11 thoughts on “Who and What are Women to Teach”

1. How timely. My wife and I were just talking about this just last night. She had gone to lunch with a friend and this subject came up. Both women agreed that the Bible is very clear no matter how people try to slice and dice it – women are not to teach men.

   This is a subject that both my wife and I had discussed in college together and with friends and have been consistent on for over 30 years. Even with female friends who feel they had been called to the ministry. The Bible is very clear and no matter how many different translations you get, KJV, NKJV, ESV, etc. you will always come to the same conclusion – woman are not to teach men, women are to be silent in church, ask their husbands (the other elders or father if not married or widowed) in private about theological issues. The original words have not changed, the original concept has not changed. There is a order to God’s law and plans. He spelled it out in nature and has had the authors of the Bible spell it out in words we humans can understand. Men are to submit to God, men are to be the leaders of the home and community, women are to be the helpmates, women are to submit themselves to their husbands, and together the father and mother are to raise children to be servents of the Lord in much the same way as they are servents of the Lord. We all have many chores to do and we have been called to different missions, yet through it all each sex, male or female, have specific roles and functions in the family, clan, tribe, and nation.

   There has been the discussion about us living in a different time where women are in the work force more and women have more education, and on and on. Well some of that is true but that does not make that right under God’s law. Just because society around us wants to violate God’s law does not mean we in the Church have to change our message to be attractive to the society around us. The message, the gospel, God’s law is going to be offensive to some. Some people just simply reject God. We should not sweat that. We are to keep ourselves pure and holy. We are only responsible for our actions. This is why I have a hard time with those who are so vocal against the simple teaching you present here for other women. They want to sin and to reduce the guilt of their sin they want us all to sin likewise.

2. Thank you, Tiny Tim. Great comment!

3. Are women allowed to teach other children, say in a Sunday school class? Or should only men be teaching children in Sunday school classes?

4. It’s up to the elders of the church and the fathers of the children how they deal with this, Steffani. God commands parents to be the ones to pass on their faith to their children so this is what parents need to focus upon.

5. A sweet older woman in our church began to tell me that she approached one of the mothers in our congregation (who happens to be the children’s Sunday School director) to organize and lead the women’s retreat this year at our church. She explained that she as an older woman is supposed to be teaching the younger women to do these things and that she personally thinks it is time for the younger women to start taking over these “jobs” that currently mainly the older women do. She also suggested she might be trying to recruit me as well.

   A red flag went off since I know from Scriptures that the older women are to be teaching the younger women to love their husbands and children, discreet, good, obedient to their own husbands, keepers at Home, etc.

   To me that is in conflict with being active in the church. I have been asked before to do other things like helping out with youth group, and vbs, and I have helped many times in the past. There is always this pull to help from the older women and I feel guilty at times and it bothers me throughout my days because I wrestle with it.

   I love being a keeper at home, teaching my children, taking care of my husband, and growing in Christ. Whenever I have ever helped in the past I inevitably had to neglect these things to some degree and I really don’t want to do that anymore.

   I would love to know your thoughts on this.

6. You are doing exactly what the LORD has called you to do, Gabrielle! Marry, bear children and guide the home – the wonderful job the LORD has given to us.

7. There is such freedom in knowing I am doing what the Lord has called me to do.

8. I think it is so interesting that Paul addressed this issue. It makes me think that things weren’t so different back then, that perhaps there were women who wanted to take this position or at least it was a potential situation. I have no problem with seeing my husband as my leader, not that I am as supportive as I want to be at times. I see leadership as a serving position, too. He sacrifices so much for us in this role. I think anyone who has had to lead anything knows that to do it well means you are working for he best of those under you, not for yourself.

9. Why did Jesus include women and speak to women intellectually in public? Why did Jesus speak and accept women after they approached him and public? The first person to preach that Jesus had risen was a woman to men. Again, at a time when women were second class citizens and to be at home. To approach men and to talk to them was socially unacceptable. Personally, I will go with what Jesus said and did. If Mary Magdeline had stuck with social mores (even after Jesus approached her in the graveyard) nobody might not have known about it.

10. Jesus loved women. He died for them and He is the One who created them. Women at home are not second class citizens. They are living in obedience to the LORD’s perfect will for them. The women who went and told the disciples that Jesus had risen were not preaching in a church nor were they in authority over men. The Apostle Paul wrote down everything the LORD Jesus told him to write. It’s all from the LORD and is all biblical.

11. According to Genesis, women have always liked to take control and it began with Eve, Tamra. We aren’t any different than her. Yes, some leaders are servants and some are not but wives are still instructed to follow their husbands where they lead in obedience to the LORD.

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