06-08-2024, 07:59 PM
"If she's below age 60, she's too likely to get lonely for male companionship. The image here is someone still sexually active. Paul makes it clear he's referring to putting these women on the church payroll as staff. These were something like modern nuns, though not so rigorously organized as is common today. Still, their activities were rather similar, emphasizing service and worship within the church community."
This would be something nice to see in modern times, but I don't think it's necessarily a church problem but a civilizational problem. There's simply too many things for a single, non-retired woman to get involved in to bother with a fusty church community, even if those distractions aren't necessarily self-destructive.
This would be something nice to see in modern times, but I don't think it's necessarily a church problem but a civilizational problem. There's simply too many things for a single, non-retired woman to get involved in to bother with a fusty church community, even if those distractions aren't necessarily self-destructive.