Should Women Teach Doctrine?
Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;
When Paul says women are not to teach, he's referring to women being pastors of the local assembly.
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence." 1 Tim 2:11-12. Now, this doesn't mean that women can't teach at all, but they are not to be the pastors of the local assembly. And, He says "nor to usurp authority over the man" in reference to keeping order in the church. Women should NOT be pastors of the local assembly. And they should also NOT be "calling out" or "exposing" specific false teachers especially if they are men. Again this would be a woman usurping authority over the man. Even if she calls out other women teachers, it actually should be male elders doing so and really they should be speaking to the woman's husband about it so that her husband can gently reprove her. If the husband is in agreement with his wife teachings, then that is all you can do. It's between them and the Lord. Women can teach doctrine at other times and places like women's bible study groups, one-on-one with other women, as part of a home church with her husband leading (like Aquila and Priscilla), on social media, podcasts, YouTube and blogs directed primarily towards women (like my ministry; men are free to listen as well but my studies are directed towards women), etc.
For example, when Aquilla and Priscilla taught Appollos more about Christ's heavenly ministry because all he had known was regarding John the Baptists kingdom gospel!
Acts 18:26
“And he [Apollos] began to speak boldly in the synagogue: whom when Aquila and Priscilla [Husband and wife] had heard, they took him unto them, [not just unto her husband!] and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly.”
I also personally believe that Lydia may have been a women's bible study teacher for other women after her conversion. She might have helped to spread the gospel after her conversion. I would imagine the same happened to other women at that time. The reason I believe this is because based upon my own understanding of Paul's Epistles and the grace message is that ALL believers are to share the Gospel of the grace of God with others, 2) read, study and believe God's word rightly divided and allow Christ to live in and through us and then 3) teach other fellow believers sound grace doctrine rightly divided as we understand it ourselves so that they can "come unto the knowledge of the truth."
1 Timothy 2:4 KJV: Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
In Acts 16:14-15 KJB it says, "14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.
15 And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there. And she constrained us."
First, this woman was a wealthy business woman. Secondly, it says that she worshipped God. She may have been a European proselyte who had in the past converted to Judaism. But now, God had opened her heart and she heard and believed Paul's Gospel. In fact she is known as the very first European convert [which is also why she was water baptized because it was something that Paul was still doing at that time as part of the dispensational transition]. I can only imagine that after that, she would have spent time sharing the Gospel with others and perhaps also teaching other women more about Paul's Gospel. It's also important to note that she was really open to hearing the gospel and "attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul." If only more people were like that today!
Some groups believe that women should only be teaching other women regarding issues pertaining only to women (like homemaking, child care etc). And though these are important issues, they are also mostly CARNAL, EARTHLY issues. How your house is decorated is not an eternal issue! I love being a homemaker myself, but I also understand that things like home decor, clothing, etc are temporary, earthly things.
Many women's ministries that only teach "biblical womanhood" tend to be very focused on earthly issues and are most often also legalistic. If you are trying to keep house, raise children and live modestly, but are doing so from the energy of your flesh instead of Christ living in and through you, it will equal loss of rewards in heaven! Instead, we need to have sound grace doctrine built up in our inner man and then allow Christ to live in and through us in the details of our lives, including with our homemaking, raising children etc.
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