Women's Role

[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by Evangelical

If not teaching roles, then if women are in "non-teaching leadership roles" anyway by virtue of being married to an elder, what is the problem?

My friend Evangelical you are speaking of leadership in a totally different manner than what many of us are speaking. As a matter of fact, you are speaking of leadership in a different manner than Witness Lee taught:

All these cases prove that the leadership among God's children today should not be official, permanent, or organizational. On the contrary, it depends always upon spiritual capacity. God ordained it this way in order to set aside the human concept of leadership.
From ministrybooks.org

(We will set aside for the time being that Witness Lee was an abject hypocrite when it comes to leadership in the church - he actually didn't practice what he preached. He "hired" and "fired" elders and co-workers, NOT based upon their "spiritual capacity", but rather on whether or not they were 100% dedicated to himself and his ministry. This is a fact that is well-documented on this forum and through the testimony of dozens upon dozens of former elders and co-workers.)

The simple and undeniable truth is that the "spiritual capacity" of women/sisters in the Local Church can never be known because they are limited to stand up and give a 1 minute pop-corn repeating of a line or two from an outline of a Witness Lee message....then sit down and say "Amen!" to the speaking of others. You probably consider this a great advancement over the original days in the Local Church where brothers and sisters sat across the room from each other. I have heard that in some places back in the Nee days, there was actually a curtain between them!

And you could bet that Witness Lee would have enacted and strictly enforced "the curtain" here in the good old USA if he thought he could have gotten away with it. But he was a smart and crafty fellow, and he knew his little sect would not take off here in America if he tried to pull such garbage here. So he settled for seeing to it that all the American sisters dressed and acted as if they were in 1940s China or Taiwan - no makeup, the plainest hairstyle imaginable, and of course the donning of that hideous Local Church burka - a colorless and boring uniform straight out of a women's prison. Thankfully, women/sisters in the Local Church here in America have seen things loosen up quite a bit in this regard. What they haven't seen loosen up is the taking of their rightful place as equals of their brothers in the Body of Christ.
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