gengwall

“Both the immediate contexts of the passages refer to the ‘formal’ if i can call it that assembly of believers. Not bible study, not youth, not mission, not bible college, but ‘church’.”

Are not bible study, youth group, missions, and bible college classrooms “assemblies of believers”? What differentiates these from the type of assembly Paul is addressing? If indeed these can not be classified as “church”, where are the scriptural guidelines that define who can teach in these other “contexts”? What differentiates these different assemblies of believers from “church” which makes it ok for women to teach in them but not in “church”? Where are the defining what’s, where’s, when’s, and how’s that guide us to know when we can accept women teaching and when we can’t?