Cheryl Schatz

Lynda,
Thanks for your thoughts and welcome to my blog!

I would like to point out that there was no designation of “formal” and “informal” meeting of the church in the NT times. Believers met in homes and their gatherings were gatherings of the church. The place of meeting was not the “church”. The believers were the church. So the only way that one could really say to a woman that she could teach outside of the church would be to say that she can teach the unsaved. The problem of course would be that once they are saved, she would have to move on because discipleship is a duty of the church.

However having said that, I do appreciate hearing about those complementarians who gave women the opportunity to use their gifts outside of a formal building. For although I believe they are being inconsistent with their own doctrine, I applaud their inconsistencies when it releases women to serve their Lord and Savior without fear of being disciplined by the church for doing so.

Thanks again for your comments!