Those who oppose women preaching range from the obsessed and rabid who warn that women preaching is evil and dangerous to those who with gentle dismissal explain, without realizing they are being patronizing and arrogant, that there are so many opportunities in the church--why not just do something else.
But, they have no idea, no conception of the torment experienced by the one gifted and bidden to preach, who is prevented or who does not go and do it.
I like the way Kenneth Aveiris Sr. put it:
These women, even as they struggle today, even as they uttered the words "Yes Lord!", knew what Jeremiah once said. . .they learned that to refuse to preach is to experience a fire in one's bones that can be quenched by nothing less than faithful, obedient preaching.
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