{"id":9187,"date":"2016-08-16T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/womensministry\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:55:39","slug":"womensministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/womensministry\/","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN\u2019S\nMINISTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>A fresh wind is blowing across this church of ours.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Barbara C. Harris, first Anglican woman bishop<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the sacraments?<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I believe that there are situations in which it is entirely appropriate for women to teach, and to teach men, provided that in so doing they are not usurping an improper authority over them.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Stott<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'>I still do not think it biblically appropriate for a woman to become a Rector or a Bishop.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:normal'><i>John Stott<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh wind is blowing across this church of ours. Barbara C. Harris, first Anglican woman bishop If the Bible teaches the equality of women, why does the church refuse to ordain women to preach the gospel, to fill the offices of deacons and elders, and to administer the sacraments? Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1895 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/womensministry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WOMEN\u2019S<br \/>\nMINISTRY&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}