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Critique of Ford's A Conversation w/ God for Women

Life Under the Sun: Critique of Ford's A Conversation w/ God for Women

Monday, May 16, 2011

Critique of Ford's A Conversation w/ God for Women

I enjoyed this book by Marcia Ford. She covers so much in her book with a wide-range of questions, some of which include who's in control, who Christ died for, women's place in ministry, whether prayer really makes a difference, if repetitious prayer is okay, why God places restrictions on sex, what's up with teaching on submission, and how can some believers be so good. The questions are divided into topics of God, Jesus, the Bible, life, prayer, relationships, and good and evil. The book is heavily end-noted with a long list of Scripture proofs for statements in each chapter. The novel approach of having God, Jesus, and women of the Bible answer these questions is appealing though it has its danger as the author isn't God or any of these people and does insert her own ideas.
I'd think it more biblical for her to include the fact of God's drawing those who will trust in Him unto Himself. I also think she makes too light of the scriptural teaching of a woman's submitting to her husband. There is mutual submission but the wife's submission goes beond that. Yet it is important to emphasize that the the husband is never to browbeat or lord over his wife, nor is he superior to her. As well, Ford seems soft on a woman's need to exercise a similar submissive role in ministry, not taking upon herself the pastoring of a church. I think we'd be hard put to find a biblical example of a woman doing so though certainly there are examples of women less formally teaching and admonishing men and there does seem to be a place for it.
All in all I found this book to be very biblical, balanced, and thought-provoking. I hope readers will read the verses in the back of the book and also seek Scripture themselves for answers to their questions.

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