Yeah, that's true.Homer wrote:It seems to me beyond dispute that the husband is head over the home. He is to be the leader, but as a servant, modeled after Christ's relationship to the church (1 Cor. 11 & Ephesians 5. Imo it is implausible that this same situation would not be true in the church as well. Seems to me implausible that a woman
would be an elder over her husband and then be subject to him at home which is to be a spiritual place, as is all of life for the Christian.
At this point, the only very good scriptural case that I see for limiting overseers to men would be 1 Tim 2 - "I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man ...." That's not exactly a command or instruction, but I am nevertheless willing to go with him on that.
Perhaps female overseers or elders (elder-women) would only overseer other females. Surely there are situations where it would would be best for a female to receive instruction or advice from elder, mature, godly woman.
(Again, I myself would have no trouble being taught or instructed or overseen by any more mature, godly, wise person.)