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#152 - Can women lead in church? Why does 1 Timothy tell women to ’be silent’?

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What Do You Think the Bible Says About Men and Women?

Lisa: I think both of those words are misleading okay because it does seem to me that men and women are different. There is a considerable overlap so that men tend to be this way out and women tend to be that way out but there are many many overlaps, she says. In a sense I saw this when we first ordained women in the 90s as Dean of Litchfield - Mary Gray argued from the pulpit very strongly that we ought to ordain women due to their radically different gifts. Lisa: God does want different giftedness right across the board in church leadership and ministry.

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