Kay

F.F. Bruce’s: “Our application of the text should avoid treating the New Testament as a book of rules – We should not turn what were meant as guiding lines for worshippers in one situation into laws binding for all time – It is an ironical paradox when Paul, who was so concerned to free his converts from bondage of law, is treated as a law-giver for later generations. The freedom of the Spirit, which can be safeguarded by one set of guiding lines in a particular situation, may call for a different procedure in a new situation.”
“Whatever in Paul’s teaching promotes true freedom is of universal and permanent validity; whatever seems to impose restrictions on true freedom has regard to local and temporary conditions.”