Our gender

To be male is different to being female. There is true difference beyond just the physical form and strength of our bodies and the organs we have been given. To a significant extent our personalities are also shaped by our sex and our intended sex roles in copulation and parenthood, with males often having more of a desire to strongly enter their world and make a difference, and females often having a strong desire to be nurturing and welcoming of others into their sphere of existence. These innate differences seem to be the reason for the different roles men and women assume or are allotted within society for the glory of God.

These differences do nothing to undermine the fact of a status of equality between the sexes. Men and women, both individually and as couples, reveal and display the image of God. The differences should be seen as complementary rather than as signs of privilege, power, prestige, or position. We must also remember that when required, females are able to exercise personality traits of men, and men are able to exercise personality traits of women.