(I came across this very good article on gender bias, the New Covenant order, and authority in the church. It is worth reading the entire article {linked below}. As a woman, I too have had my own struggles with different theologies I was raised with. But I am also against any women’s lib movement, as I see woman being superior just as erroneous as trying to live according to some Pharisical laws. What I am completely for, is the idea of Jesus equalizing all things so He can reign in all things. If we keep our eyes on how HE lived out the Divine order set through His example, we’ll see a much different pattern than the world.)
“It had been this authority thing that kept throwing me in the past remember, but now I had begun to understand it in servanthood terms because of Ephesians 5 and it’s context. It was, as I heard one fellow say about the Genesis1/Ephesians 5 passages, an entirely new graceful way of living. And the old “who’s the boss” thing of Genesis 2&3 was a curseful way of living. It was becoming obvious to me that Christians are to live in the grace of it all. [Of course.] Not in the curse of it all. [Of course not.] My questions were being answered.
Geneva
Vince
tammy {if meadows speak}
