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Popular speaker, teacher, and author Sharon Jaynes (more than 235,000 copies sold) reveals the stories of women in the Bible who had meaningful encounters with Jesus. With her trademark biblical perspective, Sharon spends time with Jesus' mother, Mary, the woman at the well, Mary Magdalene, and others, and brings to life their experiences with the forgiveness, healing, and love of Jesus.As Sharon explores how God interacted with women of the Bible, she uncovers some surprises and is excited to share the news with readers today--God has great dreams for them and continues to transform women frominsignificant to highly esteemeddisgraced to full of graceguilty to forgivenReaders will discover God's heart and hope for them as He lovingly exchanges their heartache, hopelessness, or shame for the beauty of wholeness.

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Publié par	Harvest House Publishers, Inc.
Date de parution	01 juin 2010
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780736939874
Langue	English

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W HAT G OD
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T HINKS
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S HARON J AYNES

HARVEST HOUSE PUBLISHERS
EUGENE, OREGON
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WHAT GOD REALLY THINKS ABOUT WOMEN
Copyright 2010 by Sharon Jaynes
Published by Harvest House Publishers
Eugene, Oregon 97402
www.harvesthousepublishers.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jaynes, Sharon.
What God really thinks about women / Sharon Jaynes.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-7369-2671-3 (pbk.)
1. Women in the Bible. 2. Jesus Christ-Relations with women. 3. Bible. N.T. Gospels-Criticism, interpretation, etc. 4. Christian women-Religious life. I. Title.
BT590.W6J39 2010
225.8 3054-dc22
2009052971
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other-except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.
Printed in the United States of America
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This book is dedicated to the men and women of Campus Crusade for Christ who have worked so diligently to make the Magdalena project a reality. I pray that all who see the film, Magdalena: Through Her Eyes, will know just how much God loves and cherishes women.
Acknowledgments
Many men and women have influenced my life and challenged me to walk over to a fresh canvas and read the Gospels with new eyes:
Naomi Gingerich, who challenged me years ago to reconsider my own ideas about women in ministry.
Carolyn Custis James, who opened my eyes to God s unique design for His female image bearers as ezers, and who broadened my understanding of just what a helper was meant to be.
Campus Crusade, whose mission to reach out to women all around the world through the Magadalena project and subsequent film, Magdalena: Through Her Eyes. Specifically, Jenny Steinbach, Gail Ratzlaff, and Bill Sims, who caught the vision of how the Magdalena film and What God Really Thinks About Women manuscript could synergistically work to help women all around the world understand just how much God loves and cherishes His female image bearers.
My prayer team, who continually brings me before the Father.
My Girlfriends in God: Mary Southerland and Gwen Smith, who constantly cheer me on with encouraging words and lift me up with powerful prayer.
The Harvest House Publishers team: Bob Hawkins Jr., LaRae Weikert, Terry Glaspey, John Constance, and Barb Sherrill, who made the book possible; Shane White, Christianne Debysingh, and Abby Van Wormer, who made the book visible; Katie Lane, who made the book beautiful; and Betty Fletcher, who kept us all on schedule (no small feat). And my editor, Kim Moore, whose keen eye and kind heart made sure every word kept to the mission of helping women see themselves through Jesus eyes.
My heavenly Father, who gently, tenderly, and sometimes sternly kept pointing me back to His Son, Jesus Christ, when I asked the hard questions regarding how He really felt about women.
Jesus Christ, who continually invited me to take a closer look at how He treated women against the backdrop of societal, political, and religious prejudices of His day.
The Holy Spirit, who confronted me, convicted me, and finally convinced me.
My husband, Steve, who daily holds up the mirror of God s Word for me to see myself as a dearly loved, cherished child of God, and encourages me to help other women see themselves as the same.
Contents
Acknowledgments

