Contemplating Women and Church Leadership

Dear God of Pentecost Fire, On that blazing morning in Jerusalem, when the Spirit fell like a thunderclap on a hundred and twenty believers huddled in an upper room, You did not sort them by gender before pouring out Your gifts. Peter stood in the streets and quoted the prophet Joel: "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days."…