Loving one another as sisters and brothers in Jesus
Many Christian women and men carry heavy burdens. Much teaching on gender relations, roles, and rules binds the conscience beyond what Scripture actually teaches. Gender has become a battleground for power. But God created men and women not to compete for glory but to cooperate for his glory.
In Jesus and Gender, Elyse Fitzpatrick and Eric Schumacher paint a new vision for gender―Christ's gentle and lowly heart. The centrality of the gospel has been lost in gender debates. Our ultimate example is Jesus, our humble king, who used his power to serve others. So we must rethink our identities, roles, and relationships around him. Christ transformed enemies into family. Men and women are allies in God's mission.
Drawing from Scripture and experience, Fitzpatrick and Schumacher show how Jesus's example speaks to all areas of our lives as men and women, including vocation, marriage, parenting, friendships, and relating to each other as sisters and brothers in Christ. Real--life testimonies from a variety of Christians―including Christine Caine, Justin Holcomb, Karen Swallow Prior, and others―show a variety of men and women freed to pursue their gifts for God's glory.
Fitzpatrick and Schumacher's perspective untangles what God has said about gender from what he hasn't. By coming to Jesus, women and men can find rest.

This wonderful, thoroughly biblical, gospel-saturated book is an invitation to a journey to allow what it means to be in Christ, to deconstruct and reconstruct how you think, desire, decide, speak, and act in one inescapable area of your life as a child of God—that is gender. I found Jesus and Gender to be deeply convicting and encouraging at the same time. I experienced the pain of having some of my walls torn down and experienced the joy of restorative mercy. So, I invite you to humbly open your heart and read with willingness and joy. Your Savior is in the house and still doing his deconstructing, reconstructing work. May this wonderful book be for you a tool of restorative grace in his infinitely capable hands.
Paul Tripppastor, event speaker, and a best-selling and award-winning author
(from the foreword to the book)










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