Patricia

Great testimony. My father raised me to believe in women’s role in the church as equal — and he often asked me to teach his adult Sunday School class when I would be home from college. He protected me when some men in the church questioned my right to teach explaining to them and to me that those Scriptures were situational and not applicable to women in the church today…I had my own questions wondering if I should be teaching and he would point out that there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave or free, male or female but all are one in Christ Jesus. Daddy is 74 and I am 50 and we were raised in the Southern Baptist churches but moreover my father and mother determined to raise my brother and me in a Christ-centered home…which took precedence over Baptist (church) doctrine. I continue to thank God for my wonderful father (and mother) and in this situation, it was my father who so blessed me and helped keep me free – Patricia