Fashioned to Reign: Empowering Women to Fulfill Their Divine Destiny
I wrote this book because I want to incite a revolution that empowers the women I love so dearly, who wake up every day to a world of discrimination simply because of their sex. The most troubling aspect of this oppression is that the Church is often found leading it!Yet God created mankind in His image and likeness; He made them male and female because the fullness of God can be expressed only by both the masculine and feminine attributes. When women are not honored, or when they are oppressed in society, half of the nature of God Himself is "imprisoned" in the magnificence of femininity. God commissioned both sexes to co-reign over the planet. It was only after the fall of mankind and the ensuing curse that men were given rulership over women.When Jesus died on the cross, He destroyed the curse. But two thousand years later, most of the Church is still relegating women to the ball and chain of Eve's deception. Instead of the Body of Christ leading a revolution that honors women, the Church has actually been the catalyst for centuries of patriarchal oppression. In fact, in the last hundred years, while the world has begun to champion women and give them places of leadership in politics, business, education and every realm of society, parts of the Body of Christ will not even allow women to be elders in local congregations.We have failed to realize that Jesus founded the women's liberation movement more than two thousand years ago. Isn't it high time the Church of Jesus Christ led the revolution?--Kris Vallotton