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WTF: Duncan Williams Says Women Should Be Grateful When Men Propose to Them Because We Are NOTHING

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Is there a body that regulates churches in Ghana? Make that Africa. Is there a body that regulates churches in Africa? Because the rot is deep!

It’s only in Africa you find out that the black man knows more about God and the bible than the Europeans who brought it to us. Sometimes I look upon the state of religion in Africa and I cannot help but congratulate the white man. He knew exactly how to keep us in chains no matter how much independence we have.

I once wrote an article here in lamentation of our worship of pastors. Yuups, we do not worship God anymore in Africa. We worship pastors because we are so devoted to pastors that we cannot question them. If you do, you go straight to the brainwashed firing squad of millions of people. Pastors can stand up in church with the nerve to do anything because you know what? They themselves know they are untouchable.

So often you will find the ‘sheeple’ gather and obediently listen to, defend and obey the ‘man of God’

Which of you ever watched the recorded South African pastors who made their congregation drink petrol because they claimed the pastor had turned it into apple juice? (Jesus mpo nfanihu). Sagaa!

Anyway, to the hot topic of today that has set me out on this rant, Duncan Williams said, women must realise that when a man proposes to them, it is a privilege. Because no matter how beautiful or intelligent you are, you will ‘’Rot’’ with it.

Where are my beautiful, intelligent women? Are you listening? You are nothing until a man does you this huge marriage favour.

He said, “It’s a privilege to be married. It’s a privilege in the time we live in when it’s seven [women] to one man’’

“Sister when you get married, be thankful and stop misbehaving because it’s seven to one. It doesn’t matter how pretty and beautiful and intelligent you are; until a man proposes to you, you are going to stay beautiful, pretty, intelligent, nice and whatever, and rotten”.

“That’s what it is, and somebody needs to tell you because there [are] so many women out there misbehaving. You got to be told the truth. And the reason why a lot of marriages are not working is because everybody is afraid to offend women to tell them: ‘Come on girl, you got a good thing going, hold fast onto it, don’t misbehave and don’t lose it’”.

“And somebody says: ‘How about the men?’ They got issues too but you see, the fact of the matter is that a man can be 100 years old and marry again if he ‘moves’. A man can be 100 years and marry if he can ‘drive’. But a woman just can’t get married at a particular age. [It] gets to a place [where] everything begins to melt and you can’t marry just because you want to marry”,

“It is what it is, and sometimes we don’t want to hear the truth. We get offended when the truth is said, but I have come to a place [where] I tell people that I have lost my reputation a long time ago, and so it doesn’t really matter whether you like me or you don’t like me, and I don’t preach to impress people anymore. I stopped doing that a long time ago. I deliver what I’m told to deliver, and whether you receive it or not is none of my business; it’s your business”, he said.

He said all these during service at his church on Sunday per StarrFm’s report. I am not going to lay him on blast because honestly, this is one man I usually feel sorry for.

Today however, I feel sorry for all the women in his life who have to endure his kind of sexist, bigoted reasoning. Especially those women who will support and defend him even if he asked them to go home and lay down for their husbands to walk when they get up every day.



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49 thoughts on “WTF: Duncan Williams Says Women Should Be Grateful When Men Propose to Them Because We Are NOTHING”

  1. This man eh. Sometimes I wonder if some men of God fear God. If you really fear the God you are preaching about to people, you would understand the value of women..

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    • You guys are sheepishly jumping into conclusion without paying attention to the fact of the matter. Duncan Williams was just trying to make a point about how successful women misbehave in marriages. He was stating what the Bible has said concerning how a time will come when women will rush men because there are few of them to marry. And using that as an example to advice women to behave and submit to their husbands.

      Most of you guys are young with no experience. Duncan Williams is dealing with marriage problems 24/7 and so he knows exactly what he is talking about.

      Seriously, i’ve watched the video on YouTube and I see nothing wrong with what the pastor said. He was quoted out of context by the online report and he is just being bashed for nothing. I have never be a fan of him but this time he is just being vilified for the truth he told.

      I suggest the little arrogant fat girl Lydia Forson should simply just shut up.

      Reply
  2. This man eh. Sometimes I wonder if some men of God fear God. If you really fear the God you are preaching about to people, you would understand the value of women..

