How ironic -
the the pot calls the kettle black. Elsman you are knit picking about
rebellious women and head coverings
when the example you have set on TT has been arrogance and rebellion
personified. I have seen the
moderater and others ask you to tone down the rhetoric and not to write
in such large print. The listowner (who you constantly ridicule) went
to some trouble to explain how much more bandwidth these kind of posts
use and how we should be considerate of others (those whose mailboxes
fill quickly). He has been ignored (and you are one of the main
offenders) - not that I'm completely innocent in this area myself.
Do you realize that
when you dismiss women you are negating more than half of the Church of
the Lord Jesus Christ? When Jesus ascended and sent the promise along
with spiritual and ministry giftings he didn't categorize these "for men
ONLY" they were sent to the Church. What if Jesus chooses to
prophesy through a woman, should she resist in fear, or run to get her
head covering? Are tongues only for the men since they can talk? Were
any women in the Upper Room on the day of Pentecost? Did they
have doilies on their heads?
Hubert
Lindsey sounds insane (in the sense of being doubleminded) and full of
fear. Why didn't he trust Jesus (as head of the Church) to be Lord over
the people he was trying to pastor? There is just ONE mediator between
God and man and he doesn't set up a "one man band." I read Hubert's book a while back and I don't
believe he ever overcame the harshness of his childhood; he
certainly had a heart for the downtrodden and the underdog, but then so
do Australians; they love to expose clay feet and lift up the
underdog. Hubert was not the whole loaf. He was not able to nurture
the women in his life and from what you write he was accountable to
noone else in the body of Christ.
There are/were
social reasons for Paul writing as he did against women speaking
publicly and head coverings. They were relevant to first century
Corinth and Ephesus but are obsolete today. The New Testament is not a
rule book and the apostle Paul did not demean or put down women, some
of them worked with him in ministry. Today women read, and are
permitted to be as educated as men - The gifts and callings of God
are for the whole Church not just a part and in Christ there is no
male, female, bond or free (Gal 3:28).
In marriage the man
is head of the wife; she is the weaker vessel and he is to lead but
His example is Christ (as head of the Church) so this rules
out disrespect, browbeating and demeaning them. In fact the husband is
to cleanse his wife by the washing of the water of the Word. How
refreshing. A band of women voluntarily followed Jesus and his
disciples taking care of their temporal needs which never would
have happened if he practiced and taught the kind of attitude toward
them that is in you and Daniel on TT.
Free to serve the
Master - in His love,
judyt
