Season 7, Leaders in the Cause of Christ: Did Jesus Call Women to Discipleship?

Did Jesus call women into discipleship in the same way Jesus called men?

Or did women simply start following Jesus of their own accord, with no formal call?

Can we say, for instance, that Mary of Bethany was actually a disciple, or was she simply acting like a disciple when she sat at Jesus’s feet?

In the same way, was Mary of Magdala only acting like an apostle to the apostles, as she is sometimes called, or was she actually sent by Jesus as an apostle?

Three years ago, as I sat down to read the Gospel of John in Greek, I didn’t know what to expect. I just knew that I had always loved this Gospel, and the Greek employed in all of John’s works is at a level I could read. But as I read, the seeds of understanding about Jesus and women began to grow. I found myself often mulling over the words themselves, and the way they are phrased. I also found myself reading as a Bible student, taking note of the way the writer had arranged his material.

The more I read, the more I saw something truly amazing!

And that has now become a four-part video series, beginning with this one. So stay tuned, I think this is going to be pretty exciting.

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