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    • You guys are sheepishly jumping into conclusion without paying attention to the fact of the matter. Duncan Williams was just trying to make a point about how successful women misbehave in marriages. He was stating what the Bible has said concerning how a time will come when women will rush men because there are few of them to marry. And using that as an example to advice women to behave and submit to their husbands.

      Most of you guys are young with no experience. Duncan Williams is dealing with marriage problems 24/7 and so he knows exactly what he is talking about.

      Seriously, i’ve watched the video on YouTube and I see nothing wrong with what the pastor said. He was quoted out of context by the online report and he is just being bashed for nothing. I have never be a fan of him but this time he is just being vilified for the truth he told.

      I suggest the little arrogant fat girl Lydia Forson should simply just shut up.

      Reply
  3. Duncan Williams said what? Has he soon forgotten about the story of; Esther, Ruth, Hagar, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah and Hannah- and all the significant roles they played in the Bible? These women were not described as non entities. They are role models. And their stories inspired and touched the lives of many Christians. Galatians 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

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    • Daniel the man D-W is in the reverse mode. he has not forgotten about women who are role models in the bible; he simply does not know them as all he reads and knows about in the bible is the verses that mention tights, collections and affluence. I pity the fine women in his church I wonder how they feel by now. I think he is trying to kind of hit back at his former wife. Chief Charlatan!

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      • hahahahahahhaha…………… its all about the tithes and collections. LOL. I wonder if they even preach about repentance/salvation anymore.

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        • B.B. thanks for correcting the misspelling of tithes. I can’t comprehend the arrogance of this charlatan. this is a man who looked at his congregation and told them that none of them could ever afford the designer perfume he uses -VANITY- why? is his perfumed made of human blood? – maybe!! just thinking aloud!! – you never know to what extend these so called men of God could go to attract weak souls to their shrines.

          tweeeaaaa and people still listen to his nonesens preachings in the name of worshiping God. Judgement day awaits us all.

          Reply
  4. Duncan Williams said what? Has he soon forgotten about the story of; Esther, Ruth, Hagar, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, Leah and Hannah- and all the significant roles they played in the Bible? These women were not described as non entities. They are role models. And their stories inspired and touched the lives of many Christians. Galatians 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

    Reply
    • Daniel the man D-W is in the reverse mode. he has not forgotten about women who are role models in the bible; he simply does not know them as all he reads and knows about in the bible is the verses that mention tights, collections and affluence. I pity the fine women in his church I wonder how they feel by now. I think he is trying to kind of hit back at his former wife. Chief Charlatan!

      Reply
      • hahahahahahhaha…………… its all about the tithes and collections. LOL. I wonder if they even preach about repentance/salvation anymore.

        Reply
        • B.B. thanks for correcting the misspelling of tithes. I can’t comprehend the arrogance of this charlatan. this is a man who looked at his congregation and told them that none of them could ever afford the designer perfume he uses -VANITY- why? is his perfumed made of human blood? – maybe!! just thinking aloud!! – you never know to what extend these so called men of God could go to attract weak souls to their shrines.

          tweeeaaaa and people still listen to his nonesens preachings in the name of worshiping God. Judgement day awaits us all.

          Reply
  5. he’s just an ignorant, sexist power crazed fake “man of God” who needs attention. it is sad that people actually look up to such an ignorant person. And since the ratio is 7:1 he should have let his daughters marry a man with 6 wives so they will be the seventh. if it works for his kids then he can come and explain this nonsense again.

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  6. he’s just an ignorant, sexist power crazed fake “man of God” who needs attention. it is sad that people actually look up to such an ignorant person. And since the ratio is 7:1 he should have let his daughters marry a man with 6 wives so they will be the seventh. if it works for his kids then he can come and explain this nonsense again.

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  7. waaoooo, I just listened to the audio on asempa FM, and it sounded real GROSS, insensitive and trashy than the written version, I had to switch off the radio cos KABA kept playing it and it irritated me. somebody pls tell me the educational level of this charlatan.

