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Amen!!

Agreed!!!!

This was the second consecutive vote. It passed last year with 80% votes. SBC rules, for it to pass it has to be voted in favor two years in a row. I don’t know what it looks like to try again

Probably because the SBC interpretation of those verses currently limits the application of those verses to teaching within the church and authority in the church and I presume she spoke at the general assemblies/meetings and not behind the pulpit in a worship or other church service. There is also a huge difference between being an “authority” about something which typically just means you are an expert and having authority. Megan is an authority because she’s an expert but she doesn’t have authority because there is no mechanism by which she exerts control over the people she was speaking to. Someone could do the opposite of what she recommends or simply refuse to do any of it and she has no authority to make them. It’s a subtle but important distinction. I suspect you draw broader boundaries than the vast majority of SBC churches when it comes to these verses. Which to be frank is part of the issue with the female preachers/pastors question. My church has a female worship leader and it’s a very old school and conservative church. But she doesn’t choose the songs and she doesn’t do any preaching within the music, it’s simply her job to try and keep the band together and then to be the lead vocal for the congregation to join in with. Most in the SBC would have no problem with her being in that position. But a different church might call that position the worship or music pastor as opposed to leader. So if a woman is in the same position as our worship leader but holds the name pastor is that a problem? Is a change of titles a sufficient resolution?

@@TGuard00014 Thank you, you make some good points. You’re right, my understanding of the text concerning women has broader implications. While many pastors rightly teach that the prohibition in verse 12 concerns the order of worship, my husband and I don’t believe that this is limited to the Sunday gathering, just as praying for our rulers, leading quiet lives, men praying everywhere without wrath and doubting, and women dressing modestly according to good works are not limited to the Sunday gathering (verses 1-2, 8-10). In other words, what is commanded for women in the church has application for everyday life in the home and in society as well, according to our nature and the created order.

Why not? Did she hit too close to home for you?

Thank you!

Can you be specific in your reasoning?

Yes it is worse than they are saying and no Bart Barber is not an honest guy.