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Wendy's avatar

When our understanding is not in alignment with Scripture, it is not God who must change. People want their ears tickled. They want to hear what they agree with. We don't grow into godly people by continuing to live like the unrighteous.

Is change easy? No, admittedly not but difficulty doesn't give us a pass.

In my opinion, churches have absorbed unbiblical teaching because it is easier to surrender than to stick to the Word. They fear the world more than they fear God. Every time the church moves the stick, they open themselves up to even greater apostasy and then become a church that sees no problem using the Bible as a Super Bowl prop and punting it around their building. Yes, that did happen. If they bothered to listen to what Christ would say to them as their toe lifted His Word into the air, I wonder what He would have said? Better to fear Him than man.

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Jennifer Jabbour's avatar

Thank you for sharing! I grew up the opposite of you, believing that women cannot be pastors, but even more so, that women cannot even preach to a congregation, only to other women and children. I was raised in an Independent Baptist Church. Throughout my adult years, it's always felt weird to me when women would get up on stage to preach a sermon in front of a coed congregation. I've honestly tried to get myself to a place where I'm okay with women pastors, and no matter how I hard I try to get there, I cannot fully—for the same reasons got you to become a complementarian. The most I've ever been able to feel comfortable with is women speaking in church, but never pastoring an entire congregation. I am grateful for the words you've put to the inner voice that's been with me for so long.

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