August 7, 2017: When Female Preachers Flourished
Posted on : Aug 8th, 2017 | By office | Category: Still Speaking“Women should be silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be subordinate, as the law also says.” I Corinthians 14:34
Many years ago, I led a Bible Study at a church that was struggling with “what the Bible says about homosexuality.” They knew Romans 1 and I Corinthians 6, by heart, and they were not all that open to what I had to say. So after a fair amount of time, fielding one bible quote after another, I asked if any of them knew what I Corinthians 14:34 said. Dead silence. Someone finally found it in their bible and read it aloud. I asked them if they believed that – knowing full well they had a woman pastor.