Poetry

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When you come together,
Each of us has a hymn;
That our tongues gather,
Giving spiritual vim.

It gives revelation,
Letting all things done build;
Through interpretation,
Our spirit is filled.

If anyone would speak,
Utters a foreign tongue;
Ensure that you can seek,
To construe what is flung.

Make them to keep silent,
If no one understands;
Interpreting absent,
That inclusion demands.

For revelations said,
To others sitting there;
Speaking should not instead,
Be silent not to share.

For you can prophesy,
So that each of us learn;
With encouraging why,
And to what we will earn.

God is not confusion,
Rather as God of peace;
Who has a solution,
That contradictions cease.

Your women keep silence,
Not permitted to speak;
Obey, no defiance,
Rather humbled and meek.

If desire to learn,
Then they must ask their spouse;
For the knowledge to earn,
When they get to the house.

A woman to proclaim,
Speaking out in the church;
Is putting her to shame,
Perceiving what they search.

It should be as prescribed,
Through service of the Word;
As in Scripture subscribed,
Comprehended as heard.

Copyright © 2018 Richard Newton Sherrer

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