Should Women Preach? (The Story of One Bible College Faculty’s Quest for an Answer)
1. Beginning with creation, God has hard-wired male spiritual leadership into the system, and God is calling men to step up as the primary leaders in his church.
2. The regular teachers and leaders in any congregation, then, are to be the elders—a role reserved for men. This includes the role of “the preacher” in a local church.
3. The New Testament does also allow for women, on occasion, to preach and teach in church—from a posture of submission to the elders’ ultimate authority.
The Case For “Occasional” Women Preachers: A Response to Ozark Christian College
The point, of course, is that there are numerous problems with what OCC has concluded “along the way” in its study of women in the church. In this essay, however, we have primarily limited ourselves to the main argument, namely, that the NT does not forbid women to preach or teach “on occasion.” Our conclusion is that the evidence cited to support this view is not just inadequate but is seriously faulty.
Sex, Millennials, and the Church: Five Implications
- Most Millennials, including Christian Millennials, see nothing wrong with unmarried persons living together.
- While the trend toward approval of homosexual marriage is growing in society at large, the positive view is pervasive among Millennials.
- Millennials will exit quickly from churches whose members are shrill and unloving toward those with non-biblical views on sexuality.
- Ironically, Millennials will not stick with churches that have no convictions.
- The greater opportunity lies with those churches that are able to speak truth in love, and to demonstrate that love.
The problem with seeking God’s will
If the pulse of my prayer life is set on my future (“God lead me guide me help me”), and not on God Himself (“Our Father who art in heaven”) then this has revealed that there is really a rival god in the mix. An idol. “Success” or perhaps “Comfort” or “Control”. I want my best life now, not Jesus. Really what I have been asking is….”God make my life go perfectly”. “Make it exceptional.” “Make my life epic.”
The Gospel according to Evangelist manipulative jerk face
All that to say, when it comes to sharing our faith, lets not be like Mr “manipulative Jerk face” with his overpriced vacuum cleaners…
Let’s be like Mr “actually loves people and is genuine like Jesus was” person with the greatest news in the world.
If we are going to have an interior life, out of which we lead, it demands we limit what is in our knapsack, or backpack.
Not knowing how to listen to our interior world puts us, our family, and the people we lead in great danger.
18 Principles from Pixar’s Culture
Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. Give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you get the team right, chances are that they’ll get the ideas right.
Most presentations aren’t bullet proof
Bullets are almost always misused. If you have a finite number of points, each of which supports the other, one can imagine that they help us fit the puzzle together. But that’s not how they’re used, are they? Most people use them the way I’m using them now, as a disorderly almost random list.
As grandparents juggle care of girl grazed by bullet, one less worry: Operations will be free
“No baby should have to go through what she has gone through,” said Deborah Alessi, who has helped set up a foundation that pays for victims of domestic violence to have plastic surgery. “She has amazing grandparents, but I can see the sadness. The only thing that we can do is help her on her way.”
Georgia drunk driver hands officer beer instead of license
When Officer Alvin Rodriguez asked the motorist for his license he was handed a beer instead, the officer said.
“The driver was intoxicated and not making the best decisions,” Dunwoody police Officer Tim Fecht told the Daily News.