Don't beat around the bush, Moe, what do you 
  really think? :)
   
  Seriously,  I would consider banning women from 
  reading the Bible in a church assembly as 
  equivalent to the Pharisees under the Old Covenant
  outlawing a needle carried in a lady's apron.
   
  They were expressing an actual God-given scriptural principle
  of that time and place, (namely, no work on the Sabbath),
  but they were going beyond the scripture to their own
  extra-biblical application of that principle.
   
  That Pharasaic principle was this: better to err on the side
  of extra-strict adherance than to even allow the *possibility*
  of a violation.
   
  Godly Pharisees (yes, there were such) did so out of a 
  true reverance for the Lord, ungodly Pharisees, of whom
  there were many, did it out of pure self-righteousness.
   
  But even that Pharasaic principle was beyond 
  scripture, and thus a sort of self-fulfilling principle.
   
  While still despising sin and loving the precepts of the 
  Lord in our hearts, yet we need to avoid over-exegeting
  some passages.  
   
  A good test sometimes is to ask the question, "Should 
  someone be disciplined vis a vis Matt. 18, and put out
  of the assembly for unrepentedly doing that?"
   
  Terry Rayburn

Moe Bergeron <moebergeron@...> wrote:
  Now brethren, I suspect some of you are control freaks and are guilty of a
Gentile system of rule. You would have only the "duly authorized"
distributing the elements or bringing a word of encouragement,etc.,. The end
result is a bunch of spectators sitting beneath your chief seats.

I have said it before and I will say it again. Pastors emasculate more men
than all of the women libbers out there.

Retreating quickly,
moe

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