Kay

Kristin,
Basically, it does always seem to boil down to the matter of presuppositions reading the text. Mark’s approach views “masculine” words in Greek mean that the word is masculine because according to him, quote: “It was only for specific men to fulfill that role. This is plain scriptural fact, not legalism.” Clearly, it’s part and parcel of the foundation of his faith – along with ‘formal’ church being conducted inside a ‘church’ building with a pulpit because that is the only setting in which ‘authoritative’ teaching or preaching can take place. In fact, that appears to be how he can tell the difference between ‘authoritative’ teaching and any other ‘ministry.’