Keith's Messages

In some ways I am a little surprised to be bringing you this teaching today. But there have been questions around female pastors or should women teach here at ANCC. So I am going to give my view (end Elim’s). It is not my task here today to criticise other churches (although some criticise us). There are churches in Reading who do recognise women and those that don’t. My role is to live in peace with them all (Hebrews 12:14). It is not my task to convince you that you are wrong and we are right. I am merely going to present to you the Pentecostal view of women in ministry.  Now, a disclaimer. I have shifted over the years in my view. Not because I had adopted a strong theological viewpoint but because I never had adopted one - I just did not think about it for many years and went with the flow. In the last ten years, I have studied it a lot more. The question is not whether God uses women. Scripture, Church history, and contemporary ministry: all testify that God calls, equips, and...