Several days ago we posted that suspiciously Bayly-like post by “Koren Sierkegaard” about women in worship. Bayly et al believes that women are not just not to lead worship but also to never take part in the life of the church, or so he says on his blog Out Of Our Minds.

Bayly has replied to his initial piece and it seems to indicate a number of wrong poisonous things. Most telling is that his words seem to indicate that Koren’s beer commercial masculinity is him rearranging the name Soren Kierkegaard to hide behind. It is almost certainly his attempt at cleverness. Not to mention the Starbucks references in the first piece.

One of the other problematic things about Bayly’s words, well, besides his weak easily threatened sense of masculinity, is his constantly harping on one tiny bit of scripture. Bayly promotes a sentence written by Paul, not Jesus, insisting that all women stay silent in church.

Rebellion is not really rebellion when women are left with no choice at all but to step forward and hold these roles in a church. It is the soul of practicality. Women have always tended to hold more roles in church for many long years back, not because of the ‘fabric of rebellion’ at all. For practical reasons.

What practical reasons? The fact that most churches have many more female members than male. The fact is that men tend to not take up roles in church. They seem to be more content to pew sit, sit back and be served.

Look, I’m not saying that there is another wrong with either position of serving in the church, or pew sitting or any combination of the two. It’s really up to the individual person. Women tend to have more time to devote towards running a church. In Christian circles men tend to work more hours outside of the home, even in two person working families.

But the work of the church must continue on. Someone had to take up the collection, sweep the floor, pray, clean, count the offering, sing, plan the music, do the scripture readings and everything else. Women are merely doing what has to be done. It’s not rebellion.

But rather than Tim Bayly ask for the men to step forward to take these positions he decides to label it rebellion and throw rocks at the ladies.

I liked him better when he was trying to build masculinity from beer commercials. What does the words of Jesus have to do with either beer commercials or women singing on worship team?

This is just another way for Bayly to whinge and whine about men while hating on women.

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