Posted on 02/21/2023 9:33:38 PM PST by fwdude
The Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday ousted its second-largest congregation — Saddleback Church, the renowned California megachurch founded by pastor and best-selling author Rick Warren — for having a woman pastor.
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As previously stated, women tend to be more accommodating. I have yet to find in my personal experience a female pastor who strictly adheres to God’s word.
The proof is in the pudding.
Church attendance is down. Churches embracing or even advocating for sin. Churches should be fighting the devil, not partnering with him.
No, thank you.
We’ve gone astray because instead of expecting men to be strong, moral leaders, we have raised two generations of girly men with no male role model in the home.
The small SBC I attend is about as conservative as it can get. But women, teach Sunday School classes, serve on the board of directors and various other committees. We have an assistant woman choir director. They will give their testimonies if led by the Lord, but the pastor and assistant pastor are men as are the deacons.
God hasn’t changed, his Word is constant. Man wants to add, take away, nuance what they think is God’s desires to meet the ever changing desires of a world that is devolving morally every day into a morass of evil, they want to be their own god.
I had a female friend who is a liberal who attended this church and when the supreme court arbitrarily declared gay marriage was going to be accepted by the government and society she assumed love won according to her. The pastor made it clear, man can and will change to accommodate their evil but God doesn’t change and we wouldn’t go along with SCOTUS or the social clubs pretending to be churches. She was aghast and angry. I said what did you think would happen, that the church would say, yeah God was wrong, man was right about the homosexual agenda? She told her husband they were leaving the church and both are quite miserable but they practice their own version of church where she is the god of the house that decides what is right and wrong.
It is a silly argument that I am pointing out.
I think religious freedom (and freedom of association) should make the choice to have only male (or, for that matter, female) clergy okay.
But using the crutch of the sex of the apostles I have always thought to be a real stretch.
And who went to the tomb?
Luke 24
1 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spices they had prepared and went to the tomb. 2
Meanwhile, my old and once-loved Cambridge MA parish, University Lutheran, has a woman pastor who is “married” to another woman!!!!
She was once married to a man, and had children with him. But soon before she assumed the pastorate at UniLu, there was a divorce, and she legally “married” a woman!!!!
This lesbian is also the “Lutheran chaplain at Harvard”!!!! Harvard students and faculty who are Lutheran must flee to the Missouri Synod, or better yet to Holy Orthodoxy!! Lord have Mercy!!!!
I’m curious to know what you read that led you to this conclusion?
Following the teachings of God, who breathed the New Testament.
2 Tim 3:16 - All Scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, for rebuking, for correcting, and for training in righteousness, . .
1 Tim 3: - A bishop then must be blameless, the husband . .
Because I played quite a bit with chatgpt and it looks like a chatgpt answer....
Christians rely on God’s word to instruct them and male and female are not about Mexico and Japan.
It seems like you just want to troll the thread.
I’m calling it a stretch to claim that because Christ’s apostles were male that means God was instructing us that only men should be priests or pastors.
That’s not mocking God’s word. That’s mocking those who get overly creative to make God’s word what they want it to be.
How does your Christian church interpret the biblical evidence on female preachers?
Not by reading something into the Bible that isn’t there. Though again, I support the right for churches and other groups to interpret and organize as they’d like.
Well, I am impressed. Your observation is correct. You may be an expert at a new occupation.
So a trolling you are, I was just checking.
By your definition pretty much all of FR is trolling.
This isn’t a topic where only one point of view can or should be shared and discussion is the idea.
Were the men even men if they allowed the women to take over?
Look at your posts, you haven’t really engaged in the discussion, you were merely trolling the thread.
Good job! Unless they want to go on the same slippery slide that tanked the UMC.
Good point. Pithy.
And men as well. Find one who expects to remain pure, or keep his fiancee a virgin, until marriage. Most won't even wait until the second date to start the pressure to have sex. Many won't even actually "date" -- i.e. take someone out, say to a dinner or movie, and get to know her first.
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