So important
A Biblical understanding of the role of women and the distinctives given for her in Scripture is so important. GirlTalk explains why:Why do we make such a big deal about promoting biblical womanhood here at girltalk? Because...
"Today the primary areas in which Christianity is pressured by the culture to conform are on issues of gender and sexuality. Post-moderns and ethical relativists care little about doctrinal truth claims. These seem to them innocuous, archaic, and irrelevant to life. What they do care about, and care about it with a vengeance, is whether their feminist agenda and sexual perversions are tolerated, endorsed, and expanded in an increasingly neo-pagan landscape. Because that is what they care most about, it is precisely here that Christianity is most vulnerable. To lose the battle here is to subject the church to increasing layers of departure and surely it will not be long until ethical departures (the church yielding to the pressures, for instance, of women's ordination to the pastoral ministry) will yield even more central doctrinal departures, like questioning whether Scripture's inherent teaching about manhood and womanhood renders it fundamentally untrustworthy for the Christian life." (Bruce Ware, professor of theology at Southern Baptist Seminary – quoted in “Preface (2006)” by J. Ligon Duncan and Randy Stinson, Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem.)
"The church has been called to counter and bless the culture, not to copy and baptize it. All too often our churches reflect, rather than constructively engage, worldly culture. Perhaps worst of all, many evangelical leaders claim that if we want to reach the lost, we must become like them. This is a recipe for disaster. Dorothy Sayers refuted this notion: 'It is not the business of the church to conform Christ to men, but men to Christ.' That is precisely the challenge we face in this area of biblical manhood and womanhood." (J. Ligon Duncan and Randy Stinson – “Preface (2006),” Recovering Biblical Manhood & Womanhood, edited by John Piper and Wayne Grudem.)"Someone is teaching women principles of womanhood. Is it the church, or the world?" (J. Ligon Duncan & Susan Hunt, Women’s Ministry in the Local Church)
We yearn for the answer to be "the church." That's why.
posted by Crystal Paine at 1:14 PM
4 Comments:
OUCH!!!! Those darts have really been hurting my back lately. But....since I know I have the Lord right beside me (sometimes holding my hand other times dragging me) I will keep on adding darts to my collection.
P.S. I am glad I didn't know before hand what a hard life this would be....I might of opted out. :-)
Actually, the contemporary Church DOES have some beautiful statements on the unique and precious vocation of women... I think immediately of John Paul II's "Letter to Women," which was delivered in 1995 at the UN, of all places. I will post a link to it at my blog while I'm thinking of it. Good points here, Crystal- "The church has been called to counter and bless the culture, not to copy and baptize it." Amen!
AMEN!!! Christ never changes. I grew up in a pastor's home, and was the only daughter. I was told I needed to be an example! ( I did not like hearing that!) It was not until after high school I decided for myself to take the path of morality and continue to hold onto the truths that were instilled in me as a child for myself.
My father often told us, "It is never right to do wrong." We look at our leaders who "change" their beliefs once in office, who walk the middle of the road instead of the far right, and Christians who find themselves thinking, "HE says he is a Christian...thus it must be O.K."
We need an army of men and women to stand up and say, "NO! NO! I will do right. I will live on the old paths and the old ways!" We need revival in this country!
Ruth
"a daily practice"
Great reading, so glad I found this.
Christie
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