Category Woman’s Ministry

Chapter 4  WOMAN’S MINISTRY IN THE CHURCH

In the Church’s life and witness, the woman has a sphere and a ministry as great and as necessary as in the home. It is natural that this should be so. Her special qualities, which God has given her, fit her to take this place. In all the man’s work, in the Church as well as in the home, she is the essential helper-companion.

It is natural that the same principles that govern the work of the woman in the home and its relation to the man’s work should also rule her ministry in the Church...

Chapter 5 MISUNDERSTOOD PASSAGES

There are two passages of Scripture that have been interpreted as contradicting all this evidence – 1 Cor. 14:34-35 and 1 Tim. 2:11-15 – and it will be necessary to examine them, keeping in mind carefully the rules governing the interpretation of Scripture given in chapter 1. As we do so we shall find that the difficulty is not so great as it may have seemed.

Before dealing with the interpretation of these passages it will be helpful to consider the meaning and Scriptural usage of the principal terms that are employed. The definitions, where not otherwise stated, are those given in the Concordances of Young and Strong.

Old Testament

Prophet – nabiy – “inspire...

Chapter 6 WHERE THE WOMAN’S MINISTRY DIFFERS

What then is the difference between the spiritual ministry of a woman and that of a man? Scripture makes it clear that there is a difference and that it based entirely upon the different qualities with which God has endowed the two. There enters into it no thought of disqualification due to inferiority of any kind.

The evidence in Scripture is always consistent in the matter. In the New Testament there is no change in principle...

Chapter 7 HER PERSONAL TESTIMONY

As with that of a man, a woman’s testimony is given by all that she is and does. She may preach and teach and seek to lead souls to Christ, but her real witness is through her daily life. Of our Lord it is stated, “The life was the light…” (Jn. 1:4).

In this regard there is, of course, much that is said in Scripture that applies equally to men and women. But there are several passages in which the counsel is directed particularly to women.  Two of these are of special interest, because, in the first place, of their importance, and, in the second place, of misunderstanding regarding their meaning.

Our Attitude

The misunderstanding has arisen through a f...

Chapter 8 IN THE HOME

God is perfect love, and it is with the wisdom of perfect love that He endowed the man and the woman with their special qualities. They are one and yet different; so much alike and yet in many ways not alike, needing each other both because of their likeness and their difference.

God did not make them to live and work apart, but to be a team – yes more than that, to be “one flesh”, actually welded into a bi-partite unit. We have seen that the great purpose of their existence was the manifestation of love. To express the nature which God had given him, man could not live alone. He needed a companion in love’s work and he needed to be able to create beings to love...