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To: XR7

It comes from "women shall keep silent in the church" which is basically interpreted as women should not preach or teach Christian men (men being adults... not children's Sunday School). I believe this goes for "leadership roles" such as pastors. Obviously this verse leads to a great deal of controversy, but then lots of things that we don't "agree" with do. If you take the verse literally, then women should never speak in a church. So since no one believes that is the case, it is taken as "leadership". In an independent-fundamental Baptist church, a woman cannot even direct the choir (however, I did exactly that in the church's Christian school.) When there is a woman at the pulpit for 40 minutes, she is a "guest speaker" not a preacher. It's all in the way you word it, I guess.


45 posted on 05/18/2006 10:39:48 AM PDT by awakened (The evidence of God's existence far outweighs the proof of His absence.)
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To: awakened
When there is a woman at the pulpit for 40 minutes, she is a "guest speaker" not a preacher.

Is she teaching from God's Word? This is in your church?

57 posted on 05/18/2006 11:54:55 AM PDT by newgeezer (Just my opinion. Your mileage may vary.)
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