Creative Exegesis on Social Media

November 9, 2018December 3, 2018 Julie Anne

There’s a bit of fun “exegesis” happening on Twitter. What is exegesis?

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It started when my East Coast gal pal blogger, Dee, posted a link to an article on John Piper:

John Piper is speaking *ex cathedra* here because nothing in the Bible that proves his point. He does not want women to be police officers so bear that n mind. "John Piper Says 'Gender Roles' Apply Beyond Marriage: 'It's Relevant for All Our Relationships" https://t.co/pa17tMl0MP

— Dee Parsons (@wartwatch) November 8, 2018

And then what Tim and David added really cracked me up!

I copied those 2 tweets together in an image so people could be sure to read them in order, and tweeted it. And then more came in:

Crassegesis (Driscoll on Song of S)
Litigesis (Macdonald on Corinthians)
Misogysis (Piper on Ephesians)

— Andrew Jones (@tallskinnykiwi) November 9, 2018

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Or could that be complegesis when Grudem and Piper et al wrote the Danver's Statement?

But then we would need to include egaligesis to be equal, of course.

— Julie Anne (@DefendTheSheep) November 9, 2018

7 thoughts on “Creative Exegesis on Social Media”

Tim says:

November 9, 2018 at 9:10 AM

These are brilliant and I wish I’d been clever enough to add to them.

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Cindy Brunson says:

November 9, 2018 at 11:06 AM

These are each humorous especially ‘helpmegesis’!

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Julie Anne says:

November 9, 2018 at 11:09 AM

That was is my favorite, too, Cindy!

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Kathi says:

November 9, 2018 at 7:58 PM

LOL! So this is what I’m missing on Twitter?

Helpmegesis and assegesis are my favorites!

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Song of Joy says:

November 9, 2018 at 10:29 PM

Negligeesis – a unique interpretive approach popularized by Tullian Tchividjian and Bill Hybels

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Julie Anne says:

November 10, 2018 at 1:50 PM

Haha. Good one!

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Pastor John says:

November 10, 2018 at 10:30 PM

Oh my (chuckling)
Part of that answer’s clearly going to depend on what kind of gesis we’re dealing with here . . . .
If this gesis, for example, is calling her to engage in abusive acts willingly – group sex, or something really weird, bizarre, harmful, that clearly would be sin. Then the way she submits – and I really think this is possible, it’s kind of paradoxical. She’s not going to go there. I’m saying no, she’s not going to do what Jesus would disapprove, even though the gesis is asking her to do it.

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