No Matter How You Slice It - It Is Still Bologna

In to many cases the father is not the spiritual leader of the household, not by the means of a dominating women but through a choice for the things of the world over the things of the kingdom of God. In that case, it only stands to reason that the women fill in the gaps. In this age where the dollar sign has blinded the eyes of many young men to the call of the ministry, then let the women who hear and are willing to follow God’s call to take the position of leadership.

I am not suggestion anything unbiblical, because the reason for the exclusion of the women in this letter was there lack of religious training, training that they were previously unable to attain, now it is the absentee husbands that are guilty of spiritual ignorance, their wives taking their place as leaders in many areas, and through their example of godly living and teaching are doing their best to raise the remnants of those that would follow the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Conclusion:

We need to wake up and get busy in our study of God’s Word. We need to hustle to our knees and make use of the greatest of blessings, and that is the power of prayer that we are so blessed to have. We may be seen at church each and every time that the doors are open, but to many of us are only physically there while our spirits are elsewhere and our souls dangling dangerously close to backsliddenness.

We have placed to much emphasis on the physical and the unimportant that we have to little time for the much more important spiritual aspect of our devotion and worship of God. We look at clothes, we look at hair, we look at the name of the version of the Bible, and in the process we have overlooked the needs of the lost and through this worldly emphasis are blinded to the fact that we are rapidly approaching lostness ourselves. In the Scripture, Jesus asked to pick up your cross and follow Me, he did not say go change into something more appropriate, get a hair cut and a shave, make sure you grab your King James and then come and follow. Not at all!

We can be attentive in our usual pew, however, Looks can be deceiving, we can be as lost as the lost sinner who still wonders the streets of this world.

What about our need to know Who really is the boss? If this is God’s house, if we are to be studying about God’s Word, and if it is God’s message that we are to share with others everywhere, then why do we even concern ourselves with the structure of power. Yes, there needs to be leadership, however if it takes anything less than biblical methods to attain and maintain it, then the leadership is not of God and is based on worldly wants, desires, and motives. Let those with the natural God-given ability to lead spiritually use their gifts and those blessed with the gift to teach and preach to do what God has enabled them to do. God chooses God’s leaders, and not mankind.

And when things go wrong, instead of raising the accusing finger and shouting, It’s their fault! We instead need to find ourselves on our knees in prayer seeking God’s direction to correct and heal rather than succumbing to our own desires to blame and to shame.