Though it is controversial, I think it’s great that you are dealing with it. A lot of people leave the topic alone because it stirs up so much ill feeling. And yet if we don’t face into it, we might miss what God is saying to the churches.

The first time I preached at Silver Valley I felt anxious because I knew that my parents who are amazing Christians, would not approve. I wanted to honor them but I also wanted to preach. In order to go ahead and not feel I was in rebellion against God, I had to really search the Bible. What surprised me was when I came across the female scripture teacher, Priscilla. I had always known that she and her husband taught the scriptures to Apollos and helped him become a better leader. But what I hadn’t realized is that Priscilla and Aquilla showed up all over the New Testament.

They started off in Italy. Paul met them in Corinth, and they traveled with him to Syria. Paul then traveled again with the couple and dropped them off at Ephesus where I presume they helped equip the church there. He called both of them his fellow workers. They were well known amongst the churches in Asia and there was a church that met in their house.

I wonder – considering that Priscilla had such accomplished teaching gifts (Apollos was already very knowledgeable but she was more so, and was already established in that knowledge before she met Paul) was she just sitting there, silent, while the saints were meeting in her own home? I kinda doubt it.

So for me, she’s the missing link and gives me hope.