Read carefully, churchians, this is a Christian talking to you

There are a handful of subjects in Scripture that confound the easily confounded churchians. One is so-called 'sacraments', another is the Sabbath, another is church polity, etc. These subjects confuse churchians usually because the Bible is giving warrant for these subjects to be seen differently in different eras of the history of redemption. If the Bible is not clear and dogmatic on a subject it is not clear and dogmatic *intentionally* (pilgrims).

Another such subject is the place of women among Christian gatherings.

This article is typical of the churchian approach:

http://www.trinityfoundation.org/journal.php?id=253

Read it. Now I'll explain the subject to you in a sentence:

Once regenerated there is no male or female in Christ.

That's right, churchian pilgrims, the context for understanding the subject is that oh so hated subject of regeneration (which is effected, when it is, by the Word and the Spirit, by the way, not by ritual and clerics). Obviously churchians refuse to see regeneration as the clarifying context of this subject because the apostle Paul implies that there are unregenerate people in Christian gatherings. Including the good 'reverends' and other such self-appointed 'church leaders' who are more womanish, usually, than a Fourth of July 'patriot' parading in assless leather pants in San Francisco with perhaps a clerical collar topping off his special outfit.