A Woman’s Place in the Church

The role of women in Christian ministry is one of those subjects that tends to generate more heat than light, and more polarization than conversation. The primary reason being our tendency to take refuge in statements of scripture that seem to clearly support our view, while ignoring or explaining away those that do not. One of the most important interpretive principles to emerge from the Protestant Reformation was the Analogy of Faith, the simple belief that scripture must interpret scripture because scripture will never contradict itself. We’ll apply that principle to two important scriptural passages, 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 and 1 Timothy 2:11-12, with the sincere hope and desire of coming to a balanced, biblical understanding of “A Woman’s Place in the Church”.