tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post5933329250886564009..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: In Praise of Lottie MoonLKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-63201481283689900622019-10-07T10:51:46.809-05:002019-10-07T10:51:46.809-05:00Thank you. Leroy, for this post. Lottie Moon's...Thank you. Leroy, for this post. Lottie Moon's empowering life's story has always been compelling to me. We are yet overwhelmed by the Spirit-led fortitude of women and men who have responded to God's invitation to be Kingdom leaders. A couple of years ago The Baptist Home Foundation, whom I have served for several years now, was able to invest in the eldercare ministry of a local church ninety miles from the North Korean border inside China. One day we will be able to hear for ourselves the stories from Lottie and the people at Wei Tang church and others who yet serve under dire circumstances. Our thanks to you and June for your own lifetime commitment to Christ.Roger Hatfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08670218859526015131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-79417833705012241212012-12-27T19:49:13.068-06:002012-12-27T19:49:13.068-06:00Here are comments from Thinking Friend Anton Jacob...Here are comments from Thinking Friend Anton Jacobs. (I am sorry that he had trouble posting these comments directly here, and I hear that others also have the same difficulty; I don't know how to remedy the problem at this point--other than for people to send me their comments by e-mail, which Anton did.)<br /><br />"Lottie Moon reminds me of the many progressive Catholics I know who continue to work in the church despite the fact that, except for some of its socially progressive views, it continues to promote practices to which they are completely opposed. <br /><br />"I often wonder whether remaining in such an environment is wise. (After all, Lottie Moon could have been an ordained minister in the Congregational Church.) I did not remain in the SBC because I experienced it as so stifling, and, since I went to a non-Baptist seminary, I would have probably been largely ineligible anyway to pastor a SBC church. <br /><br />"That being said, and apart from weighing the practical wisdom of working in a more restrictive environment vs. a more liberating one, I admire the tenacity with which some folk remain in such circumstances, even pushing for reform that may never occur but almost certainly won't without the stalwart efforts of insiders."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-27131182233746535482012-12-26T17:03:50.215-06:002012-12-26T17:03:50.215-06:00Thanks for your comments, Susan.
And I find it ir...Thanks for your comments, Susan.<br /><br />And I find it ironic that she is still regarded so highly by a denomination that would most likely not appoint her now, if she were to apply holding the same beliefs that she held back then.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-70892209613700628502012-12-26T17:01:43.360-06:002012-12-26T17:01:43.360-06:00Susan Miller, a local Thinking Friend who has done...Susan Miller, a local Thinking Friend who has done "paid religious work," sent the following comments by e-mail, and I post them here with her permission:<br /><br />"Thank you for posting this. I have always respected Lottie and been impressed that she was held in such high regard by those who did not hold women preachers in any regard. She is not only a saint, but a hero!"LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.com