Hello saints, in this episode we will make more distinctions between the terms, virgin (unmarried woman), and married woman or the Greek term 'gune.' The importance of this distinction is underlined in the rules or commands given to some types of women with certain status - married. For example, the woman who has a husband is under his authority but the woman who is unmarried is free from the authority of a husband to serve the Lord in a more consecrated manner -mentally - since she has not a husband to please as Paul tells us. This line of thinking results in us asking each other and ourselves whose authority are we under in a biblical sense? As a woman if married, or as a woman unmarried? How this relates to ministry in the formal church and duties at home is also something to look at. Ultimately, Paul's instruction is counter-intuitive to modern sensibilities, and seems chauvinistic, however, the apostles also command the husband to love his wife as Christ loves the church - his bride. To what extent to do we view Christian marriages as a union between Christ and his church? If so, what does that mean for us?