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Why It Matters
What You Believe
Agenda
• Women in early times• Women in the New Testament• Women’s roles • Why it matters what we believe
Women in early times
• Greek Culture• Roman Culture• Jewish Culture
Aristotle384 BC – 322 BC
Women in the New Testament
• Christ’s interaction with women– Matt 1:1-17;Luke 7:36
• Both bound by marriage and divorce laws– Matt 19:9; Mark 10:11-12
• Both equal in salvation– Gal 3:28
Women’s roles
• Manage the house– 1 Tim 5:14– DISCUSSION: What do you
think “manager the house means?
• Servant– Rom 16:1-2; Php 4:2-3– DISCUSSION: What ways can
women be servants in the church?
Women’s roles
• Teaching younger women– Titus 2:1-5
• Teaching children– 2 Tim 1:1-5
• Teaching with husbands in home studies– Acts 18:24-26
Why it matters what we believe
• No New Testament examples of women teaching or leading men– 1 Tim 2:12– DISCUSSION: Is this verse
enough guidance on women not teaching men?
• Women are to keep silent in church– 1 Cor 14:34-35– DISCUSSION: Where does this pertain today?
Why it matters what we believe
• The woman’s role is not inferior in the “body of the church”– I Cor 12:12-31