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1 Corinthians 14 : 33-40. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.
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1 Corinthians 14:33-40 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church. Or was it from you that the word of God came? Or are you the only ones it has reached? If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues. But all things should be done decently and in order.
Fitting in to God’s Good Order (How to Be Really Spiritual Part 2) 1 Cor. 14:33-40
Women’s Gifting Expressed in the Church • Facilitating a small group discussion • Leading a Ministry Team (Church or Outreach) • Sunday School Director • Missionary / Mission team member • Choir / Special Music leader • Admin Assistant to pastor • Church Finance Team • Church secretary • Women’s Ministry Leader • Trusted Woman leader -meeting with Elders to give perspective • Speaking into decisions at Church family meeting • Serving Communion • Participating in baptism of a friend or new believer • Writing books, articles, or studies with Bible teaching for the benefit of the body • Bible teaching to women’s study or class • Teaching Sunday school classes • Preaching the gospel at an Evangelistic event • Moderating a small group study discussion • Giving a Testimony on a Sunday morning • Giving an encouragement on a Sunday morning • Reading a scripture on Sunday morning • Reading Scripture in smaller settings • Teaching through Counseling Ministry • Teaching Children’s Sunday school • Teaching at kids outreach (VBS) • Singing in the worship team or as a solo with words of encouragement or scripture • Giving announcements on a Sunday morning • Ushering, Welcoming, Offering • Public Reading of Scripture • Public Prayer • Giving a word of Prophecy (encouragement, building up and edification within the guidelines of 1 Cor. 11-14) • Member of the ”Prayer Team” to pray with people after the service • Recognized as a servant leader over an outreach or public ministry of the church • Recognized as an evangelist sent from the church
Cultural Argument: • Women in Corinth were uneducated like most in the ancient world • Women in Corinth were separate from men in the gathering (possibly) • Women in Corinth are asking questions in a disruptive manner (possibly across the aisles) • Women in Corinth need to be silent and in order to avoid conusion in worship
Context Argument: • Women in the Corinthian Church were part of the congregation that is seeking to weigh the validity of tongues and prophesies expressed • Women in the church were speaking out and getting involved in the judging of theses gifts (possibly in a disruptive manner) • Women in the Corinthian church were in this way taking authority over the gathering • Women in the Corinthian church need to realize that this action is out of order in the worship of the church • Women in the Corinthian church need to show God’s established creative order by: • not exercising this authority in the church (be silent) AND • expressing this order in the home as well (ask husbands) • This is a principle that is part of God’s creative order throughout the OT (“The Law”) • Male headship in home and church is to be upheld in all the churches as an expression of God’s creative order
3. Men & Women In God’s Good Order v. 34-35
1 Timothy 2:12-13 I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve…
Views of Women’s Roles in the Church GOVERNING: • Elder / Pastor • Speaking Judgement over Prophecy in the gathered church • Small Group Leader • Overseeing Baptism or Communion Service -------------------------------------------------- • Sung Worship leader for Sunday • Director of Christian Education ------------------------------------------------ • Deacon / Servant Leader • Facilitating a small group discussion • Leading a Ministry Team (Church or Outreach) • Sunday School Director • Missionary / Mission team member • Choir / Special Music leader • Admin Assistant to pastor • Church Finance Team • Church secretary • Women’s Ministry Leader • Trusted Woman leader -meeting with Elders to give perspective • Speaking into decisions at Church family meeting • Serving Communion • Participating in baptism of a friend or new believer
Views of Women’s Roles in the Church TEACHING: • Preaching /Teaching to the whole congregation -------------------------------------------------- • Sharing a teaching at a special service or event (First Wednesday) • Giving a teaching as part of a class (Adult Sunday school or Wed. Night classes) • Team teaching a class • Teaching a “College Age” group or “Youth group” -------------------------------------------------- • Writing books, articles, or studies with Bible teaching for the benefit of the body • Bible teaching to women’s study or class • Teaching Sunday school classes • Preaching the gospel at an Evangelistic event • Moderating a small group study discussion • Giving a Testimony on a Sunday morning • Giving an encouragement on a Sunday morning • Reading a scripture on Sunday morning • Reading Scripture in smaller settings • Teaching through Counseling Ministry • Teaching Children’s Sunday school • Teaching at kids outreach (VBS) • Singing in the worship team or as a solo with words of encouragement or scripture
Views of Women’s Roles in the Church Public Recognition as a Leader: • Being ordained as a pastor or elder or perform “ministerial functions” -------------------------------------------------- • Paid member on “pastoral staff” (Women's care worker, Counseling ministry, Children’s Ministry, Administrative Assistants, etc.) • Being in the water to help perform baptism • Helping to serve Communion -------------------------------------------------- • Giving announcements on a Sunday morning • Ushering, Welcoming, Offering • Public Reading of Scripture • Public Prayer • Giving a word of Prophecy (encouragement, building up and edification within the guidelines of 1 Cor. 11-14) • Member of the ”Prayer Team” to pray with people after the service • Recognized as a servant leader over an outreach or public ministry of the church • Recognized as an evangelist sent from the church
– D.A. Carson The unleashed power of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament Spirit Filled age, must be exercised in a framework of order, intelligibility, appropriateness, dignity and peace, for that is the nature of the God we worship.
– John Greenleaf Whittier Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Dear Lord and Father of mankind, Forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, In purer lives Thy service find, In deeper reverence, praise. Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.
