Let the Women be Saved in Childbearing
March 12, 2010
“. . . and women are to be saved in childbearing.” That was part of the answer P@ige P@tterson gave me when I asked him if there would be a place for me to serve post seminary graduation. His answer was no, “If you are talking about pastoral ministry.” “But why Dr. P@tterson,” I asked. He said, “Because women were last to be created, first to fall, and saved in childbearing.”
I had heard a rumor that he had said something similar in Missouri at the Baptist Seminary there, but I couldn’t believe that I was an actual recipient of the famous quote.
Saved in childbearing. It seems so ironic considering that every minute of every day a woman dies as a result of pregnancy. It seems so ironic considering that statistically speaking I will never have a child. And mostly, it seems so ironic considering that the subject is what saves me, what wakes me in the morning and rocks me to sleep at night.
Saved in childbearing, saved in childbearing, saved in childbearing. May the women of Burma and Bangladesh, Jacksonville, and Jakarta be saved in childbearing today.
