Powerful And Free: Confronting The Glass Ceiling For Women In The Church

phrase, "women in ministry?"

A. Nursery-worker

B. Children's leader

C. Pastor

D. It's complicated

If you are like most, your answer would be,

"It's complicated." Many believers are still

confused about the proper place for women in

the Church. Powerful and Free is a call to

address the structural message of inequality. It

is not a theological treatise on the biblical case

for female leaders (there are many excellent

resources for this already).

It is not a political program to implement some kind of affirmative action in our leadership

teams, because that doesn't work. Rather, it is an appeal to the hearts of men and women to

recognize the existence of the glass ceiling for women and to challenge themselves to align

more fully with a Kingdom vision for gender-blind leadership in the Body and equal malefemale

partnership in the home.