QUESTIONS - Can Women Ask Pastors Questions, Or Only Their Husbands?
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🗓️ 3 June 2022
⏱️ 10 minutes
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“If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.” 1 Corinthians 14:35 ESV
The Bible seems to indicate that women should reserve their theological questions for their husbands. If so, how far should this principle be applied?
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| 0:21.7 | This is from With Love, Jillian. |
| 0:24.5 | How far should we apply Paul's instructions that women should ask their husbands at home, |
| 0:29.6 | any theological questions they have and not be outspoken in the church? |
| 0:34.6 | Great question. |
| 0:35.3 | Let's read it one more time. |
| 0:36.8 | This is from With Love, |
| 0:38.2 | Jillian. How far should we apply Paul's instructions that women should ask their husbands at home, |
| 0:44.5 | any theological questions they have, and not be outspoken in the church. All right, great question. |
| 0:50.2 | So this comes from 1st Corinthians 14. It comes from a lot of passages. |
| 0:55.7 | We see the principle at play. |
| 1:00.1 | So 1 Timothy chapter 2 versus 9 through 15, right? |
| 1:06.3 | I do not permit a woman to have any authority to teach or exercise any authority over a man. |
| 1:08.4 | She must be silent. |
| 1:10.7 | And so Paul goes into that. |
| 1:12.9 | She needs to be in submission. And then he pulls on the created order to bind his argument. So it's not cultural. He doesn't say, |
| 1:18.4 | because, you know, in our particular culture, you know, we want to be winsome and people want to, |
| 1:23.7 | they'd see this as radically feminist. And now that's, but Paul doesn't argue like Tim Keller. |
| 1:28.7 | So he argues biblically. And so he roots it not in some winsome cultural argument that |
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