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Men and women in the church, part 3
The Bible & Gender 5.0
1 Corinthians 11:3-16; 14:29-35
by Eric Stillman 
May 13th, 2007

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As I read the literature on current church trends, I’ve found that there is a big movement among younger generations to try to recover the house church style of worship that was common in the early church.  Getting rid of buildings and paid pastors, having more dialogue than one-way sermons, giving money towards world needs instead of internal bills – all of this is very attractive about house church worship.  There’s a part of this that’s really attractive to me, especially how house church worship emphasizes each member having the opportunity to share and bring their gifts to worship.  But of course, the big fear is that opening up the meeting to anyone could lead to all sorts of false teachings and abuses.  It’s a risky thing to let anyone speak what they feel is truth in a church meeting.  So you can imagine the sort of abuses that occurred in first century house churches and why so many of Paul’s letters addressed false teachings and heresies that threatened to destroy the early church.  Today, we’re going to look at one such example in the church at Corinth.

This is the 5th week of a series on the Bible and gender, and we’ve been dealing specifically these past few weeks with Paul’s writings about men and women in the church.  Today we’re going to look at 1 Corinthians.  In this section, from chapter 11-14, Paul responds to three issues that were threatening the unity of the Corinthian church in their worship gatherings.  One is abuse of the poor at the Lord’s Supper, or communion.  Another is the abuse of speaking in tongues.  The third issue is what we’re going to look at today is that there was something wrong with the manner in which women were acting in the church in Corinth, specifically the manner in which they were praying and prophesying.  Let’s begin in 1 Corinthians 11:3 to look at what was going on.


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