Why It Matters

What You Believe

Agenda

• Women in early times• Women in the New Testament• Women’s roles • Why it matters what we believe

Women in early times

• Greek Culture• Roman Culture• Jewish Culture

Aristotle384 BC – 322 BC

Women in the New Testament

• Christ’s interaction with women– Matt 1:1-17;Luke 7:36

• Both bound by marriage and divorce laws– Matt 19:9; Mark 10:11-12

• Both equal in salvation– Gal 3:28

Women’s roles

• Manage the house– 1 Tim 5:14– DISCUSSION: What do you

think “manager the house means?

• Servant– Rom 16:1-2; Php 4:2-3– DISCUSSION: What ways can

women be servants in the church?

Women’s roles

• Teaching younger women– Titus 2:1-5

• Teaching children– 2 Tim 1:1-5

• Teaching with husbands in home studies– Acts 18:24-26

Why it matters what we believe

• No New Testament examples of women teaching or leading men– 1 Tim 2:12– DISCUSSION: Is this verse

enough guidance on women not teaching men?

• Women are to keep silent in church– 1 Cor 14:34-35– DISCUSSION: Where does this pertain today?

Why it matters what we believe

• The woman’s role is not inferior in the “body of the church”– I Cor 12:12-31