Jason Oliver Evans

Cheryl,
I have your blog under my Firefox Bookmarks folder called “Christian Resources”. I will continue to be a reader of this blog. I believe your ministry to the Body of Christ is vital. Thank God for women like you and the brothers and sisters who are fed up with the enemy’s deception being paraded as “Biblical Truth”. Now I’m learning to be careful when I read or listen to people when they use the term “Biblical”. Because what may be biblical may not be Godly. Saul, king of Israel was biblical. The Jezebels were biblical. Goliath was biblical, but were they godly? We are not called to be biblical men and women, but Christian men and Christian women. Our goal is to be conformed into the image of the only Begotten of the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ. It’s is so important to “rightly divide the word of truth” in these latters. People are being hurt by skilled workmen (male and female). We need the power of the Spirit and sound biblical hermeneuticians. The reality of lost souls demands our responsibility to interpret the Word of God according to the will of God for the glory of God. The Prophets of the Old Covenant had to soundly interpret the Law i.e. sit in the council of the Lord. How many of us so-called Bible-believing Christians do that?

I believe that complementarianism is a false doctrine informed by Western patriarchal culture, not the Scripture. Yes, Scripture was written within the Near Eastern patriarchal culture that is Israel, yet the Holy Spirit gave us examples of godly leadership and prophetic authority in Deborah, Miriam, Huldah, Anna, Phoebe, Mary sister of Lazarus, Mary the mother our Lord, Priscilla, and other women of the Faith in the Scriptures and in the Early Church. God will continue to use women along side their brothers in Christ for the coming of His Kingdom. Keep the faith and stay in the race!!!