Emmanuel Community Church

1 Timothy 2:11-12

Ang babae'y magaral na tumahimik na may buong pagkapasakop,Nguni't hindi ko ipinahihintulot na ang babae ay magturo, ni magkaroon ng pamumuno sa lalake, kundi tumahimik.

Sharing with you the summary of what i have read....

Some basic principles. Every single believer in the Body of Christ has an important role to play, whether male or female. Every one of us is a "body part", and the Body needs all of its parts. There is no one who has accepted Jesus and who is faithfully following Him for whom God has not provided or is not preparing a ministry that person is meant to accomplish for Jesus' Church. The gifts given by the Spirit to accomplish the various ministries God intends are many, the rows in the vineyard are many, and the results determined by God are also of various sorts (1Cor.12:4-6), and it is on the basis of how well we carry out the actual ministries God assigns (rather than the role we may wish to play), that we are eternally rewarded. Therefore, from the very start, we need to approach this question as one of God's will, not our own will. Every believer has to respond to the will of God, to the leading of the Spirit, picking up their cross and following Christ. God will make clear to each and everyone of us what it is He wants us to do.

In 1st Timothy 2:11-15, Paul's rationale, clearly given is one of authority: just as the man is to be the authority in a marriage (as has been the case since Adam and Eve), so in a local church, men should be the ones in authority. But this comparison has other ramifications as well (there’s a different discussion about marriage). Galatians 3:28 states that in Christ there is no "male or female", and Peter emphasizes the fact that women are men's "fellow heirs of the grace of life" (1Pet.3:7).

And so no one (man or woman) should make a habit of teaching about the scripture unless

1) they have been given the gift of teaching by the Holy Spirit (1Cor.12:11);

2) they have prepared themselves by long and diligent study to do so (2Tim.2:15);

3) they have been led into a particular ministry by God (cf. 1Cor.12:4-6).

Therefore if someone - male or female - is setting themselves up as a teacher of the Word of God without being gifted, prepared, and called by God to do so, such a ministry is clearly not of God.

Finally, woman who wants to truly serve God will be led (just as all believers are lead) into the perfect ministry for her, whatever that may be. From a more general standpoint, it is true that women preachers are a sign of the times, but more one of the abdication of responsibility by men than of anything else