The author was highlighting the problems women are facing in some of the churches, in this case Pentecostals. I don't have negative feelings toward Pentecostal churches, Roman Catholic churches or other churches that exclude women from the ministry. The scripture we read this morning answers this question. I believe women have a place in the ministry and a role to play in the church leadership. Men, likewise, have equal roles to play.
Children have their own contributions to make to the life of the church.
Poor people have opportunities to minister in our churches, weak people have opportunities to serve and rejected people have roles to play. I grew up in a village where women and young children were considered to be inferior. As a result, they could not make any decision in the family or society. But one day there was a family meeting at our home, and I squeezed myself in. The meeting was about sharing my father's property.