Cheryl Schatz

Mark,
You said:

But in terms of ‘manly’ that is a distinction you are making.

Sure that is my own distinction as a way to express what you consider as male only. Do you have a problem with the term “manly”? If the gift of teaching is a male only gift, then surely it can be called a “manly” gift, eh? I would also be interested to know if you believe there are some “womanly” gifts that males are forbidden to use?

“Here you are implying that only those with the gift of prophecy need to be tested and those who have the gift of teaching the body are not to be tested in the same way.”
Not at all. IF you read it again what i am saying is that the prophecy of the NT is not the same as the prophecy of the OT because it is spirit led utterance and is instructed to be tested. I said this to show how it is wrong to make a large correlation between the prophecy of the OT and the NT which some egalitarians do in an attempt to enforce female pastors.

You seem to go off the topic again. The question was about testing those who teach. And no egalitarian needs to enforce female “pastors” for those whom God has not gifted will not be pastors. God gifts. Egalitarians do not create the gift and neither do complementarians. The body recognizes the gifts that God has given.