Head Coverings for women...
So I posted this message on my facebook page as a topic open for discussion.. did not get much feedback.... maybe you all can help... thanks!
So, I have been pondering... and pondering..... AND PONDERING!!! for a very long time about women and the use of a head covering. I have questioned this on my own and prayed about it for over 2 years now and still feel like I have not found any good books claiming whether we should or shouldn't as females - wear a head covering.
I have a friend who I did speak with about the topic because she had recently become a Mennonite. It took her a while and she wrestled with the conversion both her and her husband made from being contemporary evangelicals to conservative branch Mennonites. I know she struggled with the conversion because it was very different for her - but her and her husband follow the Bible in the older fashion ( I dont really know of any other way to put it). She said the head covering was something that took time to adapt to because she would forget to put it on or shed feel uncomfortable because she was not used to wearing it...
But my question is....
The Bible in 1 Cor 11:4-16 says "Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered, dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman is not covered let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved let her be covered. For a man indeed out not to cover his head since he is the image and glory of God; but a woman is the glory of man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman but woman for the man. For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman , nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.... Judge among yourselves, Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to hear; for her hair is given to her for a covering. But if anyone seems to be contentious we have no such custom nor the churches of God."
In His Name,
Sarah
So I posted this message on my facebook page as a topic open for discussion.. did not get much feedback.... maybe you all can help... thanks!
So, I have been pondering... and pondering..... AND PONDERING!!! for a very long time about women and the use of a head covering. I have questioned this on my own and prayed about it for over 2 years now and still feel like I have not found any good books claiming whether we should or shouldn't as females - wear a head covering.
I have a friend who I did speak with about the topic because she had recently become a Mennonite. It took her a while and she wrestled with the conversion both her and her husband made from being contemporary evangelicals to conservative branch Mennonites. I know she struggled with the conversion because it was very different for her - but her and her husband follow the Bible in the older fashion ( I dont really know of any other way to put it). She said the head covering was something that took time to adapt to because she would forget to put it on or shed feel uncomfortable because she was not used to wearing it...
But my question is....
The Bible in 1 Cor 11:4-16 says "Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered, dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. For if a woman is not covered let her also be shorn. But if it is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved let her be covered. For a man indeed out not to cover his head since he is the image and glory of God; but a woman is the glory of man. For man is not from woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman but woman for the man. For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head because of the angels. Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman , nor woman independent of man, in the Lord.... Judge among yourselves, Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to hear; for her hair is given to her for a covering. But if anyone seems to be contentious we have no such custom nor the churches of God."
In His Name,
Sarah