Announcing: Altogether In Ministry﻿

Announcing: Altogether In Ministry

27/1/2016

The same hope but a new name, reflecting our AIM that we will soon see women and men freely working together at all levels of ministry in the LCA/LCNZ, and our belief that each supporter has a part to play in making this a reality.
Following the post-General Synod gatherings in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne we have collated a list of suggestions for what congregations and individuals can do.

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4 Comments

Noel C Schultz

7/1/2017 01:22:27 pm

Isabel

7/1/2017 10:08:39 pm

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Noah Burke link

2/1/2021 04:33:12 am

Thanks, great blog.

Rev Dr Noel C Schultz

3/1/2021 06:54:49 pm

In 1954 the then President of the ELCA presented a conference paper to the convention of the N.Z. Lutheran Church in which he claimed that 'according to the order of creation a more subordinate position has been given to woman than to man'. The following year, as an itinerant missionary in the Auckland Province, I became aware how distressed some women and men were in response to his claim. Sixteen years later I addressed and refuted these and related claims in a Doctor of Ministry thesis submitted to Luther Theological Seminary, St Paul, Minn. "Neither Male nor Female - Towards a Theology and Practice of Equality of the Sexes in the Lutheran Church of Australia". Since women have continued to be discriminated against in the LCA, I wrote the book "Neither Male nor Female - the Bible, Women and the Ministry in the Church" which was published by Coventry Press in December 2020. It exposes the misuse of the Creation and Fall narratives, 1 Cor. 14:34-35 and 1 Tim. 2:8-15, since the final paragraph of Article VI of Thesis of Agreement was written in 1950. But it does more - it highlights the powerful declaration of Paul in Gal.3:26-29 and the social and religious implications for Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, since they are baptised in Christ. 'One's sexuality is not the basis on which a person can claim a position of superiority or advantage to which another is not entitled - neither in that person's relationship with God, nor in respect to another human being' (p.31).
It is my hope and prayer that this publication will be a factor in moving the LCA in 2021(after decades of debate and divisision) to grant women equality with men in the church by inviting qualified and trained women to share with men in the ministry of word and sacraments.