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Women Praying Allowed Audio
Greg R Taylor
I am a home builder in Northeastern Oklahoma and president of 1256Movement.org. Proceeds from my latest book published in 2023, Prodigals, benefit this nonprofit dedicated to reparations of racial trauma in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Taylor is author of several books, including a coauthored work with Randy Harris titled Living Jesus. He and his wife, Jill, have three adult children, Ashley, Anna, and Jacob, for whom Prodigals is dedicated. I’ve been a writer for 30 years, a professional writer and editor for most of those years. No matter what other jobs I’ve done, I’ve continued to write. I’m the author, co-author, editor, or ghostwriter of many books you can see here. You’ll find a lot of topics I’ve written about listed and I've tried to categorize them so there should be bread crumbs for you to follow your interests. I’m 2024, I’ll celebrate 20 years of blogging. You can also find lots of free articles I’ve published in various magazines if you search my name at Christianity Today, Sojourners, and Wineskins. I wrote many book reviews for Publishers Weekly some years back but most of the reviews are not named reviews for sake of objectivity.
Very much needed to hear this. Thank you Greg Taylor. Thanks for putting it into context for me. Thanks to Tim Herbel for pointing me to this website. Thanks to my precious cousin, a missionary in Africa and his wife also helping clear up this issue for me. Praise God!!!! I wish more Christians would remember ‘context’ of scripture is essential in understanding. As is our own study of the Bible and prayer.
Thank you, Nancy. If context wasn’t important, we’d be advocating for some pretty weird stuff throughout the Bible (if we had to take *everything* at face value with no reference to context). Someone might say, “Well, who’s the arbiter of what’s face value, what has special context?” First, the Bible needs to continue to be read in communities, where we can discern together. Second, we need to return to prayer over Scripture, asking the Holy Spirit to show us and give us wisdom according to James 1. Third, we need to remember we hold opinions with humility and these opinions don’t always have the same weight as the matters of faith, such as God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, the Bible as inspired word of God, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ and following his teachings. Even Christ’s teachings, such as the Sermon on the Mount, are hard teachings and need discernment in communities, prayer, living them out as faithfully as we know how. Big thing is we can’t cop out of following them because they are hard to understand. Finally, I’d say we keep all under the love commands of loving God and loving others. As Jesus said, all the law and the prophets hang on these two great commands.