The Women Jesus Trusted

If Jesus Trusted Six Women to Announce His Resurrection, Can the Church Trust Women With a Microphone?

Jesus trusted women. Does the Church?

On the morning that changed history, Jesus entrusted the first announcement of His resurrection to a group of women. Yet nearly two thousand years later, Christians still wrestle with a difficult question: What roles did God intend women to have in His Church?

The Women Jesus Trusted approaches this often-divisive subject not by dismissing difficult passages, but by examining them within the whole sweep of Scripture. From creation and Deborah to Jesus’ remarkable interactions with women, from Pentecost and the women who worked alongside Paul to the challenging words, “Women should remain silent” and “I do not permit a woman to teach,” David O. Harrison asks what the Bible actually says—and what we may have assumed it says.

This is not an argument for lowering biblical standards or allowing culture to rewrite Scripture. Nor does it pretend that every question has an easy answer. Instead, it invites complementarians and egalitarians alike to take a fresh, Berean look at familiar passages, their original context, and the women whom Jesus and Paul actually trusted.

The question is not whether women are gifted. Scripture makes that abundantly clear. The harder question is:

Where has Scripture itself clearly drawn the boundary?

And before the Church draws another one, perhaps we should make certain that God put it there.