If you don’t care about equipping women to teach other women you’re not a healthy church. Many recent conversations about women in the local church focus on matters of representation or the need for more prominent female voices in the church’s life. Those are important matters. But the main reason your church should care about women discipling women is because God cares about it: it’s in the Bible.
Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled (Titus 2:3–5).
Let me offer four observations on this passage.
1) GODLY WOMEN SHOULD TEACH THE BIBLE TO OTHER WOMEN IN THE CONGREGATION
The first thing to note in this passage is that God commands mature, godly women to teach other women in the congregation. In other words, if your church is committed to being both biblical and healthy, then your women must be discipling one another.
2) THE CONTENT OF THIS TEACHING BENDS
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