    KABA played the audio after the famous sound bit of Dag Heward-Mills. I have the impression that DW wanted to say something that will overshadow what Dag HM preached about a month ago. if that is what he aimed at, then I would like to remind him that what Dag said about marriage made a lot more sense, intelligent, advising and was on point and many couple would identify with it. compare to the trash that he Duncan William vomited to his congregation. but i man not that surprise cos Dag is a well educated man and not some kind of religious cooked PhD title holder. Chief Charlatan.

    Lydia Forson thanks for the reply you gave to DW, it was well said. Very proud of you.

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  8. waaoooo, I just listened to the audio on asempa FM, and it sounded real GROSS, insensitive and trashy than the written version, I had to switch off the radio cos KABA kept playing it and it irritated me. somebody pls tell me the educational level of this charlatan.

    KABA played the audio after the famous sound bit of Dag Heward-Mills. I have the impression that DW wanted to say something that will overshadow what Dag HM preached about a month ago. if that is what he aimed at, then I would like to remind him that what Dag said about marriage made a lot more sense, intelligent, advising and was on point and many couple would identify with it. compare to the trash that he Duncan William vomited to his congregation. but i man not that surprise cos Dag is a well educated man and not some kind of religious cooked PhD title holder. Chief Charlatan.

    Lydia Forson thanks for the reply you gave to DW, it was well said. Very proud of you.

    Reply
  9. His message is for the spiritually discerning not for corruptibles. Carnal minded people will insult and Castigate Dr. But truth be told its a simple religious truth. I ask a simple question? Where does the pride of a woman lie. Is it in the unbridled fact she is married to a man. All others are appendages to it. A woman is reduced to ashes if she marries not. It is a spiritual law not carnal.

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  10. His message is for the spiritually discerning not for corruptibles. Carnal minded people will insult and Castigate Dr. But truth be told its a simple religious truth. I ask a simple question? Where does the pride of a woman lie. Is it in the unbridled fact she is married to a man. All others are appendages to it. A woman is reduced to ashes if she marries not. It is a spiritual law not carnal.

    Reply
  11. sexist, in others words he is encouraging the men to treat their women like dirt,like they did us a favour by marrying us,smh,I heard him say women should loose weight ,has he lost that big pot belly in front of him ,if that pot belly was on top of me he would have suffocated me smh look who is preaching marriage and weight lose ,if he treated his wife right they wouldn’t have divorced .coward.

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    • You are cursed for insulting the man of God. Whats wrong with loosing weight , are u offended because u are obese? Ghanaians hate their own but patronises others

      Reply
    • Take it easy…You guys are sheepishly jumping into conclusion without paying attention to the fact of the matter. Duncan Williams was just trying to make a point about how successful women misbehave in marriages. He was stating what the Bible has said concerning how a time will come when women will rush men because there are few of them to marry. And using that as an example to advice women to behave and submit to their husbands.

      Most of you guys are young with no experience. Duncan Williams is dealing with marriage problems 24/7 and so he knows exactly what he is talking about.

      Seriously, i’ve watched the video on YouTube and I see nothing wrong with what the pastor said. He was quoted out of context by the online report and he is just being bashed for nothing. I have never be a fan of him but this time he is just being vilified for the truth he told.

      I suggest the little arrogant fat girl Lydia Forson should simply just shut up.

      Reply
  12. sexist, in others words he is encouraging the men to treat their women like dirt,like they did us a favour by marrying us,smh,I heard him say women should loose weight ,has he lost that big pot belly in front of him ,if that pot belly was on top of me he would have suffocated me smh look who is preaching marriage and weight lose ,if he treated his wife right they wouldn’t have divorced .coward.

    Reply
    • You are cursed for insulting the man of God. Whats wrong with loosing weight , are u offended because u are obese? Ghanaians hate their own but patronises others

      Reply
    • Take it easy…You guys are sheepishly jumping into conclusion without paying attention to the fact of the matter. Duncan Williams was just trying to make a point about how successful women misbehave in marriages. He was stating what the Bible has said concerning how a time will come when women will rush men because there are few of them to marry. And using that as an example to advice women to behave and submit to their husbands.

      Most of you guys are young with no experience. Duncan Williams is dealing with marriage problems 24/7 and so he knows exactly what he is talking about.

