The Future Role of Women in the Church
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 NKJ
Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not
permitted to speak; but they are to be submissive, as the law also
says. And if they want to learn something, let them ask their own
husbands at home; for it is shameful for women to speak in church.
1 Timothy 2:11-12 NKJ
Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit
a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in
silence.
Judges 4:4-5 NKJ
Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, was judging Israel
at that time. And she would sit under the palm tree of Deborah
between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. And the
children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Romans 16:1-7 NKJ
I commend to you Phoebe our sister, who is a servant of the church
in Cenchrea, that you may receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy
of the saints, and assist her in whatever business she has need of
you; for indeed she has been a helper of many and of myself also.
Greet Priscilla and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus, who
risked their own necks for my life, to whom not only I give thanks, but
also all the churches of the Gentiles. Likewise greet the church that is
in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of
Achaia to Christ. Greet Mary, who labored much for us. Greet
Andronicus and Junia, my countrymen and my fellow prisoners, who
are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Cultural battle: between Judaism and Hellenism
Galatians 3:26-29 NKJ
For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many
of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither
male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are
Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the
promise.
1 Corinthians 11:5-16
But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered
dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were
shaved. For if a woman is not covered, let her also be shorn. But if it
is shameful for a woman to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, since he is the image
and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. For man is not from
woman, but woman from man. Nor was man created for the woman,
but woman for the man. For this reason the woman ought to have a
symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Nevertheless, neither is man independent of woman, nor woman
independent of man, in the Lord. For as woman came from man,
even so man also comes through woman; but all things are from God.
Judge among yourselves. Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with
her head uncovered? Does not even nature itself teach you that if a
man has long hair, it is a dishonor to him? But if a woman has long
hair, it is a glory to her; for her hair is given to her for a covering. But
if anyone seems to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor do
the churches of God.
1 Corinthians 14:34-36 MSG
Wives must not disrupt worship, talking when they should be
listening, asking questions that could more appropriately be asked of
their husbands at home. God’s Book of the law guides our manners
and customs here. Wives have no license to use the time of worship
for unwarranted speaking. Do you—both women and men—imagine
that you’re a sacred oracle determining what’s right and wrong? Do
you think everything revolves around you?
1 Timothy 2:11-12 NKJ
Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit
a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in
silence.
1 Timothy 2:11-12 MSG
I don’t let women take over and tell the men what to do. They should
study to be quiet and obedient along with everyone else.
Genesis 1:27-28 NKJ
So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He
created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed
them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and
subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of
the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
• God requires intimacy to multiply.
• If Satan can stop intimacy he can stop multiplication.
Ways Satan Stops Multiplication:
• Pornography
• Homosexuality
• Gender Identity
• Divorce
• Abortion
What the Bible Says to Men About Women:
- Women were created to be your helper.
Genesis 2:18 NKJ
And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; I will
make him a helper comparable to him.” - Women are God’s gift to man.
Proverbs 18:22 NKJ
He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from the
Lord. - Women were created to compliment men.