Hey, Church. It's time.

Hey, Church.  

It’s time.

It’s time to wake up.  It’s time to listen to your women.  It’s time to take a good, hard look at how you treat your women.  It’s time to truly dig into God’s words, and specifically the actions of Jesus, and see, earnestly see how God sees women, how Jesus honored women.  

It’s time.

It’s time to hear the cries of our women.  It’s time to listen to her voice. It’s time to give them a seat at the table.

Your women were made in the image of God.  Yes, really. Think about that. They were made as a reflection of who God is. Yes, God is reflected in women, too.

They were made to sit next to the men, not in another room, not behind, not at the feet of men.  BUT BESIDE. Right next to, as co-heirs.

Women were not made to be silent.  And, frankly, we are tired at the constant reminder to be quiet.  

We were made to proclaim the good news of Jesus.  (See the woman at the well).

We were made to share the amazing freedom of the resurrection.  (See the women at the tomb).

So, Church, now is the time.  You must decide.

How will you honor the voice of your women?  

How will you empower them to be all that God has created them to be?

How will you change your customs to align with your Holy Scripture?

It’s time.

I have seen too many good women, strong women who think for themselves, be beat down by the church.  I have seen too many women being told that their strength is in direct opposition of what God wants from them, when it is God who has strengthened them.  I have heard, more times than I care to in this lifetime, that women should ‘Be Quiet”, when it is God who has given me this voice to proclaim to the captives their freedom.  

It’s time.

History will decide how we, as the Church, have stood in this time.  Will our children look back and say, thank you for giving women their voice?  Or will they still be fighting for their voice to be heard?

As the Church, we should be the first to amplify the woman’s voice. Because that is what Jesus did.
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As for me, I will continue to encourage my daughters to proclaim their God given right to have voice.  I will teach my daughters that they have every right as their brothers. AND I will teach my sons the same thing, that their sisters have a voice as well. I will tell my daughters to sit with confidence, and with God’s backing, at the table. I will point them to scripture, where Jesus, listened to the voice of the woman, and empowered her to stand in the face of the religious pharisees that said she was nothing.

Hey, Church.  It’s time.