Congratulations on 25 years! We just celebrated 20 and I heartily echo your experience that we have never needed a "deciding vote"; it's a give and take.
I once had congregational leaders respond to the idea of having a pastoral team with shared leadership rather than a "senior" and an "associate" with a very similar argument to the complementarian one you're responding to here. "The buck has to stop somewhere!" I would love to hear your thoughts sometime on how this kind of thinking about authority affects the church as a body who is "joined together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."
Congratulations on 25 years! We just celebrated 20 and I heartily echo your experience that we have never needed a "deciding vote"; it's a give and take.
I once had congregational leaders respond to the idea of having a pastoral team with shared leadership rather than a "senior" and an "associate" with a very similar argument to the complementarian one you're responding to here. "The buck has to stop somewhere!" I would love to hear your thoughts sometime on how this kind of thinking about authority affects the church as a body who is "joined together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work."
So important! Ideas about authority seep into so many realms!
Right on!