While it may seem ill-advised to ask women to study passages that record mistreatment of women, skipping over these stories does us a disservice.
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When an email from church announced an upcoming women’s Bible study on Judges, my mind raced to various passages, trying to grasp how we’d talk about this book as a group of women in an extremely progressive city. Judges might win the prize for “Most Uncomfortable Book of the Bible to Study”—especially for women.
While it may seem ill-advised to ask women to study passages that record abuse and mistreatment of women, skipping over these stories because they make us uncomfortable does us a disservice. Instead, we can take comfort knowing that God included these difficult stories in Scripture for our benefit. Studying Judges can help women grow in faith and knowledge of God. Here are three truths we uncover when we look deeper.
