And, women have a duty to disciple the younger girls.
**Titus 2:3-5**
"Older women likewise are to be reverent in behavior, not slanderers or slaves to much wine. They are to teach what is good, an...
History:
**Reformed history affirms restrictions in mixed settings.**
**Calvin** (on 1 Cor 14:34-35): Forbids women speaking/teaching/prophesying in public ordinary church services; subjection per law.
**Puritans**: Strict on 1 Tim 2:11-12—no women teaching or exercising authority over men in church; silence in corporate worship.
Applied to corporate prayer/Bible study with men present.
**Reformed history affirms women-only discipleship.**
Calvin and Puritans supported Titus 2: older women teaching/mentoring younger women in homes and women-only settings.
RPCNA (1878+): women led prayer in social/women's meetings.
Common in Puritan/Reformed practice: women's Bible studies and prayer groups led by women.
**Reformed history affirms restrictions in mixed settings.**
**Calvin** (on 1 Cor 14:34-35): Forbids women speaking/teaching/prophesying in public ordinary church services; subjection per law.
**Puritans**: Strict on 1 Tim 2:11-12—no women teaching or exercising authority over men in church; silence in corporate worship.
Applied to corporate prayer/Bible study with men present.
**Reformed history affirms women-only discipleship.**
Calvin and Puritans supported Titus 2: older women teaching/mentoring younger women in homes and women-only settings.
RPCNA (1878+): women led prayer in social/women's meetings.
Common in Puritan/Reformed practice: women's Bible studies and prayer groups led by women.