Women not permitted to usher in church free#

From the viewpoint of spiritual gifts it seems clear that 'in Christ there is neither male nor female' (Galatians 3:28c) and God expects every woman to have a ministry as much as he expects every male to have one. If she does so, there seems to be no objection to the fact that men would be present in the congregation, or any limitation placed on her for that reason.

Women not permitted to usher in church free#

Women prophets are referred to both in the Old and New Testaments, and older women are instructed by the Apostle Paul to teach the younger women.Ī somewhat oblique reference in First Corinthians 11:4-5 suggests that both men and women were free to pray or prophesy in the open meeting of the church, though the woman must do it in such a way as to indicate that she recognizes the headship role of her husband. Included among these is the gift of teaching, and other related gifts, such as prophesying (basically, preaching), exhortation, and the word of wisdom and of knowledge. We can say at once that the New Testament clearly indicates that both men and women receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit without distinction in regard to sex. But we would like to examine the specific question being asked by many Christians today: Should a woman teach the Scriptures, and especially, should she teach men or when men are present? In the scope of this brief article it is not possible to answer all the questions which are being raised today. The secular Women's Liberation movement is forcing church leaders everywhere to distinguish carefully between attitudes toward women derived from customs and traditions of the past (often strongly macho-dominated) and what the Bible actually teaches and what the early church actually did. This is certainly the case in the matter of the woman's role in the church. Painful as they may be, every such re-examination results ultimately in stronger and clearer statements on the subjects in question than the church has ever had before. The social movements of every age seem to be used by God to force Christians to re-examine (and clarify) their understanding of what the Scriptures teach.