For me, it was reading Romans 16, noting all the women that Paul mentions, seeing what he describes them doing, that brought me to the egalitarian position. Let me give you a few great things to read about women in Romans 16 First, over at Commonweal, Michael Peppard has an article on
"Michael Peppard has an article on Household Names: Junia, Phoebe, and Prisca in Early Christian Rome," illustrates the importance of comprehending the context - not just within the text, but also the social and immediate environment or situation. It seems that limiting women's roles is a legalistic interpretation of a verse that maybe ignores the social and immediate environment or situation. Surely, the spirit of Christ in us ought to be able to discern leadership whether it be male or female. It is even stranger that Pentecostals and the American Black Church gets this when the rest of the evangelical American Church opposes female leadership.
A "piece... about Junia" is a "novel called Phoebe"?
"Michael Peppard has an article on Household Names: Junia, Phoebe, and Prisca in Early Christian Rome," illustrates the importance of comprehending the context - not just within the text, but also the social and immediate environment or situation. It seems that limiting women's roles is a legalistic interpretation of a verse that maybe ignores the social and immediate environment or situation. Surely, the spirit of Christ in us ought to be able to discern leadership whether it be male or female. It is even stranger that Pentecostals and the American Black Church gets this when the rest of the evangelical American Church opposes female leadership.