Featured Call to Elect a Female SBC President Next Week

Maybe Great (Commission) Baptist Convention??

 

sorry about the GBC, should have been SBC.

 

I meant the SBC, My mistake, sorry.

 

It should have been SBC, sorry.

 

My understanding of scripture is that Paul is forbidding women to be those who take a position of leadership over men whether it includes teaching, song leading, etc.in the congregation. Indeed, the Greek term used by Paul has the idea to "stand in front" and thus conveys the idea of a position in front of men characterized by leadership.

There is no SBC or any other kind of convention organization found in Scripture. There is no hierarchy of administration above the congregation found in scripture. However, if man invents such an organization with such a heirarchy with regard to his churches it would fall under the same principles when it comes to leadership.

Isaiah states that it is a sign of moral cultural demise when a nation is led by women and children (Isa. 3:12). Of course, Isaiah's words would not be politically correct within our culture, however, in God's only established nation on earth it was the rule whereas the occasional exception to that rule (Deborah, etc.) fit the Isaiah narrative of "err" rather than acceptable and norm.

The Biblical rule is not about participation but about standing in front of the congregation or in a position of leadership over the men in the congregation. The command is not based upon cultural views and practices or upon traditions of men but it is always in every case based upon the creative order of God - Adam was created first in order and then Eve. It is based upon the relationship of Christ and the Church as represented under the marriage relationship between a husband and wife. The church is always in a submissive role and never in a leadership role over Christ.

Amazingly, those who oppose the Scriptural order can still see it clearly established in the home (Eph. 5:22-23) between the husband and wife but once the husband and wife enter the church door they think God has reversed it. So the SBC President woman PRESIDES over her husband if he sits in the convened SBC assembly but when she goes home he presides over her in the home - consistency is such a rare jewel.

So, yes it would a violation of God's Word to have a SBC woman President as she PRESIDES over the assembled leadership of its congregations.

Now, those who oppose the Biblical order and do so publicly in their teaching and debates will use all kinds of secular illustrations, and odd twisted Biblical examples that do not convey the doctrine of Scripture but only examples of twisted exegesis or examples of erring persons.

 

Why, if a woman is not so much as allowed to run the church bake sale if she might need to tell a man what time he should bring the cash box, does God fill women with the Holy Spirit, give them spiritual gifts and command them into the Great Commission?

It seems to me that in response to the current political climate, which is decidedly caustic, otherwise good Christians are losing sight. There is work in furtherance of the Kingdom to be done and God has given us all gifts, male and female both. God is the cause, and God is the reason.

Maybe instead of pushing women away from the Church, we should be seeking to explain to them where their Godly place is in it, because women are being called by God.

 

Some are drawn to apostasy no matter what....they turn from revealed truth and try and find obscure abberations and ungodly historical things...they are consistent in their rebellion.

 

But NOT called to be pastors/Elders, or in this case, SBC president!

 

SBC Plodder William Thornton has written for SBC Voices About a woman being SBC president