Question of the Week: What is a woman’s role in the church?
Verses: 1 Timothy 2:12, Titus 2:1-5, Galatians 3:28
A lot of controversy surrounds the passage that says that a woman is not to teach or hold a position of authority over a man. However, an examining of the text itself, the one who wrote it, and the other examples of the roles available to women in scripture clear the matter up. First, the passage doesn’t say what’s usually taken by people. It doesn’t say that women can’t teach or have authority. It says they can’t teach men, or hold positions of authority over men. The reasons for this aren’t Paul’s preferences, but the order of creation that God put in place. Second, the accusation that is still leveled towards Paul as being biased against women is put to rest by the fact that he is also the one God used to write the words, “There is neither jew nor greek, male nor female, barbarian nor scythian, but you are all one in Christ Jesus.” And third, the actual role women are to have in church is detailed for us in the book of Titus. They are to teach other women and have positions of authority over other women. There is no more effective women’s ministry than one led by an actual woman. Anyone who tells you that a man can minister to and counsel a woman better than another woman is deluding himself. God has called men to a position of leadership over the church as a whole for His own reasons. This doesn’t mean that women have no role in the church, but rather every other role including specific roles that men aren’t to have either. This is the role of counseling and ministering to other women in the church.

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Question of the Week: How do we know the Bible is the Word of God?
Verses: 2 Timothy 3:16-17, Daniel 9:24-26, Romans 15:4

Any book can make claims about itself, but how can we confirm the Bible is actually the Word of God? The Past, the Present, and the Future. The Past is referring to it accurately recording history in the way we’d expect God to be able to. The Bible was held to the strictest standards historically and to this day remains the anvil that has worn out many skeptics hammers. The more we dig archaeologically, the more they find that affirms what the Bible has claimed for centuries. The Present is referring to it remaining doctrinally consistent on the most controversial subjects known to man despite being written by 40 different authors over 1500 years of time. You can have 4 different authors within 15 years of time and they will differ on even minor issues. Yet beyond time there seemed to be a source these men were recording that went beyond their opinions. And finally the Future is referring to predictive prophecy. The Bible almost shows off in dedicating a quarter of itself to talking about things that hadn’t happened at the time they were written. The detail and opportunity for error are constantly presented to it yet it always manages somehow to get it right when it’s talking about things that haven’t happened yet. Because it is historically accurate, doctrinally consistent, and speaks of things beyond the limits of time, we can conclude based on the evidence that the Bible is the word of God.

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