Lin

Cindy, What I am seeing was never taught in the SBC when I was a kid. My mom taught men all the time in an inner city church and no one thought a thing about it.  So did my grandmother back in the early 1900’s.  She was college educated  (Latin, Greek) where many in her rural home (men included) were not so she taught many bible studies at church and in her home.

It was a given they were not pastors but they did teach men and it was no big deal.

I think women had more opportunities to share their spiritual gifts back when society and the church thought they were ‘unequal’.