| (Copyright) by Eddie Hyatt (Grapevine, Texas) |
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| I am honored and thrilled to write this Foreword for such a timely, church-shaking volume as this Second Edition of In the Spirit We’re Equal. What this book addresses is not just a “woman issue.” What this book addresses is a “church issue” and an issue of discipleship and world evangelism. This was made very clear to me about twelve years ago when the Lord visited me in an unusual manner and instructed me to “identify” with Sue and her two-fold vision to articulate the Biblical basis for the equality of women and men in Christ and to “write God’s women back into history.” It began early one morning around 3 a.m. when I suddenly found myself wide awake. Desiring to pray, but not wanting to disturb Sue, I quietly slipped out of bed and made my way to another room where I sat on a couch. The only light in the room came from a streetlight just outside the window. It was a very quiet and tranquil setting. As I quietly lifted my heart to the Lord, I had a very unusual experience. My soul seemed to suddenly become supernaturally quiet, and I heard the voice of the Lord in my heart, saying, “I want you to be more identified with Sue and what she is doing.” There was a moment of silence and then I heard words that astounded me. “This message has the power to begin a mass movement from Islam to Christianity, beginning with the women.” As I sat in the darkness contemplating what I had just heard, an African woman came to mind whom I had heard speak boldly about the dangers of Islam. She had grown up in a Muslim family in Africa and when barely a teenager her father arranged for her to marry a Muslim man in Canada. She escaped to the Netherlands where she received a college education, became a secularist, and was then elected to the Dutch parliament where she was an outspoken critic of Islam. When I heard her story, I had wondered why she did not become a Christian when she left Islam. As I sat quietly that morning contemplating what I had heard, I suddenly realized why. If she had known the truths in this book, I am confident she would have become a Christian. But why would she leave a hard form of patriarchal oppression in Islam for a softer form in Christianity? From that moment, I knew that the message contained in this book is vital for world evangelism and for the Church to truly be the Church—a fully functioning body where people function, not according to their gender (man or woman) but according to their God-given gifts and callings. This book has the power to ignite a Reformation on the scale of the Protestant Reformation that Luther ignited when he nailed his 95 theses to the Wittenberg Church door. I pray, therefore, that you will help spread this book far and wide and thereby help awaken the Church to the powerful, transformative truths that are found therein. https://amzn.to/3aullQc  ——————————————————————————– Reprinted with permission from: God’s Word to Women http://www.godswordtowomen.org/ ——————————————————————————– |
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