Why do you equate being a preacher with being the boss?

Doesn't that make it all about power then?

I don't think that's what it is all about.

> Paul, strangely enough has become one of my
> hero’s of faith. Some exploration into the
> culture of the port town of Corinth, with
> its 1000’s of temple prostitutes, and
> Ephesus in the time of Timothy’s ministry,
> show quickly the problems Paul was wrangling
> with. The women were uneducated and often
> cloistered in the Greek model, and developed
> worship involving drunken and ecstatic state
> in their worship of Artimus. They were
> expounding even to the Diaspora Jewish
> community that women/Eve were in the
> position of origin and source of wisdom from
> the serpent. Paul states unequivocally that
> Adam is the kephale source (not
> BOSS) of Eve. He was re-establishing
> creation order, not saying who was boss.
> These were the women coming into the church,
> illiterate, separated and a tune to frenzied
> worship.

> But Paul had no problem with Pricilla
> speaking; the educated Jewess from Rome who
> had a church in her home and who, with her
> husband, taught Apollos. Paul had no problem
> with Phoebe, who in the Greek is not called
> a “servant” but “deacon” of the Church of
> Cenchrea; the same word used for Timothy.
> She is historically the courier of the
> letter to the Romans, and the church at Rome
> is asked to receive her and assist her in
> “what ever business she has need of”. Paul
> has no problem with Junia, his relative,
> fellow prisoner and noted among (not “by”
> but “among” – a different word) the
> apostles. I find her, and Andronicus
> interesting, as Paul notes that they were “
> in Christ before me”. I wonder if they knew
> the young Saul to be sincere, though
> sincerely wrong and decided to pray for that
> head strong boy. In his letter to the
> Corinthian he teaches all to prophesy,
> though women were to be identified as non
> prostitutes by a family or protective head
> covering. When you take a few verses out of
> context it can be distorted quickly as
> Tertullian did in the 3rd century.

> Besides, Just a thought, what's the
> difference in teaching one or twenty. What's
> the difference in teaching a boy who will
> become a man, or a man.

> There is a tremendous amount of excellent
> scholarship out there. I’m posting a few
> sites and an article that I have found are
> significant.
> Also, two good books, Richard and Catherine
> Kroeger’s book, I suffer not a woman
> explores the 1st century Greek culture
> of Ephesus.

> Aida Besancon Spencer’s, professor of
> Biblical Studies at Gordan-Conwell wrote
> Beyond the Curse, She did a Genesis
> to maps exploration of Women in Scripture
> for the Evangelical Theological Society (
> rather conservative think tank of professors
> of Seminaries), with a hefty focus on
> Genesis.

>
> http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/free_articles/free_articles.shtml
>
> http://www.cbeinternational.org/new/pdf_files/free_articles/groothius_bible_genderequailty.pdf