Cheryl Schatz

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What you have pointed out is one of my main beefs with those who seek to impose their “laws” on women. They make their point of view a law but they are unsure exactly how that “law” is to be played out. It becomes a subjective issue by all the “I think” men’s views who differ from each other without any consensus as to what constitutes the full “law”. But this is not the way God operates with His law.

So when these men are now responsible for supervising women they make all kinds of exceptions so that they can listen and evaluate her teaching. Then there are those who think that even this is a sin so they allow women to evaluate other women, but then who do the women evaluators report to? Is their evaluation an unlawful thing to be heard by a man?

No wonder these ones can only say “I think”. There is nothing solid at all in their application from the scriptures. The boundary line appears to be placed just outside where the man stands. He is of course never outside the law when he is the one setting the subjective boundary. What hurts me the most for women in ministry is that these women are the ones who are hurt and discounted and discredited and the men don’t seem to care that their rules harm a sister in Christ when the scripture is not clear on the matter. Instead of working hard to find all the freedom they can for women, they set up all the ways that a woman cannot freely function in her gifting. It is no wonder that so many women feel like they are less valuable than Christian men. I believe that this hurts the heart of God because He is the one who has called, gifted and empowered His women and His Holy Spirit is being discriminated against because of the gifts He brings when He dwells in women.