In the final episode of the Men, Women & Gospel series, pastors Ashley Mathews and Isaiah DeVyldere respond to five questions submitted by listeners:

What is the relationship between this view of women leading in the church and human sexuality?
How were maleness and femaleness understood in Genesis? And should that inform how we understand it today?
What are the implications of Paul's call to mutual submission for marriages today?
Why were Paul's requirements for elders and deacons gender normative? Or were they?
If they were women leading in the early church after Pentecost, why do we not see a continuation of women leading in the church historically?

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Other works referenced:

Click HERE for a visual illustration of how male “headship” is taught in some Christian contexts (in contradiction to 1 Timothy 2:5,6).
The quote from Linda L. Belleville is from chapter one of the book Two Views on Women in Ministry published by Zondervan.
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire by Alan Kreider
The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries by Rodney Stark

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