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Book Review: Women as Risk-Takers for God
By: Frances Hiebert | April 30, 1998
In 1991 Lutz met with leaders of two other global women's movements, the Women's Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship and the Lausanne Women's Network, to see how they could work together. A book committee was set up to include representatives of the three groups, and Lutz was commissioned to do the writing.
Equal to Serve: Women and Men in the Church and Home
By: Gretchen Gaebelein Hull | April 1, 1998
Equal to Serve takes a close look at the women of the Bible and the men they lived and served with.
Women as Risk-Takers for God
By: Lorry Lutz | January 1, 1998
Lorry Lutz highlights the lives of a dozen contemporary women who have exercised leadership in Christ's kingdom, hoping to encourage more women to take their rightful place alongside men in building Christ's church.
From My Point of View: Men’s Psychological Barriers to Adopting an Egalitarian View
By: Chuck Romig | January 30, 1997
I have been told on a number of occasions that men who adhere to an egalitarian view of the marital relationship and who see no ministry restrictions for women in the church approach the Bible from some personal bias that keeps them from seeing the truth. What usually follows in the conversation (lecture) is armchair [...]
Passion and Belief
By: Kathy D. Colebank | January 30, 1997
I recently read a letter by a young woman struggling with the issue of women in ministry. She was torn because her father, a wonderful man of God, believed strongly that women were not to be ordained to ministry. “How can I question the beliefs of such a passionate godly man?” she asked. But [...]
The Bible, Gender, and Church Office
By: Eugene Bradford | January 30, 1997
The Bible does not allow gender to be a criterion for eligibility for any office or function in the church. Although in the Semitic/Hebrew culture the subordination of women to men was probably universal, and although there were no early explicit divine prohibitions against female subordination, the climax of special divine revelation in the [...]
Let's Keep on Ordaining Women
By: Hugh McNally | January 30, 1997
The role of women in ministry is a controversial issue in evangelical churches today. On one side are the “traditionalists” who firmly believe that women should not be permitted to teach, preach or hold any position of authority in the church. On the other side are the “biblical feminists” who firmly believe that God calls [...]
J. I. Packer and the Logic of Patriarchy
By: Curt Purcell | January 30, 1997
J. I. Packer published a short piece in Christianity Today, titled “Let’s Stop Making Women Presbyters.” As the title suggests, this piece is a straightforward example of the age-old attempt to justify the treatment of women as second-class and substandard—an oppressive gesture, even if unintended as such. However, if [...]
Setting the Record Straight: A Response to J.I. Packer's Position on Women's Ordination
By: Hyunhye Pokrifka Joe, Grace Ying May | January 30, 1997
With due respect to Packer’s erudition and contribution to evangelical thought, we do not see women’s ordination as merely a by-product of modernity. We firmly believe that Scripture has consistently affirmed the ministry of women and placed equality at the core of God’s redemptive purposes since the very beginning.
The Scholarship of Patriarchy (On 1 Timothy 2:8-15)
By: Alan G. Padgett | January 30, 1997
One of the most hotly contested passages in the New Testament these days is 1 Timothy 2:8-15. The cultural reason for this is clear: The ordination of women in the Church is a major issue of debate among traditional and evangelical denominations. Biblically-minded Christians are rightly concerned about the meaning of this passage for ministry today. [...]