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Teaching God’s Word

Teaching is a gift (1Co 12:28–29; Eph 4:11; Ro 12:7) that God’s Spirit gives to both women and men. All believers are to teach one another (Col 3:16) and to share with the community what they have learned (1Co 14:26).

Priscilla, together with her husband Aquila, instructed a Christian brother, Apollos, in matters of theology (Ac 18:26). The apostle Paul recognized Priscilla’s ministry and obviously loved and respected her as well as other female co-laborers (Ro 16:3,6,12; Phil 4:3). Paul also encouraged older women to teach the younger women (Titus 2:3–5) and admonished Timothy to respect Lois and Eunice, his mother and grandmother, for instructing him in the faith (2Ti 1:3–5).

Although Paul was a great advocate for women to exercise spiritual gifts, he taught that gifts needed to be exercised in a manner that honors the Word of God (1Ti 2:12). New Testament women were encouraged to exercise teaching ministries but were to do so within the God-ordained pattern of male-female complementarity.