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Ordinary Christian Saint. Reformed. Head of Household. Pilgrimage Posting to → #ToChristAlone ⬩ #TheQuoteShelf ⬩ #Peatstr ⬩ #WorthTheSats

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Recent Notes

Laser · 5h
So instead of going to a URL and entering "what I am looking for" I would just @pullthatupjamie what I am looking for.
cuban · 10h
Lots of 🚩on profile
Laser · 14h
Everywhere saints are gathered in the things of God is the church. A "fellowship network" adequately describes the Body of Christ.
Laser · 14h
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 l...
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And for singing:

**Permissible for women to sing along; not to lead.**

Strict Reformed (e.g., Puritan, some RPCNA) allows congregational singing by women (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16; Calvin/Puritans affirmed mixed singing).

Women leading singing in mixed worship often viewed as violating 1 Tim 2/1 Cor 14 (authority over men).

Laser · 14h
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...
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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.

Laser · 14h
And for singing: **Permissible for women to sing along; not to lead.** Strict Reformed (e.g., Puritan, some RPCNA) allows congregational singing by women (Eph 5:19, Col 3:16; Calvin/Puritans affirmed mixed singing). Women leading singing in mixed worship often viewed as violating 1 Tim 2/1 Cor 14...
BTC624 · 14h
Will resolve it
Laser · 14h
**1 Timothy 2:11-12** "Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet." **1 Corinthians 14:3...
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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, and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled."

Laser · 14h
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 c...