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WOMEN AS CHRIST’S ASSISTANTS
MONDAY, MAY 26
Luke 8:1-3

Titus 2:1-5

 

“And certain women,
…which ministered unto him

of their substance.”

 

WOMEN AS CHRIST’S ASSISTANTS
 
Jesus was very thorough in His evangelism of Galilee. He preached the Gospel to “every city and village.” By so doing, Jesus serves as a pattern for the church in her work of evangelism. In the Singapore context, the church ought to preach the Gospel systematically by covering the ground district by district, block by block, flat by flat.
 
By this time, Jesus had His team of 12 disciples plus certain woman assistants, namely, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Susanna among others. Jesus uses both men and women in the ministry of the Gospel. The men are to lead, but the women are by no means discounted from ministry. On the role of women in the church, Calvin commented, “…[the women] acted as enthusiastic public-criers to get together an audience for their master. Hence, although their position was inferior, they were called Christ’s assistants.”
 
It is the office of the men to lead and to teach, however we find some exceptions in Scripture. In the Old Testament, as a form of judgment (because there was no man to take the lead) we find a leader in Judge Deborah (Judg 4-5). In the New Testament, we have a teacher in Priscilla who, with her husband Aquila, privately expounded to Apollos the Christian faith more perfectly (Acts 18:24-26). When there are no men available or capable to lead and teach, the Lord at times uses women to be His assistants.
 
THOUGHT: “When the men to lead refuse, then the women God would use.”
PRAYER: Father, help me to fulfil my God-given role at home and in church.

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