Kerryn

To: Cheryl

I am looking forwards to listening to the audio when you can get a link up cheryl.

thanks for taking a lot of ‘hits’ today for all of us who believe that God has no favourites and we are all – both male and female – ‘priests and kings’ before him through Jesus. I pray that the Lord refreshes you in your spirit after such a challenging and no doubt draining ‘chat’ with Matt.

to: teknomom

thanks for your summary teknomom…
i am interested in your comment above regarding titus 2 –
“And the word “appointment” is given in regards to the “female elders”! Age cannot be appointed!

Can you flesh this out a bit more for me- which greek word/phrase are you refering to?

can you pls point me to the specific greek word/phrase that you are referring to… so i can be a good berean and get my head around what you are saying? sounds very interesting indeed.

Michael Kruse just wrote a helpful post on the titus passage – part of his household code series. he makes some helpful insights on why titus is to get the ‘older women to teach the younger women’ too… in summary Michael shows how these codes (found in places such as Titus 2; Eph 5-6; 1 Peter 2-3 etc) are missional in focus. The behaviour of the church was to always forward the message of the gospel and not hinder it by ‘unnecessarily’ offending the culture of those in which is was being lived and preached. It was socially taboo for a man to teach young women – especially single women – thus Titus specifically asks the older women/ female elders in the church to instruct the younger women. This was not meant to be understood as a rule that they MUST ONLY teach the younger women… see http://krusekronicle.typepad.com/kruse_kronicle/2007/09/household-hou-3.html if you want to read more on this.

thanks to all who contribute such helpful insights on this website.

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Kerryn