Cultivating a Christ-Centered Feminism in the Church
WHO IS PRISCILLA?
The Woman of Worth
The Woman of Worth
Getting to know the Priscilla of the Bible
and why she is relevant in this generation
Priscilla- The woman of worth; The woman of service
Scripture References
Acts 18:2, 18, 26; Romans 16:3; 1 Corinthians 16:19; 2 Timothy 4:19
Name Meaning
Priscilla is the diminutive of Prisca, feminine of Prisca meaning “primitive,” hence, “worthy, or venerable,” as belonging to the good old time. This name is also found as a family name in the earliest Roman annals, and appears in the form “Prisca” in Paul’s Second Epistle to Timothy (2 Timothy 4:19).
Priscilla- A woman empowered by her man who also, empowered her
As Priscilla is always paired with her husband, Aquila, it is difficult to separate her and place her on a pedestal of her own. Their two hearts beat as one. Harmoniously, they labored together in the service of the church. They walked as one for they had mutually agreed to put Christ first. In the six references where both are mentioned, the name of Priscilla comes first in three instances, and Aquila first in the other three. They are never mentioned apart.
The message of Priscilla Today is not the stereotypical feminism that has a sense of competition between women and men. This is not about women against men. This is empowering women to empower men to empower women—to achieve equal collaboration and cooperation between men and women for the betterment of the community they influence.
From the record we have of Aquila and Priscilla their story is a beautiful idyll of home life. Together from the time of their marriage they are always named together, and were inseparable. What a pleasant picture of wedded love they present! To these two, wedlock was a divine ordinance and indissoluble union, and one which halved their sorrows and doubled their joys. They were not unequally yoked together but joined in the Lord.
Priscilla- A woman empowered by her man who also, empowered her
As Priscilla is always paired with her husband, Aquila, it is difficult to separate her and place her on a pedestal of her own. Their two hearts beat as one. Harmoniously, they labored together in the service of the church. They walked as one for they had mutually agreed to put Christ first. In the six references where both are mentioned, the name of Priscilla comes first in three instances, and Aquila first in the other three. They are never mentioned apart.
The message of Priscilla Today is not the stereotypical feminism that has a sense of competition between women and men. This is not about women against men. This is empowering women to empower men to empower women—to achieve equal collaboration and cooperation between men and women for the betterment of the community they influence.
From the record we have of Aquila and Priscilla their story is a beautiful idyll of home life. Together from the time of their marriage they are always named together, and were inseparable. What a pleasant picture of wedded love they present! To these two, wedlock was a divine ordinance and indissoluble union, and one which halved their sorrows and doubled their joys. They were not unequally yoked together but joined in the Lord.
Priscilla & Aquila- A Marriage destined and empowered by the Lord
Further, this Christian couple were one in their experience of God’s saving power, and so became one in their holy zeal for the Saviour, and in their service for His church. They were partners in faithful endeavors, not only to present Christ by lip, but also in the excellency of their walk and conversation.
Priscilla & Aquila
- A partnership driven to Excellence, even in the secular world
Luke informs us that “by their occupation they were tentmakers” (Acts 18:3).When not preaching and teaching we can imagine Aquila and Priscilla sitting together in Aquila’s shop as they plied their needles and fashioned or repaired tents. Aquila and Priscilla shared the duties of their workshop. The tents from their establishment made of honest goat’s hair, sewn with honest thread, seamed and disposed of at an honest price, gave Aquila and Priscilla a wide reputation. They were in the tent business first of all, for the glory of God.
Priscilla & Aquila
- A union for the unification of the Churches
Paul gives us a still fuller insight into the passionate desire of Aquila and Priscilla to bind the churches together in fellowship. To the Corinthians he wrote, “Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church in their house.”
Priscilla and Aquila lived to gather the followers of Christ for worship, meditation and remembrance, and thereby invested “the domestic circle with a peculiar sanctity as the germ of that great organism which we call the Church of God.”
