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Re: Re: Re: Woman worship leaders, bibilically correct ?
Message:Hi Kate,In order to understand why women were not allowed in the synagogue, you must appreciate the mindset resulting from law keepers. God gave not only the Decalogue (the Ten Commandments) but he also gave many rules and regulations relating to both religion and society. For the religious law keepers, these were absolutely holy and they felt a responsibility, as spiritual leaders, to make sure that the people they led would never transgress any of these laws. So they added additional laws that if broken would serve as a warning and hopefully, with that warning, would keep them from breaking the laws that God gave. These are the “traditions” that Jesus condemned because they were overly burdensome. In the Bible, we see and example of this in regard to the Sabbath. God said to rest and keep the day holy. The Pharisees added you cannot walk more than a mile, you can’t carry things, you can’t cook… We are still doing this today in our churches. Paul says Christians should not get drunk several times and encourages Timothy to have a little wine for is stomach’s sake. But many churches advocate complete sobriety in order to keep Christians from becoming drunk. Both of these cases are the result of what I call "law keeper" thinking. Now to answer your question. This "law keeper" thinking was also applied to the purity laws and to women. The Levitical law said that a women was unclean during her menstruation and for 7 days afterward (Lev 15). According to the law, anything that was holy could be contaminated by anything unclean (by the way, this changed with Christ – the holy permeates the defiled in the NT - this is significant). Therefore, if an woman sat on a chair during her period or 7 days after, it became defiled. If she was in bed during her period or seven days after, it became defiled. So the practice became such that women had to go outside the camp during their menstrual cycle and 7 days afterward. But law keepers took an extra step to ensure the synagogue remained holy, by prohibiting women from entering and thereby avoiding possible defilement. Not only that, but a rabbi avoided women in public all together because they were concerned about this very purity issue. Now think about how amazing it must have been for Jesus, considered to be the forerunner of religious thinking by many in the crowd that followed him, to turn to the woman with the issue of blood. Again and again, we see Jesus directly ministering to the outcasts, forsaken and needy. And in this story, Jesus' purity cleanses the woman from her infirmity. Instead of a concern that He might become defiled, Jesus went with contagious holiness that cleansed her impurity! I want this kind of holiness. How about you? I hope this answers your question.
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