In returning respect back to women, one first wonders where it went. Who or what caused respect to diminish among women? How far back do you have to go to find a time or place where women were respected? How about Eve before the fall? For too long, within many evangelical spaces, women have borne the weight of judgments—spoken and unspoken—rooted in traditional male thinking rather than the Spirit of Christ. In the church, a lot of the loss of respect for women can go back to Paul and his admonitions for women to be silent in the church and to his teaching on the hierarchy of men as the head of women as Christ is the head of the church. What makes this balanced, however, is the fact that Paul also teaches about the equality of men and women, and the fact that the headship he speaks about is the purposeful emptying of oneself in humble service as Christ came not to be ministered unto but to minister and give his life up for those he serves. It’s the opposite of power from above and domination.
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