“A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent.” 1 Timothy 2:12 is a commonly misunderstood scripture. Currently it is being used by Humanists to condemn Christianity. This 4-part presentation, Paul and Women Teachers, looks at the context and setting in Ephesus when it was written. Learn what this scripture really means!
This is a very good biblical teaching that you can use for your Bible studies. You will need to use your King James Version Bible as a reference as well.
Dr. Joel Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation
Dr. JuanMartinez, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Pastoral Leadership
Dr. Carolyn Gordon, Associate Professor of Communication
Dr. Marianne Meye Thompson, George Eldon Ladd Professor of New Testament
The seminary system of learning should be one of several methods used when training a leader. If not used in collaboration with other training tools, it will be ineffective tool for leadership training, because it does not provide for practical real time experience. In order to be more effective in transitioning individuals from followership to leadership, the instructor should be a practising theologian as well as an academic.
The New Testament scriptures has examples of the church leaders methods for training its members for the ministry. While exercising their gifts within the church, the scriptures teach that all qualified candidates for leadership should make full proof of their ministry to their senior leadership and congregation. Acquisition of biblical, administrative, community and spiritual knowledge is to be approved of by other church leaders. For example, Paul sent Timothy and Titus to cities to find, train and ordain elders within the church.
In Acts 11:22-26, after the good news was proclaimed to those in Antioch, Luke records that the Jerusalem church sent Barnabas there to strengthen them. Barnabas in turn found Paul and “so for a whole year Barnabas and Saul met with the church and taught great numbers of people.”
Acts 13:1 indicates that in addition to Paul and Barnabas there were more “prophets and teachers” who had been sent to Antioch, presumably to train men wat the Antioch church. After their first evangelistic visits to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, Paul and Barnabas returned to these cities and appointed elders in each church (Acts 14:21-23). We must assume here that Paul was consistent with his own policy of appointing only qualified elders, whose qualifications he lays down elsewhere (I Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9).
Another instance of this training pattern is found in Acts 19:9-10. Here Luke says that Paul held daily discussions in a lecture hall for a period of two years.
The church should be a matrix of discipleship and all other institutions should complement its specific needs.
The True Holiness Community (ekklesia) is integrated into the body of Christ, which is a spiritual organism with heavenly gifts and callings. Mandated leadership is important to the spiritual and temporal effectiveness of the church by providing direction for its various functions and maintaining the connection between the members of the body and to the Head of the body
by Bishop Dr. Pamela A. Smith, DD, MA
President/CEO
In his article “Speaking a Common Language” Frances Hesselbein stated: "Today leaders speak a common language. It is understood across the borders that once separated business, nonprofits, and government and moves just as easily across cultures, countries, and continents. It is a global language of mission, strategy, and customer, as readily understood by leaders in Beijing as in Boston.
To today's business, government, and nonprofit leaders of change, the principles of leadership are basic, generic to all organizations, and universal in their reach and relevance.
As we talked with our Chinese colleagues, we used the same language to describe the power of mission that we use when we work with the Salvation Army, the U.S. Army, Texaco, or the American Federation of Arts. Vision. Mission. Goals. The actual words are different in every language, but the power of those words is universal. And with a common language, people in every sector, in every culture, can have dialogues of great meaning." This has not always been the case.
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