Leading The Way - Week of November 13, Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef

Leading The Way - Week of November 13

November 13, 2023

November 13, 2023

Accept Your God-Given Role

By Michael Youssef, Ph.D.

Just as we do today, the Corinthian church struggled with gender roles and questions of submission, so Paul instructed them in the ways of Biblical manhood and womanhood. On the surface, this passage might seem to be only about whether women could cut their hair short or men could grow their hair long, but there is a deeper problem—one that goes back to the Garden of Eden.

Almost as soon as God brought the first woman to the first man, Satan began to attack and confuse the roles the Lord had given them. Our enemy authored male chauvinism and militant feminism, devilish deceptions that keep men and women today from living up to their God-given responsibilities. These deceptions prod us to put our own gender above the other so that we do not live contentedly in the design our all-wise Creator has deemed right for us.

Head coverings and hair length were part of the gender roles in the Corinthian culture, and Paul here addresses those issues and how they should be expressed Biblically in a way that honors God. Although his words are rooted in a cultural context, his message begs us to ask ourselves, “Am I willing to accept the role God created me to live? Am I willing to receive it with gratitude, or will I rebel against God’s ordained role for me?” That’s really the issue—an issue of the heart, not the hair.

Prayer: Jesus, may I submit to the role You have designed for me since the beginning. I know You are all-wise and all-loving, so Your path is perfect. Empower me to walk in Your way. I pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

“Nevertheless, in the Lord woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman” (1 Corinthians 11:11).

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Michael Youssef, Ph.D., is the Founder and President of Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef, a worldwide ministry that leads the way for people living in spiritual darkness to discover the light of Christ through the creative use of media and field ministry teams. His weekly television programs and daily radio programs are broadcast more than 13,000 times per week in multiple languages throughout the world. He is also the founding pastor of The Church of The Apostles in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Youssef was born in Egypt and lived in Lebanon and Australia before coming to the United States. In 1984, he fulfilled a childhood dream of becoming an American citizen. Dr. Youssef holds degrees from Moore College in Sydney, Australia; Fuller Theological Seminary in California; and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Emory University. He has authored more than 50 books, including popular titles Saving Christianity?, Hope for This Present Crisis, Life-Changing Prayers, and Never Give Up. He and his wife reside in Atlanta and have four grown children and 11 grandchildren.