Comment on Northern California Conference Votes to Act Independent of the General Conference by Sean Pitman.
I’m talking about the marriage relationship in particular. The headship I have in my marriage does not spill over outside of my marriage to give me automatic headship over any other woman – within or outside of the church. That simply isn’t a reasonable interpretation of the Bible’s instruction on these issues.
Again, my own wife is far more intelligent, spiritual, and able to lead than most men I know. There is simply no way that she should let any other man, besides her own husband, take the leadership position outside of our own unique marriage just because he is a man and she is a woman. The Bible makes no such claim.
Actually, such a suggestion is a slap to my own face as her husband – as it should be to all men. It would be an affront to me and my relationship to my own wife for any other man to claim a similar privilege over my wife – a privilege and responsibility that she has given only to me under God.
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As an aside, regarding your quote on church management, Mrs. White had something rather interesting to say about that:
“Piety and devotion are what count — It is not always men who are best adapted to the successful management of a church. If faithful women have more deep piety and true devotion than men, they could indeed by their prayers and their labors do more than men who are unconsecrated in heart and in life.” —Manuscript Releases 19:56.
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Thanks…
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I still fail to see an explicit statement forbidding the ordination of women pastors here…
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I fail to see where you have convincingly supported your claim that the GC leadership contributed to the harm of anyone’s personal religious liberties? – given that the GC leadership does not and could not override personal religious liberties in this country, nor substantively change the outcome of those who lost their jobs over various vaccine mandates. That’s just not how it works here in this country. Religious liberties are personally derived. Again, they simply are not based on a corporate or church position, but rely solely upon individual convictions – regardless of what the church may or may not say or do.
Yet, you say, “Who cares if it is written into law”? You should care. Everyone should care. It’s a very important law in this country. The idea that the organized church could have changed vaccine mandates simply isn’t true – particularly given the nature of certain types of jobs dealing with the most vulnerable in society (such as health care workers for example).
Beyond this, the GC Leadership did, in fact, write in support of personal religious convictions on this topic – and there are GC lawyers who have and continue to write personal letters in support of personal religious convictions (even if these personal convictions are at odds with the position of the church on a given topic). Just because the GC leadership also supports the advances of modern medicine doesn’t mean that the GC leadership cannot support individual convictions at the same time. Both are possible. This is not an inconsistency.
