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Women’s Ordination Symposium: History, Issues and Implications
Live from Fresno, CA on October 1-4, 2014:
You are cordially invited to join us for the live streaming of “Women’s Ordination: History, Issues and Implications” live from Fresno, California.
The purpose of the symposium is to share, as far as possible, the Biblical foundation for male servant-leadership (‘headship’) in both the home and the church, and the reasons from both Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy as to why women should not be ordained either to the gospel ministry or to the office of local church elder. The symposium will also highlight the value and roles of women in ministry and outline ways in which men and women can work together, within appropriate Biblical roles, to execute the spiritual and evangelistic mission of the great Advent movement. This symposium will consist of 12 plenary sessions, three panel discussions and a concluding two-hour town hall meeting on Saturday evening. All meetings except for Sabbath morning will be held at the Secrets Unsealed facility. The Sabbath morning meetings will be held at the Fresno Central SDA Church on 2980 E. Yale Ave., Fresno.
All other meetings will be held at the Secrets Unsealed studio.
Symposium Participants: Stephen Bohr, Laurel Damsteegt, Mario Veloso, John Peters, Ingo Sorke, Eugene Prewitt, Don Mackintosh, Jim Howard, Daniel Mesa, Dojcin Zivadinovic, Phil Mills, Isaac Olatunji, Julie Mesa, Raymond Holmes, and Kevin Paulson.
Live Audience Welcome. Online audience can watch on our youtube.com/secretsunsealed channel, or at SecretsUnsealed.org (click “On Air”).
Contact Secrets Unsealed for further information and/or visit SecretsUnsealed.org for a detailed daily time schedule.
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4 replies on “Secrets Unsealed October WO Symposium”
I pray that as many as possible who visit this website and who live reasonably close to Fresno, will plan to come and attend these meetings. Those who cannot attend, pass the word around by every means possible. The meetings will not only be live-streamed on Secrets Unsealed; they will also be broadcast live on 3ABN.
The supreme authority of God’s Word will be the underlying premise of this gathering, as opposed to human opinion, human scholarship, and human experience. Neither culture nor biography can trump the written counsel of God. Please plan to join us, and bring as many as possible.
It is really amazing to see how far these people will go to “prove” their point. The truth is that it is not Biblical to what they are saying is Biblical. They have found reasoning to support their social bias. I am always amazed how they could not accept Joel 2:28 as simply everyone, male and female, to do anything, including pastoral ministry and thus being ordained. Who has the authority to say the athough the Holy Spirit calls we have a right to only recognized that call in full by ordination with men? How terriable.
Joel 2:28 does not permit “everyone to do anything”, but it clearly talks about prophesying. No one disputes that God can have female prophets.
The Holy Spirit never calls anyone outside the order of authority set by the written Word. Joel 2:28 does not require women to be ordained, nor does it eradicate gender role distinctions upheld throughout Holy Scripture. The apostle Paul is clear that both in the home (Eph. 5:22-25) and the church (I Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:12-13), men are to fulfill the role of servant-leadership on the basis of the original created order.