tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4315768639043874540.post5627395118292965525..comments2023-05-10T23:23:48.126-05:00Comments on Submission Tyranny, in Church and Society: “In Everything” Christianese, Part 2www.wanetadawn.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10261516374583209123noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4315768639043874540.post-46280815358571346102010-03-21T22:17:03.252-05:002010-03-21T22:17:03.252-05:00Dr. James Willingham,
Wow! You had the guts to sp...Dr. James Willingham,<br /><br />Wow! You had the guts to speak to conservative southern baptists about eldresses! Amazing! The reaction of the moderates is telling, too. Perhaps they would have suffered church discipline if they had made more of it. There is much fear of man going on in our churches today. If the Baptist churches are anything like the super conservative Mennonite churches, a person who is excommunicated or discipled in one church is held accountable by the pastors in the next church if the first church doesn't give them a good reference. <br /><br />Thanks so much for speaking out! In spite of the deafening silence. Another way to look at it: sometimes people are silent because they had not thought about it from that angle. They want time to mull it over and discuss it quietly among friends before they are willing to stick their necks out. Please, keep preaching/teaching.Waneta Dawnhttp://www.wanetadawn.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4315768639043874540.post-54602443336376737242010-03-16T20:13:18.510-05:002010-03-16T20:13:18.510-05:00Your comments regarding Paul, Philemon, and Onesim...Your comments regarding Paul, Philemon, and Onesimus are insightful and worthyo consideration. You might be interested to know that in Baptist history there some who actually had eldresses in the 1700s (Sandy Creek Baptist Assn.). The records had burned in a fire. I tried to reconstruct the case from the view point of the Bible being the word of God which they would not have questioned then. I delivered an address, "The Genius of Orthodoxy: Eldresses." The silence in the conservative camp of Southern Baptists was deafening. What was even more remarkable, the moderates who would supposedly have favored the idea only mentioned it in the state paper in passing and never discussed it (they didn't care for the approach that a case could be made out for women in ministry from the perspective of the Bible being the word of God.Dr. James Willinghamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508460179827823148noreply@blogger.com