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Missed it. Post it again, please, so I don't have to search for it.

”*search* for it”...? gmab

Couldn't find one, eh? Okay.

When Paul said women shouldn't speak in church, he was talking about something we don't have today. Most women weren't educated and couldn't read in Roman times so while someone was preaching or teaching, they were whispering to their husbands "what does he mean by that" or "what does that mean". This was disruptive. Also when Paul said women were to obey their husbands, the word obey in Greek should have been translated respect. Men need respect and women need love. This is what Paul meant hear. When talking about womens way of dressing, it was more about gaudiness and drawing attention than just dressing so as not to stand out from others. I had a preacher once who said if you are looking at someone from the rear, you should be able to tell if they are a man or woman. Simple common sense stuff, not extremes.

It’s there. It’s BEEN there. I’m startin’ to see why folks here laugh at ya’.

Would it be an inconvenience for you to cut and paste it for me? Thanks.

Well, it goes right over the heads of modern day Pharisees.

Wow and I thought we were talking about being armed in church. smh

Yeah, totally out of the ordinary for a discussion to go off on a tangent.

No fights, no insults?

Been doing it for 20 years! I feel naked without at gun poking me somewhere in a side, kidney, ankle bone!


Mike

Well wabi, I’m glad your church has a pastor.

So what else did HE get wrong. What else do we have to change about His instruction since we have "advanced"? We have advanced as a society, or degenerated? Maybe we progressed, in technology and science but regressed in spirituality.

So, society changed but maybe men are still men and women are still women.

Well said.

I feel it's my personal duty to be armed when I go to church, much, much too many young, old, blind and or inexperienced folk in the congregation, I don't ask or tell anyone, just do it.

When did mankind's spirituality peak in order
for it to have regressed?

I will say, we have some members with a zeal for religion.

Back to the armed in church, I hope none of us ever need it.

In many church's today, their would be no preacher if not for
women. Not over a man, but in place of one because a male
preacher is nonexistent.

Our church is part of a conference of small country churchs in
Pa, and Md. There are I believe 7 churches, with 3 preachers.
Can't hire anymore. Cumberland Md church, 20 miles away,
ran an add. Assistant youth pastor, parsonage health insurance,
$35k/yr to start. 50 applicants. None for country church's.

Women are stepping into the gap men are leaving, and picking
up the load men aren't.

Don't really like it myself, and don't want a woman preacher in my
church. My wife would hate it. She is a bigger chauvinist than me!

Smart answer.

You've hit the nail on the head. As church membership shrinks, and in particular in the small rural churches, it becomes harder to fill the pastor positions. We attended a Methodist church for a long time, which shared a preacher with another small church about 5-6 miles away. Neither church wanted to merge with the other, and the UMC conference wanted to force them to, so they would get whatever was left over........meaning pastor that nobody else wanted.

Not saying the pastors they sent were no good, as some were. It got so bad at the end, right before we left, that the only preacher willing to take both churches was a Baptist pastor, who agreed to become a Methodist. After a year, the two churches went their separate ways, and our church found a retired pastor to take over.

Most people who attend the large churches simply have no idea how difficult it is to fill the pulpit in the small churches. Money, or the lack of it, is often a big problem, and just keeping the doors open is the priority. As the older members die off, there are fewer and fewer younger people stepping in to fill the gap. Often times these churches have to find whoever is willing to be their pastor, instead of having a lot of choices available.

As you have said, in many of these churches, if not for the women, there would be no church. That's just how it is, something that apparently some on here don't understand.