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Originally Posted by Pliny
If you are referring to the post concerning Apollos, the synagogue has everything to do with it. Its called context. Apollos was at the synagogue and this is where Aquila and Priscilla saw him. AFTERWARDS they spoke with him. See that? Priscilla was not a leader of the synagogue. Indeed she could NOT be. This husband and wife met with Apollos privately - it was not a church service where Priscilla had stepped out of the created order and was teaching Apollos. THEY were witnessing to him.
The difference that seems to elude so many is the difference between a formal teaching event characterized by the assembly of the body and a private moment between people. The difference between a pastor teaching and people witnessing. The elders are to feed the flock, that is with the word of God. Those elders, by qualification, are men.
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Was Apollos a leader of the synagogue? And where do you get your ideas above? Paul never said any of those things....that witnessing had to be done outside of the synagogue and there is a difference in formal teaching and private moments with teaching. Sounds pretty silly to say that it's ok for me to privately teach a man about the word of God, but I can't do it in a church.