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Direct Answer Based on Bercot’s comments, churches avoid controversial texts mainly out of fear of backlash—especially opposition from women in the congregation and conflict within marriages—so leaders choose silence or reinterpretation. Repentance would look like teaching the passage plainly, resisting people-pleasing, and choosing obedience to God over fear of relational consequences.

Support from Transcript:

• He says the issue is not difficulty: “1 Corinthians 11 is not a difficult passage to understand. The only problem… is that today’s women will not accept what it says.”
• He claims pastors fear consequences: a pastor who teaches it will receive “an enormous amount of opposition from his congregation.”
• He asks who would have “the guts” to teach the lines about man as “image and glory of God” and woman as “glory of man.”
• He describes strategies of avoidance: “skip… altogether,” “rush through,” or “explain it away.”
• He says many men lack “moral courage… going against their wives… going against today’s culture,” and compares it to Adam listening to his wife.