Women in Leadership - Part 2

Summary: Part 2 in the series on Women in Leadership within the church.

Scripture: 1 Timothy 2:11-15

Statement by Andrew as his current understanding:

• Paul was addressing a particular problem specific to the church at Ephesus in which false teaching was resulting in inappropriate behaviour. Paul was not necessarily giving a universal order to all women for all time not to teach or have authority over a man within the church context, but he was speaking against a domineering type of authority going on in Ephesus.

Women in Leadership - Part 1

Summary: Part 1 in the series on Women in Leadership within the church.

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35, 1 Timothy 2:11-15

The Challenges:

• The prohibition on teaching and exercising authority

• Who are the women that Paul is addressing?

• Why the appeal to the origin story? (Creation & Fall)

• Salvation through childbearing?

• The difference in biblical translation in regards to v.15?

• A universal principal for all time, or a correction for a specific situation?