Here's Nancy Lee-Demoss.

Women in the church can be either a great blessing or they can do incredibly great damage.

They can make the gospel believable or they can cause people to turn away from Christ.

It's Tuesday, June 6th, and you're listening to Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee-Demauze.

Let's join Nancy as she begins a new series called The Attractive Christian Woman.

I want to start a series today on what I think is one of the most important New Testament passages,

perhaps one of the most important passages in all of God's word for us as women.

It's one of those passages that speaks directly and specifically to us as women.

And as I've been studying these two verses, I have found just a wealth of not only information,

but material that is transforming my own heart, my life, my thinking

as I've been studying.

And in fact, even late last night, I found the Lord really using this passage to challenge

my own heart and to bring conviction and to show me areas that really need to change in my

own walk with the Lord. So I want to share with

you just some fresh thoughts that have been in my heart in relation to 1 Timothy chapter 2

verses 9 and 10. 1 Timothy 2 9 and 10. And you may want to turn there if you have your Bible.

We're going to spend several sessions just looking at these two verses and unpacking

what it has to say for us as women. If we want to be counter-cultural women, this is the verse

that tells us how to do it. Now, I want to give you a context in this first session for this passage

and show you where it fits and give you kind of an overview and then we'll look

in the next few sessions at a phrase at a time. The context here in the book of First Timothy is that

the Apostle Paul is giving Timothy, who's the pastor of the church in Ephesus, he's giving

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