Leadership

Ordaining women is different than women leading. Women are very important in all local churches. Men need to understand that biblically that godly woman is a woman of great worth, trustworthy, hardworking, diligent, caring, thoughtful, business wise, disciplined, merciful, creative, lovely and most of all she loves God. Her attitude and actions produce a legacy that is praiseworthy (See Proverbs 31:10-31) and demonstrates a joyful freedom. Men should take anything a woman say into any consideration. The headship-submission relationship is not about inherent superiority and inferiority. Women are frankly wiser, more knowledgeable, more articulate, and more discerning than men. Men are called for understanding, sensitivity, and meeting women's (i.e. mother, wife,daughters) needs.In the New Testament, the apostle Peter strongly exhorts to husbands to honor their wives. (See my favorite verse 1 Peter 3:7). If I do not listen and honor my wife, I have sinned against God and my prayers will not be heard. By using an example from First Peter 3:7, Peter actually suggests that God designed women to be under the protection of a man, benefiting from his strength. And serving women by lending them that strength is one of the main ways we show them a Christlike, sacrificial love.A husband' responsibility is to LEAD spiritually. I still submit to my wife and my wife submits to me. In fact, we mutually agree about everything. The only area my wife allows me to do is make a tough final decision that is best for the family when she cannot decide. In the Bible, women have made strong impact and throughout Christian history, I came to respect many great Christian women and their faith. They have taught me more than any ordained pastors have taught me. Women can lead but I believe women are not to be ordained. I have been in many churches including the one I am attending now, there are women leaders but within bounderies of the Scriptures.