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CBE STAFF
ENCOURAGED BY CORNERSTONE SPEAKERS AND ATTENDEES
By Megan Greulich
CBE staff recently returned from Cornerstone
’07, where we hosted a tent with JPUSA (Jesus People USA) for
the sixth year in a row. We traveled to the dusty fields of
southern Illinois to distribute resources and facilitate
lectures and dialogue—ready to serve any of the 10,000
Cornerstone attendees who decided to show up at our tent. Yet,
the overwhelming response from CBE staff members was that we
were the ones who were encouraged and refreshed!
 It
was exciting to see very little, if any, opposition to the
message of biblical equality by the intelligent, thoughtful, and
kind people who visited the tent. Those who came ranged from
early high school students to married couples to our supportive
friends from JPUSA. Women came to find a “safe place” where they
did not have to defend their calling to leadership. Parents
brought their teenagers to be introduced to our ministry.
Husbands came to learn how to better support their wives. Single
women came to be affirmed in their call to ministry regardless
of their marital status. And young people came with open minds
and questions about theology and church history. They engaged in
issues like equality and the Trinity, Wicca, justice, violence
against women, eating disorders, dating, Celtic worship,
marriage and
 sexuality,
modesty, gender roles, the theology of Paul, the biblical basis
for mutuality in marriage, and the history of women’s service in
the church.
After each lecture, CBE staff were encouraged
by dialogue with attendees, which we were able to continue as
several individuals joined us for lunch and supper. What was
more, we were encouraged by the interest in the resources we
brought from our bookstore, Equality Depot. Within the first
day, we had sold out of several titles and began taking orders.
Our friends at the CBE tent seemed genuinely interested in
learning about and engaging in our ministry.
We left Cornerstone, reflecting on the
privilege it was to meet and encourage such wonderful people of
God and to interact with such passionate Christians from JPUSA.
We thanked God for the evidence that the Holy Spirit is indeed
moving in the church to bring about equality for women and men.
And we sadly admitted that we will have to wait an entire year
to go back!
Read a more complete report from Cornerstone
in the upcoming issue of Mutuality!
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