“At the time that I wrote ‘Women of the Word,’ it was very apparent to me as a ministry leader that women were being resourced only at the feelings level almost across the board, and there was no thought among women that they were supposed to bring their minds to their love of Scripture.”
“We had a habit in women’s circles of calling everything a ‘Bible study.’ And therefore, you had women who had been in church their entire lives who still didn’t know the Bible because they were not learning it in any kind of systematized way, or they were just getting it all secondhand through commentators or through inspirational writers.”
“We don’t learn the Bible for the sake of learning the Bible. We learn the Bible for the sake of learning the character of God and being in relationship with Him.”
“We have a category in the church, a very well-developed category of what it means to be a qualified man in leadership. And I would love for us to have a similar category for women who are standing up to teach.”
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“I do not distinguish between what I’m doing personally and what I’m doing on a teaching platform…I do not distinguish between the two, because for me, the whole process is deeply devotional. It just is. I don’t feel like I need a separate thing to give me the feels.”
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