and I need some recommendations on the best/most cost-effective computer software to keep up with members/ministry groups/visitors/mailing lists/etc. So – let’s hear your recommendation and a brief explanation please
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and I need some recommendations on the best/most cost-effective computer software to keep up with members/ministry groups/visitors/mailing lists/etc. So – let’s hear your recommendation and a brief explanation please
Charles, you asked about I Corinthians 14: 34, 35. If you were to apply these two verses precisely as they are written, you would forbid all singing by women. Silence means silence. Yet, both the OT and the NT have women leading the congregation in singing, prophesying, and speaking inspired Scriptures, besides telling men how to view Scripture! (Deborah, Huldah, Mary, Elizabeth, Priscilla, Phillip’s daughters…) Obviously, something about this Scripture in 1 Cor 14 is out of sync with the rest of Scripture! Paul had just given instructions for women prophesying in chapter 11, and now, does he turn right around and tell them they can’t after all??! Fact is, I Cor 14:34 and 35 are part of the discussion of operation in the gifts… Paul had just finished telling them that they ALL may prophesy, one by one. And then, verse 36 again speaks of the word of God coming to them… Look carefully at verse 36. SOMEONE was trying to shut someone up. SOMEONE who thought the word of God was coming ONLY to them, or only through them. Verse 36 begins with a Greek disjunctive conjunction. Translated literally into our vernacular, Paul was saying “No way!” or “NOT!” So, what was going on here? We have to remember why the book of 1 Corinthians was written. It was Paul’s response to a letter full of questions, written from Corinth. Throughout this letter, there are questions, and Paul is responding to these questions. It can be a bit tricky to interpret this book, if you aren’t looking for the signs that indicate which parts are questions Paul is quoting from their letters, and which parts are his answers. For instance, in chapter 6: 1Co 6:18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 1Co 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? Paul seems to say every sin a man does, is outside of his body. But is that true? No. There are many sins committed in (and against) our bodies. (Gluttony, drunkeness, etc.) The clue is that little word “but.” (it’s the same word found at the beginning of I Cor. 14:36.) Paul commands, “flee fornication.” then Paul quotes from their letter, “every sin … is without the body.” And then Paul objects to that quote: “BUT, he that committeth fornication…!) And then, Paul uses that little word again, “What?” …and (just like in chapter 14:36) he then gives the REASON he is protesting their heretical idea. Now, back to chapter14. verses 34&35 are quotes from that lost letter. Paul did not command those verses. Instead, he objects to those ideas, in verse 36. … In fact, the words, “as also saith the law” prove it. These ideas are NOWHERE found in the OT. Instead, they are found in the MISHNAH–which was at the time of Paul only in oral form, as the traditions of the elders–the rabbis whose teachings the Pharisees followed… who Jesus worked so hard against! The law referred to here, is not God’s law, but the extra laws of the Pharisees… the folks who invented the “women’s court” of the Temple. That was never prescribed by God, either. In 1 Cor 14, 34,35, it was the men, who were trying to shut the women up. But Paul said, “What? did the word of God come to you only? or did it come through you only?” No. the word of God has come to women also. And through women, too.
Ok, so here’s a question: what made Paul say that women should remain silent?
What was the reasoning behind it? Did a woman make him mad while he was preaching because she wouldn’t stop interrupting him?
I think Paul put it context in his letter to Timothy chapter 3, ” A Bishop must be the husband of one wife”.
thanks Tom
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What were your issues with power church? We had investigated it as a replacement for our membership plus software but decided on shepherd’s staff. What I liked about power church was it is also accessible online if you choose that option. Shepherd’s staff is not although Concordia which makes it also has a cloud based version called church 360 http://www.concordiatechnology.org/church360/members