Just thought I’d share a random sermon series idea.

I’m not even sure we’re going to do this series, but sometimes we go off on these creative tangents during our Big Idea Meeting. This week was no exception. I’m fascinated by the genesis of ideas. You never know where you’re going to get a sermon series idea.

Here’s the etymology of this idea.

I was complimenting one of our staff members during Big Idea for being androgynous–exhibiting male and female characteristics. I meant it as a compliment–in the emotionally ambidextrous sense. Not the gender confusion sense. If you know me, you know that I don’t like normality. That includes words. I don’t like normal words. They’re boring. I like abnormal words. They make you think about what you’re saying and hearing! And I like using those abnormal words in abnormal ways. Anywho. Androgeny sort of became the word of the day.

Then during the meeting I pretended to deflect bullets ala Wonder Woman. See, I’m androgynous too! Then one of our pastors randomly said, “There were wonder women in the Bible.” That became our quote of the day. And it got us thinking!

Enough etymology. Here is the idea.

A sermon series on gender. I think it could cut those some of the cultural stereotypes and be a celebration of masculinity and femininity. There are so many misperceptions about what it means to be a man of God or a woman of God. Some of them our propagated by our culture. And I hate to say, but some of them are propagated by the church. This series would cut through the confusion and redefine the role of men and women in biblical terms.

It’d be a three-part series that plays off the superhero metaphor.

Superman: what it means to be a man of God
Wonder Woman: what a woman of God looks like
Mr & Mrs Incredible: how both sexes can win the battle of the sexes

I have a hunch that this is one those biblical topics we don’t talk about enough.