Category Woman’s Ministry

Alexander R. Hay

To the women of our congregations to whose faithful ministry so much is owed.

Table of Contents

A First Word

Chapter 1 ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES

Chapter 2 THE NATURE OF TRUE GOVERNMENT

Chapter 3 THE RESULT OF THE FALL

Chapter 4 WOMAN’S MINISTRY IN THE CHURCH

Chapter 5 MISUNDERSTOOD PASSAGES

Chapter 6 WHERE THE WOMAN’S MINISTRY DIFFERS

Chapter 7 HER PERSONAL TESTIMONY

Chapter 8 IN THE HOME

Chapter 9 IN THE CONGREGATION

Chapter 10 MINISTRY THROUGH THE HOME

Chapter 11 THE SINGLE WOMAN

Chapter 12 TRUE AND FALSE MINISTRY

Chapter 13 SPIRITUAL VALUES IN MATERIAL THINGS

All Scripture quotations are from the New King James Version, unless otherwise stated.

 

 

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A FIRST WORD

The restriction of the witness of more than half the members of the Body of Christ, the Church of the Living God, is a most serious matter. Just as serious is a failure to understand the underlying principles of the special contributions that men and women are intended to make in its life and work. The Church is suffering great loss from these two causes.

These, of course, are not the only causes of spiritual loss. Central and basic in the whole Church’s witness is the giving to the Lord Jesus Christ his full place in the personal life of each believer...

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Chapter 1  ORIGINAL PRINCIPLES

The part which the woman should take in ministry in the things of God is a matter of great importance, both to her personally and to the Church. It affects her obedience to God, her duty towards her fellow-men and her spiritual growth. And this is intimately related to the life of the Church within and to the witness which God has purposed that the Church should give to the world.

Unfortunately, however, there has been no little confusion in this matter and many women, in consequence, have not been able to know clearly what is the place they are intended to fill and the contribution they are intended to make...

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Chapter 2 THE NATURE OF TRUE GOVERNMENT

The evidence of design in the Universe, in Nature, even in the most insignificant parts, testifies eloquently both to God’s infinite wisdom and to the fact that all has been made to a most careful plan.

“Each drop uncounted in a storm of rain
Hath its own mission, and is duly sent
To its own leaf or blade.”               – Coleridge

God’s creation is designed for the fulfillment of a definite purpose, the design reaching back into eternity past (a little of which we know in part) and into eternity future (into which we have been given a vision in part of a glorious, progressive fulfillment)...

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Chapter 3 THE RESULT OF THE FALL

Having seen the perfect purpose of God for both the man and the woman and the great principles that governed it, we shall now consider the change that took place and the confusion that was caused by the fall of man.

What Satan offered to Eve and what she accepted was independence – independence from God’s authority and liberty from the rule of the law of perfect love – freedom to apply the law of self-love, permitting all things to be valued, judged and used by the rule of self-interest...

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