Craig

“5. Why would women be allowed to prophecy only on Pentecost and not for the church age? What would be the point of the Joel Prophecy”
This does get into an area where there seems to be a lot of “messiness” and “fiddling” with meanings and passages to work out what is correct practice for the comps I know.
I think Cheryl termed it “where do you draw the line”. The comps I know do believe in women “prophesying” but not being allowed the “authoritative teaching” role in the church. Women are allowed to teach children but to what age? They are allowed to take part in all manner of ways in home groups but not to lead them. They can pray and do lots of stuff in the church meeting but not the sermon from the pulpit. All these issues seem very messy. Trying to differentiate prophesying from teaching. Trying to differentiate teaching one on one or in a home group to the “authoritative teaching” from a pulpit (which didn’t exist in the early church)etc. The practical difficulties of the comp view seem to favour the egals.