      Seriously, i’ve watched the video on YouTube and I see nothing wrong with what the pastor said. He was quoted out of context by the online report and he is just being bashed for nothing. I have never be a fan of him but this time he is just being vilified for the truth he told.

      I suggest the little arrogant fat girl Lydia Forson should simply just shut up.

      Reply
  13. Let us all learn from the greatest master.

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28).

    ‘The question before us then is “How does Jesus minister to women?” The most striking thing about the role of women in the life and teaching of Jesus is the simple fact that they are there.31 He ministered to women and treated each one as a person.32

    With great insight Dorothy Sayers said about Jesus: “They [women] had never known a man like this Man—there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized…who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for the, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious.”33 Both in his teaching and in his activities, Jesus reached out to women as persons who were equally worthy as men in his saving activity.

    We see in the gospels that Jesus treated women with incredible respect. A classic passage in this regard is Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman.34 This is a remarkable exchange, since Jesus was not only interacting with a Samaritan, a member of a race that was despised by Jews,35 but also a woman. And Jesus’ conversation with this woman is probably the most profound discussion of theology in the gospels. Women were not encouraged to have interaction with male strangers.36

    But Jesus went beyond the cultural ethnic and gender barriers and treated her as a person who was worth his offer of the living water of eternal life.37 He didn’t treat her in reference to what others said about her, her accomplishments or possessions, and he didn’t deal with her based on her appearance. He establishes through this woman that whoever accepts his offer of living water, that person will receive it. The woman saw the barrier as ethnic,38 whereas the disciples returned and made an issue of gender.39 But for Jesus, gender and ethnicity are irrelevant in his offer of salvation.

    She comes to the well at noonday, the hottest hour of the day, which whispers a rumor of her reputation. The other women come at dusk, a cooler, more comfortable hour. They come not only to draw water, but to take off their veils and slip out from under the thumb of a male-dominated society. They come for companionship, to talk, to laugh, and to barter gossip—much of which centers around this woman. So shunned by these women, she braves the sun’s scorn. Accusing thoughts are her only companions as she ponders the futile road her life has traveled. She’s looked for love in all the wrong places, going from one dead-end relationship to another. For her, marriage has been a retreating mirage. Again and again she has returned to the matrimonial well, hoping to draw from it something to quench her thirst for love and happiness. But again and again, she has left that well disappointed.

    And so, under the weight of such thoughts she comes to Jacob’s well, her empty water jar a telling symbol of her life. As her eyes meet the Savior’s, he sees within her a cavernous aching, a cistern in her soul that will forever remain empty unless he fills it. And there she meets Jesus.40

    This encounter shows to all women that regardless of past mistakes, hurts, pain, and failures Jesus wants to fill women with his love because women are people intrinsically whom he values. Every woman is created in his image, a daughter of Eve, and he offers the greatest ministry ever; cleansing, forgiveness, hope, meaning, significance, and a life of power and purpose.

    During another encounter with a woman, Jesus made a radical statement of value to the hypocritical religious leaders that were standing around. Luke recounts a narrative in which, in a synagogue one Sabbath, Jesus heals a woman crippled for eighteen years by a demonic spirit.41 The head of the synagogue protests Jesus’ performance of a healing on the Sabbath, but neither the woman’s presence is the synagogue nor her subsequent praise of God in response to her cure evokes any comment. Jesus showed his regard for her by calling her a “daughter of Abraham,” a term which is paralleled to Zacchaeus, who later will be called a “son of Abraham.”42 Both are God’s chosen people and heirs of the promises to Abraham, so both equally deserve the spiritual status and salvation guaranteed Abraham’s descendants. As Jesus offered salvation and healing to the people, women were equally worthy of his full-orbed ministry.

    It has already been expressed that as people we have a need to belong, to feel worthy and to feel competent.43 Observe how these needs are satisfied in the manner in which Jesus dealt with women in the New Testament.44

    1. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Spiritual Capabilities

    He engaged in spiritual conversation. He talked to women about God, reality, and issues that count for eternity. To the woman at the well Jesus gives the most profound discourse in Scripture on the subject of worship. That God is spirit and that worship is not an approach of the body to a church, but an approach of the soul to the spirit of God. That was a cutting revelation to one who has lived so much of her life in the realm of the physical rather than the spiritual. In their spiritual conversation this stranger (Jesus) was first simply “a Jew”…then “Sir”…then “a prophet.” Finally she sees him for who he really is—”Messiah.” And in that moment of spiritual perception, she lives to tell his good news to the city that has both shared her and shunned her.

