Dinner Conversation

Joey, Kaelee, and I ate supper with a couple (John and Liz) from our church on Saturday. We had a great time and John is even going take us to London next Saturday!! Kaelee and I can't wait for the shopping!!! haha Anyways...I want to talk about some of the conversation we had. While we were eating John ask us some questions about what we believe. One of the first questions he asked was about a woman's role in the church. We told him that we believe that women should not be in the role of a pastor. He thought that that was really bizarre. I think he thought that we think that women are lower than men and they have no right to speak but that's not it. We think that men and women are equal but we believe that God designed them to have different roles. It is hard because we don't want to offend them, but isn't the truth sometimes offensive? I just didn't really know what to say and I was a little thrown off. I wish I would have been more prepared for something like that. After we discussed many things like this, John preceded to ask ME why I was a Christian. My heart dropped. I then just shared my testimony with him, but it just didn't seem like enough. I am beginning to see why I must search and know what I believe and why i believe it! I can't quit thinking about the conversation we had with them. I also want to make sure that the issue of a woman's role is important enough to actually talk about or not. It's hard to know what battle I should be fighting. I need the wisdom to know I should be doing! So I tell you all this because I need prayer! I am really struggling with this. There are more things that John didn't agree with about what we believe and he also thought that us being married so young was bizarre. He used that word "bizarre" a lot! So please pray that Joey and I would have the wisdom to know which battles to fight!


We love you all!!
Brooke