Like so many other Baptists, I check out Wade Burleson’s blog, Grace and Truth to You. I like what he has to say as he writes frequently on the lack of equality for women in the SBC. You can easily spend hours reading his posts on this subject, under the label Women, or Women and the SBC. or Gender Equality.
Last time I looked, he had 3,893,658 visitors to his blog since 2006. That is a lot of visits. Probably most are repeat visitors who want to read his take on what is currently happening in the SBC. As a result, every few weeks, many people are getting exposed to his views on equality for women.
March 26, 2010, Wade posted Mission Arlington: Where the lost are being saved and nobody even thinks ab0ut the Preacher’s Gender. On March 5, 2010, A Southern Baptist pastor speaks to his people on the power of women. On February 26, 2010, The Council for Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood website is down, but will it be back?
Where does it go from there? What happens after they read it? Do these pastors, lay people, and women, read this blog, shake their head in agreement, and then resume their game of Solitaire? Are any of them inspired to pick up the phone, call their deacons, their pastors, or others in their church, and tell them that something has to be done. Do they write their church leaders and demand equality for their wives and daughters, and daughters-in-law?
Do tears come to their eyes? Do they kneel in prayer and beg God for forgiveness for not allowing His truth in their hearts? Do they pray for their wives, and daughters and granddaughters who cannot serve in their church?
My little blog has only a handful of visitors. If 3,893,658 visitors cannot bring about a change for women, what can I possibly hope for?
When you finish this blog, will you resume your game of Solitaire?
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I don’t play Solitaire. I play Freecell. 🙂
Kidding aside, I also have a small blog, more for the bitter and deeply wounded than proclaiming gender equality. But I firmly believe that understanding her equalitiy in the eyes of God is part of a woman’s healing process.
Women are not second class citizens in the Kingdom of Heaven and they are not loved less than men.
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Thank you for your comment and visit to this blog. Please let others know that we are out here trying to claim our equality in our churches. This applies to churches of many denominations. Women have always been abused, and will continue to be, but the church should have no part in enabling this. The church should be on the leading front of allowing women full equality. Thanks a bunch. Keep visiting. I will soon post a series on Male Headship that I am working on now.
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Good. I’m looking forward to it.
I’m presently commenting on a site where I’d like to refer people to teachings on this.
I get so tired of men assuming headship/leadership from verses that speak of love and self sacrifice.
No where are men told to lead their wives. They are told to love, not lead. Yet they assume a leadership where none is given. They assume to know the mind of God, when they ignore the very plain meaning of the words of Jesus Christ, Emanuel, God with us.
Godspeed on your endeavors.
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This Male Headship terminology is new. I don’t know who came up with it, but I am going to do some research on it. The books I have on women and equality written in 1984-1999 mention male supremacy, but not male headship.
It will probably post by Monday. It will be in installments. I might start it sooner, depends on how much I get done.
Shirley
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