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Men and Women in the Church: A Short, Biblical, Practical Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

There is much at stake in God making humanity male and female. Created for one another yet distinct from each other, a man and a woman are not interchangeable—they are designed to function according to a divine fittedness. But when this design is misunderstood, ignored, or abused, there are dire consequences. Men and women—in marriage especially, but in the rest of life as well—complement one...

Ninth, the man and the woman were created in different ways. Genesis 1 describes the making of male and female as a generic act of creation (1:27). In the zoom lens of Genesis 2, however, we see that God created each in its own way. The Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground (2:7), while the Lord God built the woman from the rib he had taken from the man. Not surprisingly, the man is tasked with tending to the health and vitality of the ground from which he came, while the woman is tasked
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