1 Timothy 2: 11-12 has been used as a clear mandate to silence women in the church for more than 1,500 years. In "What's With Paul and Women?" Zens exposes the fallacies of this interpretation, and opens up the meaning of 1 Timothy 2: 9-15. He covers the major issues in gender inequality with three Appendices.

Zens compares the patriarchy taught to families by the Roman Catholic and Dutch Reformed churches in Holland with an aggressive patriarchal wing of the home-schooling movement in America to show that the earmarks of patriarchy doctrine result in varying levels of abuse of young girls and wives.

Protestantism carries on with the practice of making the "pastor" the focal point in church. In The Pastor Has No Clothes, Jon Zens demonstrates that putting all the ecclesiastical eggs in the pastor's basket has no precedent in the New Testament. Using 1 Corinthians 12:14, Zens shows the usual way of doing church contradicts Paul's self-evident remark that "the body indeed is not one part" and then goes on to unfold from that Epistle how the living church functions "with many parts." Jon dismembers the traditional pastor doctrine from various angles by combining two new essays and a response...

The controversial book "Love Wins" suggests that all people will experience redemption and that no one will face the permanent judgment of God. "Christ Minimized?" challenges such convictions.

To Preach or Not to Preach? questions one of the scared cows in the modern church, namely the sermon, and the preeminence it s given. Norrington s premise is not built on novelty or questioning just to question. He goes back to the New Testament and shows that there is no evidence for a a regular weekly sermon that believers are to lean upon, and the whole church experience is to be wrapped around. This book also shows how the sermon as it has come to be practiced supplants the one-another ministries of everyday believers, and stifles the expression of Christ in the ekklesia. To Preach was...

There are 58 "one anothers" in the New Testament, 0 information about "the pastor." According to how "church" is done in most quarters, the existence of the church and all its eggs are put into the one basket of "the pastor." C. Peter Wagner reflects this general outlook when he asserts, "The local church is like a company with one company commander, the pastor, who gets his orders from the Commander-in-Chief... The pastor has the power in the growing church... The pastor of a growing church may appear to outsiders as a dictator, but to the people of the church, his decisions are their...