Meanwhile, all around us, the world is clamoring to help define what womanhood should be.
Many times, those definitions and pictures are unhealthy.
Isn’t it time that we allow the foundation of our life and faith—the Bible—to have a say? If the church does not enter into the discussion soon, we will have an entire generation (or more) of people who have had most, if not all, of their major influences on womanhood from the outside world.
That’s a frightening thought!
It’s as if our society has taken over so much of our thinking that we have to really stop and ask if it’s possible to have a sense of womanhood that is informed by Scripture itself. In the case of biblical womanhood, we need to reopen a discussion about what it means to be a woman according to the Bible.
The needed approach is not something limited to references and stories about women from the Bible, even though those can be valuable. Rather, we need to also ask how the Bible informs and instructs women to live even in the twenty-first century.
We need to help women develop their voice and express their faith confidently and clearly. This is especially important since Jesus’ all-important call to “make disciples” was never meant to be limited to one gender, and there are so many important ministry roles we need men and women to rise to. Moreover, we need women to be able to represent a Christian view of womanhood in our communities as well as become good models to the younger women within our churches. MCC is committed to helping women.
