News to me. Although I was a trustee before leaving UMC. But I’m so much more comfortable in my present worship environment where all the elders, all the ushers and all those who serve the Lord’s Supper are men. There are female (as well as male) altar assistants to the Pastor during the Divine Service, and women lectors, teachers and deaconesses, as well as many female committee members and chairs of the various ministries; but the adult men’s role in our services and oversight is not diluted by pushy feminists. Love it!
Hope you had a wonderful Easter, xzins!
The male mind is an odd thing.
As a pastor, I would testify that I saw, “if the women will do it, then I don’t need to.”
That’s not a biblical argument against female ordination as elders. Those are already known.
There’s some old church research that says that if mothers attend church, 25% of children will continue to attend church later in life. But if both father and mother attend, it is something in the neighborhood of 75% who will attend. I’ve always been fascinated by those numbers.