Fashioned to Reign , livre ebook

“Kris Vallotton builds a solid case for why women should be allowed to excel and lead. He courageously addresses the challenging Scriptures, the ones that have kept women from taking their place in shaping the course of history in church life. This profound work is a must-read for men and women alike; it has the potential to instill courage in the hearts of men to see women around them empowered more fully, as well as give women permission to dream again.”
Bill Johnson, senior leader, Bethel Church, Redding, California; author, When Heaven Invades Earth and Hosting the Presence
“Kris does an exceptional job at unraveling societal and cultural dogma in relation to a woman’s place and position in God’s Kingdom. In truth and conviction, he presents God’s rightful place for women as co-heirs of the same promises that men have in Christ. Fashioned to Reign empowers women to walk in their God-given identity and men to understand women’s God-given destiny. This book is a must-read for everyone!”
Dr. Ché Ahn, senior pastor, HRock Church, Pasadena, California; president, Harvest International Ministry; international chancellor, Wagner Leadership Institute
“Even though there is ample evidence in the Scriptures that women share an important part in the unfolding of God’s eternal purpose, the marginalization of women still holds sway in the minds and practices of many who profess Christ. Let us remember that the image of God is far from complete unless it is understood as ‘male and female He created them.’ This compelling work reveals the way God has raised up women to be powerful and mighty and to move the hearts of the masses; it will elevate your awareness, challenge some presuppositions and invite you to grow in the grace and true, experiential knowledge of the Lord Jesus and His Church.”
Dr. Mark J. Chironna, Church On The Living Edge, Mark Chironna Ministries, Orlando
“ Fashioned to Reign is off the charts and worthy to be read and studied by all. My favorite part is Kris Vallotton’s narration of Adam. Wow, what insight! Once you start it, you won’t be able to put the book down.”
Patricia King, founder, XP Ministries
“I love the heart behind this book. Finally, a biblical perspective on female leadership that encourages women to remain themselves and still take their God-given places of leadership. Imagine leading like a woman in church! This extraordinary book gives women freedom and biblical confidence to co-labor with men and with God.”
Stacey Campbell, author, Ecstatic Prophecy and Praying the Bible ; co-founding pastor, New Life Church, Kelowna, British Columbia; founder, Canadian Prophetic Council
“This must-read gives answers to solve the biggest crime in women’s lives, and that is identity theft. This book will empower you to regain your identity that Satan stole and find your place in God to live the life He created you to live. ‘As [Jesus] is, so are we in this world’ (1 John 4:17 NKJV ).”
Cynthia Brazelton, pastor, Victory Christian Ministries International
“This is an evolving and desperately needed conversation in a rapidly changing Church, where the religious mind-set is being challenged and roles redefined within the context of godly leadership. It serves as a prophetic declaration on the role of women as agents of change globally.”
Dr. Ayoade Olatunbosun-Alakija, international development expert, health and gender specialist
Testimonies from Some Who Have Been Impacted by Kris Vallotton’s Teaching on Women
Fairly early in the year, when I was a first-year student from England at Bethel’s School of Supernatural Ministry, Kris was doing a Q&A with our class. One girl stood up on the other side of the room and asked, in response to 1 Corinthians 14:34, if it was okay for women to speak up in church. Kris responded by taking five minutes to briefly talk through his biblical understanding of the strength and calling of women. Then he talked for the rest of the class about his biblical understanding of the strength and calling of women.
In all honesty I cannot remember the details of what he said that day because everything in me was leaping for joy. I knew through and through that what he was saying was right and that, without knowing it, this was the freedom and release I had been waiting for.
The ministry that followed was one of the most memorable moments of the entire year for me. After Kris finished, one of the other pastors asked those of us women affected to stand. He then asked the male students to gather around us, to hold our hands and to apologize for where men had held us back in the past. Then they prayed for us, released us, blessed us and prophesied over us. The testimony I fed back to my church and friends in England led men in my congregation to apologize to the women, to pray for them, and to bless and release them.
This teaching has had a ripple effect—ripples of freedom. I will never be the same.
Jessica Wilde

