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Originally Posted by rdp
Yes, & every husband & wife who teach a home Bible study are now automatically in the official set-in office of the NT teaching-preaching Eldership - right  ?
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In the NT church there was no difference between "church meetings" and "home bible studies"!!! Do you picture them having buildings!!! ROFLMHO!!!!!
Christians simply gathered wherever they could and shared scripture, prophesied, gave testimonies, taught one another, etc. It was a very interactive meeting wherein there was open discussion. We didn't have one person up in the front delivering a sermonized monologue. That's a Roman Catholic custom that we continue in most traditional churches today.
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Anything to skirt the Word of God eh':
11 A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner....I am writing you these instructions so that, 15 if I am delayed, you will know how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church.
Shall I delve back into the specific syntax of these passages (all to be COMPLETELY IGNORED of course )?
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Borther, Paul wrote,
I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet
This has to do with a woman assuming authority over a man and trying to teach a group on her own brazen authority. If a quiet and submitted woman was called upon to address the group on a specific subject, she'd be under proper authority to do so. And she would humbly deliver her message and relinquish the floor to the elder when finished.
For example... Joyce Myers is way out of line in my opinion. She's functioning as an elder/pastor/bishop/overseer (whatever word you wish to use)... that's unbiblical. As a result, I don't receive Joyce Myers' ministry.
However, if the elder of our house church requested that my wife share something she's been studying with the gathering and she respectfully submitted what she was finding her in studies, broke into prophesying, and we happened to learn a thing or two...then she surrendered the floor to the elder when finished... that would be in perfect order.
Why? Because she's not assuming any authority over me or the elder. First, she'd have my support (a good elder always talks to the husband before asking a wife to speak). Second, she'd have the elder's support. She'd be under the authority of both her husband and the elder.
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