Cheryl Schatz

Kay,
Yes, it was extremely hurtful. It took a few years for the pain to subside because rejection isn’t an easy thing. And being rejected for being female (something I can’t do anything about) and following the Lord’s calling (something I must always obey as a disciple of Christ) was difficult to comprehend. At the time I did not understand how someone could hold to the thought of male privilege and refuse to discuss it and reject me without considering me worthy enough to be heard.

After he broke fellowship with me, he went on to start his own church. It appears that he enjoys being called “pastor” even though he knows that this is not one of his gifts and he had admitted many times to me in the past that he does not have a pastor’s heart. But then there is that male trump card that gives him the privilege of doing anything he wants without question. And me? I took all the research that I had done but which he didn’t want to read and I put it into my WIM DVD set. What was meant to help him and his wife is being used today to reach not just one couple, but the entire church. How can I be sad about that? Yet I still have some sadness that there is such an ungodly division over the freedom for women to serve with the gifts that the Holy Spirit has given them. Apparently some men think that their trump card trumps even the Holy Spirit.