The administrater and the reading are not the same person if the elder has assigned the reading to someone with a gifted voice or if they are just getting families in the assembly involved. Since we fing the priests in the OT doing the reading and women are included in the NC priesthood of believers then they are qualified by Christ to read. If your worship leader is a woman you are saying that your chapel skirts the issue by not allowing her on the platform which then makes it ok? And do the children at Christmas read the Christmas narrative from Scripture in your Christmas program? The administration of the program is of course different than those taking part in the program. And please tell me how singing a Psalm is not *proclaiming the Word* in a service? Harry Chad Richard Bresson <breusswane@...> wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: "H Dorrington" > "There *is* an authority that is inherent to the public administration of > the Word, > whatever form it takes, in the worship service." > > Then again I ask a very valid question, if you sing a Psalm do only the > elders sing? If a hymn or song is taken from Scripture, who may sing it? It's not a valid question when you don't treat what I've said seriously. "Public administration" and "public participation" are two different things. > From your statement, would not the administration of the Word fall on the > speaker who asked the person to read the passage they had picked? Under > your system it would seem to also exclude a man who is not an elder from > reading Scripture before the assembly. Elder oversight does not preclude those with the possibility of being qualified from reading or preaching. Since a woman can never be qualified, such a practice does not include women. In fact, this happens every Sunday. The leader of the worship team is our piano player. But she does not lead the worship in front of the congregation, for all the reasons mentioned in this discussion. And as for children, our children's *program* is handled in the announcement section of our gathering, before the call of worship (we have a call to worship and benediction because we believe the scriptures teach that what happens in the worship service is *different* from everything else that happens in body life; this is why the nature of corporate worship is an important doctrine to us)... for all of the reasons mentioned in this discussion. Pastor Chad Richard Bresson Clearcreek Chapel Springboro, OH http://breusswane.blogspot.com -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. -- Read the Sound of Grace pages at http://www.soundofgrace.com To unsubscribe, send ANY message to: soundofgrace-unsubscribe@... To view our online archive go to our web page at http://www.associate.com/groups/soundofgrace