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More and more I'm seeing tweets pitting complementarianism against gospel ministry. As in: "Debates over women preachers are distracting us from gospel proclamation and ministry. If you're for gospel proclamation, you won't slow women down!"

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Pitting one against the other roots in an old instinct for neo-evangelicals to treat everything as one of two speeds: as ESSENTIAL or as INDIFFERENT. "If something's not essential to conversion, ignore it. Otherwise we'll just argue." Think ordinances, polity, women preachers.
The two-speeds approach misses a middle speed (2nd order of theological triage): important or essential-for-obedience. Most ecclesiology depends on that middle speed. These things aren't essential for salvation, but they protect the gospel and our gospel witness over time.
As with the ordinances or polity, pitting complementarian questions against gospel proclamation is short-sighted. Obeying "everything Jesus commanded" strengthens our witness. It makes the body stronger. It buttresses gospel proclamation.
Not only is the two-speed approach short-sighted, it works against biblical obedience and calls into question why the Holy Spirit would have revealed these things in the first place.
Can we be wrongly divisive in such middle-speed matters? Yes, and we should guard against that. But the solution is not to kick the middle-speed topics to the curb or suggest that people who care about them undermine gospel ministry.
Rather, the solution is to continue studying the Scriptures and having careful, patient, benefit-of-the-doubt-giving conversations with each other.
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