word book.
I had never heard Beth teach or read any of her books. There seemed to be a lot of buzz about the last session of the day, a seminar and then Q&A with Beth. So, I didn’t think anything of being the only guy at my table. Dudes comprised maybe 5% of the bloggers and authors in the room. I had arrived in Houston the Monday morning prior for a writer’s conference. So, you’d think I would be the last person at Beth Moore’s weekly Bible study.Įvery Tuesday night on the west side of Houston, Beth or one of her protégés teaches hundreds of women from multiple churches and (by live streaming) Native American communities. Men who looked up to men like John MacArthur taught me things like-I kid you not-“The only women who get pregnant from rape liked it.” Through private school, summer camps, college, and four church services per week for 15 years, I sat under more than 4,000 sermons and Bible lessons from leaders of the Independent Baptist Fundamentalist movement. Because in this journey of joy and hardship, we need each other to stay the course and live lives of faithfulness.I was groomed to be a misogynist. In this 6-session Bible study, Beth will encourage you to guard what God has entrusted to you, further His kingdom by sharing Christ with others, and pour into future generations just as Paul once mentored Timothy. God has entrusted us with the great and mighty gift of the gospel, something too precious and life-giving to keep to ourselves. We were never meant to take this journey of faith alone or in secret. Learn To Guard What God Has Entrusted To You
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