Friday, August 5, 2011

NT Door-bitches

As I was reading a counterpoints book on women in ministry this morning, I stumbled over a previously unfamiliar role that the ladies took in scriptures.

In Exodus 38:8 and 1 Samuel 2:22 it is mentioned that women served at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

This isn't all that interesting until you hit the familiar passage in John 18 of Peter's first denial, starting at verse 15.

My mind flashes to women I've encountered on the door of miscellaneous establishments. It seems hard-nosed, fast questioning dames were patrolling the doors 2000 years ago.

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