However, this requires that we accept something that modern society hates: Men and women are different. Equal in dignity, yes. Equally morally responsible, yes. But men and women… ain’t the same. (Which is part of the fun of it, anyway).
Now, there are biblical reasons that woman should speak.
1. You can be a prophetess: from Miriam in the OT to the daughters of Agabus in the New, women have prophesized. Consider for a second that Elisabeth’s prayer, or Mary’s is recorded in the gospels.
2. Teach each other. Older women should teach younger women To love their husbands and children
But not run churches. Now, no man should run a church by himself either. There is a reason why there are multiple elders, and that all pastors and priests need to be accountable to some form of consistory — which should include lay elders as well. One of the things about being an elder is that you are older: your kids are running the business, and thus your wife can teach and help the younger women and you can “sit at the gate” and help run the church.
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Would you clarify this for me?
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