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    God's High Calling for Women
    God's High Calling for Women
    God's High Calling for Women
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    God's High Calling for Women

    By John MacArthur

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    The subject of women in the church is both important and controversial—John MacArthur is not afraid of either. In this revised work, MacArthur examines what the Bible teaches in I Timothy 2:9-15. He discusses topics ranging from the attitude and appearance of women to their role in and contribution to the church.

    God’s High Calling for Women can be used alongside or apart from the audio series available from Grace to You in either a personal or group study.

    Unique features:
    -Corresponds with the audio message series available from Grace to You
    -Features revised content and study questions
    -For personal or group study use

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateMar 1, 2009
    ISBN9781575673240
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    John MacArthur

    John MacArthur is the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, where he has served since 1969. He is known around the world for his verse-by-verse expository preaching and his pulpit ministry via his daily radio program, Grace to You. He has also written or edited nearly four hundred books and study guides. MacArthur is chancellor emeritus of the Master’s Seminary and Master’s University. He and his wife, Patricia, live in Southern California and have four grown children.

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    • 5/5
      Amazing book. Biblical. Truly the word of God. Thanks again John MacArthur.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Sexist. It is sad that he uses his position of authority to discourage and try to take away the rights of women. He must be incredibly threatened by the female gender. Sad.
    • 5/5
      This is an amazing book. Truly Biblical in explaining the role of women. I heartily recommend for all women who want to live Godly lives.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 1/5
      Chauvinistic, my calling to lead, preach and minister as a pastor is a very real high calling.

      3 people found this helpful

    • 4/5
      Very easy read. Fairly short book. Outlines Biblical views of the different roles of men and women in the church and home and how feminism/fighting for equality/political correctness has damaged this. Calls women to a higher standard of life not based on outward appearance/superficiality but based on the inner life lived in the light of God's Word. Timely reminders.

      Recommended.

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    God's High Calling for Women - John MacArthur

    2:12–15

    1: God’s       

    high calling for women

    1 Timothy 2:9

    The debate over the role of women in the church has reached massive proportions. Feminist philosophy has penetrated almost every area of our society and has made significant inroads into the church. I am amazed at how many evangelical churches, colleges, and seminaries have abandoned biblical truths they previously held since their foundings. People have written books affirming new truth regarding the role of women in the church. Scholars have reinterpreted Scripture passages teaching the traditional roles of men and women. Some say these passages should be ignored altogether because they reflect the apostle Paul’s antifemale bias. Others claim these passages were added by later editors and do not reflect the intent of the original author. The church, the foundation of the truth of God, is falling fast to the march of the feminist army.

    The effort to overthrow the design of God for men and women is ultimately not a human effort. It is the effort of the archenemy of God, Satan, who uses sinful human agents to attain his goals. That’s why the controversy over the role of women in the church is so tragic: the church is being deceived by the lies of Satan and is actually becoming a part of his attack. God has specific roles for men and women in society, the family, and the church that are clear in Scripture. We need to reaffirm them.

    In approaching this subject, I could take a lot of time demonstrating how far-reaching feminism is. I could provide many quotes, and we could look at all kinds of incidents. We could discuss at length the schools, seminaries, and books that illustrate how pervasive the feminist movement’s influence on the church has been. However, we’re all aware of those influences. It seems to me most helpful to simply look at the Word of God. If we understand what the Bible says, we will be able to deal with any error we might face. There is no passage more direct and comprehensive in addressing the role of women in the church than 1 Timothy 2:9–15.

    First Timothy is a letter from the apostle Paul to his son in the faith, his friend and co-laborer Timothy. Paul and Timothy had met several years before the writing of this epistle, during Paul’s second missionary journey (Acts 16:1–5). When this letter was written, Paul had concluded his three missionary journeys and had just been released from his first imprisonment in Rome. After leaving prison, Paul met Timothy in Ephesus.

    Timothy was pastor of the Ephesian church. Apparently word had reached Paul that things in Ephesus were not as they should be. Paul had spent three years of his ministry in Ephesus and had poured his soul into that church. In Acts 20 Paul said to the Ephesian elders that he had not failed to declare the entire Word of God to the church but had warned them night and day for three years that error would come from the outside and that evil would rise from the inside (vv. 27–31). Unfortunately, his worst fears had come to pass: the church at Ephesus had fallen into doctrinal error and ungodly patterns of living. Most significant, the leadership had been corrupted and needed to be replaced by godly leaders.

    Paul met Timothy in Ephesus and personally dealt with two of the corrupt leaders, Hymenaeus and Alexander (1 Tim. 1:20). When Paul left for further ministry to the west, he left Timothy behind at Ephesus to straighten out the rest of the problems. Paul had been gone only a few weeks when he wrote this letter to Timothy to encourage him and give him direction for his ministry. First Timothy 3:14–15 gives the overall intent of the letter: These things I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly; but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. First Timothy was written to set the church in order.

    One of the problem areas in the church at Ephesus was the role of women. Since the leaders of the church had fallen into doctrinal and moral error, it’s not surprising that there was a negative impact on the women as well as the men. First Timothy 5:6 tells us that some women had abandoned their purity and were living only for pleasure. Some younger widows had made promises to Christ to remain single, but they were in danger of violating them because of lust, bringing

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