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benelchi -> RE: Women's role in the Church - One Stop Thread (12/24/2008 12:27:58 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Godhead I would think that a woman has enough to do in the home to be concerned so much with running a church. Let the men tend to the manly duties, and the woman, the womanly duties. Remember that the Man was created first and the woman to be his helper. If you want to prove your worth in the church, keep it clean, look after the food at fellowship lunch. Tend to your womanly duties. Thats if you want to be approved in the eyes of God. Let this be in the heart of every woman... Who can find a woman of virtue? For her value is far above rubies. The heart of her husband trusts safely in her, so that he shall have no need of plunder. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar. She also rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a share to her young women. She considers a field, and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. She binds her loins with strength, and makes her arms strong. She sees that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night. She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. She stretches out her hand to the poor; yea, she reaches forth her hands to the needy. She is not afraid of the snow for her household; for all her household are clothed with scarlet. She makes herself coverings; her clothing is silk and purple. Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. She makes fine linen and sells it, and delivers girdles to the merchants. Strength and honor are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. She opens her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness. She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness. Her sons rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. Many daughters have done well, but you excel them all. Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears Jehovah, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. (Pro 31:10-31) That is your mandate, that is your calling, take to it with the enthusiasm and joy that is befitting a woman of God. Knowing that you are doing your Lords will, and will be greatly praised for it, at His return. Yet what will He have to say to the women who are not where they are suppose to be? If we approve of women teaching in the church, then we might just as well approve of gay marriages and anything else that is against the natural order of our God's creation. I strongly agree with that middle paragraph; however, the beginning and concluding paragraphs are way off!
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