This article rounds up objections to the silencing of women in the ecclesia and inconsistencies in the ‘head-covering’ debate. Christadelphian policies regarding sisters owe their existence more to Victorian tradition than Bible teaching.
In the modern world where women participate in all walks of life, it is a hindrance to the gospel to use out-of-context passages to restrict their service to God. Christianity destroyed the barriers of race, rank, wealth, birth and gender, thus offering the ecclesias unlimited potential leading to mutual love and respect between saints, male and female. |