04-12-2008, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by SRoper  Or you have what happened at my church last week; a woman deacon was a part of the laying on hands in the ordination and installation of a new RE. So much for woman deacons being acceptable because the office of deacon is not an office of authority. | [glumly] This is depressing.
But all too common. Human spiritual fraility, combined with our innate arrogance, guarantees that give us an inch and we'll take a mile.
We're not especially deedy at respecting boundaries, always looking to see just how far we can go without going too far, and assuming that so long as divine fire isn't raining physically down upon us, we must be doing alright. 
__________________ Anne Ivy
Christ Chapel Bible Church
Fort Worth, Texas
Widowed mother of six, grandmother of eight.
The Ivy Vine (my blog)
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