Mike K, just because you've never been told that
God ordained a woman to preach doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Not exact matches
It contends that two men who use each other's anus» for sexual gratification are in love and may therefore live in the covenant relationship
God ordained between a man and a
woman.
If inclusive language and the
ordained ministry of
women can help change our image and experience of
God to include the
God who loves us like a mother holding her baby to her breast, that may be the Great Awakening in our time.
It's important for us not to say, «Look here, the West has Jeffersonian values about the rights of
women, values we'd like to see you adopt,» but to argue instead from the Qur «an itself, citing verses like the one stating that
God has
ordained love and tenderness between the male and female in marriage, or that no man has two hearts in one bosom.
It was receiving desperate emails from
women whose husbands and pastors told them that submitting to abuse was part of their
God -
ordained role and who had nowhere else to turn because their church would shame them if they stepped forward and reported the abuse.
That's why men with
women is optimal and
ordained by
God».
However, It was
ordained by
God when he created man and
woman in the beginning.
I am thinking of independent churches, the Holiness traditions, the Assemblies of
God, and the Nazarene Church, and the Baptist General Conference, which
ordained its first
woman in 1943 — the Reverend Ethel Ruff.
I'm sticking to my position on gender equality in the home and Church --(which doesn't mean I don't think there are differences between men and
women, by the way; it just means I am reluctant to declare those differences universal and prescriptive or indicative of some sort of
God -
ordained hierarchy between men and
women)-- but I want to «fight fair» if you will, especially with folks I consider to be my brothers and sisters in Christ.
I've heard from
women who said they tried desperately for years to quiet their ambitions and leadership skills because they felt those gifts violated
God -
ordained «femininity.»
The other side argues that a female in today's «liberated» society is still a «
woman» and as such should fit into
God's
ordained and orderly creation, fulfilling her role of submission and dependence in church and family without impatience on the one hand or servitude on the other.
According to the Bible, marriage is
ordained by
God to be between a man and a
woman (Genesis 2:21 - 24; Matthew 19:4 - 6).
In
God's creation man was
ordained to be the head, and
woman to be in subjection to man (1 Cor.
And we may be wrong either as a matter of fact (maybe
God doesn't want
women ordained or infants baptized) or as a matter of emphasis (perhaps we over emphasize the sovereignty of
God in salvation).
I would want to be taught by one who is
ordained by
God be it man or
woman.
Why do some churches still refuse to
ordain women or grant
women full equality before
God?
O eternal
God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Creator of man and of
woman, who didst replenish with the Spirit Miriam, and Deborah, and Anna, and Huldah; who didst not disdain that thine only - begotten Son should be born of a
woman; who also in the Tabernacle of the testimony and in the Temple, didst
ordain women to be keepers of thy holy gates, do thou now also look down upon this thy servant, who is to be
ordained to the office of a deaconess, and grant her thy Holy Spirit... that she may worthily discharge the work.19
As a Christian dating site we believe that marriage is a sacred covenant between man and
woman,
ordained by
God as part of His divine plan for each of us.
Giving this site a try because I'm looking for the
woman God has
ordained for me and I for her.
I was not here very long, because
God led me to the
woman He
ordained to be my wife.