Discovering God’s Plan for Women in the Church

 

Thank you for your interest in this study! The Elders are excited to have you join us as we study scripture and figure out God’s desire for women’s leadership in the church.

We encourage you to study this from all angles. It can be easy to only view sources you already agree with to try and defend your position. We encourage you to come into this study with an open mind as we study God’s word.

 

Approaching the Subject

Approaching this topic is not easy. To begin we thought we would share this video from Dr. Childeres who presented a humorous, yet very helpful look, at how different people genuinely approach this topic.

 
 
 

Discovery Series

This is a library of our Elders teaching on the subject from what they have learned. We hope you will take time to view them if you haven’t already.

 
 
 

Women and a Study of Cultures and Scripture

One of our elders, Kevin Garner, has put together a collection of thoughts regarding women and a study of cultures and scripture. It has a special emphasis on 1 Corinthians and 1 Timothy. You can check out the document by clicking below.

Women and a Study of Cultures and Script by Kevin Garner
 

Books to read.

Here are some resources that our leadership has read through during this study. Some of these have been read by all of our leadership. Some of these have only been read by one or two of our leadership. Take some time to check some of these out for your study.

A Community Without Barriers
A Woman Called by Sara Gaston Barton
The Blue Parakeet by Scot McKnight
God’s Good Design by Claire Smith
God's Woman Revisited by Gary T. Burke
I Permit Not a Woman to Remain Shackled by Robert Rowland
Male Spiritual Leadership by LaGard Smith
Neither Complementarian nor Egalitarian: A Kingdom Corrective to the Evangelical Gender Debate
Paul, Women & Wives by Craig S. Keener
Searching for the Pattern by John Mark Hicks
Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis
Two Views on Women in Ministry
What Paul Really Said About Women by John Temple Bristow
Women in the Church by Everett Ferguson
Women in the Chruch by Stanley J. Grenz
Women in the Church's Ministry by R. T. France
Women Serving God by John Mark Hicks
50 Crucial Questions by John Piper and Wayne Grudem