Gods Kind of Woman Preacher Monday, March 8, 1993, my wife and I attended a funeral service for the husband of a woman preacher. The husband was appropriately eulogized as a man who knew and loved God; one who was appreciative of and loyal to his family; a man who demonstrated love for his country. He had been an active member of the Lord’s church for years. He had taught a ladies’ Bible class. He supported the church financially. The preacher did not identify the man’s wife as a preacher, but in his remarks about her, we all knew that she was an effective preacher. She has not stood in a pulpit and preached. She respects God’s loving restriction given by His wisdom that a woman is not to teach nor have authority over a man (1 Timothy 2:12). She preached by her manner of life. She preached a great “sermon” on loyalty. For fifty-one years she kept a promise that she made to her husband and to God that she would “love, honor and cherish until death do us part.” In a day of shallow commitments and seemingly casual breaking of vows, how desperately the world needs to hear this woman’s “sermon.” She reached a beautiful “sermon” on compassion and love. Her husband had been ill, seriously sick, for months. She stayed with him. She cared for him. She supported him. In a cold and calloused world she demonstrated a concern borne of a right relationship with God and nourished by the love she had for her husband. The kind of preaching this Christian lady has done, some radical feminists could not appreciate. The value of the preaching done by this lady, women in the church clamoring for leadership roles could not evaluate. However, the power of such preaching is hard to estimate. Remember the lines of the poet, “I’d rather see a sermon than hear one any day?” In reflecting on the preaching done by this dear Christian lady, I was glad that my son was married to a woman whose grandmother was God’s kind of woman preacher. Tom Holland
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