Women in the church are to be helpers and advisers, not the leaders over men.
Women can teach children, the younger married women and each other, even men at times as Aquilla and Priscilla taught together, a husband and wife team, but the roll of leader as in elders in the church gathering, is not the job of the woman. The woman has every right and has been designed to counsel men when needed, but she is not to usurp their authority. When a man resists the godly counsel of a woman led by the Holy Spirit, he then resists the ordinance of God.
In the military the generals continually have counselors around them that they listen to as well as heeding their warnings or instructions. This is similar to the position of the wife to the husband.
When a husband will not listen to his wife, continually making decisions without her counsel, he is in disobedience to God.
Ladies please remember that your roll does not mean you are lesser, only different. To aspire to anything other than what God meant for us is to disobey God's Word.
Article / Produced by TOW Project:
"While many devout Christians see a woman's function as a subordinate to a man, the word ezer in the original Hebrew overturns that idea. The woman was not created to serve the man, but to serve with the man. Without the woman, the man was only half the story. She was not an afterthought or an optional adjunct to an independent, self-sufficient man. God said in Genesis 2:18 that without her, the man's condition was "not good." God's intention in creating the woman for the man was for the two to be partners in the many tasks involved in stewarding God's creation. "
There are those who would judge a wife as a usurper merely for counseling her husband, this is not so and lacking understanding of God's Word. Remember that often our cultural teachings are not from God but man's idea based on personal desire.
It is God's Word we want not the opinions of unspiritual men or women.
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