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More on gender roles:
Kanishka gave a good sermon yesterday on a passage in 1 Timothy. He made some good points about gender roles.
Equality today has a lot of basis on what we can do, i.e "I can do anything a man can do" etc. Which is all well and good, but it's not how the Bible views equality.
Given that our salvation is not based on what we do, but on grace and faith, so that no one can boast, why should the most important thing of all (salvation) be any different from equality within gender roles? after all, both men and women are in need of the salvation that God offers them, and this is a free gift, and has nothing to do with who you are, but who God is.
Therefore, in 1 Timothy, when Paul is telling Timothy about the way the church is meant to be set up, he says that women should not teach men. This does not mean they are not equal to men, because we've already said that the Bible doesn't establish equality as society does (by what we do). It's a created order thing, and also relating to the fall. Woman went against the created order by leading her husband into sin. So women should not lead the teaching in a church by getting up and preaching.
the Bible does not say anything else about the role women have in church. The only limitation is on the actual teaching. We can lead the prayers or singing or a small Bible study group. But we shouldn't lead the congregation in the sermon. That's it.
And it doesn't mean we're not equal to men, because our equality is not based on what we do.
It was a good sermon. I'm glad of it.
Kanishka gave a good sermon yesterday on a passage in 1 Timothy. He made some good points about gender roles.
Equality today has a lot of basis on what we can do, i.e "I can do anything a man can do" etc. Which is all well and good, but it's not how the Bible views equality.
Given that our salvation is not based on what we do, but on grace and faith, so that no one can boast, why should the most important thing of all (salvation) be any different from equality within gender roles? after all, both men and women are in need of the salvation that God offers them, and this is a free gift, and has nothing to do with who you are, but who God is.
Therefore, in 1 Timothy, when Paul is telling Timothy about the way the church is meant to be set up, he says that women should not teach men. This does not mean they are not equal to men, because we've already said that the Bible doesn't establish equality as society does (by what we do). It's a created order thing, and also relating to the fall. Woman went against the created order by leading her husband into sin. So women should not lead the teaching in a church by getting up and preaching.
the Bible does not say anything else about the role women have in church. The only limitation is on the actual teaching. We can lead the prayers or singing or a small Bible study group. But we shouldn't lead the congregation in the sermon. That's it.
And it doesn't mean we're not equal to men, because our equality is not based on what we do.
It was a good sermon. I'm glad of it.