Welcome to bWe Baptist Women for Equality's website
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Our commitment -
bWe Baptist Women for Equality
empowering men and women to speak out for Women's Equality
"We value women and their response to God's calling in their lives and will put up no barriers to women serving God equally."
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bWe Baptist Women for Equality Shirley Taylor
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bWe Baptist Women for Equality bWe Equality for Christian Women www.bwebaptist.com www.bwebaptistwomenforequality.wordpress.com all material is copyrighted, must have written permission to use Shirley Taylor, Founder Don Taylor, Assistant
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Dictionary
Complimentarian -
the equal-buts. Equal,
but our husbands
have authority over
us.
Masculinists - the
opposite of feminists.
Those who promote
Male Headship.
Manhood - what you
need to speak up for
Womanhood.
The Equal-buts - see
Complementarian.
Roles for Wives -
playing second fiddle
to husbands.
Under Much Grace article on Shirley Taylor, co-founder of Freedom for Christian Women Coalition
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Join with us!
Are you tired of just talking about it?
We talked about it, we prayed about it, and we've cried about it.
This is your opportunity to do something about it.
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Two years ago, Hurricane Ike blew through and devastated portions of
southern Texas. Pine trees snapped all around us and hardwood trees
fell. Limbs fell through our neighbor’s bedroom ceilings, one killing a
friend.
The electricity went off with no idea when it would return. Food spoiled
in refrigerators without power. Ice was scarce.
Televisions were off. People were outside cleaning up the mess of
trees against their homes, covering parts of their roof that was missing,
and securing their homes to make them habitable again. City after city
struggled with the cleanup.
Neighbors held cook-out parties and helped each other survive.
Each day our son left this area and went to work in a city not far away
that did not feel the effects of this huge storm. He told us that
electricity was flowing, and people were going about their business as
usual. He said the lines at the gas pumps and the stores were long with
refugees seeking gas and food.
The fifth day without power our food supplies were gone so we left
before daylight to make the journey into this city to find food.
We made our way carefully down the highway and could see power
lines downed by trees. All was dark.
Suddenly up ahead we saw lights! Bright lights! A city of lights. As we
got closer, we saw that the town still did not have electricity, but the
football stadium lights flooded the dark. We realized that this was the
power company’s staging area. There were workers, and tents, and
utility trucks that had arrived from other states to help us regain our
electrical power.
Passing this area, we again went into the darkness. Making our way to
the city where the lights stayed on, and food was available.
I encourage you to make your way out of the darkness and go to
church next Sunday to where there is light.
Find a church that has a woman pastor or associate pastor, or a church
that recognizes women’s equality.
Do not be fooled. Some churches that say they do, may have an
underlying belief that women are to be submissive. (Remember the
mega Assembly of God church I told you about in Springfield Missouri
where women were told by a visiting preacher that they were to
submit to their husbands).
As you pass through, remember the staging area. There are people out
here working to bring you light.
Return back into the darkness, and help those neighbors who need the
light. Add your talents and strengths to the workers who are working
throughout the day and night so that others might see.
There is hope. Remember the lights are on in other cities.
Shirley's blog
www.bwebaptistwomenforequality.wordpress.com
I want to be able to walk into my church and not feel that my church holds it against me that I am a woman.
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Shirley's Story Read my story in "Going to Unexpected Places" Center for Effective Leadership
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