Full Circle
It is my belief that most churches are falling, and finally will fall from whatever grace they have remaining, on the “gender confusion issue” because they have already bowed to the ancient Spirit of the Age, refusing to recognize, teach, and order themselves on the understanding that the Christian faith (with pristine clarity) requires the clear distinction of the sexes and priority of the man over the woman, the wife to be subordinate to the husband. It is illuminating that the basic departure in the original Fall—obedience of the woman to God and her husband—has reappeared as the destroying angel of the churches in our day; the full circle has been traversed, and the End has turned out to be the consummation of the Beginning.
S. M. Hutchens is a senior editor and longtime writer for Touchstone.
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