    When Jesus was teaching about discipleship Matthew recalls, “And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”45 Women are here included as disciples. Obedience to the will of the Father was the hallmark of Jesus’ disciples, whatever the gender. Women are granted the status of being active full-fledged followers of Christ.46

    In the Judaism of Jesus’ day, discipleship was oriented toward acquiring particular skills in the religious arena and therefore was primarily restricted to men.47 But Jesus’ form of discipleship is instead oriented toward transformation of the person’s life to be like him.

    We also see Jesus’ appreciation of women’s spiritual capabilities in that it was a women (Mary Magdalene) who was first to receive news of His resurrection and then she was given the honored position of telling the disciples.48 She is a woman who was once possessed by demons and at the empty tomb she finds herself in the presence of angels. She is despondent and she tells them the reason for her tears. Then, from behind, another voice reaches out to her. Maybe the morning is foggy; maybe tears blur her eyes. Maybe Jesus is the last person she expects to see. Whatever the case, she doesn’t recognize him. That is, until he says, “Mary!” She blinks away the tears and can hardly believe her eyes. She had been there when he suffered at the cross; now he is there when she is suffering. She had stood by him in his darkest hour; now he is standing by her in hers. He had seen her tears; now he is there to wipe them all away.49

    Jesus interrupts the embrace to send her on a great commission—to tell the disciples the good news. In his triumph, Jesus could have paraded through the streets of Jerusalem. He could have knocked on Pilate’s door. He could have confronted the high priest. But the first person our resurrected lord appears to is a woman without hope and he gives her a ministry.

    2. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Intellectual Capabilities.

    While there were conflicting attitudes about the education of women among the rabbis,50 there was no confusion with Jesus. We’ve already seen Him instructing the woman at the well about spiritual truth. Not only did Jesus talk with women, he also taught them. She was the first person to whom he revealed he was the Messiah.

    As Jesus and the Twelve disciples were traveling, they were invited into the home of Mary and Martha. While Martha was busy with the preparations for the guests, Mary was “listening to the Lord’s word, seated at his feet.”51 Three times in Scripture, when we observe Mary (sister of Martha and Lazarus) she is sitting at the feet of Jesus.52 This is the traditional posture of a learner, a student, and a disciple.53 What is of critical importance is the fact that Jesus would be willing to sit in conversation with women in such a manner, or that he might have instructed them privately as a rabbi might instruct a promising student. Jesus valued her enough to teach her and her physical posture reflects the posture of her heart — humble, reverent, and teachable — all the qualities of a good disciple. What Martha was cooking in the kitchen will be gone in a meal, but what’s being prepared in the other room with Mary is eternal and will go on forever.54 Jesus doesn’t want food, he wants fellowship. Jesus desires that all believers think, grow, learn and He is an equal opportunity teacher to both men and women. It is interesting to observe that often in his teaching Jesus would use a pairing of men and women and of illustrations from both a man’s world and a woman’s world to communicate the truth being taught.55

    3. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Abilities to Serve.

    Women participated in the ministry of Jesus, accompanying him in his travels. Luke mentions a number of women by name that were part of the entourage which followed Jesus.56 On a number of occasions they gave public testimony to Jesus’ ministry. A woman who needed healing from a bleeding hemorrhage touched his garment and was healed, and Jesus paid attention to her and Scripture says, “…she came trembling and fell down before him, and declared in the presence of all the people the why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.”57

    In Luke 7:36-50 and John 12:1-11 Jesus was anointed by women which means he received worship and adoration from them. There is no greater service to Jesus than worship,58 and they served him through their worship.

