The term women's ministry and the definition of it--women serving women--seem to be limiting. I feel like I'm in a box. I want to serve the whole congregation: men, women and children.
The name and the definition were never intended to put anyone in a box or in any way limit the service a person can do.
The instruction given in Titus 2:3-5 is for the older women to help the younger women learn godly values and grow in their relationships with God and people.
God doesn't limit us. He gives gifts and abilities liberally. We are the ones who usually get in God's way and limit ourselves by the way we act or think.
Women's ministry is an umbrella under which the church nurtures women and gives its blessing to women to have the freedom to grow and listen to the lead of the Holy Spirit.
Women's ministry honors and encourages women to make the most of their Christian calling in the same way Jesus did.
We are not in competition with other ministries. Wherever God calls a woman to serve is her ministry, whether working with women in women's ministry, or working in other ministries serving children, providing music, helping with congregational activities or in her own personal service apart from these.
April 22, 1997, WN, page 10
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