Tomorrow is PresWIC (a gathering of the Women In the Church from all of the different churches in our Presbytery), and I’m really looking forward to attending.

I am particularly looking forward to seeing Barbara Thompson again.

While we were at the leadership training conference in Atlanta, she and Susan Hunt and I spent time talking about the importance of friendships between older women and younger women, and how both can of encouragement to one another.
They were both very interested in Great Godly Girls.

In the book, “The Legacy of Biblical Womanhood” (Hey – no one has reviewed this book at Amazon.. will have to submit one! ;-)), which was co-authored by Hunt and Thompson, you’ll read in Chapter 1: “The Call – A Legacy of Grace” their admittance of their differences. After all, Thompson was a “liberal feminist social worker before becoming a Biblical counselor”.

They really struggled to write the book, and their differences were at first a stumbling block. It was refreshing to stand there, just the three of us, and listen as they openly talked about their conflict, and how they trusted in God – and were not fearful – and were willing to allow their conflict to be open and laid bare before God and the World, so as to be an encouragement to others and ultimately glorify God. Their genuineness and openness makes this book even more real to the reader – not just as a theoretical how-to-book on developing relationships in the covenant community, but as an example that it can be done.

From p. 15, “I realized that… we both have strengths and weaknesses, and we need to figure out how to blend them to accomplish this particular task. Susan and I realized in a fresh way the wonder of Christ glorifying Himself through an unlikely relationship between two sisters united by Him, in Him, and for Him… We could not believe that it took such struggling to see what should have been obvious. We were stopped in our tracks. Even when we know the theological concept of covenant, we are easily ensnared in the trap of individualism. God simply would not allow us to function that way… This is a relational book, and it had to be written out of the context of a relationship. It took about twice as long, but we’re not complaining…To
personalize Romans 15:5-6: The God of endurance and encouragement granted us to live and write in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus, that together with one voice, we glorify God and the Father or our Lord Jesus Christ. And the relationship? A little taxed but a lot tighter-the covenant way.”

Encouraging huh?

“I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe; I am more accepted and loved than I ever dared hope”