The Stunning Influence of Older Women

As important as it is to outline and detail the qualifications of men who lead the church of our Lord Jesus Christ, it is critical to reveal the Bible’s teaching on the influence of older women, which Paul’s letter to Titus teaches is essential to the health of all families. Younger women today (and in all generations) desperately need the godly examples of women farther down the road of Christian faithfulness to model for them what it looks like to follow Jesus as a woman. Older women teach single ladies, as well as those married and in childbearing years, how to live with dignity and grace, and in doing so their impact to build up the church is stunning. Far from God being done with women who are past their years raising young families, He has called all women to a ministry of faithfulness and discipleship, pointing the way to more joyful and thriving families, and by extension healthier church life.