Cheryl Schatz

Gazza,
You said:

I am not yet certain of what I believe the roles may or may not be – just that I feel that some of the assertions that have been made towards uniformity are going beyond what is actually conveyed in the referenced text.

I haven’t said anything about uniformity. What I did say is that God gave equal rule. Equal is not the same as uniformity. Equal is a rule that carries no restrictions. Uniformity means that they must do things exactly the same. I do not believe in uniformity. Each one of us has a personality and individuality that causes us to do things differently but doing things differently would never create an unequal “rule” where one is restricted from some part of ruling.