My interaction with women has been hindered because my view of them has been very shallow. I have not valued having influence with them because I did not see them as influencers or difference-makers. I have honored the women I worked for because the Bible says to do this, but in my heart I never truly respected their strengths or wanted to submit to them.
Then I listened to Kris’s podcast on women. Shortly afterward I came to work as a personal trainer at a small gym where the demographic is about ninety percent women. Women in a fitness environment typically view men as prideful and arrogant, and men are not always welcome there. But since starting to work there, I have been viewing women with a renewed mind and have created many fruitful relationships. In fact, my classes have grown two to three times in attendance because the women tell their friends about me. They have also complimented me to the gym owner, a former corporate wellness director in charge of seven hundred people.
The owner told me recently that I have given her new hope for her business that she would never have imagined possible. Praise the Lord!
Tony Rhine

Between Kris’s message on women and his Facebook updates and excerpts, I am reminded constantly why I should step out in faith and walk in my calling. Kris and many like him are taking risks and spending their lives on making a way for women—too many for me not to walk down the path chosen for me by God and made possible by the help of His chosen people.
With thoughts lingering in my mind about feeling condemned by loved ones, I am still more excited than ever about my calling and am willing to pay my portion of the price. There is too much to be done on this earth and too many people to be loved on for me to say no to my calling because of someone else’s unbelief.
I am forever grateful for Jesus calling me, and for those like Kris who are paying the price so that I can be embraced by the church and freely tell the nations about the love of Jesus. I am ridiculously excited for the holy chaos this new book will create. I will be one of the first to buy it. I am equally excited to be part of the calling, sharing the Gospel in the streets and in the pulpit. Imagine all the women who will read this book and become all that God has created them to be!
Sarah Walsh

I was stepping out of a violent marriage, one I had been for in twenty years while seeking help from thirteen counselors. Four different pastors had given me various renditions of why I was to blame, why I was not doing my wifely duty and why I needed to stay married. The classics were “It’s not our job to deal with abuse, so you’re on your own” and “Angry is not okay.”
I knew what I was hearing was wrong. I knew that the Scriptures were being quoted out of context. But I lacked clear understanding until I heard Kris’s teachings. From the very first teaching I heard via podcast, I started weeping and did not stop. I had not realized how hurt I had been by the male-dominant structure of the churches I had grown up in until I heard the life-breathing message Kris taught. I was delivered instantly!
What has happened in my life in the past two years—in part as a result of being set free from the oppression we women have faced in the church—is nothing short of miraculous. Today I am confident in who I am in God the Father, and in His love, strength, gifting and position of greatness in the Kingdom.
Kathryn Blair

This teaching is the first I heard that completely blew the doors open on what I had always wanted to hope was true but had been raised to believe was not. I was to accept my own inferiority. The implications: a lifetime of imposed conformity; a lineage of tyranny and abuse; ministries of childcare and singing in the choir—the only options for godly service and the underlying reasons many of our mothers searched outside the walls of the church for validation, enduring scorn by both men and women of the church and being dubbed “Jezebel.”
This understanding has been the reality that played over and over in my head for these forty years of my life and in the lives of the women in my family before me—until now. What began for me as a teaching of validation has become a complete life transformation as the Spirit of God has stepped in, torn the veil hiding my worth and calling even from myself, and whispered the possibility of emancipation for women throughout the world.
To actually lift my head and not be ashamed of something I never asked to be; to know that I am the last generation of women in my lineage to be scarred by not correctly discerning the Father’s heart; to watch a brother take the stage to defend those who have been despised for centuries . . . There are simply no words for this! This truth has forever changed our course.
Nancy Ross

My life has been changed radically by Kris’s teaching on women. I feel as if an invisible structure has been broken over my life. My attitude toward myself has been transformed.
When I listened to Kris’s podcast, I c