01966 – So, What Will We Do Tonight?
Sehested, Nancy

[1987 – extemporaneous response to someone’s public objection of her being allowed to preach]

While we are in this place debating about who can or cannot stand behind a piece of wood, there’s a world out there. And the cries of that world are growing louder.

There’s a world that is desperately in need of all of us, a hurting world that is desperately needing each one of us to offer a word of healing and hope and the light that we carry within us.

Are we going to say to that world that not all things are possible with God? Are we going to say to that world, “No, not all things are possible. A woman cannot preach!”

But as you know, all things are possible with God. And so, what will we do tonight?

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