Cheryl

Oh and one final comment…..a big assumption that a part of the church has had is that God has different spiritual “roles” for different genders, different races and different social classes. Thankfully most of us have rejected the different spiritual “roles” for the races and now consider every race as equal in God’s eyes and equal in man’s eyes. But some still struggle with the issue of education and gender. If one doesn’t have a doctorate degree then that person is not spiritually equal in their “role” as teacher with the one who is merely “gifted” by God. I say let’s let God decide whom he gifts as that is a sovereign decision of God alone. When we stop looking down on bible teachers because of their skin color, their educational background or their gender, and recognize their gifting by God, we will be accepting what God alone can do – give gifts to his church.