Women are to be working to spread the Kingdom of heaven, exercising their God-given gifts to encourage the Church—just as the men.  Paul commended Christian women as his “fellow workers in the gospel (Philippians 4:3), spiritual head in the Bible is…let’s see, a Levitical priest, let’s look up what a Levitical priest does… They completely forget that Hebrews reminds us that the Levitical priesthood is obsolete, that not even Jesus qualifies for it because you have to be born into the right tribe, that Jesus is of the order of Melchizedek—not Aaron (Hebrews 7:11-18).  All of us who follow Jesus are priests; Jesus is our high priest, we don’t need an extra layer in between.

 If you’re not married or your husband’s not “into that stuff” you may be thinking, “What does this have to do with me?”  Plenty!  First of all, all Christians are one body “fitly joined together” and when one part of the body hurts—it all hurts.  In addition, many unmarried women hope, plan, expect to be married one day and tend to make themselves expert at reminding married women that their husbands are to be the “priests of the household,” etc.  But maybe more to the point is that many church leaders have the mistaken idea that marriage is the model for the church rather than Paul using metaphor to compare marriage to one aspect of relationship between Jesus and the church—that of his laying down his life.  They say ah, male headship in marriage means, since we’re the “family of God,” that the church should have male headship.  Oops, the church has only one head and that’s Jesus!