Kay

“Don’t confuse soteriology with ministry. This is the mistake that egals make with Gal 3:28 and as it”
Mark,
I’m going to ask you to take a better look at the context of Gal. 3:28. The Galatians were already Christians. Paul wasn’t answering “what is salvation” or “who can be saved?” He was addressing “How do we live together as children of God?” The issue at hand is ecclesiology: who constitutes the people of God and on what grounds are they constituted?” This is not a matter of soteriology. They have “clothed themselves with Christ,” Abraham’s true “seed” (Gal. 3:15-18), Paul points out the result: since all are now ‘children of God through faith’ and all who have been baptized are thus clothed with Christ, there is therefore ‘neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
You are correct and I agree that the levitical priesthood was fulfilled in Christ and we are now all part of that new priesthood of believers. Peter 4:10–11 “ As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. Whoever speaks, is to do so as one who is speaking the utterances of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
“As i understand 1 TIm 2:8-15, the teaching restricted is that linked with authority in the public congregational setting. That is, the preaching from the pulpit so to speak. This is the responsibility of the elders.”
We’ve been over this before. There were no “pulpit so to speak” of’s to speak of and no “formal” cathedral style buildings to meet inside for “formal” services. No limitation of placement (outdoors or indoors) is put forth for teaching, preaching, evangelizing or worshiping. The burden of proof is on you to show that any of these are limited to only certain locations.