Course 122: Women in Ministry - Lesson #11

Epilogue: The Way Forward for Women in Ministry

A truth needs to be repeated as we wind down on this critical subject. Considering the totality of the revelation God granted Paul which emphasized the reality of The Church as the Body of Christ where all humanity - Jews, Gentiles, Free, Bound, Male, Female - find a commonality and community (Galatians 3:26-29; Ephesians 1, 2,3, 4; Colossians 1,2,3) there is no way this distinguished vessel was asking all females to keep quiet and only be passive learners in the House of God perpetually. The Holy Spirit has illuminated for us, the peculiar circumstances of the Church at Ephesus and Corinth to which Paul gave specific instructions for maintaining order and decorum in 1 Timothy 2:9-14 and 1 Corinthians 14:34,35.

If he wanted all women to be quiet at home, never functioning in public settings, Paul would not have so glowingly commended the ministry of Phoebe and Priscilla and Aquila among others. The Holy Spirit have not have moved Luke who was Paul's biographer to record the deeds of Priscilla and Aquila or even put the woman's name first a number of times!

Paul had a revelation from God that for the Church to be healthy and strong, Christian families must be united in love, practising the dual principle of supreme love for wives by men and  willing submission by wives to their own husbands(Ephesians 5: 21 - 33).

The entire 1 Corinthians 14 was given therefore to make a case for order and unity of the Body and not to lay the basis of excluding women from active ministry in the Church of Jesus Christ throughout the ages.

When God pronounced that the SEED of the woman would crush the head of Satan, he had no idea when and how this would exactly occur. After Mary bore the promised SEED, it finally sunk into the mind of Satan that God had set aside women as His secret warriors and arrow head to birth and nurture deep ordinances of the Kingdom! The sheer brilliance of the divine plan of salvation was so profound that angels and prophets of old alike had no idea how it would pan out, though vessels like Isaiah were used by Jehovah to provide a sneak peek. That Divinity would demonstrate the power of humility to become humanity took Satan by surprise. That God would allow women to minister to Christ till the very end when all but one man fled; that women would also visit to minister to the dead body and be granted the privilege of being the first to see the resurrected Messiah was no accident! God had indicated at the Incarnation and Resurrection that women would play a vital role in His Kingdom.

Personal Message 

The Global School of Ministry is birthed, by the providence of God, to be the arrow head for raising a generation of ministers of the gospel whose singular passion will be restoration of His glory, amen. These are men and women who will allow the Holy Spirit to work out the character of Christ in them first and empower them with the anointing to minister to God and His saints.

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