Cheryl Schatz

Amy,

Your point is well-taken.  Some may say though that Priscilla still could teach an Apollos and so if they wanted to, they could find a loop hole in their high walls set up to keep women out of their learning process.

The thing that I haven’t quite been able to get my head across is why God chooses to send women to defend women in ministry.  Someone asked me a long time ago why my husband or another man didn’t do the DVD – at least as far as the on-screen presentation.  The reason is simply that God didn’t call him to do that and the passion that I have for this subject would not be able to be recreated by someone else.  So why does God send women when he knows that many men will not listen to a woman?  I don’t know.  God is sovereign.  I do remember that Jesus said that his parables were for some to understand and others were not to understand the meaning of the parables.  Why?  For reasons that God only knows, he sometimes chooses to harden already hardened hearts.  Is it so that these hardened hearts will become so hard that the rest of the church can clearly see the fruit of this movement?  I don’t know.  Perhaps.  Whatever God does is okay with me and I am not responsible for the results that are in God’s hands.  I wish I understood all the “whys” but perhaps it just isn’t for me to know.

The bottom line is that I do not want to emulate what they are doing.  I want to keep my heart soft so that if I am wrong, I can humbly be corrected.  I never want to harden my heart against truth even if I am sure I have the truth.  Truth is provable and it is winsome to the open heart.  Truth trumps error any day.  Those who harden their heart against the truth are in a dangerous position and God will judge the motives of their heart in his time.