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Hello friends…
around the Regent community gender issues have been somewhat of a hot topic. we recently had a woman lecture about equality, and another well respected prof stand up and disagree. Both speakers were emotional about what they were saying. This is a big question from me being a woman who is planning on heading into ministry…what can/should my role look like? It’s especially frustrating because i am coming from a business degree where i was taught that female leadership is coveted in successful companies… so, then why not in the church?
I’m putting this out there because i would like to hear what your views are on this. What should the husband/wife relationship be like? and what is a woman’s place in ministry? don’t be afraid of offending me, i’ve heard jut about everything from people around here. I love you guys.
jen.
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Jen I used to be an pastor in the Alliance church, and the party-line has always been that woman were not be in leadership over men. So they couldn\'t be elders, and certainly not Senior Pastors. Yet at the same time they could be every other kind of pastor, in authority over all kinds of men. And even better, in various countries of the world, women missionairies who had served for decades in leadership were being considered like Bishops over the churches there, and condoned by the same church that in North America denied it. The modern church has various answers, and a back pocket full of hypocrisy for those answers. Your question had two parts really: Equality and Ministry. Equal? Yes. To believe that God would have made us otherwise is to offend his own nature. In every way. The fall didn\'t subjogate women because she bit the apple first. We are both made in God\'s image and anything less is offensive. Ministry? What is your role? Well in this day and age your role may be different than your ministry… let me explain. Your ministry should be, in ideal terms, who you are. So whether someone is paying you do something or not, you would most likely still be doing the same thing one way or another. But there are a lot of churches that won\'t give you a role, a job, a volunteer position even, if your ministry is not available to women in their group. So i just stated the obvious. But what i want to get across is that i hope you would search your heart and life and know who you are, and know the things you do best which reflect the heart of God for this world (ie ministry) and then do them. Do them and don\'t worry about what anyone thinks or who is gonna give you a job. I went through Bible College with some girls that were twice the pastors I was. But they never pursued the job because they knew it was a dead end. I think our churches will be held accountable one way or another for such a thing. Long long long. sorry about that. but had to get it out..