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To most of you the name C. B. Scott will not be unfamiliar. C. B. serves a growing church in Birmingham, Alabama. He and his wife Karen have taken in four homeless children and are rearing them as their own. C. B. says, “My goal is to finish well as a follower of Christ. (I started pretty shaky) Karen and I love Jesus, our kids and any kids, our church, Alabama football, and Bulldogs. We love the SBC and pray that it will also finish well.”

He is praying for a cure for MS in his wife’s life time. She deals with it everyday. She is the toughest person he has ever known. And if she’s tougher than C. B., that’s saying a lot.

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I read a blog post that spoke to the possibility of women serving as pastors. I do not believe women serving in the role of a pastor or deacon in a local church is permitted in Scripture. It seems that those two roles and only those two roles in ministry are prohibited for women. I can see no prohibition for women teaching in seminaries or holding other ministry positions in churches. Frankly, women chaplains in women’s prisons and certain other institutions serve the cause of Christ far better than men for various reasons.

Before anyone starts to argue that point remember prisons are not churches. The prohibition is restricted only to local churches. Many have superimposed cultural and false theological presuppositions upon the scriptural prohibitions of women serving as pastors and deacons to the point Southern Baptists are now, possibly, going to be paying off law suits for such silliness and gross stupidity as to fire a woman for teaching Hebrew in a seminary. This is especially strangely stupid due to the fact that some of the same men that hired her to teach Hebrew in the first place voted to fire her for teaching what they hired her to teach. How stupid can we be? We Southern Baptists are truly a strange lot. Read the rest of this entry »