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Are There Women Apostles Today?
regarding women. One example is Matthew 10:5 where Jesus told his
disciples NOT to go minister to the Gentiles but only to go to those in
Israel. Well, a short twenty years later Paul was going to the Gentiles
to preach the gospel and doing exactly what Jesus said NOT to do.
Jesus was speaking a timely rhema word that did apply to His disciples
but did not apply to Paul a few decades later.
When God sent His only son Jesus into this world, He limited Himself
to human standards and that included submitting Himself to the culture
into which He was born. Therefore, it was wisdom on the part of Jesus
not to choose women among the twelve original apostles because it
would have detracted from the purpose for which He had come - which
was to establish the Kingdom. Jesus was meeting people where they
were, and He did not force the kingdom, but trusted His Father to do
the work through Him in due time. So he had no problem working
within the cultural parameters and yet still being the perfect SEED for
the Kingdom of God. But where the Kingdom of God is fully
MATURE and a divine culture is established, there is no bias between
male and female, rather we “are all sons of God through faith in Christ
Jesus.” (Galatians 3:26-28)
There is a saying: “A man with a theology is always at the mercy of a
man with an experience.” While my theology used to make me think
that God did not anoint women to be in “equipping” leadership roles
such as apostle, my experience has been that God has used many
women to “equip” me in my own life. Cindye Coates is one such lady
and scholar who has an excellent writing on this topic called, “The
Sonship of Woman”. 20 I know there are thousands of women apostles
in the body of Christ, and my prayer is that they will be set free to
function in the gifts God has given them and rise up as a mighty army
in our generation to proclaim God’s word - “The Lord giveth the word:
The women that publish the tidings are a great host”
(Psalms 68:11 ASV).
I hope this brief chapter helps to show that God DOES give equipping
gifts to women in the body of Christ. We would be wise to start
acknowledging this truth and helping our sisters to function in their
callings rather than fighting against God like the Pharisees. 21
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