Though following the commands of the Lord can be circumstantially challenging, they are given for our benefit so that we might humble ourselves, remember what is truly important in life, and trust the Lord rather than our own wayward hearts.

The place women play in the life of the church has been both a divisive issue and an opportunity for church leadership in the West for the past several decades. Coming as it did on the heels of the secular feminist movement, the issue of a woman’s role in the church morphed from a question to be answered biblically into a polarizing position meant to distinguish one theological party from another.