After years of being a bit confused about the topic of women in ministry, I set out to spend months researching the topic in great detail to produce this exhaustive teaching series on the topic. In today's teaching we will cover several topics that, to be honest, I didn't really think much about as a complementarian. These egalitarian arguments really do challenge some complementarians ideas in a good way. Though I can't agree with them all the way through.

1) Was Jesus training women to be rabbis/teachers?
2) Does the fact that women were persecuted imply that they were in leadership?
3) What about the egalitarian argument that men and women both can have the gifts of teaching or leadership? If women are gifted in those areas, can't they express those gifts in the biblical role of elder?
4) The Bible clearly indicates that all believers are priests. Does this mean that women, who are also priests in Christ, can be elders? And does this challenge the idea that a man is the priest of his home?
5) If women in the NT times freely prophesied at church gatherings, to mixed sex audiences, why can't they teach in that same context? Doesn't prophecy involve an element of teaching?

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Time Stamp Guide:

0:00 – Intro

1. 7:12 Persecuted women = women leaders
2. 17:50 Jesus trained women to be rabbis
3. 28:23 If NT women are priests, they can be elders, too
4. 59:35 Women prophets = women elders
5. 1:33:38 Spiritual gifts in women means they can teach and lead
   2:08:53 Today’s conclusion and summary