November 9, 2025
The Emasculated Church | Bible Study 1 Corinthians 14
- 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
- Josh Akin
I’d like to study a passage today which is perhaps the most ignored, erased, and scandalized by the 21st Century church. It is 1 Corinthians 14:34 “Let your women keep silent in the church…” Then in 35, “it is shameful for women to speak in church.” Notice: let them be silent, not make them. In the next verse he adds it is “shameful,” when this fails to happen. I ask you today, “Shameful for who?”
When there is no one else who will lead and teach the church, women will. God bless them. Because they know it is important and it must get done. But if men make women do what men have been called to, it is indeed shameful. Paul says let women do what they have been gifted and called to do, by men doing what they have been gifted and called to do. And, when this breaks down, as it has in our day and age, everyone suffers.