Cheryl

Lew,

Great points! I will definitely be better the next time but probably will never be the best debater. I am much more of a deep thinker than I am a fast talker. Plus I have this respect-thing in my head that I have a hard time pushing someone to answer a question that they are avoiding. I don’t want to be disrespectful and I am not sure how successful a person can be in debate unless they push people. I have this fear thing going on too when it comes to anything “live” and God helped me through but it was all him and none of me. If you see my video clips (look for “women in ministry silenced or set free” on youtube.com) you will see me what I perform like after many outtakes. It is far easier to be the research person and to have my nose in the scripture because to have people looking at me and hearing me “live” is quite a source of angst. That isn’t always good for thinking fast on one’s feet. I have all the answers to Matt’s questions perhaps in a way that he would hear them better once off the air.

The reason I agreed to go on the radio show was to defend his charge of sin against women. I was not there to prove that women can be Pastors. It isn’t that I have nothing to say about this, but there are much more important things that must precede the discussion on Pastors. i.e. can a woman teach the bible to men? And is it a sin for a woman to teach the bible or be a Pastor? Once these two key questions are answered, then we can move on.

Regarding talking faster and less words, I offered to do that. Matt asked me to keep my answers down to 1.5 minutes. I agreed but asked him to give me the questions in advance so that I could work on short answers. The offer no longer stands and he has forbidden me to come back on. There is not much I can do although for what it is worth, some of the fear is gone of live radio and having been called a heretic already, what else is there to fear? And if I can trust God with my salvation, I certainly can trust him to help me learn how to “do” radio.