Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

Let me be very clear, i hold a very high view of scripture. Just because i don’t agree with you Cheryl does not make me someone who is more interested in myself than the truth of the bible.

While I cannot say that you don’t hold a high view of Scripture in other areas, how can you hold high the truth by adding to the Scripture a restriction on God’s gifts when no such restriction is ever listed in the lists of gifts? It is your opinion that God’s gifts are restricted in some of the gifts. That will remain your opinion until you can prove that God Himself refuses to gift women with these gifts and has set up “blue” gifts for men only.

I am really interested in seeing how you work out this belief of yours in reality whether you also restrict men or if the restrictions are on women alone. Do you deny men who are not elders from teaching the entire body? If you do not, why not? Have you ever taught in church? If you are not an elder (yet) but have been using your gift of teaching for the church, why would you do this? Does it not bother your conscience when someone who is not an elder stands up to teach the church? Do you stand up and rebuke them? Do you make it a point of telling men who are not elders that they are committing an act against God’s Scripture by teaching? How do you apply your belief so that you do not come across as chauvinistic? If you apply the belief in biblical restrictions to all and you have tried to correct erring men who would dare to try to teach the church without being an ordained elder, then please do share this with us.