Powerful and Free
Subtitle: Confronting the glass ceiling for women in the church
By: by Danny Silk
Publisher: Red Arrow Media
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Redding, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780988499201
Subjects: Christianity; Women; Ministry; Women in Christianity
Description: What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, "women in ministry?" A. Nursery-worker; B. Children's leader; C. Pastor; D. It's complicated ... If you are like most, your answer would be, 'It's complicated'. Many believers are still confused about the proper place for women in the Church. 'Powerful and Free' is a call to address the structural message of inequality. It is not a theological treatise on the biblical case for female leaders (there are many excellent resources for this already). It is not a political program to implement some kind of affirmative action in our leadership teams, because that doesn't work. Rather, it is an appeal to the hearts of men and women to recognize the existence of the glass ceiling for women and to challenge themselves to align more fully with a Kingdom vision for gender-blind leadership in the Body and equal male-female partnership in the home.
Notes: First edition.
Table of contents: title: The story behind Powerful and Free; title: Know thy place; title: The reality of the glass ceiling; title: Paul: Apostle of freedom and equality; title: The head and the helper; title: The gifts of women; title: Powerful partnerships; title: Permission to by powerful; title: Hope deferred: a note to the women; title: Endnotes; title: Recommended reading.