Cynthia Long Westfall addresses how women can effectively navigate current trends in the evangelical world. She indicates that the way forward lies in relinquishing a defense-oriented mission for the sake of the development of a coherent personal mission of action. The basis of this mission is your identity in Christ, your call and vision for the future, the deliberate formation of your values and the beliefs that govern your behavior, and the formation of a strategic plan to activate this mission in your life. Cynthia concludes by reinforcing that it is not necessary to wait for proof or permission to serve, and that the best argument for women's service is your life's story.

Workshop Session, 61 mins.
Seeking Justice and Loving Mercy
CBE 10th International Conference, Denver, Colo.

CYNTHIA LONG WESTFALL (Ph.D., University of Surrey) is associate professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. She has also taught at Mars Hill Graduate School, Denver Seminary, and Colorado Christian University. She is co-chair of the 2007 Gender and Evangelicals Study Group at the Evangelical Theological Society, and co-chair the Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics session of SBL at the National Meeting.