Women in Leadership. (My Convictions Paper)

Deborah, Naomi, Esther, names synonomous in the shaping of our Godly heritage. They were leaders. Many in the world today do not notice their importance, but they were great leaders just the same. "What made them great leaders?" you may ask. Past history, dominate personality traits, personal experiences, lifes circumsances? All these may be true, but one thing was in incommon with all of them. They were completely dependant on Jesus Christ for there every move. They relied on God everyday to be their strongtower and their were aware that without him, they would utterly fail.
Women in todays society have figured out that if they step out and stand on their own two feet and not let anyone get in their way, even if this includes stepping on others feet to get there, they can be powerful, strong, and be able to make a difference for the female race.
This statement is quite true, women can get many places,espeically in todays society. However, are these roles and positions really Gods will for there lives? I think that if we really look closely at what Gods word has to say about women, many people would be quite shocked. In Titus 2:5 it says that women should be "decreet, chaste keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed."
This is quite the opposite of what the american society has been teaching the little girls of today. They are taught to stick up for their gender and not let anyone push them around. Society teaches us that men and women should all have equal rights and priveleges. This all started during the feminist movement, when the women decided they wanted to be able to vote. Although women voting is not wrong at all, the women of that generation did go about the process wrong. They took the situation into their own hands and told the world that both genders should be treated equally.
Many women do not realize that God made them women for a special reason and he has amazing things that he wants to do with them if they would just accept that they are different than Men. God says in the Bible that he made man, but he formed women. Does't that make women sound so special? He made women to be something beautiful and sweet. If women could just grasp what God was saying here, how special he thinks women are, then women would realize that even if they are not the most "powerful person" in the world, God had a different plan for them.
So does this mean that all the only thing women are ment to do is stay at home all the time and have a dull and boring life doing nothing but cleaning baseboards, slaving over a hot stove while pregnant, and taking care of 16 other little ones? I would say not. God brought up many women of the bible to be leaders and do extreamely hard tasks in the name of Christ. God told Deborah to lead her people into battle and that he would protect them, and he did. But did she do this becuase she wanted to become powerful? No. She did it because that is what God directly told her to do. Deborah had faith in the living God and did not fear what men could do to her. Many women of today however, have taken it apon themselves to fill the role of the leader in the home. Not only does this make the husband feel inferior, but it turns the childrens heart towards thinking that the dad is the stupid one of the family and the mom knows the right thing to do.
God made men to be the physical and spiritual leaders of the home, Ephesians 5:23-24 states, "For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to thrie own husbands in everything." I believe that to be under Gods authority women first must be under their husbands authority, or fathers in unmarried.
The topic of women in leadership is a very contoversial topic in the world today. It is often hard to decide what is right and wrong when it come to this subject. So this is what I believe, not becuase of an experience, or a personal opinion. But because the Word of God tell us to. I believe that the women should stay under the authority of God, their fathers and their husbands because this is what the Lord has commanded. If God leads a women into a leadership position, so be it. But when the when take it apon themselves to be a powerful and controling icon in the world, that is when God is not pleased and he most definaltely did not put them it that position. I will stay under the authority of my father on earth, and my Father in Heaven.
Titus 2:3 "The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, [To be] discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed."