Here We Stand . . . We Can Do No Other
The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW) has just published its latest doctrinal statement. Readers may be unfamiliar with this Christian group. Its website reveals:
CBMW has been in operation since 1987, when a meeting in Dallas, Texas, brought together a number of evangelical leaders and scholars, including John Piper, Wayne Grudem, Wayne House, Dorothy Patterson, James Borland, Susan Foh, and Ken Sarles. These figures were concerned by the spread of unbiblical teaching. Under Piper’s leadership, the group drafted a statement outlining what would become the definitive theological articulation of “complementarianism,” the biblically derived view that men and women are complementary, possessing equal dignity and worth as the image of God, and called to different roles that each glorify him.The Council has just recently issued and published a doctrinal statement entitled "Nashville Statement". The Preamble states:
