The Role Of Christian Women

A person with a ‘band-shirt’(Hollister, Old Navy, Tommy Hilfiger, etc.) to worship/Call attention to things rather than to the God who is worthy of our worship/Standard for APPEARANCE

Food is presented differently during special events than is usually done at home/Standard for APPEARANCE

Application:

?What is your Standard for APPEARANCE?

?What are the Standards of Responsibility?

2—A Responsibility of Christian women is found in her...

Standard for SUBMISSION(:11-14)

Explanation: (:11-12, 13-14)

:11—“Let a woman learn in silence with all submission.”

Could these verses possibly be more controversial to an egalitarian society such as ours(& most others)?

**Taken wrongly, this verse presents Paul as an archaic, chauvanistic, prejudiced, woman-hater(misogynist), who wanted to ‘put women in their place.‘

—However the reality is that such a characterization is absolutely unwarranted, is entirely worldly, societally driven & thus blasphemous. If a person reverts to such belief they cannot & will not be sold-out to God in Christ.

**Likewise...If Paul is relegated to archaic & limited, personal prejudicial ramblings then the authority of Scripture itself comes into question!**

**Scripture too becomes archaic & limited to mere history on a par with any other historical writer & their prejudices & limitations. However, Scripture should be seen for what it really is—an objectively true historical account of universal truth & thus applicable to all generations. Societal histories can be seen in Scripture because it is accurate history.

—If you claim Christ as your Savior, you must wrestle with the facts regardless of what the culture tells you. Yet we must also regard worldly/secular interpretations of Scripture(no matter how distorted & strange) in order to engage & reach them with the Gospel. These practices help the Christian to be better attuned to the utter practicality of God’s truth, & are thereby faith builders.

*The typical Jewish relationship of the time(not necessarily biblical) was that women were not actively sought out for learning God’s truth. It was strictly for men. This was also true in pagan Greek societies (Ref. John MacArthur—1Timothy).

It was the prerogative of a woman to maintain the proper functioning of the household(children, sustenance), while a man’s was to provide opportunities for such maintenance both physically & spiritually.

Paul is commanding(“Let”) Timothy that the women be allowed to learn...that they be actively taught—A truly phenomenal unprecedented/novel/unorthodox/unconventional/innovative & controversial idea.

*The “learning” of a Christian woman is to be undertaken within a particular attitudinal context & spirit. Such a spirit is driven & couched within the same “manner” as is her public presentation(:9-10).

The Christian woman is ‘the complete package’ of godliness as a learner from adult men rather than a teacher of them.

As such a learner she is to maintain a personal stillness borne of godly “submission” to the teaching of godly, prayerful men.