In response to a vision Paul went into Europe, to the “Roman town” of Philippi. He found that things were going to be different. He was not able to follow his usual custom of going to the synagogue so he went “outside the city gate” looking for people at prayer. We sat and spoke with the women who had gathered there. One of them, a woman named Lydia, listened, and the Lord opened her heart. In the synagogue the women were segregated from the men. In the more cosmopolitan world of the Greeks and Romans Paul addressed the women directly. It was perhaps experiences like this that taught him that “in Christ there is neither male nor female.” May we live that truth today!
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By Church Staff
