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Welcome back friends. We are diving into essentially what is the second half of the marriage

episode in talking about women in the church. So many of the passages that we discussed in the

marriage episode have implications for women in the church and the interpretations of scripture

on that topic. And so if you haven't listened to that episode, I do recommend going back

listening to it and using that as the foundation as we move into our discussion of what women

can and can't do according to the Bible when it comes to the church. Now, as we talked about in

that episode, there are two main camps or two main views on scripture regarding this topic.

They are complementarian and egalitarian. And the complementarian view is that men and women

are equal in value, but different in role. Whereas the egalitarian view is that men and women

are equal in value and interchangeable in role. So they can do all of the same things, roles,

leading, pastoring, et cetera, that a man could do. Whereas in most complementarian churches,

you are going to see a male pastor, either just a male head pastor with a variety of men and women

in the deacon and elder roles or in assistant pastor roles, or some churches, a more hardcore

complementarian church. It would be only men in all leadership roles and women would not be

leading in any capacity. So I do want to be sure to say, as we start this out, that there is a

spectrum of views on this issue across many denominations, you would tend to see more of a

complementarian stance in your Presbyterian or your PCA churches, your Southern Baptist churches,

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