Big Eva is like a loaf of Weber’s sliced bread – sex and age segregation

Years ago, while visiting my first reformed church I asked a fellow “When and where does your men’s ministry meet?” He replied, “We don’t have one, they’re not Biblical!”

I was taken aback by that. But being taken back is a good thing. I didn’t fight it. I investigated it and learned the difference between my wrong heterodoxy versus their orthodoxy. That is also when I first learned about my wrong normative principle of worship, versus their right regulative principle of worship. I had much repenting to do, and still do. Lord willing more repenting, and less repeating.

The church was never meant to be divided. His saints were meant to congregate and worship together as one body or one loaf. There’s no place in the Scriptures for segregation by age or sex. We can glean that principle from this passage.

“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.” - 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

Though sliced bread was invented before my birth, I’m old enough to remember the adage “That’s the best thing since sliced bread.”

But sliced bread is not all it was cut out to be (pun intended). I miss my grandmother and great-grandmother’s non-sliced bread. That one loaf remained fresher, tastier, and healthier. And there were no preservatives added.

Today most local churches have become like a loaf of Weber’s sliced bread. They are so divided (literally). They sound like this. We have the children over here, the youth in there, and VBS there. The men meet in there, and the women meet over there. We even have a Bible study for the Silver Saints. And oh, are you going to the men’s conference? Long ago, I vowed never to attend another men’s conference. And a majority of women’s conferences are a place to escape and practice egalitarianism.

Today’s compromising Christianity has little regard for piety, being pious, piousness, or pietism. But Biblical pietism comes with sanctification. So, if you are the elect, let’s make Biblical pietism great again.

A solution to this problem is practice a regulative principle of worship, which includes a family integrated service.

Big Eva and her establishment will disagree, but that’s my Biblical conviction and I’m sticking to it. To know more about a regulative principle of worship, click here or below. Semper Reformanda!