A thread on how complementarianism affects even spaces in which women’s full ordination is affirmed within evangelicalism.
Ex. A: this is the primary resource, for this month, designated for a group of women *ministers*, rather than a tool for ministry, preaching, exegesis, etc.

It’s a deeply frustrating reality that 1) women who preach and minister have to be immaculate in their tone, delivery, and study to an extent that white male preachers simply do not, and

2) as a result, women’s preaching w/in evangelicalism that is essentially pop-level moral instruction often gets critiqued as a fault inherent to female preaching, when sermons of the same caliber from evangelical men are far more common but never chalked up to male ministry.

Treating even women with the acknowledged God-given abilities to preach, teach, and pastor as though what they do is mainly cutesy and decorative, rather than pertaining to the essential instruction of God’s people and care of souls is insidiously harmful.

Praise God that some evangelical denoms affirm women in ministry, but they’re just perpetuating patriarchy if they do so in such a way that collapses this ministry to less than the full responsibilities of preaching/teaching Scripture, shepherding God’s people, & all these entail

Addendum: on the second tweet, should have worded it that women preachers *are expected to* operate in these ways in order to escape exacting critique, not that they *have to*