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2009-08-29

I’m having a very hard time following this line of thinking….

Is he saying here that he believes that women are allowed to teach men? It’s just that they aren’t allowed to be an overseer because he deems that as the leadership role or to assess a man’s prophecy?
What if it’s a woman prophesying? Is she now able to make an assessment?
Also, overseers don’t, necessarily, teach or give prophecy, at least, not any more than a regular member of the congregation. The churches of the first century didn’t have “pastors”. We inherited that from the Catholic church that presupposes that only a few men are able to correctly interpret the Bible and that these few men must tell the rest of us what to believe the Bible says.
Rather, the overseer merely maintained order in the church.

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Original Article

Mike Seaver And Cheryl Schatz 1

2009-07-27