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The Role of Christian Women in Paul’s Day
By Margie Marang
There were a lot of women in Paul’s day that helped not only Paul but some of the other ministers in there job of spreading the gospel. Below is a list of those women. I encourage you to look up the scriptures for each. Lydia: Acts 16:11-15; Acts 18:1-4, 18, 24-26 Many Women: Romans 16:1-23 Euodia and Syntyche: Philippians 4:1-6 This is not all, but it’s a good start. Most women were helpers along with their husbands, or several women would work together helping Paul in his service for God. Some women were teachers. Women in the New Testament were not spectators. They played an active vibrant, and vital role in the day-to-day function of the church. Acts 2:17-21 says, “‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy. I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’”This scripture says God pours out His Spirit on the women as well as on the men. So we see, in Paul’s day God not only used the men to spread the gospel out but the men received a lot of help from the women in the churches. i | |