Women sought to join the fellowship

Special to The Mississippi Link

Shabach International House of Deborah, located in San Diego, Calif., is looking for 10,000 anointed women of God to join the fellowship.

Shabach International House of Deborah wishes to reaffirm its long-standing commitment to full opportunity for women to be ordained to the ministry and to serve in any and all ministerial and leadership capacities.

Although this vision has yet to be fully realized throughout the world today, the Church and its precedent bodies have experienced the benefits of such a commitment for many years.

The organization recognizes that such a position on women in ministry is sometimes challenged on the basis of certain Scripture passages. However, it is the organization’s belief that all pertinent Scriptures need to be interpreted in the light of their immediate contexts, as well as in the context of Scripture as a whole. Ministry leaders also believe that no passages of Scripture clearly prohibit women from holding positions of authority.

The passages that on the surface appear to do so, are often twisted by interpretations stemming from biased readings of the text. In some cases there are faulty or biased translations and in others there is evidence of localized situations that required special treatment that was not intended for general application.

Organizational leaders believe that God has progressively revealed in the Scriptures His purpose to call, equip and empower women for full opportunity of ministry in the church. Galatians 3:28 states that in the Christian era “There is neither . . . male, nor female.” This is a general principle of Scripture.

Any Scriptures that at first appear to contradict this general statement must be understood in light of the general principle of Galatians 3:28.

The organization believes that it has been made clear that the spiritual and heavenly identity proclaimed in Galatians 3:28 have precedence over the earthly, administrative identity.

It was just such an understanding of Scripture that prompted Shabach International to re-examine the position held by many of the contemporaries that believe Scriptures are not supportive of women in ministry.

Therefore, Shabach officials state that they are standing in lead to end this misinterpretation of God’s Word by not allowing this uneducated thought to continue to discriminate against female ministers.

Please visit website [http://www.shaback.net/] www.shaback.net to learn more about Shabach International House of Deborah.

Or send an email to [mailto:shabackinc@aol.com] shabackinc@aol.com.