Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted March 26, 2016 Moderators Share Posted March 26, 2016 Adventists in Sweden, Germany take Stands Against Gender Discrimination in Ordination http://atoday.org/adventists-sweden-germany-take-stands-gender-discrimination-ordination.html From News Services, March 18, 2016: The governing body of the Adventist denomination’s Swedish Union Conference voted Sunday (March 13) to end the ordination pastors. Instead, Adventist ministers in that country will receive a commissioned minister credential. The reason for this decision is to ensure that men and women in pastoral ministry are treated equally, according to a statement on the Swedish Union Conference Web site. For the full text of the statement by the theology faculty at Friedensau Adventist University see: http://www.thh-friedensau.de/wp-content/uploads/Statement-Ordination-FAU-2016.pdf The Friedensau statement points out that in the New Testament, “ordination” is a ceremony in which church members are commissioned to lead ministries and not related to status as well as “independent of gender” as specified in Romans 16:1, Philippians 4:2-3 and Galatians 3:28. And it points out that current ordination policy in the Adventist denomination has made it a matter of status “shown by the fact (1) that women may perform virtually all the functions of a pastor but without being ordained for their task, and (2) that only ordained officeholders may ordain others.” Ordination to status is generally understood by Protestant historians as a concept that the papacy borrowed from secular Roman society and instituted in the church after the first Christian emperor of Rome. NOTE: The above URL does not seem to take you to the Friedensau statement. Perhaps someone else can correct that? Quote Gregory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rudywoofs (Pam) Posted March 26, 2016 Members Share Posted March 26, 2016 try this: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6nbfUvdBCXgJ:www.thh-friedensau.de/wp-content/uploads/Statement-Ordination-FAU-2016.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Quote Pam Meddle Not In the Affairs of Dragons; for You Are Crunchy and Taste Good with Ketchup. If we all sang the same note in the choir, there'd never be any harmony. Funny, isn't it, how we accept Grace for ourselves and demand justice for others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Gregory Matthews Posted March 28, 2016 Author Moderators Share Posted March 28, 2016 Thank you Pam. The document is challenging and that challenge will include those who support the ordination of women. Quote Gregory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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