Mighty Women

Starting in March I will teach a class called "Mighty Women" at church using the material I've been blogging here. The following is my synopsis of the class:

At a VBS last year my kids sang a song where the boys would sing, “I want to be like Daniel…for Daniel was a mighty man.” And the girls would sing, “I want to be like Ruth…for Ruth was oh so good and kind.” It made me wonder, “Are boys NOT supposed to be good and kind? Are girls NOT supposed to be mighty?” What about our little girls who want to be more like Deborah than Ruth?

This class will examine the leadership of mighty women throughout the Bible. We will focus on the biblical and historical context of these leading ladies as we develop a broad, biblical view of female leadership.

Here is a tentative outline:

1. Introduction
2. Eve
3. The Matriarchs & Miriam
4. Deborah
5. Huldah
6. Esther
7. Mary, Mary and Mary (Nazareth, Bethany, Magdalene)
8. Priscilla
9. Lydia (Euodias & Syntyche and Nympha)
10. Phoebe and Junia
11. Luke & Women
12. Jesus & Women
13. Paul & Women

This is part one of a two-part class. In part one we will attempt to establish a broad view by investigating the lives of specific women throughout the Bible followed by looking at how Luke, Jesus and Paul viewed women relative to their contemporaries. We will not study 1 Tim 2, 1 Cor 11, 1 Cor 14 or Gal 5. Those texts and others will be included in the second class as I don't think they can be understood properly without first getting the big picture.

-Keith