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radioEmily Graves spoke with author Danny Silk
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Emily: In your book you mentioned that 42% of the Rwanda government is female, whereas only 12% of the US government are. Do you think there are still some areas of society, not just within the church, that are waiting for female leaders to rise up?
Danny: Absolutely. I think that women have a unique set of challenges in becoming as prevalent in the work force in general and that is the whole responsibility of children; bearing children and raising children. Society is very much built around a women being the central caregiver of the children and it is a really tough sacrificial decision for a woman to stay involved in the work force. Sometimes 20 years of a woman's life goes by where she is taking care of children and she is literally set behind men in the work force as far as experience, exposure and opportunity goes.
Emily: Do you have a female leader that you look up to and admire?
Danny: I'm married to one. Sherri's so good and is a powerful lady. She is the first senior manager on our church staff. We have 500 employees; we have about 45 pastors on our staff and Sherri's on our senior management team of ten. There are two women on our senior management team.
Emily: How do you feel as her husband seeing her step up and be a leader?
Danny: I feel relieved and proud. We have lots of conversations about what it's like to be born female in an environment of so many males and being called to be powerful and called to be a leader.
Emily: Just to finish up, are there things that we can do today to make a difference to how women are perceived in leadership?
Danny: I think primarily what we have to do, is we have to give women the microphone in our churches, so that our young ladies can actually see powerful female role models. There are no young women who want to grow up to be 55 year-old men.
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Emily Parker is from the birthplace of radio, Chelmsford in Essex, and was the first media training student at Cross Rhythms in 2012. After moving back home from Stoke, she is now working in commercial radio in London. Emily is on the Board of Reference for xRhythms alongside her husband Sam and is a part of the CGI network of churches.
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Complimentarianism is a "tradition of men". Read The House of Deborah (http://heavensroar.org/deborah.html) for in depth study from leading global scholars addressing the issues that have been twisted by men. Thorns from the cursed ground and male rulership were both stated by God in the same verse as being a direct result of sin. Those seeking male primacy should also being praying for the ground to bring forth thorns. They follow the path of sin. The apostles overturned it - the bishops restored it and by 300AD women were banned again from leadership.
Time God's people stopped following the curse of sin and humbled themselves before God. It's hard to climb off a pedestal.