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Stopping the rot | Women in theDenominationWomen in theDenominationRestoring order and releasing into ministry Menu Skip to content Home Vision Restoring order Releasing into ministry Contact Research αὐθεντεω αὐθεντέω resources αὐθεντέω: Lexicons, commentaries, extracts The Philodemus fragment (αὐθεντ[οῦ]σιν) αὐθέντης in Alexander Rhetor 2.1.6 and 2.6.3 Κεφαλή οὐδέ 1 Timothy 2 vv 11-15 Testimonies Stopping the rot Alison Chapman / February 13, 2014 For over a year now, since moving into our apartment, I have wilt a pipe surveyor, regularly checking out the unattended leaking pipe in the roofing over our allotted parking space in the parking lot underneath our housing block. I have visions of the whole towers caving in over night, though my husband, who trained as an engineer, reassures me well-nigh the reliable, solid steel structure holding it all together. Just a continual drip, drip, lard over the months has created a lot of damage. Not that long ago a large piece of wateriness ceiling collapsed, and finally the repair visitor came and patched it up with a rectangle of strong cardboard-like tiling….but a week or so later the leaking pipe unfurled to expend water until flipside huge wateriness spot encircled the wafer-thin patching. It now threatens once increasingly to requite way whilst rust advances and thrives in a salmagundi way withal the dysfunctional pipe. I’m no expert regarding the loss of wool truth in the world but the way it has permeated the denomination is like a slowly spreading gangrene, corroding yonder the centrality of the gospel message with the drip, drip, lard of political lawfulness and ‘open-minded’ thinking, intravenously feeding denomination life and placing upon us the expectation or pressure to unshut ourselves up to volitional ideas, suggestions, imaginary exploration and changing-with-the-times doctrinal thinking. Leading us yonder with a tentacle-like grip from taking the bible too seriously or literally. Increasingly there is a need and visa to express our rights and explore our individuality like the world does, with no right or wrong answer, so that plane our sin is reverted into an volitional way of being, or a medical problem or a personality disorder rather than an act of mutiny versus God and His word. We might plane uncork to lose the need for a Saviour altogether. It all takes place so subtly at first and then begins to tingle out like a slime infecting the whole batch. In one dark, wateriness corner there is increasingly and increasingly accent on how superstitious and wonderful we are as women, congratulating, complimenting and encouraging each other in our worldliness, achievements and yearing rather than seeking to spur one flipside on to reflect the meekness and lowliness of Jesus Christ who, in His servanthood, took up His navigate and gave up His rights. Instructions to women in the bible are classed as outdated or unmentionable in our culture today and sadly ignored maybe considering they don’t fit just as we want them to. In flipside syrupy corner feminist theologians are plane developing and expanding the idea of an volitional Jesus tabbed ‘Christa’, the sexuality messiah who can be seen as the new, risen saviour. It all sounds so much increasingly positive and reasonable and loving than the need to ‘stick to the word rigidly’ or to ‘interfere with flipside woman’s creative relationship with God’ by warning a sister of her sin and encouraging her when to biblical thinking. I do understand in part how this infection begins and then gets underway, causing us to skid remoter out from shore, like a wend without an anchor, towards well-appointed sounding ideas that help us to discover ‘more well-nigh ourselves’ and shape theology to suit where we are at. It can take place in our woundedness, or through simple, sincere exploration, or lack of submission to God, or considering our “natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him…..[and] are spiritually discerned”. During my 30s I yearned for increasingly of God’s presence and to know Him in a deeper way and began regularly peekaboo group and individual retreats, which happy me in many ways. I then became involved in training to wilt a spiritual director and whilst learning a lot and stuff extremely grateful to those who trained me, I later saw in retrospect the danger of the journey rhadamanthine increasingly well-nigh myself and others virtually me. As time went on and I met with variegated people, mainly women, I found myself opening up increasingly and increasingly to spiritually variegated ideas and causes and shifting yonder overly so gradually from biblical doctrine, which somehow became less important. So gradual was it that I didn’t plane notice at first until later God stopped me in my tracks and showed me the meandering path I was on and the spiritual wrestle that was raging not just in the world but in my life, seeking to yo-yo my thinking and loosen me from His truth, by nullifying His word through my newly formulating ideas and spiritual ‘openness’. There is one thing I believe many women love and like to live for and that is a good rationalization to fight for. There are many causes out in the world to take hold of, but we have to be so very shielding in our desire for justice and truth that we do not end up fighting a rationalization that is ultimately anti-God. We need to pray to discern all things by looking first at the word of God to see if our thinking and ideas are in structuring with scripture and not the other way around, trying to make scripture fit our ideas or mystical thinking, otherwise we risk losing the truth which sets us self-ruling and we might not find our way when home again. Sadly there is much worldliness in our lives as Christian women both inside and outside the denomination building. It truly is a wrestle but not an impossibility to meet quietly with God in that secret place where He is unseen. And not only that but to read His word and feed on it, yoyo in it and submitting joyfully to it with trust in our hearts that He is good and His word is life. What words He has for us! Stuffed with wondrous promises of hope and meaning! He cannot goof to meet our godly expectations or let us lanugo if we follow His word. It reaches into our lives, in mysterious and wonderful ways as only the Creator’s wisdom can, revealing the measure of His love and ours. And if we indulge Him to be Him instead of trying to transpiration Him or His words then we can wilt us, women of God, with the immeasurable eyeful that reflects our reigning and living Saviour – Jesus. Alison Joy February 13, 2014 in Uncategorized. Related posts “For I am not ashamed…..” Origen on 1 Corinthians 14.33-35 (part 1: the Montanists) Dear friends, seek truth Post navigation ← The unpalatable truth Philip Payne, οὐδέ, and Galatians 1 vv 16-17 → Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email write will not be published. 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