{"id":2277,"date":"2016-03-30T03:08:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=2277"},"modified":"2016-03-30T03:08:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T03:08:41","slug":"do-women-have-to-be-twice-as-good-as-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2016\/03\/30\/do-women-have-to-be-twice-as-good-as-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Women Have to Be Twice as Good as Men?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rev. Corrie Gustafson is 1 of 11 pastors who lead Peninsula Bible Church in Palo Alto, California. She serves as the ACCW board liaison for the Pacific Southwest Conference. Check out her blog at pastorwithapurse.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"corrie<\/a>There\u2019s a belief out there that women in ministry have to be twice as good as men to succeed. Here\u2019s what that looks like.<\/p>\n

Some women feel they can\u2019t begin to succeed because they can\u2019t get a church to hire them. I\u2019ve seen men make easy transitions from the business world to ministry, but not women. Women talk about needing resumes that are twice as strong as their male counterparts to get noticed by search committees. How can they put heavy-weight experiences on a resume if churches won\u2019t hire them?<\/p>\n

For women who have paid ministry positions, the idea of success seems linked to career advancement. This could mean going from a part-time position to a full-time position; getting to preach more often; having their work affirmed through a raise or added responsibility; or moving from an entry-level position into a lead or senior pastor role. I\u2019ve watched for years as men get \u201chead-hunted\u201d for senior positions. I\u2019ve never once heard of this happening for a woman.<\/p>\n

Many women ministers talk about the need to have an X-factor to advance in our male-dominated field. An X-factor could be a popular blog, a published book, a PhD or DMin, being a sought-after guest speaker, or having a results-proven discipleship model. Apparently, doing good, healthy, everyday ministry doesn\u2019t make the cut.<\/p>\n

Do women really have to be twice as good as men to be hired, to advance, and ultimately succeed in ministry?<\/strong> I can tell you that certainly feels true sometimes, especially when we job search. And there are real roadblocks for women in ministry. For instance, the existence of a pay gap between men and women clergy is verifiable fact. (You can read an analysis of the data collected from the Bureau of Labor Statistics here<\/a>.) But I image that the answer to this big question depends on how we measure success. And that, I think, is the underlying, systemic issue to the \u201ctwice as good\u201d theory.<\/p>\n

Most of the North American churches I know evaluate ministry based on numbers\u2014how many people showed up to this program or that service; how many new converts do we have; how many people became members; by how much did the church budget increase; how many staff does the church employ? The higher the number, the more successful we deem a ministry or church. The type of pastors we hire, and how we pay and promote those pastors, are often linked to these numbers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Does anyone else have a problem with the church\u2014a living organism of people who belong to God\u2014playing a numbers game?<\/p>\n

Is anyone else concerned that the church seems to care more about growing numbers than it does about nurturing<\/em> the spiritual health and maturity of the congregants we already have?<\/p>\n

What if it\u2019s God\u2019s will that not all churches grow rapidly in quantity, but grow steadily in qualities like love, joy, and peace?<\/p>\n

Shouldn\u2019t the church be more concerned to hire stable, sincere pastors who will discern the needs of a particular church in a particular community, rather than discipleship-system toting, charismatic pastors that bump our numbers but move on to the-next-best-thing in two or three years?<\/p>\n

Sure, we should give some weight to job titles on a resume, but shouldn\u2019t we care more about a pastor\u2019s character and ask about their ability to respond ethically and wisely when those messy ministry situations arise?<\/p>\n

This is a depressing view of the church. I believe that we have more depth than what I\u2019ve written here, or at least we are capable<\/em> of more depth. But I also believe that the church is not challenging itself enough to think beyond the numbers game. What if we looked beyond what we have traditionally valued and what has worked in the past? If we do, we might see something fresh that will energize and mobilize us, and<\/em> expand the kingdom of God in a new direction.<\/p>\n

A church with a myopic vision may only grow in one dimension\u2014it may grow in numbers, but it may not grow in depth. Church leaders with myopic vision may only look for, hire, affirm, or promote a cookie-cutter pastor\u2014the white, married with children, extroverted, able-bodied, male pastor\u2014feeling safe that (only) this type of pastor will build a thriving church. But that is narrow thinking.<\/p>\n

I worry that the church\u2019s preoccupation with measurable outcomes means we\u2019ve lost our sacred imagination, or God\u2019s vision, for the church. If we believe that God can do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, then why are we clinging to what is \u201csafe\u201d and comfortable? Why are we evaluating a living organism the same way same we do an organization?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s this myopic vision, this preoccupation with numbers, this lack of sacred imagination in and for the church, that can create systemic injustices against ministers whom God has called to lead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too many American churches have little imaginative space for ministers who belong to any kind of minority group. Could we say the same for the Evangelical Covenant Church?<\/p>\n

But if God is the Caller into ministry\u2014if God is the Giver of each pastor\u2019s unique story, spiritual gifts, love for the church, wisdom to interpret the scriptures, and ability to lead compassionately\u2014then why should race, ethnicity, marital and parental status, personality, physical disability, or gender categorically deter the church from welcoming any of God\u2019s ministers?<\/p>\n

What if the best minister for your congregation right now is one that you\u2019d least expect? He or she may not tick many of your expected qualifications, but they may have the qualities, character, and faith that you don\u2019t know you need<\/strong> for the future God has planned for your church.<\/p>\n

This widespread notion that women have to be twice as good as men to succeed in ministry should deeply trouble us. It should make us look long and deep at our churches to see what is driving us. Have we lost our sacred imagination? Are we using the world\u2019s measuring sticks to build fences around the pulpit? Are we setting up women and men that God has called into ministry to fail? To grow disheartened? To compete rather than collaborate with their colleagues?<\/p>\n

In a healthy system, in healthy churches, women don\u2019t need to be twice as good as men to succeed in ministry. They don\u2019t need to be super-women or super-pastors. In a healthy church, all pastors are free to be exactly who they are, and to minister in the ways God calls them. The healthy church delights in the diversity of its ministers just as it delights in the diversity of God\u2019s creation, because a healthy church knows that God\u2019s vision for the church is twice as good as our own.<\/p>\n

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