As I sat and scanned the faces of the women before me, I leaned back and smiled to myself. There sat a mix of female interns, apprentices, women’s workers, and ministry wives—all church plant core team members who were poised and ready to be taught this week’s session from our women’s ministry curriculum. It was glorious.
In the last fifteen years, I’ve been both amazed and frustrated as I’ve seen the global conversation on women’s ministry slowly move beyond the usual dialogue into action.
In the book Women’s Ministry in the Local Church, Ligon Duncan writes, “Some church leaders are so afraid of women assuming unbiblical roles in the church that they fail to equip them for the roles to which they have been indisputably called in the home and the church.”[1]
I have reflected on Ligon Duncan’s quote many times, wondering if this perpetual cycle of debate was in some way fueled by the paralyzing “fear” he identified. What has all this inaction cost?
Mez McConnell said, “The pastor is not seen as the only one who is qualified to minister among the flock he shepherds. That is a good thing, as one man cannot adequately take on this
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