{"id":2732,"date":"2017-05-27T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-27T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/?p=2732"},"modified":"2017-05-24T18:30:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:30:10","slug":"mental-assent-vs-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge\/2017\/05\/27\/mental-assent-vs-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Assent vs. Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Covenant Companion article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/covenantcompanion.com\/2017\/05\/24\/before-you-exit-ensure-youre-in-the-right-seat\/\">Before You Exit, Ensure You&#8217;re in the Right Seat,<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0Jelani Greenidge exhorts those &#8220;in positions of power to honest reflection and extensive auditing to reveal the ways we continue to unintentionally communicate to women that they&#8217;re not as qualified to lead.&#8221; Greenidge writes from his personal experience\u00a0as an Associate Pastor who serves under a female lead pastor. He concretely notices and names the difference between holding an abstract position\u00a0that women can lead in churches and actually making a way that their presence in pastoral leadership is normative.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Jelani for your insightful reflection and strong challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/bge?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=2732&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Covenant Companion article entitled &#8220;Before You Exit, Ensure You&#8217;re in the Right Seat,&#8221;\u00a0Jelani Greenidge exhorts those &#8220;in positions of power to honest reflection and extensive auditing to reveal the ways we continue to unintentionally communicate to women that they&#8217;re not as qualified to lead.&#8221; Greenidge writes from his personal experience\u00a0as an Associate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-testimoies-and-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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