252. Women in the Church
This is the other Bishop Kelly story that I want to tell. Yesterday’s story was about politics and the church. Today the story is about women in the church.
Once again, she was walking to the church in Virginia in her ministry before she became a bishop. And once again a man stopped her and asked her if she was the pastor of that church and she said that she was. He said, “I want to tell you that you’re doing a really good job.” She smiled her wonderful smile and said to him, “Thank you, you have just made my day.”
He put his hand out in a stop motion and said, “Well, no, the other thing I want to tell you is that you shouldn’t be doing it, because in the New Testament Paul says that women need to be silent in church.” She grinned and said, “Luckily, Paul didn’t call me to the ministry—Jesus Christ did!”
