Cheryl Schatz

Elizabeth,

There i no doubt in my mind that the protest was staged and was planned to be rude.  They all knew that she was going to be a guest speaker.  If their consciences were that weak, they should have stayed home or gone elsewhere instead of deliberately making an issue out of the word of God being preached by someone who was not of the “right” gender.  If they really believed that she was doing something wrong merely because of her gender, they should have taken her aside after the meeting as discreetly as Priscilla and Aquilla did when they discreetly took Apollos aside and corrected him.  It is not a godly thing to disgrace and embarrass a fellow believer in public in that manner.