Michael Terran

what do you make of the phrase “in the Lord”?
i know some who use this phrase as a kind of ’spiritual’ status in Christ, rather than applicable to ministry/ roles in the church body …just as some argue Gal 3:28 is ‘purely’ salvation ’status’…

….”in the Lord”?

Paul is speaking to “BELIEVERS” or if you claim to be a believer don’t live like a pagan or follow the ways of the pagans!

1 Corinthians 1:11 However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.

In other words as believers we don’t treat our women like the pagans do vice verse etc. We are all one/equals!

Cheryl sums it up good:

There is to be no competition between men and women because God has overridden any advantage that one has over the other. Men and women are interdependent (verse 11) because in the beginning God created man to be the source of the woman but since then woman has been the one to produce the man. However God is the ultimate source not any man or woman because all things originate through Him.

So you see there is no or shouldn’t be no battle of the sexes in the church, the battle of the sexes is pagan/of the world/from the fall/sin! This should not be in the Church/Among Believers! Paul is cleaning house and setting matters straight!