THIS IS MY FATHER'S WORLD.

Women should keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church.
1 Corinthians 14:34‭-‬35 ESV

¶It is likely that these early churches resembled the original community of disciples Jesus assembled around himself. There were the twelve, all men, and then there were women. Women were the last disciples at the cross and the first at the empty tomb. But women could not go out "carrying neither money bag, nor knapsack, nor sandals", staying in the homes of strangers, declaring the good news of the kingdom. That was men's work. In that place, then as it is now, women needed to be protected. The domain of this protection was the family. It was the honor of the family that protected women from danger and exploitation. It was to the dishonor of any man who did not provide such headship and covering for his family. This version of the rules may seem extreme to us today, but something of its essence is still what is needed in families. If we interpret this to mean "it's a man's world", we are mistaken. This is the Father's world, and we all have a place in it.