Third, we wish to encourage women as well as men to celebrate God’s gift of maleness and femaleness in the context of mutually shared partnerships and spiritual friendship, without the trappings of male hierarchy that traditionally have accompanied such relationships, whether in marriage, in ministry, or in the context of cross-gender friendships. Further, it is our desire that women called to ministry will be better able to discover and develop their gifts and exercise them in their callings to
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