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1 | Biblical - women preachers/teachers??? | 1 Tim 2:12 | EdB | 123729 | ||
Pam Let me give you one point to ponder. Is the question whether women should teach or not as big as issue as it appears? Or has Satan deceptively maneuvered it to become an issue of fairness? By that I mean no one really questions God when he gives one person a beautiful voice, or the ability to paint art. Yet if we are created equal then in the name of fairness we all should have that ability or none should. We don’t question why women can bear children and men can’t. Nor do we question why men generally have larger frames than women. There are differences between men and women, just as there are differences between people no matter of gender. I would love to drive a NASCAR but I don’t possess the reflexes and ability to be successful driver. While I may call this unfair is it, or does God have a different purpose for me? If everyone’s purpose was to preach who would listen? If everyone was to listen who would preach. Many focus on preaching as some sort of pinnacle or arrival point in a Christian’s walk. That is simply not true. Preaching is just another job in the church along with all the others. I have heard a lot of preachers in my time but nothing of what they said has impacted my life as did what my Sunday School teacher said. Incidentally my Sunday School teacher was a lovely woman doing a job nobody else wanted. I also guarantee if you or any other women your gifts will make room for you but perhaps not in the way you expect. Proverbs 18:16 A man's gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men. I think we would all do well with this. 1 Peter 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. EdB |
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2 | Biblical - women preachers/teachers??? | 1 Tim 2:12 | justme | 123750 | ||
EdB. Greetings brother: I think that this has been dialogued a number of times before, and I never tire of dropping some food for thought, in a kind respectful way. I find it interesting that in the 1800's there were many women in positions of Pastor in the United States. Most all of the Protestant denominations had women Pastors, and a good number still do today. Do women do a good job as a Pastor? Are women called to Pastor, are they barinf the fruit of ministry? How do I tell a female Pastor that has a growing church, and is preaching the Word, that she can't possibly be called? These are real issues, and I struggle with the answers. Often we equate The Women's Liberation Movement with women in ministry. Often homosexuality and feminism in the same group, and the truth is these two areas do bleed over to one another. However, when a woman has the call of God and does not align with herself in any way with such demanding of "their rights" but does prove to be a servant of Christ perhaps there is much more to God's call to minister than we fully understand? What are your thoughts? Blessings EdB. justme |
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3 | Biblical - women preachers/teachers??? | 1 Tim 2:12 | EdB | 123832 | ||
Justme I have said it before and I will say it again, God will accomplish his desire whether men cooperate or not. In other words if a man won't do it God will use a woman. This is proven in the story of Deborah. Let us address some issues you raised, ‘A woman that is pastoring a church and it is growing and she is preaching the word’. Was she called? Possibly when no man would accept the call of God. Was this God’s highest and best? No, this isn’t what God desired. You point to growth, but is growth and indicator of anything? I don’t think it is. I know some churches that preach the word and experience no growth, yet we see the Mormons growing by leaps and bounds. If there is growth is God blessing the woman’s work? Yes God could be doing just that or he could be blessing the people. However growth doesn’t prove we are in God’s will. I know a man that was heavy into pornography yet he pastored a church. His church was, the moving shaking church of the area, experiencing nearly a hundred fold growth every two or three year. Here is a pastor was visiting prostitutes, watching child porn, aberrant porn (if you can make the distinction) yet his church was overshadowing every church in the area. This man certainly wasn’t in God’s will. Nor do I believe he had a call. Another aspect we have to look at how many attended just because there was a woman pastor? Some people are actually attracted to the abnormal. Also how many women that have an upside down relationship in their home insisted their family support this liberated church? How many families turned away from this church because they saw it as out of order. Of the men that attended how was their home life, were they the leaders of the house or not? These are all things that we don’t know the answer to, yet we have God’s word. God through Paul said man should be head. I have sat under some excellent teaching that examined man’s and women’s thought processes. The two genders function and think about different things. Men tend to be more suspicious, harder to convince and harder to deceive particularly by close friends or relatives. Many believe these difference is God engineered to make a couple even more functional. However it has also been noticed that when the woman is the dominate in the relationship many of these benefits are lost. I believe the same principals apply in a church leadership. Man was originally ordered to keep or guard the garden, while he reneged on his obligation, he was the one God had equipped and therefore used for this job. Men today have that same equipping to guard or oversee the church if they fail at their obligation God may use a woman but that wasn’t that plan. There are many other issues that develop such as man’s tendency to let their minds wonder to other less productive things when women are speaking. Not to mention authority fixation and other tendencies that occur between Pastor and congregations. I'm not trying make excuses for the Bible nor am I trying to justify the Bible. I'm simply giving facts that bear out what the Bible says, and why I believe what is stated in the Bible means exactly what it says. EdB |
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