The primary effort in feminism is not equality. They want to be senators, preachers, congressmen, the president, the power structure in a university—they want power, not equality.
This is not a small issue. Male abuse of power caused this despicable violation of women. This is the issue we should be discussing.
This is the issue about the improper use of power. I just launched a website called Mere Mother , a space dedicated to mothers marginalized by modern feminism.
I left my career and education behind to stay at home and even homeschool my five kids. I epitomize everything he says a woman should be—and yet MacArthur has deeply wounded me and every woman like me. The women Moore defends have been marginalized, maligned, and in some cases molested by men. No godly woman does, nor should any godly man. Pursuit of power is not a godly ambition. Jesus gave women a voice when men wanted to silence them.
Jesus gave a voice to the woman at the well and the woman caught in adultery. Jesus received her when the men at the table ridiculed her. And He said that her story—not theirs—would be told wherever his story is told.
If Christ be not raised from the dead, our faith is in vain. All of Easter , all of Easter, hangs on the testimony of womankind with whom He trusted the entire Gospel.
All four Gospel accounts are clear on this fact—the resurrection of Christ was revealed to the women first, not the men. The entire gospel account hangs on the words of women. They ran away when the women stayed at the Cross. They stayed at home when the women went to the tomb. More than anything, I think that MacArthur and his band of male ministers were upset about the leadership role Moore has taken in a prominent denomination. The message is clear.
An Old Testament passage of Scripture is problematic for those who propose that women cannot lead men either inside or outside the church. In Judges 4 , Deborah is identified as a judge and prophetess over the entire nation of Israel: "Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel at that time. And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim.
And the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. Please note that God commands the entire nation of Israel to go to war— through a woman. Deborah is so well respected that Barak refuses to go to war without her. She agrees, but says that God will deliver the evil King Sisera into the hands of a woman. And everything Deborah prophesies comes to pass. It is very hard to reconcile this passage of Scripture with a mandate that women can never lead outside the church, and it calls into question the meaning of New Testament passages about women leading inside the church.
After all, Deborah is not only a judge, which is a position of leadership in government, but she is also a prophet, which is a position of leadership in the church. Deborah brings several questions to the forefront of this debate: If women are not to be in positions of authority over men anywhere, then why was Deborah a Judge over Israel with nothing mentioned in Scripture of the error? Why did God prophesy through this woman to give His instructions to a man and consequently the entire nation of Israel?
Despite Bligh's terse rejection of Macarthur's requirements for his pastoral schemes and the undisguised personal hostility between the two, it was Macarthur's mercantile activities that provided a context for the events which ended in the rebellion that deposed Bligh. When Macarthur, resisting obligations incurred through his part-ownership of the schooner Parramatta , was committed for trial in January Bligh refused him the bail granted by an illegally constituted court.
The specially created post of colonial secretary was bestowed on Macarthur who 'virtually administered' the colony until Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Foveaux arrived in Sydney on 28 July and assumed command.
During this period of 'contending for the liberties of this unhappy Colony' the 'hero of the fleece' found his political energies too strong for his pastoral inclinations. Only his mercantile hopes persisted undiminished. By , with the aid of Davidson who later moved to Macao, the Macarthur trading interests were proposing with dubious legality to complete an ambitious Sydney, Canton, Calcutta cycle. In Foveaux's successor as acting governor, Lieutenant-Colonel Paterson, authorized Macarthur to leave the colony along with other rebels intended to support Johnston in presenting his defence in England.
Macarthur sailed on 29 March in the Admiral Gambier , after fruitlessly offering his lands and stock for public sale. He left the ship at Rio in order to supervise the sale of a sandalwood cargo and reached Bristol on 9 October In the course of acting as agent for partnership concerns being juggled by Garnham Blaxcell in Sydney, Macarthur found that commercially 'the times are frightfully hazardous … and almost universal distrust and alarm prevails'.
By November he revealed to Elizabeth that his mercantile adventures had swallowed up all the money he could command and left him considerably in debt. In these two years accounts had been settled for the Bligh rebellion. Though Johnston had been cashiered after his court martial, which Macarthur attended, at Chelsea between April and June , legal opinion was that none of the civilians involved could be tried for treason in England. Governor Lachlan Macquarie received instructions from Lord Castlereagh that 'as Gov'r Bligh has represented that Mr McArthur has been the leading Promoter and Instigator of the mutinous Measures … you will, if Examinations be sworn against him … have him arrested thereupon and brought to Trial before the Criminal Court of the Settlement'.
