Gals
Summer 2005

Features
Integrity

Your Body: The Liver

True Ministry

Don’t Neglect Your Gift

Searching for Your Self-Worth


Guys
From the Editor

A Hunger To Serve

M.A.P.? What M.A.P.? What is that?

Semper Fidelis: Always Faithful

How to Be A Gentleman

A Book Review

How to be a Christian Father

Servants and Guards

Husband: The High Calling of God


Gals
From the Editor

Fellowship of Service

Who, Me? Serve?

Mentoring

The Role of Christian Women in Paul’s Day

Elizabeth: A Woman of Faith

Shopping for Modesty in Egypt



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