truthseeker

gengwall, #38, in my short time in a comp church, and still married to one, I saw in the church more teaching from the pulpit (read ‘pulpit’ here with a Forrest Gump accent. It does the word justice.) about men being good leaders. I think women get their instruction more from a swift kick to the shins under the table. One woman, a lady in her early seventies, and part of the senior group, shared with me that she had written a piece about the function and purpose that the elderly can fulfill in the church. She had hoped to share (not preach) it at their next gathering. An official male elder to whom she innocently revealed her plan, asked her to have her husband share it. Though she told me she didn’t want at all to be divisive, she was nonetheless puzzled since God had given her the idea, not her husband. I understand it was never read, BTW.

At this particular church, women-only classes focused on teaching women their proper place. Dutiful wives of elders were the only women allowed to teach these classes.