Lead Pastor Ashley Mathews preaches from the Book of Second Samuel on the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost.

Lead Pastor Ashley Mathews preaches from the Book of Second Samuel on the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost.

Associate Pastor Seth Primm preaches from the the Second Book of Samuel on the Eighth Sunday after Pentecost.

Associate Pastor Isaiah DeVyldere preaches from the the Second Book of Samuel on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost.

Lead Pastor Ashley Mathews preaches from the Psalms on the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost.

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

1. What is the relationship between this view of women leading in the church and human sexuality?
2. How were maleness and femaleness understood in Genesis? And should that inform how we understand it today?
3. What are the implications of Paul's call to mutual submission for marriages today?
4. Why were Paul's requirements for elders and deacons gender normative? Or were they?
5. 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?

Biblical references:

• Genesis 2
• Ephesians 5:21
• 1 Timothy 2:5,6, 3:4

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

Lead Pastor Ashley Mathews preaches from the Book of 1 Samuel on the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost.

Pastors Ashley Mathews and Isaiah DeVyldere discuss what the Bible has to say about the roles of men, women, and the Gospel.

Biblical references:

Ephesians 5:21-6:9

Philemon 1

1 Timothy 1, 2:8-3:1a

Acts 19, 20:17-38

Other works referenced:

Trinity Without Hierarchy: Reclaiming Nicene Orthodoxy in Evangelical Theology

Edited by Michael Bird and Scott Harrower.

The longer quote on “headship” and Ephesians 5 is from Icons of Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Theology for Women’s Ordination by William G. Witt, page 113. The quote from Dr. Craig Keener was from page 108 of the same work.

Dr. Sandra Glahn’s book Nobody's Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament