Cheryl

Hello Kerryn,

Thank you so much for your comments! I am also glad that your husband is ‘cautiously’ impressed with my DVD series. I have come to understand that change takes time. Being ‘cautious’ is a good thing because we must test all things by scripture. If scripture agrees, then we can accept it. If scripture contradicts the material, then we must reject the teaching no matter how much we like the person or how much we would like to believe the teaching. Scripture is our ultimate authority and being cautious is biblical.

I have also heard from many who said that they watched the series 3 times before they felt that it had all sunk in. Pretty much everyone has told me that the series has so much information and documentation in it, that it was hard to take it all in on the first viewing.

One Pastor had agreed last year to review WIM and point out any errors or scriptural discrepancies that he found. He thought it would be easy to disprove, but after watching the first DVD, he wrote back saying that he could clearly see that I had put much more work put into the DVD set than he had anticipated and it would take more time to review it. That was the spring of 2006 and although we have had some back and forth conversation since then, he still has not been able to find anything to refute. He ordered four more DVD sets to pass along to 3 of his pastor friends and one Christian apologist so that they could help him refute the material in the DVDs. That was late summer 2006 and to this date none of his friends have been able to help him in finding any scriptural error or any refutation of the material found in the DVD series.

Yet even though there have been no attempts at a refutation against the position that God gifts and uses women wherever he wants to use them, I am very sympathetic to those who are having their tradition challenged. It takes great courage for people to allow their point of view to be challenged and changed. We humans as a whole do not reconsider our long-held tradition very easily. Change is hard and it takes time and effort and a strong desire for truth no matter how painful that truth is.

Blessings to you and your husband!
Cheryl