Hearing Her Voice: A Case for Women Giving Sermons (Biblia.com)

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Based on his study of a key word for “teaching” in the New Testament---an activity often thought to be prohibited to women---and on various other kinds of public speaking in which women in Scripture clearly participated, scholar John Dickson builds a case for women preachers. Focused and purposefully limited in its conclusions, Dickson’s argument has potential to change minds and appeal to...

Paul charges Timothy to “command and teach [didaskō] these things” in 1 Timothy 4:11, he is not asking him to expound passages of Scripture. He is asking him to preserve and repeat the things just laid down in Paul’s letter to him. It is a command to add to the “apostolic deposit” the content of this part of the letter. It could be extrapolated from this that Timothy now has a responsibility to expound the letter itself to the churches in his care. In other words, “teach these things” would mean

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