Analysis Of Chapter 10: Support Of Female Clergy And Leaders

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Chapter 10

Support of Female Clergy and Leader

The church is not infallible in its understanding of God’s will. Only through dialogue with those who differ from us will we begin to see what we may have missed and make changes for the better. Listening carefully to their critiques should spur us on to look at the Scriptures and allow God’s eternal and unchanging truths—not uncritical rejection of anything associated with particular movements—to shed light on our situation and determine church polity. If egalitarianism is true, more than half the church is being underused, and not only do we contradict. God’s will for men and women, but we also cripple the church and undercut the power of the gospel. When we stand on Scripture and fully …show more content…

The essential, but often missing, aspects of leadership, namely women’s perspectives, are at last beginning to experience an awakening.62 In evangelical conservative denominations that permit women’s ordination, the number of clergywomen has risen to about 10 percent. These increases represent real growth in lay acceptance and appreciation of the gifts of women as their pastors” (Lummis, 2016).45

It is contrary to the Scriptures that woman should not have her part in the salvation work to which God has called her. We have no right to lay a straw in her way. It is the same Holy Spirit in the woman as in the man other disciples into the upper room, and God baptized them all in the same room and made no difference. All the women received the anointed oil of the Holy Ghost and were able to preach the same as men.63

The attempt to argue against the ordination of women to the priesthood on the basis of some supposed eternal subordination of the Son to the Father must be judged to be failed and misguided project. “Are women to be eternally second-class citizens in the kingdom of God? Such specious arguments and misunderstandings of Scripture and tradition condemn women to positions of unending subordination and, worse still, rob God the Son of his coeternal and coequal glory, majesty, and