Influential Women : From the New Testament to today - how women can build up or undermine their local church

Wendy offers studies of key women in the New Testament as a starting point for a series of reflections on women's roles in the church today.

Some of these women were saints, full of good works; some were frankly poisonous and did considerable harm.

From her long experience within Newfrontiers, Wendy offers a good deal of shrewd advice and writes candidly about her own struggles to fit into church structures. "Women can be powerful in a church and can be influential in changing it from a sick community to a healthy one.

They can be a tremendous asset or a huge liability. They can influence the whole ambience of a church...

The pages of the New Testament contain a surprising number of references to women to whom we can relate as we seek to build good healthy churches in the twenty first century."