    We see Jesus appreciate one woman’s act of service at the end of a weeklong prelude to His last Passover. He had road into town to the crowd singing hosanna and everything had gone downhill from there. After a lot of confrontation, Jesus was able to lose himself in the holiday crowd and he finds a quiet place on a bench opposite the temple treasury. For a change, all eyes are not on him. Instead, they are on the 12 trumpet-shaped coffers where people are filing by to deposit their offerings. Standing among them is a woman who is a widow.59 There is a place for widows in the ancient Jewish world, but it is not a place of importance, like the priest’s. It is not a place of influence, like the merchant’s. It is a place with orphans and transients.60 A dependent place with little income and barely surviving. The place she’s at now is the treasury, where she’s standing in line with the little she has left palmed in her hand; two copper coins. The smallest offering the temple allowed. And there she waits, quietly, patiently, until it is her time to give.

    Jesus sees her standing there and he waves over his disciples so they can see her, too. The coins in her hand are so small and thin that when she drops them in the coffers, they don’t even clink. Heaven heard the sound, but on earth it fell on deaf ears…even the disciples, but this day Jesus makes sure they hear. And 2000 years later the service of this poor widow is still being talked about in lessons, lectures and literature.61 What a remarkable thing! Jesus stopped and noticed this act of service. He took such pleasure in so small a gesture. She served by giving. All that she had she gave. Her gift may not have meant a lot to the ministry of the temple, but it meant a lot to God. That is why the Savior, on his way to the costliest of sacrifices, stopped to honor this woman’s sacrificial act of service.

    Whenever ministry is spoken of in the New Testament as being rendered directly to Jesus, it is the ministry of either angels or women. In the earthly life of Jesus we see women who glorified Jesus through their domestic responsibilities with which they ministered to him.62 The key word in “ministry” is “service.” And again Jesus is the supreme example. Jesus’ entire redemptive purpose for coming to earth is encapsulated in Mark 10:45, “For even the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

    The question we began with was, “How does Jesus minister to women?” The answer is, “really good!” He came to serve. We see his service to women through talk, through teaching, through touch, and through thankful praise for their faith. As we all have a need to belong, feel worthy, and feel competent, we see that Jesus brings dignity, value, and worth to women and their roles of service as “daughters of God.”

    https://bible.org/article/how-

    Are prayers being hindered because husbands are not honouring their wives .
    New Living Translation 1 peter 3:7 .
    In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.

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  14. Let us all learn from the greatest master.

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28).

    ‘The question before us then is “How does Jesus minister to women?” The most striking thing about the role of women in the life and teaching of Jesus is the simple fact that they are there.31 He ministered to women and treated each one as a person.32

    With great insight Dorothy Sayers said about Jesus: “They [women] had never known a man like this Man—there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronized…who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for the, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious.”33 Both in his teaching and in his activities, Jesus reached out to women as persons who were equally worthy as men in his saving activity.

    We see in the gospels that Jesus treated women with incredible respect. A classic passage in this regard is Jesus’ interaction with the Samaritan woman.34 This is a remarkable exchange, since Jesus was not only interacting with a Samaritan, a member of a race that was despised by Jews,35 but also a woman. And Jesus’ conversation with this woman is probably the most profound discussion of theology in the gospels. Women were not encouraged to have interaction with male strangers.36

    But Jesus went beyond the cultural ethnic and gender barriers and treated her as a person who was worth his offer of the living water of eternal life.37 He didn’t treat her in reference to what others said about her, her accomplishments or possessions, and he didn’t deal with her based on her appearance. He establishes through this woman that whoever accepts his offer of living water, that person will receive it. The woman saw the barrier as ethnic,38 whereas the disciples returned and made an issue of gender.39 But for Jesus, gender and ethnicity are irrelevant in his offer of salvation.

    She comes to the well at noonday, the hottest hour of the day, which whispers a rumor of her reputation. The other women come at dusk, a cooler, more comfortable hour. They come not only to draw water, but to take off their veils and slip out from under the thumb of a male-dominated society. They come for companionship, to talk, to laugh, and to barter gossip—much of which centers around this woman. So shunned by these women, she braves the sun’s scorn. Accusing thoughts are her only companions as she ponders the futile road her life has traveled. She’s looked for love in all the wrong places, going from one dead-end relationship to another. For her, marriage has been a retreating mirage. Again and again she has returned to the matrimonial well, hoping to draw from it something to quench her thirst for love and happiness. But again and again, she has left that well disappointed.

