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This whole passage (and others) about the role of women in the church is easy for me to read and accept. But I am a guy.

However, there is something unsettling in my gut in my easy acceptance of this. Not in the sense of "God said it. I believe it. That settles it for me." But unsettling because "easy" leads me to quickly skip over it without digging into the treasures that are there. "Easy" might even be an excuse I use to not dig deeper for fear of discovering something that will challenge my present convictions and behavior.

Here's something else...I may easily accept this passage about women but do I accept the passages about men as easily? Or do I challenge them, disagree with them, try to find loopholes to make my present behavior and way of thinking okay? I cannot point my fingers at women who object to this passage and accuse them as unwilling to follow God's Word unconditionally when I react the same way to passages that challenge me as a man, husband, father, and pastor.

This passage does challenge me in my thinking (and the more I understand the context and specific situation Paul was addressing - the less explosive this passage is) - but today, I am being challenge more in my approach to ALL of scripture - not just this passage, but also those passages that speak specifically to me.