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To: GretchenM

Churches are already excessively feminine, to the point it is hard to drag/find a man inside one. The last thing we need is even more women in leadership roles, dragging the church further into 'women's club' circles...


53 posted on 11/03/2006 4:34:14 PM PST by Mr Rogers (I'm agnostic on evolution, but sit ups are from Hell!)
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To: Mr Rogers

The fact that the devil has mowed down so many men in their roles as men and spiritual leaders is simply no reason for women not to find their place in the church just as God is calling men to do. Let both genders be raised up together. Men and women, in their God-ordained roles and callings, need each other to complete God's vision for His bride, His church, His people.

When revival comes to a nation, as it is now coming upon America, history shows that men relinquish their hammerlock on women and move in the freedom and blessing of God to raise women up to the place Jesus died to give them, and the place He honored them in His life on earth.

But when a people has let go of revival, when they move back to legalism and live under the bondage of their own understanding, men begin to throw women off the train and take back a life-constricting control of administration.

America has only recently begun to get the Biblical picture of women functioning in their true, Godly authority, which does not include lording it over men, just as God never intended men to lord it over women. We haven't SEEN men or women functioning as they are purposed by God to function. The divine perspective can be a little unsettling until it begins to take form and be productive.

Please check out Loren Cunningham's book, or any other on the subject. There are a number of them out there these days, because we are in the early stages of revival. More of this is going to come upon America (women being restored to their God-given place). Churches must choose how they will receive what God is doing. And I don't by any means want to appear to endorse women in ministry who are as out of God's purposes as the men who insist churches should be ordaining people who won't repent of sin.


54 posted on 11/03/2006 4:48:31 PM PST by GretchenM (What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus)
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