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S2 Ep1028: Women in Church Leadership, pt. 1: An Update from My Journey

Theology in the Raw

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Women in Churches - Is This a Good Idea?

Paul never listed wealth and owning a large home as criteria for leadership. Does the New Testament endorse a church structure where wealthy, prestigious homeowners rule the roost? This is my biggest question about this. I'm asking around, what am I missing here? Because it seems like an obvious point. Can we quickly assume that the wealthy women who own the homes large enough to host churches were automatically counted as their overseers? It's questionable whether we should quickly map this hierarchical structure onto the first century,. Ecclesia had radically reshaped by some countercultural values of hierarchy, power, and honor.

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