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What about a woman who regularly teaches the Word of God to other women in a Bible study or in a Sunday School setting or even a women’s only weekly service?

Bible study or Sunday School teaching in this case isn’t considered “primary teaching” or “authoritative teaching” but both are still “teaching.” So what’s the difference between “primary teaching”, “authoritative teaching” and just good ol’ “teaching” if all three are the gift of God and bibilical?

So if a woman teaches out of her gift from God and it’s biblical, then what makes makes it non-authoritative? And how would her teaching not be primary since it’s God’s gift vs an elder teaching who is able to teach but not gifted by God to teach. Wouldn’t the gifted of God be primary over an elder who is just able to teach because the teaching that would flow out from the gifted would be superior to the non-gifted teaching. But here in this case the elder is to be male and the one teaching and his teaching is considered primary even if he is not gifted by God for teaching. So the elder’s teaching is to be considered “primary” yet if he’s not gifted his teaching wouldn’t be superior – divinely gifted.