The Backdrop
1. The World Jesus Stepped Into

The Leading Ladies
2. Just an Ordinary Girl (Mary of Nazareth)
Freed from an Ordinary Life
Freed to Fulfill an Extraordinary Purpose

3. The Fearless Follower (Mary Magdalene)
Freed from Spiritual Darkness
Freed to Share God s Light to the World

4. The Chronically Ill Bold Believer
Freed from Hopelessness
Freed to Share the Hope Within Her

5. The Ashamed Adulteress
Freed from Condemnation
Freed to Start Anew

6. The Weary Woman at the Well
Freed from Empty Pursuits
Freed to Overflowing Purpose

7. The Winsome Worshipper
Freed from a Painful Past
Freed to Pour Out Praise

8. The Daring Disciple (Mary of Bethany)
Freed from Others Expectations
Freed to Accept God s Invitation

9. The Stellar Student (Martha of Bethany)
Freed from Worrisome Ways
Freed to Calm Confidence

10. The Bent but Brave
Freed from a Crippled Spirit
Freed to Walk in Confidence

11. The Syrophoenician Persistent Parent
Freed from Feelings of Inferiority
Freed to Grasp Her Truth Worth

12. The Gracious Giver
Freed from Worry About Tomorrow
Freed to Trust God for Today

The Final Curtain Call
13. God Calling Women Center Stage

A Note from the Author
Notes
What God Really Thinks About Women: Bible Study Guide
About the Author
Other Books by Sharon Jaynes
www.MagdalenaToday.com
T HE B ACKDROP
1

T HE W ORLD J ESUS S TEPPED I NTO
S he was beautiful.
She was bright.
And she was mad at God.
I sat across the lunch table picking at a salad and trying to digest Jan s words. Her startlingly teal eyes were tinted with frustration at God, primarily because of how she perceived He felt about women.
I don t understand God. It seems like He is against women. He s set us up to fail. Even our bodies are weaker, and that just invites men to abuse us. All through the Bible I see how God used men in mighty ways. Abraham, Moses, David-you name it; it is always the men. And polygamy. How could God allow that? Today, there s so much abuse toward women. Where s God in all that? There are so many inequalities and injustices between how men are treated and how women are treated. What kind of God does that? I think the bottom line is that God just doesn t like women.
Jan knew her Bible. She grew up in church, had loving Christian parents, and accepted Christ when she was eight years old. I accepted Jesus because I was afraid of hell, Jan confessed. It wasn t because I had discovered a loving God who cared about me. I did it because of fear.
Regardless of why Jan became a Christian, her decision was real. She continued growing in her little-girl faith, and she even felt a call to ministry when she was in the eighth grade. She truly had a heart for the things of God.
But all during her growing up years, Jan felt she wasn t good enough. She saw herself as inferior to her younger brother, and she felt that her parents favored him over her. They always paid more attention to my brother, she explained. And if we got into a fight, my parents took up for him. Leave your brother alone, they d say. But I never heard, Leave your sister alone.
As is often the case with children, Jan s perception of her earthly father colored her perception of her heavenly Father, and the idea of male favoritism became the sieve through which her spiritual interpretations passed.
Jan graduated from high school with honors, from college with a degree in Communication Studies, and headed off to seminary. When I got to seminary and started reading about some of the ancient philosophers opinions of women, as well as some of the early church fathers, and even some modern day theologians, I just got mad. The more I read, the madder I got. Is it true? Are women less than men? Does God favor one gender over the other? As I considered my role as a woman in ministry, I couldn t find any role models.
Jan is now 26, a seminary graduate, and a secretary working in a growing church. She is frustrated, confused, and, as I mentioned earlier, just plain mad.
We talked for hours, and we have talked many more hours since then. Jan brought up some interesting questions. She was brave enough to voice what many women feel, and we struggled with her questions together. But I have done more than simply struggle with the difficult questions regarding God and how He views women. I have been on a 12-year journey to answer those tough questions for myself. God and I have spent many hours together as He opened my eyes to discover just