Planting Churches among the City's Poor - Volume 1

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I go into depth in these questions in the essay, and it deals specifically into the questions of women not speaking in church, or exercising authority over men, which frankly, I believe are more rightly under stood in the context of the Ephesian and Corinthian contexts rather than binding principles for all time on the church through this age. For what it is, I seek to address these and other issues in the short essay, and I trust you will find it helpful. Thanks so much for your gracious and warm offer to dialogue and share our views. I have always chuckled at our evangelical sensibilities; we rarely if ever challenge women’s roles in ministry on the mission field, but we enthusiastically challenge them in our own back yards! I have sought over the years to consistently embrace the role of the Spirit’s freedom and our union with Christ, and building on those foundational truths.