Last year, Anthony started a pastors discussion group in Soroti with some of the Pentecostal church pastors. One of the topics that they wanted to discuss was about having women as leaders and pastors in the church. Pentecostal Assemblies of God (PAG) in Uganda has women pastors and deacons, and one woman bishop, but no women who are reverends. So the pastors wanted to discuss the Bible passages that talk about this subject.
Anthony printed out the Christian Reformed Church's report from study committees about the different Bible passages regarding women in church leadership and the comments from both sides of the issue on those passages. The pastor of the main church in town gave copies to different pastors and church leaders and we got together for a discussion (and by we, I mean I went too because they also had women's leaders present).
Even in three hours, we only got through the introduction of the topic and a discussion of the pertinent passages in Genesis. So, we met again a few weeks later to continue the conversation. We hope that, whatever their view, those who participated went away with a better understanding, biblically, as to why they hold to that view.
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