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KenPierce · #3 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 11:42 AM

Having grown up in the RCA and left it over the necessity of submission to female elders (which is but a symptom of a denial of Biblical authority), female deacons are, to me, a tertiary issue.

But, from recent experience with "our" churches in San Diego and Denver, I fear that much of what is lurking behind the skirted deacons argument is egalitarianism, pure and simple. That is why the existence of female deacons in the ARP and RPCNA does not trouble me. I don't believe the motivation there to have been egalitarian.

So, I am more frightened of the ideas lurking behind, admittedly a slippery slope argument, but nonetheless we ought to be looking at the whole worldview that gives rise to this stuff.

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