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Originally Posted by UntoHim
Maybe Nell would like to expound and/or expand upon what I've posted here. Again, since this thread is about "Women's Role", I think it is fair and reasonable to let our sisters "take thWhe lead" in this thread.
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UntoHim,
I believe "taking the lead" is overrated. I believe "authority" in the church is in the hands of our Lord Jesus, since all authority was given to Him.
Many years ago when I was a "childrens worker" in a locality, I never "officially" became a "leader". However, in fact, I was responsible. I was capable. I was loving and caring of the children in my group as well as the sister I was serving with. The sisters depended on me and the children loved me and all treated me with respect. Was I a de facto "leader"? Maybe? I never considered myself as being anything other than the person God made me to be. He placed me where He did, because of who and what I was because of Him. I flourished in that role because God did it. Not me.
One day, the Big Dog Childrens Work "coordinator" had a meeting with all the workers. While glaring at me, rudely, in front of everyone, with a nasty frown and angry eyes, he pronounced that sister so-and-so was now the leader of my group and turning his head toward me he said "If anybody has problems with that, they can come see me."
Did I give one rip that he publicly and rudely fired me from a job that was never mine...that I never asked for? Did his rude behavior change who I am or what I was? No. It didn't. Did he remove the gift God had given me...the gift of responsibility, capabilities, loving and caring for others? No. He did not. Big Dog never even bothered to tell me what I had done, if anything, to deserve such rude behavior and disrespect. So I stopped being me.
As I said, authority is overrated and misunderstood. Those who exercise authority often have no gift and are blind as a bat...as Big Dog was and probably still is. Those who may have even a small gift, as I believe I did, wouldn't touch a position of "authority" with a ten-foot-pole. I also believe that the more Evangelical rants about men having authority over women, the less he knows what he is talking about.
Nell