Women are essential to the church, and women's ministry is a vital part of a church's life.

A unique context for life-on-life fellowship and intergenerational discipleship, the health of a church's women's ministry can have a huge impact on the health of a church as a whole.

In my interview today, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Courtney Doctor and Joanna

Kimbril to discuss the state of women's ministry in the U.S. today.

They delve into the key questions and concerns that arise in women's ministry,

touching on practical issues like how to get started and what it looks like to encourage

life-on-life discipleship.

They also explore the topic of women's leadership and their role in complementarian churches,

offering advice to pastors and other church leaders who are eager to support the women in their church.

Courtney and Joanna have a lot of experience serving God's people,

and it was great to hear their wisdom

when it comes to what a healthy women's ministry should look like. Courtney serves as the director

of women's initiatives, and Joanna serves as a content coordinator for the gospel coalition.

Their new Bible study is called Behold and Believe, a Bible study on the I Am statements of Jesus

from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Courtney and Joanna, thank you so much for joining me on the Crossway podcast.

Yeah, thank you for having us.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

So Courtney, when you talk with women in the church,

what are the big issues that you most often get questions about? If you had to boil things down

to just a handful of topics, what are those? You know, I would say that most of the questions

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