One of Aesop’s fables tells the story of a group of bulls who lived in a field. A lion tried to attack them, but together they drove him off.
One day, the bulls quarreled over a single patch of grass and stubbornly parted ways, getting as far away from each other as possible. The lion seized this opportunity and devoured the bulls one by one.
Women’s ministry can sometimes feel like those bulls, each separating into its own “patch of grass” away from the rest of the church. Critics of complementarianism argue that male leadership oppresses women. Perhaps it’s tempting for complementarian churches to react to this criticism with a hands-off approach, allowing women’s ministries to become a space where women are given independence from the elders—a place for them to exercise their gifts free from the oversight of male pastors.
I am convinced that while this grass may look greener, women, like men, need pastoral oversight and care.
I am a member of the Evangelical Community Church of Abu Dhabi (ECC), where I serve as a deacon of women’s ministry. Through the perseverance of faithful saints, ECC has changed and matured over the past fifty years.
When my family
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