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The Promise of Pentecost: Your Sons and Daughters Will Prophesy

May 19, 2016 by Lydia Leigh

Your Sons and Daughters Will Prophesy

When I first heard the story of Pentecost it was painted to me as the Holy Spirit empowering the 12 apostles to step up and speak out. They had been hiding in an upper room, but then the Holy Spirit came. Those 12 men went out and began speaking in other tongues, preaching and prophesying the truth of Jesus.

It’s a great story, and an exciting start for the church. But it didn’t ignite any passion. There was never any place for me within that story. Sure, God can empower anyone to serve… but there was a subtext there. The subtext said God can work through anyone [who’s a man]. Anyone [who is young and able]. Anyone [who fits the right image].

It was the birth of the church I was supposed to be a part of – but it left me on the outside. Anyone became not me. And I know for a lot of people that anyone has become not you, too.

The real story of Pentecost is something different entirely.

Filed Under: Women and the Bible Tagged With: Lydia Leigh, Pentecost in the bible, prophesy in the bible

Three Reasons I Believe Men and Women are Equal Co-laborers in God’s Kingdom

April 7, 2015 by Dave Johnson

Today Dave Johnson, Lead Pastor of Neighborhood Christian Fellowship (a Wesleyan church in Southern California) writes about his belief in biblical equality. His response is an excellent model of how to articulate the egalitarian position briefly but clearly in conversations with friends.

I believe that the bible, the church and even the totality of Christian history affirm the role of women in church leadership.

Although women have made great social and political strides over the years, the church has moved at a slower pace. Yet women in scripture were clearly more than the “helpmate” that my complementarian brothers and sisters would describe.

Here are three reasons I am in favor of men and women serving equally as co-laborers in the Kingdom of God.

Filed Under: church leadership, egalitarianism, Women and the Church, women in church leadership, women in the new testament Tagged With: Acts 2, prophesy in the bible

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