Hot Take - Bible Studies

Written 8 December 2018, 11.40pm.

Let me just say something.

The Gospel is the same for both men and women (and non-binary people, but I'm not getting into that discussion today).

I hate this culture of 'women's Bible studies.' Are we not intelligent enough to attend a 'real' Bible study? Why is there this need to direct women off the 'real' Bible studies to a rabbit trail with flowers and fancy script and (barely) grown-up equivalents of 'girl power' slogans? I know men and women are different on a lot of different levels, but why do I get the sense that women are getting a watered-down Gospel fortified with word faith? Why is 'women's ministry' a whole entire separate subculture of North American Christianity? Yes, there are things that tend to affect women more than men -- homemaking, child-rearing. But honestly that's a fairly limited part of the female population nowadays. What about your professional businesswomen? Your firefighting/police force women? Your single twentysomething women who don't have a husband or children to worry about? Your senior women whose children are all long out of the house? Your artistic women trying to create stuff on par with a Terry Scott Taylor but told they can't because it's 'too personal'?

People -- men, non-binary people, AND women have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Why then do men get to hear a real gospel from the actual Bible and dig deeply into all that it means for the way they live their everyday lives, while women only get a feel-good devotional reading that, for many of us, has little actual bearing on our actual lives and potential and gifting?

If your God is too weak to help this passionately artistic woman that you say He Himself created, I don't know why you think I should bother with Him.