issue holistically to consider how the people of God might work together in an orderly fashion to build the kingdom of God in a biblical fashion. Even so, at least two points of the biblical and theological debate are settled. First, both sexes are created in the “image of God” (Gen. 1:26–27) and “are of equal dignity, value, and worth.”2 Second, “since all Christians—male and female—have the Holy Spirit within them, all believers are gifted by God for ministry within the body of Christ.”3 Two predominant