Kay

“You are right to say that there is no ‘gunaikos’ in either mention of ‘elders’ so therefore you rebut your own argument. 1 Tim 3:11 could be either deaconess or wives, but it definitely does not relate to elders? Do you agree?”
Mark,
How does that rubut my own argument? So, you think that, in 1 Timothy 3, Paul would single out the deacons’ wives as having special qualifications, while, in the same passage, he gives no qualifications for elder’s wives?
While I suppose that it is possible that elder’s wives were free from qualifications, why do you think these wives get off scott free?
Isn’t the elder just as important for the church body as the deacon?
Is that the practice in your church congregation?