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While I am working on my next post about the spiritual gifts and the place of the Pastor, I would like to link to one more blog post this time by Pastor Paul Burleson.\u00a0 Lin brought attention to this wonderful article about the importance of God’s message over the messenger, called “The foolishness of Preaching<\/a><\/strong>“.\u00a0 I think there is really good wisdom here regarding the hard passages of scripture on the women’s issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I am working on my next post about the spiritual gifts and the place of the Pastor, I would like to link to one more blog post this time by Pastor Paul Burleson.\u00a0 Lin brought attention to this wonderful article about the importance of God’s message over the messenger, called “The foolishness of Preaching“.\u00a0 I think there is really good wisdom here regarding the hard passages of scripture on the women’s issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe priority of the message over the messenger - Women in Ministry<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The priority of the message over the messenger - Women in Ministry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"While I am working on my next post about the spiritual gifts and the place of the Pastor, I would like to link to one more blog post this time by Pastor Paul Burleson.\u00a0 Lin brought attention to this wonderful article about the importance of God’s message over the messenger, called “The foolishness of Preaching“.\u00a0 I think there is really good wisdom here regarding the hard passages of scripture on the women’s issue.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Women in Ministry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-09-08T22:41:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Cheryl Schatz\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Cheryl Schatz\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/\",\"name\":\"The priority of the message over the messenger - Women in Ministry\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2007-09-08T22:41:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2007-09-08T22:41:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/#\/schema\/person\/d7a33503fddaf9e8c392972b2801441a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/2007\/09\/08\/the-priority-of-the-message-over-the-messenger\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The priority of the message over the messenger\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mmoutreach.org\/wim\/\",\"name\":\"Women in Ministry\",\"description\":\"This blog is for dialogue on the issue of women in ministry and the freedom for women to teach the bible in a public setting. 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