    And so, under the weight of such thoughts she comes to Jacob’s well, her empty water jar a telling symbol of her life. As her eyes meet the Savior’s, he sees within her a cavernous aching, a cistern in her soul that will forever remain empty unless he fills it. And there she meets Jesus.40

    This encounter shows to all women that regardless of past mistakes, hurts, pain, and failures Jesus wants to fill women with his love because women are people intrinsically whom he values. Every woman is created in his image, a daughter of Eve, and he offers the greatest ministry ever; cleansing, forgiveness, hope, meaning, significance, and a life of power and purpose.

    During another encounter with a woman, Jesus made a radical statement of value to the hypocritical religious leaders that were standing around. Luke recounts a narrative in which, in a synagogue one Sabbath, Jesus heals a woman crippled for eighteen years by a demonic spirit.41 The head of the synagogue protests Jesus’ performance of a healing on the Sabbath, but neither the woman’s presence is the synagogue nor her subsequent praise of God in response to her cure evokes any comment. Jesus showed his regard for her by calling her a “daughter of Abraham,” a term which is paralleled to Zacchaeus, who later will be called a “son of Abraham.”42 Both are God’s chosen people and heirs of the promises to Abraham, so both equally deserve the spiritual status and salvation guaranteed Abraham’s descendants. As Jesus offered salvation and healing to the people, women were equally worthy of his full-orbed ministry.

    It has already been expressed that as people we have a need to belong, to feel worthy and to feel competent.43 Observe how these needs are satisfied in the manner in which Jesus dealt with women in the New Testament.44

    1. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Spiritual Capabilities

    He engaged in spiritual conversation. He talked to women about God, reality, and issues that count for eternity. To the woman at the well Jesus gives the most profound discourse in Scripture on the subject of worship. That God is spirit and that worship is not an approach of the body to a church, but an approach of the soul to the spirit of God. That was a cutting revelation to one who has lived so much of her life in the realm of the physical rather than the spiritual. In their spiritual conversation this stranger (Jesus) was first simply “a Jew”…then “Sir”…then “a prophet.” Finally she sees him for who he really is—”Messiah.” And in that moment of spiritual perception, she lives to tell his good news to the city that has both shared her and shunned her.

    When Jesus was teaching about discipleship Matthew recalls, “And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, he said, “Behold, my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”45 Women are here included as disciples. Obedience to the will of the Father was the hallmark of Jesus’ disciples, whatever the gender. Women are granted the status of being active full-fledged followers of Christ.46

    In the Judaism of Jesus’ day, discipleship was oriented toward acquiring particular skills in the religious arena and therefore was primarily restricted to men.47 But Jesus’ form of discipleship is instead oriented toward transformation of the person’s life to be like him.

    We also see Jesus’ appreciation of women’s spiritual capabilities in that it was a women (Mary Magdalene) who was first to receive news of His resurrection and then she was given the honored position of telling the disciples.48 She is a woman who was once possessed by demons and at the empty tomb she finds herself in the presence of angels. She is despondent and she tells them the reason for her tears. Then, from behind, another voice reaches out to her. Maybe the morning is foggy; maybe tears blur her eyes. Maybe Jesus is the last person she expects to see. Whatever the case, she doesn’t recognize him. That is, until he says, “Mary!” She blinks away the tears and can hardly believe her eyes. She had been there when he suffered at the cross; now he is there when she is suffering. She had stood by him in his darkest hour; now he is standing by her in hers. He had seen her tears; now he is there to wipe them all away.49

    Jesus interrupts the embrace to send her on a great commission—to tell the disciples the good news. In his triumph, Jesus could have paraded through the streets of Jerusalem. He could have knocked on Pilate’s door. He could have confronted the high priest. But the first person our resurrected lord appears to is a woman without hope and he gives her a ministry.

    2. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Intellectual Capabilities.

    While there were conflicting attitudes about the education of women among the rabbis,50 there was no confusion with Jesus. We’ve already seen Him instructing the woman at the well about spiritual truth. Not only did Jesus talk with women, he also taught them. She was the first person to whom he revealed he was the Messiah.

