Sublime

I don’t believe God wants our church life to be centered on buildings and services. Instead, God wants our churches—whatever specific forms our gatherings take—to be focused on active discipleship, mission, and the pursuit of unity.

What is more, Paul radically redefines the authority husbands and fathers retain. Their authority is not one of privilege but of responsibility.

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Thus what the author of Hebrews calls the “becoming obsolete” of the old covenant23 is held hand in glove with his affirmation of Jeremiah’s vision of the new covenant:

The General Assembly accused the Marrow (and suspected its supporters) of encouraging antinomianism and a subtle form of universal redemption.

Our peace of mind must be based on other grounds — namely, the gospel.

There is scarcely any support here for the common complementarian claim that the husband ultimately makes the decisions for the family, usually those that are in his best interest, trusting that God will beautifully work things out for his wife (and children) in the process. If anything, Paul’s model is that the husband chooses what is in his wife’

That victory over death shows the victory of the new Adam over the old Adam. And as I said at the very beginning of this book, it is not simply that Jesus restores us to the position we enjoyed in the garden of Eden prior to the fall. We transcend that situation, because we participate in a victorious Adam who passed the probation and earned entran

In God’s economy, everyone benefits by everyone contributing.