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We are working hard for women’s equality in our churches and we invite you to join us.
- “Does God REALLY Prefer Men?” written by Leslie and Gary Johnson, will soon be available free on my website www.bwebaptist.com
- Videos and video clips of the Seneca Falls 2 Christian Women’s Rights Convention are available on the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition site www.FreeCWC.com
- Read our Demand for An Apology from the Council on Biblical Manhood and Biblical Womanhood (CBMW) at www.FreeCWC.com and www.bwebaptist.com
- Read the October 11, 2010 post about the Freedom for Christian Women Coalition by Bob Allen of Associated Baptist Press News at http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5768/53/
Check back Wednesday, October 20, 2010, for my new series “Create in me a New Song.”
The blog below was written by my husband, Don Taylor, and I am glad to present this to you. As regular readers know, Don is my greatest supporter for equality for Christian women. Wednesday my new series starts.
( By Don Taylor, guest columnist)
My wife told me about a blog that was virulently against women having an influence in the church. Supposedly its purpose was to protect women by keeping them in their place. They didn’t think that place was behind the pulpit in our churches.
These bloggers argued that women were keeping the men from going to church. Someone even wrote that a woman nagging her husband about going to church kept him from going.
A typical man did not like to see a woman in any kind of religious authority. Also they did not like the claim that women were more spiritual than men. This was just not so; these mostly men would write.
I have attended churches that had women pastors. They were as good as the male preachers, I thought. And the women to men ratio was about the same as in churches were women are prohibited from preaching; about 60% women and 40% men. So, I don’t think that is the reason.
Go to any fair sized mainstream Christian church and just look at the choir. I have counted male and female noses and it comes out to about 75% women to 25% men.
I have come to my own personal conclusion. Men on the whole, are not as spiritual as women. They don’t have the same urge to worship as women do. The old saying is that men don’t want to stop and ask directions. I think they just don’t like to ask God for directions. It’s the old “I don’t need any help, I can do it on my own” mentality.
This is my answer to the feminization of the church. Men, get up on Sunday morning and admit to yourselves that you don’t have all of the answers….and go to church.
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I agree about the “I don’t need any help, I can do it on my own” mentality, but I think this is a socially conditioned mentality, not something endemic to being male.
I don’t think men are less spiritual than women. I think that our society tends to consider worship and spirituality to be “feminine” things, and thus discourages men from them. There are other factors involved, too, such as the fact that women as a whole are trained by society to do things for the good of others, while men are socialized more to do whatever they please. Women, therefore, are more likely to do their “duty” — especially if it’s “for the sake of the children” — and go to church.
Finally, there’s the very real fact that Christianity has a history of appealing to the less powerful; to the poor, the slave, the peasant– and the woman. The ancient Romans used to mock Christianity for being “the religion of women and slaves.” This is because, no matter what the church preaches through the ages about women needing to “stay in their place,” Jesus’ own words to and about the powerless, the poor and the oppressed, continue to shine.
Even in our more “liberated” age, there are still paradigms in our society that make women feel the need of a Savior like Christ, more than men do. But this isn’t because of genetics. It’s because of social conditioning.
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http://www.cbmw.org/Blog/Posts/The-Seeming-Oppression-of-Biblical-Womanhood?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+genderblog+%28Gender+Blog%29
Anyone see this over at the gender blog? What I find interesting is that they think there is a need to even address this topic! Egals are making headway!
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They thought they had it all sewed up, didn’t they? But they know that there is a group of women who are tired of their Equal-buts.
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BTW: There is NO such thing as Biblical womanhood.
If there IS, I am in trouble because my Savior came as a male and I have NO role model for Christlikeness that is “Biblical womanhood”. I have Jesus Christ and that is quite enough!
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