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).
• Two Views on Women in Ministry by Linda L. Belleville, chapter 1, 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

• (00:00) - Tempo: 120.0
• (00:00) - Introduction
• (01:26) - Question 1: What is the relationship with the view that men and women should be leading side by side in the Church—based on gifting, not gender—and questions about human sexuality?
• (06:38) - Question 2: How are maleness and femaleness understood in Genesis, and how should that inform or not inform how we understand it today?
• (10:16) - Question 3: What are the implications of Paul's call to mutual submission in Ephesians 5 for marriages today?
• (23:10) - Question 4: Why were Paul's requirements for elders and deacons gender normative, or were they?
• (31:41) - Question 5: If there were such amazing women leading in the early Church after Pentecost and throughout the New Testament, why do we not see a continuation of women leading in the Church?
• (42:18) - Conclusion