Picking up on David's comment in the previous post, I thought I would ask the question: Is it a gospel issue when women preach/teach/lead biblestudy in a mixed setting?
By this I mean, is a woman sinning when she teaches a man?
I have heard it taught that it is a sin. That in fact it is sin in the same way that Eve sinned in the garden, ursurping the God-given order of creation.
I feel the tension. The jury is out in my decision making, but surely if it is a sin, then it is a gospel issue.
And what do we mean by gospel issue anyway?!
And if it is a gospel issue, how does that work itself out? Can a woman lead a service, read the bible in church or even pray in church? what about leading singing in church, is that teaching? and what about youth ministry?
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Why does sin = 'gospel issue'? I would have thought that a gospel issue was something worth dying for, something without which one is no longer a Christian. Something like the resurrection, the trinity, the incarnation. Aren't there a huge range of mistakes where one can be even sinfully wrong and yet this not threaten the gospel (except in an indirect way that all falsehood threatens all truth)?
Good point Byron, and I have done some more thinking on this since then.
I suppose when people are asking whether it is a 'gospel-issue' they are being cautioned not to continue living a life of sin.
If someone deliberately lives a life of sin, does that threaten their salvation and as such it is a gospel issue?
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