Expert: Onaga Thomas - 12/17/2008

Question
With regard to the question "can a women teach a Boy"
If a man hears a woman teaching a boy and the man learns from that teaching has the woman erred or the man?

If we teach as empowered by the Holy Spirit that is to minister Christ, surely our gender is irrelevant in the Holy Spirit?

Answer
Thankyou for your question Mike


 Now when say if a man hears a woman teaching a boy.....is the man an unbeliever? Case in point say an unbelieving man takes his son to Sunday School and hears the female teacher teach the son about Christ and that convicts him to become a Christian, then there is no error on any part.  In the New Testament, Paul says that women can't teach me to have "authority" over the man (1 Tim. 2:11-12).  So a christian women cannot teach or have authority over christian men.  That was directed at the church, not at unbelievers.  Truly we can all minister Christ male and female when we teach others about Christ being empowered by the Holy Spirit.  In the church, women do not have the authority to teach MEN, but there in nothing in scripture against women teaching young children or other women about Christ.


Onaga Thomas