    As Jesus and the Twelve disciples were traveling, they were invited into the home of Mary and Martha. While Martha was busy with the preparations for the guests, Mary was “listening to the Lord’s word, seated at his feet.”51 Three times in Scripture, when we observe Mary (sister of Martha and Lazarus) she is sitting at the feet of Jesus.52 This is the traditional posture of a learner, a student, and a disciple.53 What is of critical importance is the fact that Jesus would be willing to sit in conversation with women in such a manner, or that he might have instructed them privately as a rabbi might instruct a promising student. Jesus valued her enough to teach her and her physical posture reflects the posture of her heart — humble, reverent, and teachable — all the qualities of a good disciple. What Martha was cooking in the kitchen will be gone in a meal, but what’s being prepared in the other room with Mary is eternal and will go on forever.54 Jesus doesn’t want food, he wants fellowship. Jesus desires that all believers think, grow, learn and He is an equal opportunity teacher to both men and women. It is interesting to observe that often in his teaching Jesus would use a pairing of men and women and of illustrations from both a man’s world and a woman’s world to communicate the truth being taught.55

    3. Jesus Appreciated Women’s Abilities to Serve.

    Women participated in the ministry of Jesus, accompanying him in his travels. Luke mentions a number of women by name that were part of the entourage which followed Jesus.56 On a number of occasions they gave public testimony to Jesus’ ministry. A woman who needed healing from a bleeding hemorrhage touched his garment and was healed, and Jesus paid attention to her and Scripture says, “…she came trembling and fell down before him, and declared in the presence of all the people the why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.”57

    In Luke 7:36-50 and John 12:1-11 Jesus was anointed by women which means he received worship and adoration from them. There is no greater service to Jesus than worship,58 and they served him through their worship.

    We see Jesus appreciate one woman’s act of service at the end of a weeklong prelude to His last Passover. He had road into town to the crowd singing hosanna and everything had gone downhill from there. After a lot of confrontation, Jesus was able to lose himself in the holiday crowd and he finds a quiet place on a bench opposite the temple treasury. For a change, all eyes are not on him. Instead, they are on the 12 trumpet-shaped coffers where people are filing by to deposit their offerings. Standing among them is a woman who is a widow.59 There is a place for widows in the ancient Jewish world, but it is not a place of importance, like the priest’s. It is not a place of influence, like the merchant’s. It is a place with orphans and transients.60 A dependent place with little income and barely surviving. The place she’s at now is the treasury, where she’s standing in line with the little she has left palmed in her hand; two copper coins. The smallest offering the temple allowed. And there she waits, quietly, patiently, until it is her time to give.

    Jesus sees her standing there and he waves over his disciples so they can see her, too. The coins in her hand are so small and thin that when she drops them in the coffers, they don’t even clink. Heaven heard the sound, but on earth it fell on deaf ears…even the disciples, but this day Jesus makes sure they hear. And 2000 years later the service of this poor widow is still being talked about in lessons, lectures and literature.61 What a remarkable thing! Jesus stopped and noticed this act of service. He took such pleasure in so small a gesture. She served by giving. All that she had she gave. Her gift may not have meant a lot to the ministry of the temple, but it meant a lot to God. That is why the Savior, on his way to the costliest of sacrifices, stopped to honor this woman’s sacrificial act of service.

    Whenever ministry is spoken of in the New Testament as being rendered directly to Jesus, it is the ministry of either angels or women. In the earthly life of Jesus we see women who glorified Jesus through their domestic responsibilities with which they ministered to him.62 The key word in “ministry” is “service.” And again Jesus is the supreme example. Jesus’ entire redemptive purpose for coming to earth is encapsulated in Mark 10:45, “For even the Son of man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

    The question we began with was, “How does Jesus minister to women?” The answer is, “really good!” He came to serve. We see his service to women through talk, through teaching, through touch, and through thankful praise for their faith. As we all have a need to belong, feel worthy, and feel competent, we see that Jesus brings dignity, value, and worth to women and their roles of service as “daughters of God.”

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    Are prayers being hindered because husbands are not honouring their wives .
    New Living Translation 1 peter 3:7 .
    In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.

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  15. You are spiritually uneducated! Go and STUDY yourself approved before you make such a statement. READ YOUR BIBLE AND I PRAY THAT GOD GIVES YOU WISDOM. HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.

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