Read Part One HERE
In this post I will compare Professor Wayne A. Grudem's lists of 83 church activities with a list of activities the Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Corinth about as inspired by the Holy Spirit. This list can be found in I Corinthians 12:28
Professor Wayne A. Grudem has said the following:
Scripture teaches some restrictions on the roles women may fill in the Church. Generally these restrictions fall into three areas:
!. Governing authority.
2. Bible teaching.
3. Public recognition or visibility.
There are three lists of activities:
In List 1, I proceed from areas of greater governing authority to areas of lesser authority.
In List 2, I proceed from areas of greater public recognistion and visibility to areas of lesser visibility.
In List 3, I proceed from greater public recognition and visibility to areas of lesser visibility.
My comment:
The job descriptions mentioned in these three lists comprise of a total of 83 positions in the church in order to establish which functions are acceptable to women and which functions are not acceptable to women.
We will now compare these lists of church activities with a list of church activities the Apostle Paul wrote about in I Corinthians 12:28 as inspired by the Holy Spirit
And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.
The above list of spiritual gifts does not specifically mention that any of these gifts may not be acceptable to women because, apparently, the Holy Spirit does not make a distinction between male and female believers when giving out His gifts.
In my next post I will compare Professor Wayne A. Grudem's list of 83 church activities with another list compiled by the Apostle Paul as inspired by the Holy Spirit, which can be found in Romans 12:6-8.
Read Part Four HERE
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