The weekend has arrived! Hope you guys have some fun plans for Saturday and Sunday?
So today I went to the hair salon and got my hair coloured…I always get a bit nervous when I’m sitting there with all the highlight foils on my head, hoping it won’t turn out orange or green! Thankfully it looks just like I’d hoped, so all is well!
Sitting there in the salon chair I had some time to think… One of the theological questions I’ve been pondering recently is the issue of women in ministry – because I am one! Paul has a few interesting passages in Timothy and Corinthians (1 Cor 14:34, 1 Tim 2:11-15) about women remaining silent in church… I studied those texts during my time in Oxford and came away confident that it is OK for us girls to preach, lead and minister in churches… But I know the texts are hard to interpret and understand…
What do you think about what Paul wrote? Do you think women should be allowed to preach and lead, or do you think not? (I love controversial discussions and will not be at all offended whatever you believe!)
But seriously, I desire to be someone who really looks at the Scriptures and figures out what GOD is saying, not just taking what ‘everyone else thinks’ as truth. I’m inspired by what was said of the christians in a town called Berea in the New Testament:
“Now the Berean believers
were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they EXAMINED the Scriptures every day
to see if what Paul said was true” (Acts 17:11)
On every topic in life, may we be people who “examine the Scriptures” to see what they say. Let’s not be afraid to ask God the big, scary questions about what is and isnt true…and let’s not just ‘go with the flow’ just because its ‘what everyone believes’..
Our generation can see straight through fakeness and rehearsed Sunday school answers. We need to be well thought through theologians of God’s word -to examine what it says and believe the answers so deeply that we would stake our lives on it.
Thoughts?? : )
Vicky