Macarthur's obvious course was to remain in England and exert every influence to have this obstacle removed. Because of the uncertainty of his position he was thrown into perplexity and doubt, toying with the idea of taking 'a small Farm of about a Hundred a Year' to help to balance his living expenses. At the same time he tried to resolve the problem of returning to New South Wales at personal risk and the alternative of withdrawing his family from 'plenty and affluence' in the colony to a life of 'pinching penury' in England.
Though he left the final decision to Elizabeth, he advised her to speak of leaving the colony as a settled thing because 'I have for some time spoken in that way here, and I am persuaded it has been beneficial'. In this impasse his interest in wool revived as its value became more established and as other market prices in the colony had begun a sharp decline, 'it is obvious enough that the only marketable commodity will be the Wool'.
References to wool and exhortations to Elizabeth and Hannibal to organize their methods at Parramatta and Camden increased, especially when Macarthur learnt to his chagrin that his wool was bringing only 20d. Macarthur turned his own attention to the English wool market, analysing production and processing techniques, and in went to the Continent to investigate agriculture and the wine industry. Nevertheless in December , depressed by accounts of colonial stagnation, he had returned to investment in trade, in the conviction that though wool was becoming yearly more valuable 'it will be but a scanty provision for us all unless we can do something in the Mercantile way'.
Though none of Macarthur's efforts in England served to clarify his position, the intention of returning to New South Wales had not been abandoned and was still the pivotal point of all his attempts 'to improve my fortune'. On the assumption that Macquarie was 'quite alive to the advancement of his own interest and Fortune', Macarthur wrote to Elizabeth in December and directed her to 'contrive to talk with Mrs Macquarie about our Sheep and take occasion to lament that the Flocks should remain Stationary.
If this excite attention, you might cautiously hint at an arrangement that was on the point of being made with Governor King before he was relieved, which would have secured a splendid fortune for both our Families as he possessed the power to give me any quantity of Land and any number of Servants that might have been necessary.
You might also say you have reason to believe that General Elliott, Lord Minto's Brother exerted all his interest to obtain the Gov'ship with a view to forward my plans'.
After protracted negotiations Macarthur received permission early in to return to New South Wales on condition that he should in no way associate in public affairs. Though he retired discreetly to Parramatta, he was soon out of humour with Governor Macquarie, who nonetheless had shown every consideration for his interests and many kindnesses to his household. Macquarie's refusal to grant more land in exchange for a monopolistic supply of pure-bred sheep and his rejection of the now traditional scheme for dealing with the wild cattle roused Macarthur to employ all his influence in London to destroy the governor's reputation in official circles and to precipitate his recall.
When Commissioner John Thomas Bigge arrived in to investigate the administration of New South Wales Macarthur manoeuvred to influence his outlook. His flocks of over at this time included some pure merinos.
The result of his careful cultivation of Bigge was the official promotion by the commissioner of Macarthur's vision of New South Wales as an extensive wool-exporting country controlled by men of real capital, with 'estates of at least 10, acres ha each' who would maintain transported convicts as their labour force and keep them landless and 'in proper subjection'.
A colonial aristocracy would thus provide a necessary bulwark to the 'furious democrats' and their corroding influences. Swiftly upon the official approval of the Bigge report came the sale of Camden fine wool in England for an unprecedented d.
In the Society of Arts in London presented Macarthur with two gold medals, one for importing 15, lbs. Amidst these tokens of success Macarthur successfully pressed his claim, confirmed in , to the supplementary acres ha that he had been promised in They were also taken up in the Cowpastures.
By the end of the decade Camden Park was 'the first agricultural establishment in the Colony', incorporating over 60, acres 24, ha acquired by grant and purchase. Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane , under whose command Macarthur's son Edward had served, was impressed by Macarthur and his talents, and found his opinion reinforced by 'friends' in England.
The emphasis of his pulpit ministry is the careful study and verse-by-verse exposition of the Bible, with special attention devoted to the historical and grammatical background behind each passage. Under John's leadership, Grace Community Church's two morning worship services fill the 3,seat auditorium to capacity. Several thousand members participate every week in dozens of fellowship groups and training programs, most led by lay leaders and each dedicated to equipping members for ministry on local, national, and international levels.
In , John founded The Master's Seminary , a graduate school dedicated to training men for full-time pastoral roles and missionary work. John is also president and featured teacher with Grace to You.
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