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Question & Response Episode: Women in Church
Today’s is a Question & Response episode focusing on our Women in Church series from a few weeks back. Keep sending in your questions, we love them!
Keep any questions you have about this topic, or any other topic coming! We’ll do our best to answer them in future episodes. Email [email protected]
SHOW NOTES:
[00:12] Introduction: We’re diving into questions that have come up since we started talking about women in ministry and in marriage!
[02:45] Question #1: Doesn’t the text of 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6, when it states that elders/overseers must be a “one woman man,” imply that they must be male? This clause is more about the “oneness” rather than the “maleness” of the leader. It would be clunky and difficult to say it any other way. There is no gender-neutral term in either Greek or Hebrew for “person” or “spouse.”
[14:55] Question #2 In our marriage episode Jeff stated that “the need to create an authoritarian structure is actually about a desire to place blame.” What does that mean, and can we flesh that out? Part of the desire to allow someone else to be in authority over me is comfortable because I am allowed to blame them and not take responsibility. What’s the role of taking blame and responsibility as the leader? And what could it mean for both partners to take equal responsibility?
Next Jeff tried to get Tyler to answer one of two remaining questions… Tyler couldn’t help himself and answered both anyway!
[27:10] Question #3 What’s your take on 1 Peter 3 and the way it refers to marriage and submission? The main take-away is that Peter is more focused on wives being a witness to their non-believing husbands which might explain the more “intense” tone.
[29:50] Question #4 “headship” - Does head/ headship mean leadership authority or source or what? Tyler is more convinced than ever that the word means “source” far more than “authority.” In Greek, the work Kephale (head) is most often used for the metaphor of source rather than leader. Tyler gets nerdy and takes us through the Hebrew Bible, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and the usage of this word in Greek. We look at other uses in the New Testament and show that “source” also works there—1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 1:18; 2:10.
There are a lot of passages that talk about us “ruling,” and sharing in Jesus’ authority, being God’s “kingdom of priests.” But the passages about men and women should not have an authority structure applied there. We are all, men and women, ransomed by the blood of the lamb to be his kingdom of priests who rule on the earth (Revelation 5)
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By Jeff Holmes with Tyler Allred
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Today’s is a Question & Response episode focusing on our Women in Church series from a few weeks back. Keep sending in your questions, we love them!
Keep any questions you have about this topic, or any other topic coming! We’ll do our best to answer them in future episodes. Email [email protected]
SHOW NOTES:
[00:12] Introduction: We’re diving into questions that have come up since we started talking about women in ministry and in marriage!
[02:45] Question #1: Doesn’t the text of 1 Timothy 3:2 and Titus 1:6, when it states that elders/overseers must be a “one woman man,” imply that they must be male? This clause is more about the “oneness” rather than the “maleness” of the leader. It would be clunky and difficult to say it any other way. There is no gender-neutral term in either Greek or Hebrew for “person” or “spouse.”
[14:55] Question #2 In our marriage episode Jeff stated that “the need to create an authoritarian structure is actually about a desire to place blame.” What does that mean, and can we flesh that out? Part of the desire to allow someone else to be in authority over me is comfortable because I am allowed to blame them and not take responsibility. What’s the role of taking blame and responsibility as the leader? And what could it mean for both partners to take equal responsibility?
Next Jeff tried to get Tyler to answer one of two remaining questions… Tyler couldn’t help himself and answered both anyway!
[27:10] Question #3 What’s your take on 1 Peter 3 and the way it refers to marriage and submission? The main take-away is that Peter is more focused on wives being a witness to their non-believing husbands which might explain the more “intense” tone.
[29:50] Question #4 “headship” - Does head/ headship mean leadership authority or source or what? Tyler is more convinced than ever that the word means “source” far more than “authority.” In Greek, the work Kephale (head) is most often used for the metaphor of source rather than leader. Tyler gets nerdy and takes us through the Hebrew Bible, the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, and the usage of this word in Greek. We look at other uses in the New Testament and show that “source” also works there—1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 1:18; 2:10.
There are a lot of passages that talk about us “ruling,” and sharing in Jesus’ authority, being God’s “kingdom of priests.” But the passages about men and women should not have an authority structure applied there. We are all, men and women, ransomed by the blood of the lamb to be his kingdom of priests who rule on the earth (Revelation 5)