Let Your Women Keep Silent: Telephone, Television, And Tell-a-woman
Just what women are doing today in the different avocations of life? We have only to look around us to find out. There are thousands and thousands of women doing great things in the secular world, so if all women who are following "unusual" pursuits are unmolested, why is there so much prejudice for a woman's work in the ministry. I have been told that there's three ways to dispatch news quickly--"telephone," "television," and "tell-a-woman," and the public doesn’t always relish the idea of having the truth told every time. That is one reason I think that men have so long tried to keep the women still.
Now tell me truly, what do you think about the public ministry of women? Has she a right to preach the gospel of Christ? Before you answer, remember Paul said, "Help those women who labored with me in the gospel."
The same Christ who commissioned Mary to carry the good tidings of his glorious resurrection to the church is still commissioning the daughters, and some of them are daring to follow the "still, small voice" and brave the storm of opposition. The old dark age of opposition to woman's rights is dying fast as the sun of Christian education mounts the sky of our faith. Christ is the mastermind in this great army of gospel preachers, around who clusters our every hope.
Listen, Christ speaks to Mary: "Go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me." Do you hear it, Jerusalem? Do you hear it patriarchs? Do you hear it tombs of the prophets? Do you hear it angels high up in heaven? Then tell it as you fly until all the stars shall clap their jeweled hands and all the spheres go singing along their eternal circuits, Jesus first commissioned a woman to carry the tidings of his resurrection. Let angels shave the darkness with rejoicing wing, let demons howl and carnal Christians croak, but still the commission from the lips of Jesus is "Go tell my brethren, that in Galilee they shall see me."
"Not she with traitorous kiss her Savior stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; but she alone would danger brave last at the cross and first at the grave.”
Now tell me truly, what do you think about the public ministry of women? Has she a right to preach the gospel of Christ? Before you answer, remember Paul said, "Help those women who labored with me in the gospel."
The same Christ who commissioned Mary to carry the good tidings of his glorious resurrection to the church is still commissioning the daughters, and some of them are daring to follow the "still, small voice" and brave the storm of opposition. The old dark age of opposition to woman's rights is dying fast as the sun of Christian education mounts the sky of our faith. Christ is the mastermind in this great army of gospel preachers, around who clusters our every hope.
Listen, Christ speaks to Mary: "Go, tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me." Do you hear it, Jerusalem? Do you hear it patriarchs? Do you hear it tombs of the prophets? Do you hear it angels high up in heaven? Then tell it as you fly until all the stars shall clap their jeweled hands and all the spheres go singing along their eternal circuits, Jesus first commissioned a woman to carry the tidings of his resurrection. Let angels shave the darkness with rejoicing wing, let demons howl and carnal Christians croak, but still the commission from the lips of Jesus is "Go tell my brethren, that in Galilee they shall see me."
"Not she with traitorous kiss her Savior stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; but she alone would danger brave last at the cross and first at the grave.”
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Comment by Cheryel Lemley-McRoy on June 22, 2010 at 4:29pm -
I have heard a Hebrew profssor say that in Hebrew the language is masculine/feminine and that the phrases describing the Holy Spirit are mostly in the feminine. He stated that he believes that is why women are more sensitive to the the Holy Spirit. If this is true, is the conservative church stifling the Holy Spirit?
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Comment by Dana Cashwell on June 29, 2010 at 5:54am -
I've been gone awhile finishing my book so I apologize for the delay in answering.
Tammie: Just love them. If a woman is truly called then she will build up and edify not emasculate. Also, we don't need to be in the spot light, that which is done in the dark hidden from people will be made known. We need to focus on Christ and He will bring to light what He will.
Cheryel: The short answer is yes and the reason is pride. I'm working on a new series about pride and will start post on that soon. This is one of the topics that will be discussed
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Comment by Cheryel Lemley-McRoy on June 29, 2010 at 2:03pm
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Thanks, Dana. I need your opinon on a concept I am considering. Part 1: I've been reading a book "The Gospel of Ruth; Loving God Enough to Break the Rules" by Carolyn Custis James. In it she relates that the word translated as "mete" in Gen 2:18, is "ezar: in the original Hebrew. An ezar is a Hebrew military term for a soldier who defends another soldier in battle and fights along side of him when the enemy has overpowered him. There is no difference in the status of the two soldiers. Elswhere, God is described as our ezar (helper). Part 2: Then comes the fall and in Gen 3:16, the woman is put under the man. (and he will rule over you.) Part 3: After salvation, Gal 3: 28 restores women to a equal status in the kingdom of Heaven. There is therefore now no ... male or female...) Please tell me if this is sound theology regarding women's status in the church.
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Comment by Dana Cashwell on June 29, 2010 at 3:52pm
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I can't say definitively because I haven't read that book, however, based on what is plainly evident in the Bible; Gen3:16 speaks directly about the punishment Eve received. She wasn't created that way so in my opinion part 1 & 2 seem to be sound.
In part 3 you say after 'salvation'; if by 'salvation' you and she mean the birth, death and resurrection our Lord, then it's all pretty sound. If it is meant after personal salvation then that's a little hinkey to me. Here's why. If Christ died for all sin (which He did), that includes past sin as well, especially Eve's. Our personal salvation is not dependent upon believing that the first sin is forgiven. It is only dependent upon us accepting that OUR sin is forgiven. Therefore, our personal salvation has nothing to do with our equality in God's Kingdom. Creation established it.
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