Sentences with phrase «for women preaching»

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So in conclusion, the situation will get worse for every Muslim unless they come with a pragmatic leader who preaches respect and coexistence with other religions and get rid of the nonsensical beliefs like mentioned above plus the veil and mistreatment of women.

«In my faith community, popular women pastors such as Joyce Meyer were considered unbiblical for preaching from the pulpit in violation of the apostle Paul's restriction in 1 Timothy 2:12 («I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent»),

Naturally, when you preach a sermon like this to a group of people who think God hates filthy Gentile women and leprous enemy soldiers, and that God's ultimate goal for such people is to kill them and send them to burn forever in hell, you will not be the most popular teacher that this particular audience has ever had.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Having not realized there were women prophets — which are now something of a specialty for me [Daughters of Miriam]-- I wondered why folk ever had a conversation about women preaching when women preached as prophets in the bible.

In our preaching of the gospel we must get at it, present its «offense,» in such a fashion that it is a challenge to decision for men and women who live in the middle half of the twentieth century.

When I'm not penning chapters for books or travelling to preach or blogging my heart out here, my work has also appeared in Huffington Post, The High Calling, Conversations Journal, ChurchLeaders.com, Her.meneutics — Christianity Today's Blog for Women, Converge Magazine, SheLoves Magazine, RELEVANT Magazine, Today's Christian Woman, and a handful of other places.

Is it wrong for women to preach in church or be a pastor?

Having preached the sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.

It has taken a number of years for women to realize that to be a «good preacher» does not mean preaching «like a man.»

We are called to be light and salt, and one way to do this is to stand up and speak out FOR BIBLICAL VALUES and against sin... yes, of course we should be preaching / teaching / living God's «theology of marriage» in our own marriages...... but God has clearly defined marriage as between one man and one woman, and therefore, when our government says it's otherwise, we should be light and salt and speak up, and vote accordingly.

After one particularly offensive show on Aug 19, 2010 where he and his cohost, Crank, spent the morning railing against the «mentally diseased perverts» everyone else calls gay, preaching that women aren't equal to men and should be home raising the kids and making dinner, and Blacks need to kick their drug habits and get a job instead of freeloading off his hard earned tax dollars by trading in their food stamps for drug money, we started a blog documenting his abuses on the air waves.

The longer I stay in ministry, the more grateful I am for the example of powerfully wise women who lead, counsel, advise, preach — and sometimes just sit in silence.

I say this because no matter how successful, in an obvious way, such preaching may be, its principal value is that «the old - time religion» (thus conceived and proclaimed) provides for insecure and uncertain men and women an authority to which they may bow and thus be delivered, as they think, from too much victimization by the «changes and chances of this mortal life».

The job of a Christian preacher, he said, is to «proclaim the given gospel to the given world,» The given gospel — that is to say, the gospel which has come to him from the Christian tradition which he represents and for which in his preaching function he speaks; the given world — that is to say, men and women in their actual concrete situation, with their interests and worries, their concerns and their problems, And the two are to go together, so that the gospel will be heard and (one hopes) accepted by those who hear its proclamation as directly relevant to their own lives.

For example, the Orthodox Church has always had woman preachers and evangelists; no problem with women preaching, and I have preached in the pulpit of Orthodox churches all over the country.

My hope is that you will check these books out of the library or buy them at your local bookstore either for yourself or for a woman in your life who preaches or is called to preach.

I want to reclaim the word «preaching» for women and so, as usually happens, I needed to take a walk down the road I'm encouraging other women to take.)

We all talk so much about Jesus» ministry, but Luke 8:1 - 3 reveals that His preaching and teaching ministry may have been greatly hindered if women had not provided for His daily needs and those of His apostles.

In other situations, however, there may be a real place for women in the preaching and teaching ministry of the church.

Go preach to your church (of course if your a woman, the bible forbids that), and force those of your family that want to celebrate it to not, but don't pretend like you know the reasons for atheists to participate in some areas of the holiday season, and to call hypocrisy wherever you want to.

Even now when I travel to preach, at least three women will always quietly thank me for being a woman who shops in the plus - section and gets up on stages to preach.

She was a seamstress, he was a scholar; she made dresses for white women, he preached the gospel to black folk; she had taken no theology courses to enable her to comprehend God's claim on her, while he had studied so much theology that he was not expected to take God's claims seriously.

Now that so much data is available to make the unexplained less frightening... and that the historical record has shown that most church doctrine was made up and that even the Jesus birth story / son of god born of a woman etc etc has been recycled in numerous different religions for over 4000 years... preaching Faith in a fairy tale is a losing proposition.

These women have prayed for each of our Mercy girls, given hundreds of thousands of dollars for their home and counselling and well - being, walked the property in prayer, dropped off bundles of clothes, preached the Gospel with their lives to all of us.

He preached to the very first woman he assisted to her death that the world would thank her for her heroic gesture.

I assume that you have come to a definition of church from your studies of the bible and that it is this definition that effects the interpretation that it is right for women to preach in «church» or become a pastor.

Tony, I agree with you because I believe that women ought to spread the Good News through preaching and evangelism in the world and in the invisible church (via internet, for example).

