The Christian church must unlearn some lies to see women as called by God to ministry, according to Barbara Lavarin, who addressed Baptist Women in Ministry Nov. 6.

Lavarin, director of supporting women in ministry for BWIM, preached the opening sermon at BWIM’s annual gathering at Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church in Atlanta. Her message from Genesis 3 was titled, “The Miseducation of Eve.”

“It’s about time we unlearned the lie that women were created to be inferior,” she said.

To the women gathered for worship, she declared: “The lie is you are not enough. But the truth is you already are.”

Genesis 3 tells a story of Adam and Eve partaking of the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden after being tempted by the serpent. According to this account, the serpent says to Eve, “Did God

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