When I began teaching women biblical womanhood 26 years ago, we would meet in a home and sit in a big circle. I went through “Created to Be His Help Meet” with the women. It was mostly a discussion. Women would ask me questions. I would teach through the answers. It was an incredible time! I also mentored many women one-on-one in our homes (mine or theirs). I would also have women over for lunch, show them how to make my bread, and answer any questions they had.

This seems like the way God intended it to be, not a woman acting as a pastor and preaching to a church full of women as Women’s Bible Studies do these days. Even now that I teach online, there is a lot of interaction with women in the comment section. I have no authority over anyone, and I am in my home!

Gill in his commentary, wrote this: “But I suffer not a woman to teach, They may teach in private, in their own houses and families; they are to be teachers of good things, Titus 2:3. They are to bring up their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord; nor is the law or doctrine of a mother to be forsaken, any more than the instruction of a father; see Proverbs 1:8. Timothy, no doubt, received much advantage, from the private teachings and instructions of his mother Eunice, and grandmother Lois; but then women are not to teach in the church; for that is an act of power and authority, and supposes the persons that teach to be of a superior degree, and in a superior office, and to have superior abilities to those who are taught by them.”

So, how should biblical womanhood be taught to women. It’s not being taught in most churches, not in the Women’s Bible studies, and not by the older women. In 2019, I wrote a book Biblical Womanhood: A Study Guide. I wrote it thinking it would be great to have an older, wise woman in each church gather as many other older women together as possible in her home and teach these older women biblical womanhood since most older women were never taught it. Then, the leadership in the church would hopefully set up a list of these older women that the younger women in the church could sign up with. These older women could then all meet with a group of younger women in the older women’s homes. They could go through my study guide and learn basic homemaking skills together. They could ask marriage and child raising questions. The groups shouldn’t be more than ten or so in order to build intimacy within the groups, so women would feel comfortable sharing their concerns and questions. This, to me, is how biblical womanhood should ideally be taught OR older women going to younger women’s homes and mentoring them one-on-one. I have tried various ways, and this seems what would help the younger women the most and is the most biblical way to do it. (Maybe hire a few teenage homeschooling girls to babysit if with a group to help with the children in the home or backyard.)

The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
Titus 2:3-5

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