Dear brother:  How we approach the Scriptures usually determines what we
will believe. We must avoid two extremes. First, we must accept all that
Scriptures says, and secondly, we must not go past what Scripture says.

We must not think that the "sufficiency of Scripture" means we will have a
black and white answer to everyone of our questions about church order and
practice. The NTS is far more "principle" oriented than "law" oriented. I
suggest you look at the booklet, "Authority and the Local Church."

If typical Reformed people would use the same hermeneutics to interpret the
"women" passages that they use to explain the word "world" and "all men"
they would have an enirely different doctrine of women and worship!

I encourage you to get together with any and all of "like precious faith"
you know and pray and worship together. Don't have any "official" structure
that is not essential. Do not start with structure and authority and
organization. Start with personal needs and true fellowship and only adopt a
structure and organization that is essential. No one can "start a church."
Only God can do that! We can only start organizations.

Blessings on you and yours. Next a good wife, a fellowship of believers is a
great blessings. May He be pleased to add the blessing of a local fellowship
to your experience.    JGR


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Dicks" <william_dicks@...>
To: <soundofgrace@...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:54 AM
Subject: RE: [soundofgrace] A couple of questions to consider.


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> > Adrian Russell <agerussell@...> wrote:
> > Dear Sounders,
> >
> > It has been awfully quiet recently, I hope you aren't all
> > away! I assume that many of you are from or are involved in a
> > Baptist church. I am from a Plymouth Brethren church. I was
> > wondering if some of you could comment on a few topics for me
> > or direct me to where I might find some good scriptural
> > information. My questions specifically are:
> > 1) Are women supposed to have a head-covering (1 Cor 11) on
> > when the church gathers for a meeting (ie worship, preaching, prayer)?
> >
> > 2) 1 Tim 2:12 states that a woman should be in silence during
> > the gathering of the church. I understand that this entails
> > preaching and teaching but does this also apply to prayer
> > meetings? If there was a prayer meeting where both men and
> > women are gathered is it right for them to pray out loud? Are
> > they taking a leadership role within that group by praying
> > out loud? To me it seems that when a person prays out loud
> > they are praying on behalf of the group and therefore are
> > leading the group.
> >
> > To some of you this may seem petty and divisive but right now
> > I am in great need of good scriptural council. I have grown
> > tired in my young age of man's (or woman's) opinion. What I
> > want is scriptural truth. I pray that you all won't dismiss
> > this e-mail because this topic is of no interest to you.
> > My wife and I have left our home church and are presently
> > without one.
> > We are at a loss as to what to do. All there is here in
> > Victoria right now is a small Free P work. We have no
> > sovereign grace baptist pastor starting anything here! I have
> > prayed that God would send a man our way. I have friends who
> > are pushing for us to simply start a meeting but I am not
> > sure if it is as simple as that.
> > So, if you would be kind enough to comment on my questions I
> > would greatly appreciate it.
> > In Him,
> > Adrian
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