{"id":738,"date":"2012-10-06T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicebyrd.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2012-10-15T13:34:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T18:34:11","slug":"book-why-not-women-a-fresh-look-at-scripture-on-women-in-missions-ministry-and-leadership-by-loren-cunningham-and-david-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-why-not-women-a-fresh-look-at-scripture-on-women-in-missions-ministry-and-leadership-by-loren-cunningham-and-david-hamilton\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: Why not Women?: A Fresh Look at Scripture on Women in Missions, Ministry, and Leadership by Loren Cunningham and David Hamilton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some call this issue the most divisive church debate since the Reformation, and the authors examine the major arguments against women serving in church leadership in an effort to resolve that issue.<\/p>\n<p>Cunningham traces America\u2019s attitudes toward women in ministry from the Greeks, Romans, Jews, and the early Christian church. \u00a0I learned that the only time in the New Testament when the word for \u201cservant leader\u201d is used, it is said about Phoebe.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton gives a detailed analysis of Old Testament scripture, Jesus\u2019 ministry, and Paul\u2019s letters.\u00a0 Charts and diagrams allow the reader to make side-by-side comparisons of various passages.<\/p>\n<p>Women who are called of God to minister are warned to guard their hearts against bitterness towards those who would stop them from obeying God\u2019s call.\u00a0 \u201cIf we fight our own battles, we will end up confused and defeated.\u00a0 If we allow the Lord to defend us and our ministry, He will make a way where there is none,\u201d says Cunningham.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some call this issue the most divisive church debate since the Reformation, and the authors examine the major arguments against women serving in church leadership in an effort to resolve that issue. Cunningham traces America\u2019s attitudes toward women in ministry from the Greeks, Romans, Jews, and the early Christian church. \u00a0I learned that the only [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/book-why-not-women-a-fresh-look-at-scripture-on-women-in-missions-ministry-and-leadership-by-loren-cunningham-and-david-hamilton\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/janicebyrd.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}