When the call of God changed the plans that she had for herself to become a teacher, Pastor Nicole found herself becoming the example she wished she had as a child.
But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.” For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression. 1 Timothy 2:12-14 " When the claim is made that the church must concede the ministerial function to the Christian woman who sincerely supposes she feels the call to it, we have a perilous perversion of the true doctrine of vocation. True, this vocation is spiritual, but it is also scriptural. The same Spirit who really calls the true minister also dictated the Holy Scriptures. When even a good man says that he thinks the Spirit calls him to preach, there may be room for doubt; but there can be no doubt whatever that the Spirit calls no person to do what the word dictated by him, forbids. The Spirit cannot contradict himself" Robert L. Dabney (March 5, 1820 - January 3, 1898) American Christian theologian.
