What are the different roles in the body of christ, can you tell us.
What would be awkward sharing in a bi-gender study. i cant think of what would be awkward personal gender issues that we would be studying. We studying the Bible, not ourselves. What 'issues'??
We want to know God better, not navel-gazing. And how would anything be awkward, that would be like saying, women cant share with Jesus anything, because hes male.
Your kidding me right now right. Women and men are different. We have different emotional needs, physical needs, fears and such that many don't want to express to the opposite sex .
David expresses in the Psalms to be transparent with the Lord in prayer. The fellowship is to encourage, strengthen, pray, to come along side.
Sharing the wisdom of the elders, seeking for a kindred spirit . Can a man instruct a women to be a better wife ? Can a woman instruct a man on peer pressure from other men?
Reading Ephesians 5 and 6 kinda tells you the different roles of a male and female.
Reading Genesis God spoke to both with different out comes.
Our God is a personal God. Understanding our creation and who we are and what we are in Christ Jesus brings harmony to the Christian way of life in Christ.
Bible study is brought together for fellowship, like minds. Jesus often had bible study with both male and female but on several occasions he only spoke to his first chosen. Then there was the women at the well who by custom and being a known rabbi and alone with her should have never spoke.
The women with the issue of blood according to the law and custom should never had been out in public let alone try to touch a rabbi.
The resurrection of Jesus show us that women respond different and are different.