Elders: Shepherd the flock of God
Acts 20:28-38 ²⁸ “So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as elders.
Some sources used being:
No barriers – women and pastoral leadership (symposium) with Dr Lynn Cohick, Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College in Chicago.
Women in the NT – a middle eastern cultural view Kenneth Bailey
Dr David Scholer, professor of NT at Fuller – Women in ministry

We’re doing a mini-series on elders – what it means to shepherd the flock of God, what that looks like, and the people that take up that role.
As many of you are aware I grew up in the Brethren churches in Tasmania where men were men and women wore hats and were silent.
Two key texts we’re considering again, particularly relating to women in ministry.
1 Timothy 2:11-14 (NLT) ¹¹ Women should learn quietly and submissively. ¹² I do not let women teach men or have authority over them. Let them listen quietly. ¹³ For God made Adam first, and afterward he made Eve. ¹⁴ And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.
1 Corinthians 14:34-35 which states, “Let the women keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but let them subject themselves, just as the Law also says. And if they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.”