The Truth and Unity amendment matters. As a convention we need to clarify our conviction that the office/function/title of pastor is God-designed for men. This is not about misogyny, it is about fidelity.
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Washer is simply echoing 2 Timothy 4...
Does your pastor seek to "reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching"? When he steps in the pulpit? If not, find another church for the sake of your souls and your family...
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound[a] teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 5 But as for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.
Some churches try to be like other churches when they should be trying to be more like Christ.. Remember in the coming year it’s not about trying to be better than another Church but to be more Like the Savior who died for the Church!