Mabel Yin

I have a few questions for Pastor Mike:
1. Can a woman write a book that contains teachings of the word of God. If she does, can men read her book? If a man reads her book, does that make her a sinner, because she is then teaching the men, not audibly, but visually? Is the bible’s supposed prohibition refer only to “sermons”, “preachings” “teaching” by speaking, but not by writing? And if the prohibition covers writing, shouldn’t there be a disclaimer on the cover of the book “men, do not read” because she does not want to sin by teaching a man through her written word?
2. Similar logic. Can a woman speak of God and all things christian on the radio? what if men are listening to her “teaching” “preaching”, wouldn’t that make her a sinner? If a man wants to listen to her and more importantly, learn from her on the radio, would that not make her a sinner? Some men may not agree with you that they should not listen to a woman “teach” and they gladly listen to, and learn from the woman in the radio broadcast, wouldn’t that make the woman speaker a sinner none the less?
3. How about blogging? Cheryl is clearing teaching the word of God in this blog, and Pastor Mike is reading her blog, isn’t it the same as “listening” to her teach? or is blogging not covered in this prohibition? Maybe “teaching” is only “teaching” if someone is in a “classroom” and there is a black board, and the teacher is standing in front of students, who are sitting down?
4. If there is a “conversation” or “discussion” where matters of the Bible is explained, in a party setting, or during some social function, is that not teaching because it is not in a church, or in a classroom, or comes with an announcement that so and so is “teaching” a class? or it is not covered because the woman is just having a conversation with a man, or men, and she is not standing, on Sunday morning, in a sanctuary, up on a stage, and behind a pulpit? Are these the conditions to be met for that to qualify as a “sermon” and “preaching”? Most people associate a “sermon” with those qualifications.
5. Shouldn’t Jesus make himself more clear when he gave the Great Commission that all (not just men, and correct me if you think Jesus only meant men) should “go and make disciples…and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you…” Should women only lead women to Christ, but men can lead both men and women to Christ? If a woman can lead a man to Christ, and as soon as he is saved, all of a sudden he is to cover up his ears if she begins to explain, or “teach” him the word of God? Is she to, in lightning speed, quickly find a man to do that job lest she sins? didn’t Jesus, in the Great Commission, demands that we “teach…everything He has commanded us”? Are you telling women to disobey the Great Commission? Or is there a blue Great Commission and a Pink Great Commission?

Seriously, I am not being facetious. These are actually questions in my mind that so far, no-one has addressed. Pastor Mike, you are making a christian woman’s life quite impossible, trying to not step on any of these land mines. Unless, if a woman is to just quietly live her life, catering to the husband and raising children, not knowing much, and if she does know something, make sure she is careful where she says them, only participating in a Pink Great Commission, certainly not writing a book, not doing a radio show, and above all, not blogging, and she will be so very virtuous in the eyes of you, but how about in the eyes of God?

Mabel Yin