Comments on: With the addition of women to some boards, isn’t the Church bowing to modern ideas? https://askgramps.org/with-the-addition-of-women-to-some-boards-isnt-the-church-bowing-to-modern-ideas/ Moral answers to everyday concerns, curiosities, and uncertainties. Gramps considers all questions on all topics from all sources. Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: David https://askgramps.org/with-the-addition-of-women-to-some-boards-isnt-the-church-bowing-to-modern-ideas/#comment-34372 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 16:21:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33222#comment-34372 The truth is that the sisters were almost always present anyway, invited to share their opinions on various topics. This is only formalizing them as being a part of the board when they were there anyway.
And, as in all things – ESPECIALLY in these days – Follow The Prophet.
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]]> By: A Happily Married Man https://askgramps.org/with-the-addition-of-women-to-some-boards-isnt-the-church-bowing-to-modern-ideas/#comment-34369 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 05:41:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33222#comment-34369 Lynne,

Don’t take my word for it and ask the Lord like Gramps suggests, but might I also point out that in 1 Corinthians 11:11 it says:

“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”

Male and female are two halves of a whole and to be complete we need each other. Also, when I say “two halves,” it doesn’t mean that both necessarily need to be the same.

Unfortunately, the way society tries to slice things in our day is like an apple being cut vertically, where you have two identical sides. They claim a woman has to do a man’s job, have the same physical fortitude, and the list goes on and is full of endless nonsense that devalues, and, in some cases, is destructive to women’s many inherent characteristics; characteristics that they received from Godly parentage.

We should rather cut the apple horizontally, so we are left with a top and a bottom. This is still two sides of a whole, but we can see the two sides are not identical, and they don’t have to be to still make the apple complete and whole. In this way, the characteristics of both sides are manifest differently, but their connection to each other is still natural, and undiminished in any way.

And if the church having women included in new ways increases the strength and unity of the saints in pushing forth the work in new and meaningful directions, what can we do but sustain it and lend our own efforts?

]]> By: Sharee https://askgramps.org/with-the-addition-of-women-to-some-boards-isnt-the-church-bowing-to-modern-ideas/#comment-34367 Wed, 02 Sep 2015 03:36:00 +0000 http://en.elds.org/askgramps-org/?p=33222#comment-34367 I don’t think the Church knuckles under to anything or anyone. It is run by God, after all. However, I do think that some of the feminist’s demands may have got the brethren thinking. The have been preaching male/female equality and saying that women’s voices should be listened to for some years. And they may have been doing that in the church committees for a long time; now they are making it official. I see nothing wrong with that. In fact, I applaud it.

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