One of the difficulties with travel days is that you run out of time. We have been going since about 6 am Berlin time and (in my head) it is still Friday, but late. The offician time is about 7 PM, And we have one flight to go. As a result, I did not read the Dalrock thread Scott quoted. But the core issues are clear
Jealousy and it’s female variant: the pecking order and hypergamy. If you have a wife you have these conversations, particularly when you see friends leave “for something better”/ Let me tell you that there is generally not someone better. (For the men: I deal with a lot of young female colleagues and patients. They are boring. They have not lived through enough).
Which brings up jealousy. Not all need be prophets. Not all have the same gifts. The hard shell Pentecostals, who believe that all should speak in unknown tongues, are in error.
12:27Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. 28And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues. 29Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? 30Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? 31But strive for the greater gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
3:1If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
There is nothing equal out this creation, or our place in it. As the crossfit box notes; you put your evo at the door, for somewhere a high school kid is warming up with your maximum effort. Women need to scale, or they get injured. So does this old man.
There is nothing equal in the way the church is run. Christ calls prophets and apostles… and requires elders are proven, husbands of but one wife, and of good reputation. There cure for jealousy is seen in the following verses.
If we have love we help each other, and if our is successful we are happy. We do not need to put them down, There is no need to be better or be promoted more. Instead, you build up, for the other is your life, your beloved… or your deep friend, or your brother in the faith. Love means that women subvert the natural pecking order to form a network of care. Jealousy remains where it ought to be: to guard the marriage and keep it holy.
The issue we have is that we have fallen into the idea that the church is a corporation and there will be promotion, there will be management, there will be workers. But it(that God) is not a corporation. It is royal family.
Christ calls us to this: and in a family all care for each other. Perhaps that is why the enemy hates them so much, and the narrative tries to subvert them.