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Re: B.R. Hicks and Christ Gospel International
There is much to be said about the appropriate role of women in the church and ministry. There are those that would run to say, in Christ there is no male or female. And that's true in regards to the freedom of the gift of salvation and God's ability to work a redemptive work in their lives.
However, Scripture is plain that there is a distinct role between men and women. To say something is not equal does not by any means declare that one thing is inferior to the other. Oranges and Apples are by no means equal, and neither is one inferior to the other.
If men and women were equal in God's eyes, he would have just created another man for Adam. He created woman, because her role is a distinct compliment to man, and man to her role.
And the Scripture is plain to show that the role of men and women are distinct within the church. I currently am ordained with an organization started by a woman. We have some women pastors... and I can enumerate a plethora of issues that have come out of strong female presence in the leadership and a lack of Biblical male leadership. It has caused many issues.... and now we are reaping the consequences and trying to correct many of those ills.
Our current bishop believes as I do, it is not God's perfect will that women serve as bishops, or as pastors. They can have an annointing to minister, to encourage and even teach.... but they cannot serve in the same Spiritual authority as a man within the body... much less the home. God may have allowed some women pastors within his permissive will due to the lack of men having the backbone to step up to their calling, but it is far from his Perfect Will for the church.
I preach for some lady pastors, love them, pray for them, but they know where I stand on the issue. And I could never be a member under a lady pastor, or be accountable to a woman bishop/superintendent.... just doesn't fit God's framework.
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