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Hello Mark @72
I don’t know…unless I’m forgetting something (which I’m great at doing) looks to me like this is what it comes down to:

It seems to me that you’ve either got to deny any possibility that Paul considered Phoebe a deacon or that he was talking about women deacons, or you’ve got to admit that Paul does not explicitly gender-restrict overseers by the use of the term “husband of one wife.”

And thanks for the reminder Kristen!! A long time ago when I was studying for myself on Phoebe and 1 Tim 3 on deacons, I had come to the same realization. And I felt like I was alone and lost in my studies while thinking things through at the time lol as in “what planet am I on” lol because I couldn’t understand why CBMW “hadn’t figured that one out.” (Or had they…..?) lol

I’m still tired… I’m outte!