“I made one of those mistakes, and I led my people out of the will of God in doing so. The story of Abraham? Do you ever wonder how different our world would be if Abraham hadn’t seen the ram in time? If he had continued in his arrogance and killed his son? No fixing that mistake.”
The preacher rocked for a moment. Mac said nothing. “My daughter had—has—her mother’s brains and my stubbornness. We locked horns from the day she was born. She should have been born a son. She has the gift of leadership, and she never could see that submissiveness was still required—no matter what the gift. God works in strange ways sometimes—why waste such a gift on a woman who couldn’t lead us?”
The question was rhetorical, but Mac answered anyway. “Maybe you should have let her lead. Some churches do.”
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