Jeremy Gardiner; because of Church Practice: Head Covering P/16

                                                     Read Part One HERE

In this post I will contine to share on the Head Coverings Movement founded by Jerememy Gardiner

He has written the following article: "Why Head Coverings? Reason No 4: Church Practice."

 

Jeremy Gardiner: "Head covering is authoritative apostolic teaching." 

Jeremy Gardiner: "All churches from Corinth, to Antioch practiced head coverings. All these churches have a mixture of Jews and Gentiles fellowshipping in them and are from different cultures. Yet, they all hold to the same Christian doctrine regarding head coverings. How can such unity be accounted for except the church's understanding of head coverings as a command for all Christians?

Jeremy Gardiner: "The Church in Corinth 150 years later. Tertullian wrote "The Veiling of virgins" in which he argued that all women are to be covered.... This teaching remained the standard practice of the majority of  Church History. As RC Sproul Sr noted: "The wearing of fabric head coverings in worship was universally the practice of Christian woman until the 20th century. What happened? Did we suddenly find some biblical truth to which the saints for thousands of years were blind? Or were our biblical views of women gradually eroded by the modern feminist movement that has infiltrated the Church of Jesus Christ which is "the pillar and ground of the truth"? Head coverings are not some new strange doctrine. This is an old doctrine, based in the Bible and understood by the majority throughout the history of the Church. Head coverings were practiced in all churches and we are the exceptions today. It is time to change that."

My Comment

As for the issue of head coverings, some religious leaders in the church in Corinth wrote that women are to have head coverings as we know from 1 Corinthians 11:4-5. However, Paul corrected them and made it clear that churches do not have such a custom as we know from a correct translation of 1 Corinthians 11:16                                                                                                                                        If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no SUCH practice - nor do the churches of God.                                                                                                                                                    Jeremy Gardiner then follows the pattern of  the Protestant Reformers, Theologians, pastors and leaders we have already studied by quoting Roman Catholic Church father Tertullian who, as we have already mentioned, came out of a pagan culture and brought into the Church their view that women are considered inferior. One of the pastors Jeremy Gardiner mentioned is the now-deceased minister R.C. Sproul Sr. He, apparently, blamed the modern feminist movement that women began to stop wearing head coverings. In the case of R.C. Sproul Sr head coverings would be in the form of hats. However, hats do not cover the heads of women for they do not fall down from the head as the original text mentions....It is clear, therefore, that this Head Coverings Movement founded by Jeremy Gardiner is not based on Scripture but on man's incorrect interpretation of Scripture regardless whether this head covering consists of a hat or a veil....

 

P.S. This is my last post on the Head Coverings Movement. .