Christine Jolly

Me: *reading about the GAFCON SEPARATION*
Him: You know it’s not just because she’s a woman. It’s because she has some liberal theology leanings.
Me: Any more than her predecessor?
Him: Probably not.

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

This is the Good News for every couple seeking to honor God authentically. Experience the liberation.

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Imagine a marriage free from the "crushing weight of gendered performance." The Gospel doesn't just offer hope; it offers freedom—freedom to serve, lead, and love in partnership, united under the single, perfect authority of King Jesus.

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

No "bucks" to pass, just shared purpose. Dive into a vision of marriage that truly reflects the Gospel.

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What if the biblical pattern for marriage isn't hierarchy, but profound mutuality and partnership? From the very beginning of creation to the radical equality of the New Creation in Christ, Scripture points to a collaborative dance under the sole leadership of Jesus.

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

This understanding radically redefines Christian marriage, offering freedom from impossible gendered roles and placing all authority where it belongs. Discover the liberation in a Christ-centered home. www.fixinghereyes.org/single-post/...

Who is truly the Head of your home? When we relegate Jesus to a "substitute leader" only for when a husband "fails," we miss the profound truth that He is the only true and perfect Head at all times.

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

My review unpacks how well-intentioned advice can sometimes undermine genuine partnership and create burdens instead of blessings. Read more about fostering authentic connection. www.fixinghereyes.org/single-post/...

Healthy relationships are built on trust, not tactics. When Christian counsel suggests "prompting" a spouse into a role, does it risk becoming spiritual manipulation?

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

My latest article delves into the burdens placed on husbands by certain counsel, and why the Gospel offers a radically different, freeing path. www.fixinghereyes.org/single-post/...

The weight of expectation can be crushing, especially when it comes to spiritual leadership defined by rigid roles. Are Christian men being set up for guilt and inadequacy by unbiblical standards?

In response to Lauren Washer’s booklet and quote from the image Tim Challies shared.

Review: What to Say When She Thinks Her Husband Isn’t a Good Spiritual Leader My heart aches for the marriages tangled in the expectations this booklet attempts to manage.

I had to write something:

“The gospel gives this couple freedom from the crushing weight of gendered performance, inviting them instead into a loving, dynamic partnership under the single, perfect authority of King Jesus.”

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Should I write the book?

My daughters’ generation is best positioned to make the changes needed in the church that denies women full participation in the priesthood of all believers.

Now I teach others and answer questions and hope to model robust Bible interpretation as a Jesus-loving, Bible-loving, Others-loving, Gospel-affirming Biblical woman who wants to represent Jesus to the world.

For years I read and learned and silently observed online conversations before I presumed to step in and join.

to erect a universal rule banning women from teaching men or wielding spiritual influence over men.

So I humbled myself and sought to learn for myself, deconstructing the cultural baggage and finding the classical hermeneutics I’d been taught was sufficient to understand the tricky passages that had been yoinked out of their contexts

And then I met egalitarians. Real life ones. Not the boogeyman erected by my seminary mentors. Genuine Jesus-loving, Bible-loving, Others-loving, Gospel-affirming Christians who did all of that more and better than I did.

Yes. There were still those who were persuaded that there were certain roles reserved for men but there was no rampant obsession with past cultural ideals. John Piper, Wayne Grudem, Mark Driscoll had their fair share of fans here.

The Christians here had different priorities. To be a “Biblical Woman” meant to be a woman who sought to live her life like Jesus.

So simple.

So revolutionary.

One thing led to another and I married one of my commenters and moved to this fictional island made up by Looney Tunes.

I swallowed the pill and blogged advocating for this approach. And through that blog gained readers from around the world - including Tasmania.

to trust them and don’t read any of it because it’s a sure slippery slope to denying the gospel.

“It is a gospel issue.”

My heart’s desire was to go into the world representing Jesus. But I was told that as a woman it would be Jesus PLUS 1950s ideals of femininity and family. Lecturers persuaded us that THEY had read all the egalitarian literature and for our safety (salvation)

I went to Pensacola Christian College to get a Teaching History and Art degree, taught in a (still very segregated) Christian school in Savannah, Georgia and then landed at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.

The daughter of U.S. Military officers during the Cold War in Europe, raised in Southern Baptist churches 80s/90s/00s, parents and I (as a homeschooled teen) went to Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and returned to Europe as Church Planters (I was on the team),

I’m uniquely positioned as a Uni evangelist, high school Christian Studies teacher, theologically educated at the home of CBMW at the height of their influence and now a 10 year student of the classical hermeneutics of egalitarians.

Then my daughter’s youth leaders fumbled a response that left many of her peers dissatisfied.