What The Apostle Paul Said - Part II

But ...
the Apostle Paul also said some other things that are important for us to be aware of:

• But in relationships among the Lord's people, women are not independent of men, and men are not independent of women. For although the first woman came from man, all men have been born from women ever since, and everything comes from God. I Corinthians 11:11-12
• And further, you will submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. Ephesians 5:21
• And you husbands must love your wives with the same love Christ showed the church. He gave up his life for her to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault. In the same way, husbands ought to love their wives as they love their own bodies. For a man is actually loving himself when he loves his wife. No one hates his own body but lovingly cares for it, just as Christ cares for his body, which is the church. And we are his body. As the Scriptures say, "A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one." This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. Ephesians 5:25-33
• Woman is the glory of man. For the first man didn't come from woman, but the first woman came from man. I Corinthians 11:7-8
• For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you. Galatians 3:26-29
• l Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. God uses it to prepare and equip his people to do every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Do these quotes change your first impressions of Paul?
How?

The Apostle Paul: What He Said and What We Need To Know Part I

I'm going to be doing a retreat about the Apostle Paul.
He's annoyed a lot of women.

Are you one of them?

Here's some things he's said:

• A woman is responsible to her husband I Corinthians 11:3
• A woman dishonors her husband if she prays or prophesies without a covering on her head, I Corinthians 11:5
• And man was not made for woman's benefit, but woman was made for man. I Corinthians 11:9
• Women should be silent during the church meetings. It is not proper for them to speak. I Corinthians 14:34
• [Women] should be submissive, just as the law says. If they have any questions to ask, let them ask their husbands at home, for it is improper for women to speak in church meetings. I Corinthians 14:35
• Women should listen and learn quietly and submissively. I Timothy 2:11
• do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly. I Timothy 2:12
• You wives will submit to your husbands as you do to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of his body, the church; he gave his life to be her Savior. As the church submits to Christ, so you wives must submit to your husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:22, 24
• For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve. And it was the woman, not Adam, who was deceived by Satan, and sin was the result. I Timothy 2:13-15
• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do. I Timothy 2:9-10
• Guide older women into lives of reverence so they end up as neither gossips nor drunks, but models of goodness. By looking at them, the younger women will know how to love their husbands and children, be virtuous and pure, keep a good house, be good wives. Titus 2:5

Based on these quotes,
what are your first impressions regarding Paul?

Faith is building on what you know is here, so you can reach what you know is there. (Cullen Hightower)

"I dance with joy in the shadow of Your wings." Psalm 63:7b Sigh. I love this ...

Ephesians 3:14-21

Okay, trying to memorize another one ...

When I think of the wisdom and scope of God's plan, I fall on my knees and pray to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, creator of everything in heaven and on earth.
I pray that from that glorious, unlimited resource I will receive a mighty inner strength through the Holy Spirit.
And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in my heart as I trust him. May my roots reach down deep in the soil of God's marvelous love.
May I understand, as all God's children should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep God's love is.
And may I experience the love of Christ although it is too great for me to fully understand it.
Then I will be made complete through the fullness of life and power than comes from God.
Now glory be to God! Through his might power at work in me, he is able to accomplish infinitely more than I ever dare hope or ask.
Glory and honor to him for ever and ever through endless ages. Amen.

I've just finished reading EPIC by John Eldredge. Not bad. Not bad at all ...

I hate proofreading. I hate editing. I would rather have a root canal.