"A Woman Should Learn…”
Gen. 2:18-25 & I Tim. 2:8-15

We are looking at the role of women in ministry at Grace focusing on our Session’s recently adopted policy on women teaching adult Sunday School and small groups that are not relegated to women and children only. 
Our scripture reading talks about women learning. It says they should learn. It tells us how they should learn and how they should use what they learn. Then Paul gives the reason why it is this way and how women are restored. The apostle looks back at Genesis 2-3 where the creation and fall are described. And as the curse on the woman is pronounced, Gen. 3:13-16, our salvation is announced too, Gen. 3:15. It is the seed of the woman that would crush the head of the serpent. That seed is the Lord Jesus Christ, the Head of the church, through whom the whole body, male and female, receives its nourishment. This salvation is continually honored in men and women exercising the roles God created for them. 
All of this is for the flourishing of the church.
In the beginning when God made man he declared; “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."
When men and women are engaging the church, with their gifts being deployed in scriptural ways, as the household of God, vitality and growth takes place in the body of Christ.