Women + The Church: My Story

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But I'm like, I am.

I only do this podcast for you guys because I love you.

And you know, I hope it's a blessing.

And so I'm like, yeah, I feel that.

So that was number one.

Number two is that then probably the number one question I've always been asked to do an episode on is women in ministry.

And I

just have really not wanted to do it.

And I want to say why, first of all, for me, it's not fear.

It's that I really know fear.

I sense that I know my lane of what God has called me to.

And even the people that he's called me to.

And a lot of times when you engage in a conversation like this online, where there's so many different viewpoints, a lot of people are trying to convince people who don't believe them, don't agree with them.

And I actually don't sense that as a kind of ministry God's called me to.

I wanna spur on like-minded women And I also, while I have my own perspective, I feel like I have a really nuanced appreciation for different perspectives, which you don't find in this conversation.

Yes.

Typically people are like, I believe what I believe.

I can't believe anybody else believes that.

And I think what people might hear from today's episode regarding my story and our story is that I have lived very many perspectives of this.

So I have a lot of grace for past versions of myself in the same way that I have grace and patience for other people in other perspectives.

And grace is maybe even not the right word.

I don't know collectively that it's like what they're doing is a sin.

I think there are people who sin on all sides of this conversation, in this conversation.

But...