WOMEN IN SENIOR LEADERSHIP
WOMEN IN SENIOR LEADERSHIP
“I will pour out the Holy Spirit on ALL flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy”
IMAGINE CHURCH BELIEVES IN WOMEN!
IMAGINE CHURCH BELIEVES IN WOMEN!
Imagine Church Global is a part of a Denomination of churches called The Foursquare Church. The Foursquare Church was started over 100 years ago in 1923 and is made up of almost 100,000 churches + ministries in over 150 countries around the world. One of the unique qualities of The Foursquare Church is that it was started by a woman named Aimee Semple McPherson.
Based on scriptural evidence and Biblical text, we believe that women can hold and succeed in any level of leadership in a local church, ministry or Christian organization. For example, Imagine’s co-founder and pastor, Janae Klatt is a licensed, ordained, called and gifted senior/lead pastor of our church.
For more information, we have listed several resources regarding the Biblical text that supports the Foursquare Distinctive: Empowering Leadership.
Women in Ministry Leadership Booklet
This resource was written by the Foursquare Doctrine Committee on the topic of women in senior ministry and leadership.
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Foursquare’s Beliefs + Global Distinctives
If you would like to read more about the beliefs and global distinctives of The Foursquare Denomination
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Foursquare.org
If you would like to learn more about the Foursquare Denomination and Angelus Temple (The first Foursquare Church)
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Additional resources and videos below
Women in Ministry Leadership Book by The Foursquare Church
Looking to learn more about Foursquare’s commitment to women in leadership?
This resource unpacks the scriptural basis, rationale and explanation behind The Foursquare Church’s commitment to release women, as equals to men, for godly leadership in Christ’s church, including as senior pastors and lead missionaries.
Join the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel’s doctrine committee (Pastors Jack Hayford, Jim Adams, John Mazariegos + Jim Scott) on this journey as the assemble and write about Foursquare’s stance on training, building up + releasing women into all levels of ministry and leadership.
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Counterpoints Series - Women in Ministry by Zondervan
Complementarian? Egalitarian? What do these words even mean? What do I believe?
This fair-minded, interactive Counterpoints forum allows you to compare and contrast the two different positions and form your own opinion concerning the practical and often deeply personal subject of women in ministry.
- Complementarian – men and women fill distinctive ministry roles (represented by Craig L. Blomberg and Thomas R. Schreiner
- Egalitarian – equal ministry opportunity for both genders (represented by Linda L. Belleville and Craig S. Keener)
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PASTOR JERRY DIRMANN
Pastor Jerry Dirmann is the creator of the world renown discipleship program: OSL (Operation Solid Lives) + Jesus Disciple. He is the founder of Solid Lives ministries and the Co-Pastor of The Rock Foursquare Church with his wife, Kimberly Dirmann. The Rock Foursquare Church is a global church with campuses and house churches with many women in all levels of leadership. Watch these videos with Pastor Jerry and learn more about the Biblical perspective on women in senior leadership.
OTHER RESOURCES…
Empowering women in senior leadership
Senior Pastor + Director of Foursquare Multiply (Foursquare’s Church Planting Movement), Russell Joyce and Theologian A.J. Swoboda take a look at how Foursquare empowers all people regardless of gender, geography, age or culture. This includes celebrating women in senior leadership, raising up local indigenous leaders, and recognizing those who have different gifts, whether old, young, son or daughter.
1 Timothy with Pastor Nate Poetzl
What does the Bible teach us about women in senior leadership? What does it mean to be “saved through childbearing”? Learn alongside Nate Poetzl, senior pastor of Faith Chapel Foursquare Church in Billings, Mont., as he unpacks the cultural context and biblical understanding of 1 Timothy 2:9-15. Pastor Nate is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors for The Foursquare Church.
PASTOR RICK WARREN ON PODCAST
Women Pastors + Saddleback Getting Kicked out of the SBC: Dr. Rick Warren
In this podcast conversation, Dr. Rick Warren explains why he shifted his view on women pastors and why he is standing by his convictions even when the SBC (Southern Baptist Convention) voted his church (Saddleback) out of the denomination.
Dr. Rick Warren was the pastor of Saddleback Church, one of the largest churches in the world, for over 40 years. He is also the author of many books including “The Purpose Driven Life”. Dr. Warren is now the executive director of “Finishing the Task” — a global network that exists to convene and to catalyze the global body of Christ.
After decades of being a part of the Southern Baptist Convention of Churches, Dr. Rick Warren has changed his stance and belief of women in senior leadership. After years of research and scriptural analysis, Pastor Rick, has openly confessed that his previous belief was misinterpreted and incorrect. Dr. Rick Warren is now a public ally of women in senior leadership, helping to teach and resource the Church with the theological foundation for this belief.
MALESTROM BOOK
Digging deeply into the stories of men in the Bible who subverted cultural hierarchies, Carolyn Custis James shows us how countercultural God’s design for men really is. Through personal story, biblical commentary, and cultural analysis, Custis James:
Makes a strong case for the unbiblical nature of patriarchy.
Illuminates the sociology of marginalization and cultural gender roles.
Takes a close biblical look at Jesus and what his character and humanity means to the men of the church today.
Malestrom offers what we so desperately need—a biblical, global, timeless vision of godly personhood that is big enough to encompass the diversity of men’s lives and strong enough to withstand the crises they face.
“It is one thing to critique the abuses of a domineering masculinity and lament the religious and societal consequences, but Carolyn Custis James takes the next crucial step and offers us a better path forward. For those asking, “What now?” Malestrom serves as a sure-footed guide.” —Kristin Kobes Du Mez