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Furthermore, few churches who use 1 Corinthians 14:34 to defend the idea that it is wrong for women to preach in church also apply Paul's instructions that women should wear head coverings (1 Corinthians 11:2 - 10).

Having spent most of my life surrounded by some incredible women of God who knew the Word, lived the Word, spoke the Word, led Bible Studies, preached powerful sermons to thousands at a single gathering and so on, had the ability to heal with the Word, raise the dead, cast out Demons with the Power of the Word and so on I have come to the conclusion that «MAN» has distorted what God has always intended for His church.

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Craig maybe the definition of teaching men under authority is limited to that particular area within the church.But that does nt stop God from working outside those constraints.Mother Etta and no doubt other women felt compelled to preach the gospel such as women missionaries.Mother Etta preached the gospel and many were saved people were healed just as in the day of the disciples it is the same Jesus that saves and delivered from from sin and disease not the fact that it was a man who spoke behind the altar.Why do you find it hard to see that God can use women just like he uses men to witness for him.The call to witness for Christ is for everyone not just men and not just in a church situation.When we limit God to a narrow view it limits the effectiveness of the gospel.

-- «Once we understand the definition of «church» the whole debate about whether or not it is wrong for women to preach in church or be a «pastor» fades away into insignificance.

For me it doesn't matter whether my pastor is a man or a woman as long as there is holiness in his / her life, that through him / her you can see Jesus and living what they preach.

Using one or two verses as proof text for excluding women from preaching or teaching is not logical.

Though there are a variety of passages which people on both sides of the debate appeal to regarding whether or not it is okay for women to preach in church (e.g., various female «preachers» in the Old Testament like Miriam and Deborah and the female prophetesses in Acts 21:9, and the female apostle in Romans 16:7), two of the main texts in this debate about women preachers and female pastors are 1 Timothy 2:12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34.

I am no Scholar but, I believe God has the power to change prophecy the way that he did with Hezekiah, his intentions for a perfect people in the beginning changed due to disobedience so who's to say our men or intended leadership has overall been disobedient, and many women have been forced to lead and in that leading women have been more obedient.We all need each other if my husband was a pastor and I'm his help mate if he for some reason can't teach or preach who else other than myself would be the closest to him.I don't believe GOD changes he's always the same but, he does have the power to make changes and he does not need our permission to do so, instead of debating back and forth over our version of the Bible we should be sure we have the Holy Spirit and real relationship with GOD because he will reveal to us his truths but, please know he's not the author of confusion

The sexual integrity of women is upheld in the discussions of lust (Mt. 5:27 - 30) and divorce (Mt. 19:3 - 9), and the inclusion of sexually immoral women in the Kingdom is noted for the preaching of both John the Baptist and Jesus (Mt. 21:31 - 32).41» The mention of four women from Old Testament as ancestors of Jesus; the healing of the Cannanite woman's daughter (15:21 - 28); the parable of the ten virgins (25:1 - 13); the anointing at Bethany (26:6 - 13); and the women at resurrection of Jesus (28:1 - 10) all obviously shows Matthaean interest on women and the concept of «Universalism».42

The koran preaches killing of people of other religions, abusing or killing women and the mosques are the breeding ground for this type of hatred and disrespect.

Why do some churches ordain women and let them preach while other churches have folks who get up and walk out when a woman opens her bile for some teaching in front of men?»

Enuma Okoro — Recently named one of seven top young influencers for the next generation by Catalyst, Enuma is speaking all over the world now, and in June of 2012 was honored as the first woman of African descent to preach at the historic American Church in Paris.

Male authority that does not intentionally seek change and cultural transformation and space for women who are called by God to preach and teach and lead.

Jesus had taken the first steps of turning that around, loving women, teaching women, sticking up for them and commissioning them to preach the Gospel all over the world.

Their «summons to disobedience», Pope Benedict preached, went «even to the point of disregarding definitive decisions of the Church's Magisterium, such as the question of women's ordination... Do we sense here anything of that configuration to Christ which is the precondition for all true renewal, or do we merely sense a desperate push to do something to change the Church in accordance with one's own preferences and ideas?»

We shall Know them by their Deeds — so how about all you so called Chrisitans practice what you preach — feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless, and caring for the «lesser of these» — oh I forgot that isn't the Republican way — it's every man / women for themselves but you women will take a back seat to your MAN!

Or to share a church meeting where we find a woman preaching, which was allowed for men only.

They said that women and laymen could preach, that the Church of Rome, being corrupt, was not the head of the Catholic Church, that only priests and bishops who lived as did the Apostles were to be obeyed, that prayers for the dead were useless, that sacraments administered by unworthy clergy were of no effect, that taking life is against God's law, that every lie is a deadly sin, and that oaths, as in courts, are clearly contrary to Christ's command.

Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.

De Blasio was preaching to the choir with the IDC, which is aligning itself with de Blasio following a falling out for the breakaway conference with Cuomo (the governor referred to the IDC as the «co-conspirators» with the Senate Republicans following the failure of the abortion plank in his women's agenda).