Paul presented this "older woman (teaching) younger woman" model as one of the greatest teaching opportunities mature Christian women can have in the church. They carefully share wisdom out of their years of experience, something even mature men have no capacity to do. Furthermore, these mature women can do what men should not do in a personal setting – to communicate with women regarding very intimate matters. It’s obvious Timothy faced this challenge in Ephesus when Paul exhorted him – particularly as a young single man – to "treat…older women as mothers, and younger woman as sisters, with absolute purity" (1 Ti. 5:1-2).
— Gene Getz (b. 1932), Pastor, Theologieprofessor und Autor
Related Bible passage: 1TI.5.1-1TI.5.2
Topics: Church & Congregation, Relationships & Family, Service & Love of Neighbour
Occasions: For Reflection
Gene Getz
Gene Getz (* 1932) ist ein US-amerikanischer evangelikaler Pastor, Theologieprofessor und Autor, der am Moody Bible Institute sowie am Dallas Theological Seminary lehrte und die Fellowship-Bible-Church-Bewegung initiierte. Bekannt wurde er durch Veröffentlichungen wie „Sharpening the Focus of the Church“ und „The Measure of a Man“, die sich mit biblischer Gemeindepraxis, Ältestenschaft und christlicher Charakterbildung befassen. Für Bibelleser heute erschließen seine Arbeiten und Studienbibeln biblische Texte vor allem durch die Formulierung lebensnaher Prinzipien für Glaubensalltag und Gemeindearbeit.
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller
The Church is not a cultural club, but the family of Jesus.
Pope Francis
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
John Charles Ryle
In essential unity; in nonessentials liberty; in all this charity.
Rupertus Meldenius
Henry Ward Beecher
Philip Yancey
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
In a congregation, every person must be able to be as their heart truly is.
Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf