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Originally Posted by Evangelical
I have never put forward a blanket prohibition of women teaching.
My OP was in response to someone who had a question about women in leadership positions, i.e. in the "circle of elders":
They asked:
I'll just ask you one thing: Who do you see, in the leadership circle of LC, is a woman?
I'm genuinely curious if you know any sister that is in leadership position because of and only because of her spirituality.
It is about women teaching doctrine to men without the covering of the brothers in the assembly. I presumed that this was of her own accord and not by virtue of being the wife of an elder.
Women in leadership positions and particularly unmarried women without the covering of her husband, has been a universally accepted prohibition in Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant/Reform churches for centuries.
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How can women not be "in the circle of elders". Every single elder is to be "the husband of one wife" hence every single elder has a wife. How are these women not in the circle? Genesis 5 -- "male and female created He them and called their name Adam".
Yes, I knew many women in leadership positions in the LC, they were the wives of the elders. The elders will tell you and told you in their messages that 90% of the decisions regarding the church were influenced by the sisters. Their job was to merely say ok.
When I was in Taipei in the FTTT the office at Hall 3 for the training was run with an Iron fist by a sister, a wife of one of the leading elders.