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The Revd Karen Kirlew
assumed the role during the 168th JBU General Assembly after being elected the
previous year.
‘Never before have we seen such excitement, such enthusiasm and such expectation for an incoming President,’ said her predecessor the Revd Devon Dick as he led the act of installation (pictured). |
Electrifying
welcome for Ja's first female Baptist Union president
Published:Monday
| February 26, 2018 | 12:00 AM
Electrifying applause echoed inside a packed
National Arena in St Andrew yesterday to officially welcome the Reverend Karen
Kirlew as the first female president of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU).
The occasion was the 168th general assembly of the
JBU.
Outgoing JBU president the Reverend Devon Dick said
that never before had he seen such excitement for an incoming president.
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Things Joyce Meyer Never
Said: “Turn in your Bibles to 1 Timothy 2:12”
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But despite the excitement and apparent strong
support for Kirlew, some persons, including controversial United States Baptist
minister Steven Anderson, have expressed disapproval at women serving in
leadership roles in the Church.
Jumping to the defence of Kirlew's appointment,
Reverend Eron Henry, while delivering his sermon at the general assembly
yesterday, pointed to examples of persons in biblical history who were not
popular among the masses but had been chosen by God.
"This is a historic day. The Bible
and history are filled with unheralded persons who others regarded as weak,
unimpressive, and of minimal abilities and status being used by God to achieve
great things. Moses was a fugitive and exile, hiding out in the hills, and God
(led him) to rescue a people and form a nation. Rahab was a temple prostitute
but recognised that there was a people needing help, and so she helped the Jews
obtain a great victory. In the New Testament, Mary, a teenage peasant girl, was
called by God to be mother of the Christ," he said.
"Reverend Kirlew, it should not have
been you, but it is you, and no one can take that from you. God's call is on
your life," he said.
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But
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be
in silence. - 1 Timothy 2:12 (KJV)
Sad truth that women are disobeying God's Word.
A woman can preach outside of church, but not within, only when preaching to
other women.
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LINKS:
Reverend
Eron Henry, while delivering his sermon at the general assembly yesterday,
pointed to examples of persons in biblical history who were not popular among
the masses but had been chosen by God. [VIDEO SHARED]
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