Rick Warren's Saddleback Church Ordains Three Women



1 Timothy 2:12 is clear, But I suffer not a woman to teach nor have dominion over a man. The Saddleback Church has 13 locations, the largest church in California. Now Saddleback's founder and author of a 50 million seller, The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren, has ordained three women as preachers. Saddleback is a member of the Southern Baptist Convention which forbids female preachers.  

That the massive Catholic church, some Lutherans, Southern Baptists and various other pockets of Christianity prohibit women from being preachers is one of the most ridiculous and funny throwbacks to the Middle Ages in all of Christianity. If we are to look for an explanation as to the decline in numbers of Christians this is a good place to start.

Many times in the comments to this blog believers have written (paraphrasing), "We Christians have a higher purpose than simply growing numbers. What's important is being right, not how large our group is." Surely they understand they are wrong. Perhaps their inability to grasp the truth is the product of a hardened heart. They cannot grasp the anti women part of their religion came from cultures in which men wanted to dominate over women and made up religious opinions to justify it. Even today, while Christianity slowly declines in the U.S. it grows in parts of the world where men hold dominate positions over women.

There are religious men who claim women like male domination. They have never asked for a secret ballot vote of women on this issue. This is one of the ways Christianity is packed with false assumptions and false information. These men don't actually know how the majority of women feel about being excluded from the most important posts in a denomination. 

There are things in societal change that are unpredictable. But other things seem certain and inevitable. Women on an equal status with men in denominations is one of the things that is coming for sure. To resist is to be like a tooth pick in front of a bull dozer.   

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