I don’t talk about pastoral theology or the church too much on this blog as it is not the focus, but following a link from my feedreader, I was a little shockedby the “council” page image of the Gospel Coalition, click on it and take a quick look.

Now, as an evangelical I’m supportive of making the message of Jesus relevant for the next generation — but when I see a council that is more than 60% white male with NO women, I start to wonder a bit. If it seeks to be a “gospel coalition” I would think they want to be representative of those who believe the gospel.

Now it is of course their prerogative to believe what they want — their doctrinal statement makes it clear what they think and the makeup of their council reflects that (they just happen to all misunderstand the bible, but I won’t take that up here). But they have as part of their mandate creating literature and reaching out to colleges. That bothers me even more — going out and representing the evangelical view on contemporary issues when they don’t even believe women can hold the same leadership roles in the church!

Okay, back to dissertation work…..

This entry was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm by Danny Zacharias and is filed under women in ministry, evangelicalism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.