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1/22/14 3:32 pm
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Great post Randy!!
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1/23/14 11:14 pm
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I was pretty well with you up until that very last paragraph. Was that for effect or fun? If not, then ...
| Quote: | | In Christ there is neither male or female just as their is neither slave or free. If we are to grow into maturity in Christ, then we need to arrive at the place where we no longer make distinctions among ourselves as servants of Christ on the basis of gender. This week we remembered the legacy of Martin Luther King and his fight for the rights of black people. Echoing that sentiment, I can hear the Lord say, "Let my women go!" |
That is a problematic conclusion and application to make. No longer make distinctions among ourselves as servants of Christ on the basis of gender? Can we separate, in this life, our gender form our Christianity? Distinguish, yes. But separate? Can I be my wife's husband and NOT be my wife's husband in Christ? My children's father, but not my children's father in Christ? I won;t go the other places such a line of reasoning logically leads. But surely you must not mean what it seems by that declaration.
Salvation isn't a gender neutering experience after all. Gender neutral, yes. Gender neutering, no. Gender plays a role friend, even in the church, by God's design. Fighting that is not fighting cultural whims, but the created order for the sexes.
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1/24/14 7:02 am
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this discussion for a variety of reasons:
a) this issue like many others (initial phsical evidence) has been debated here ad naseum
b) i'm on vacation
c) I just don't care anymore
but let me add this one item to your mix.
The Assemblies of God since its inception (1914 now celebrating our centennial) have ordained women for all levels of ministry and the sky has not fallen and we have grown worldwide to more than 65 million adherents. Just sayin....
BTW my wife is an ordained minister as well and one of the most godly, prophetic and sought after speakers in the AG and yet submitted to my leadership at home and in the church but I treat her as an equal. I have written extensively on the subject of women in ministry and studied it and find no basis for disallowing women in ministry. Context my friends, look at the context. ttfn
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