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The Proverbs 31 woman was the wife of a city elder (verse 23)
and a respected figure in her own right (verse 31). Some of her many responsibilities
included buying and selling merchandise.
"God is not ashamed to be called their God." This profound statement is found in Hebrews 11, the faith chapter of the Bible. Can you imagine your name being listed along with Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Joseph and Moses in God’s list of the faithful?
"Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1:28, King James Version). How many times have we heard these familiar words of the archangel Gabriel repeated, especially every year around the time of Christmas.
You may have repeated these Old English words yourself as a child, dressed in a white robe with wobbly angel wings and a lopsided halo as you portrayed Gabriel in a nativity play.
For a 27-minute video about our series of study papers on women, click here.
Many people can probably agree with Thomas Schreiner when he writes, "The role of women in the church is probably the most emotionally charged issue in American evangelicalism today
The endnotes for this study are in a separate document. Click here to see that document in a new window.
For many people, 1 Timothy 2:12 is concise proof that women should not have authority in the church. Paul did not allow women to teach or have authority, they say, and neither should we.
In the following paper, the doctrinal team surveys biblical evidence on the role of women in the apostolic church. We will see that in the New Testament, various women are named as having key roleswithin the work of the church, but few are given titles, just as few men are given titles. All this evidence is (as we expected from the start) inconclusive for our ultimate goal, which is to decide whether the Bible prohibits or allows women to be ordained as elders in the church.
Christian Odyssey interviews
Barbara Quillen Egbert, who recently published Portrait of a Woman and
Jesus. 
"Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women" (Luke 1:28, King James Version). How many times have we heard these familiar words of the archangel Gabriel repeated, especially every year around the time of Christmas.