Mother of Israel

Awesome!!! Reading through Judges today in my devotional and about
Deborah. What I found awesome was that she never called herself a leader,
judge, general, wife. She referred to herself as the Mother of Israel. We
can be mothers of our job, our friends, etc and by that I mean be an
influence to them.
People often ask the question about female Pastor's and so we explain. I,
personally, do not believe that women should be Pastor's. I am a woman,
yes, and can honestly say that statement and be fine. The reason why is
because men and women play different roles, God has set it up like that. I
believe that women can play roles within the church, but to be a head of a
church, No. The highest place a women should be in a church is a deacon.
This is my opinion, remember, when you feel your blood rising because of my
comments... It's my opinion. Why, then you say, is it that Deborah was a
leader? If you read earlier in Judges you will find that Deborah had tried
to pass this responsibility onto a man to be a leader, no man would step
up. If in the case that no man is within the church to be the leader of the
church, only temporarily should they be leading the church. This is ONLY if
a man is not able to lead the church. Women and men play different roles,
typically the man is be the leader, at church and at home.

During the women's movement, women really fought to be allowed rights and
equality, but I think our society has gone so far the other way that women
think they don't need Father's for their children or Men as their Husbands.
Families need a man to be the Head of the family despite what society has
skewed the reality to be. Women have been able to accomplish so much since
the women's movement, but we still apply Biblical principles. Now, if by
reading all this and your blood is still boiling because you feel women
should be able to pastor a church think about these verses:
1 Timothy
"(3:2) Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one
wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
(3:3) not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome,
not a lover of money. (3:4) He must manage his own family well and see that
his children obey him with proper respect. (3:5) (If anyone does not know
how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God's church?)"