Cheryl Schatz

truthseeker,
I added some paragraph breaks to your post. 🙂 I can hear the hurt in your story. I too am amazed when I hear these things:

I was told by the pastor of one such church that God must have some things for me to learn about submission. I was aghast and angry. I wondered why he didn’t assume that God had some things for my husband to learn about love or submission?

When it is assumed that the problem is always the woman, then we have encountered prejudice. What shouldn’t be in the church is too often right there in our face. And so many women experience deep hurt because of it. It is my desire that the church would be able to see true unity in our lifetime. Perhaps we need persecution to pull us together and without the prejudice. In China most of the pastors are women for one reason or another, and it doesn’t appear that there is nearly as much prejudice against them in that country. They do what they have to do to shepherd God’s church in the way that they are called.