TRANSFORMATION FORUM

Origins of Equality Part 2 of Breaking Down the Barriers of Hierarchy                  The next pages about our origins cannot be overlooked. This section is essential reading for every woman.  God created male and female equal. The implications of this equality are staggering in light of the creation narrative.  As a woman, have you wondered why God’s creative approach used to form a female was different from the male? If God created males from the dust, why did God not create female in the same way, creating her of the earth? Did God spend less creative energy in the forming, shaping female when God used the flesh of male?  Does using the flesh of male, make female subordinate to male? These questions and many others are reflective of our ignorance of the creation narrative. Some of these questions will be addressed as a part of the overall discussion in this book. Yet, we will find ourselves still with many unan...

The issue of biblical equality for women is more than a “hot button” issue.  It is not something that will quietly pass away. In America, more women are spiritually more engaged than men. [1] The future of discipleship and ministry leadership will find more and more women at the core of these activities. Already in the modern era [2] and through the entire contemporary era, the issue of biblical gender equality can be likened to waves constantly crashing against the shores of Christianity and its theology. [3] The issue of biblical equality for women is much more than just an issue of secular rights or something of politics or feminism. To equate the hunger of the sisters of Christ Jesus to serve the King in His Kingdom as akin to secularism is to mock and grieve the stirring of the Holy Spirit in the lives of our beloved sisters. In the same way that Apostle Paul was compelled, so are many of the sisters of Christ.  Paul confessed: 1 Cor 9:16-18 For necessity ...

Shame is a powerful emotional response to our sense of personal guilt. There is a sense of shame when we realize our choices, behaviors, aspects of our lives are unholy in the presence of our most Holy God. Today, I speak of profound shame, a shame born of a maturing awareness of the Holiness of God. There have been times in my life when I give serious thought to the whole of life I find pockets of deep embarrassment regarding things I have done or things left undone. Often when looking backward, looking to my past, I still feel deep shame. The older I become, the more I discover of the beauty of the Holiness of God, I find myself captured in my shame. As a Christian, I am very confident that God has forgiven me of every iniquity in my life; there is not a single sin that God has not, is not or will not forgive. I am confident in God's forgiveness for my hope is in the merciful Christ as expressed in the crucifixion of Jesus for me. And while I am confident, I find mysel...