Creational Design
God created Male & Female to display his image and to reflect the Relationship within the Godhead.   They were created equal in status, yet different in role & responsibility.  They both carried out Gods plan together, complimenting each other, yet had clearly defined roles. -Gen 1:26-31Man’s role- God created Adam to work the Ground. He was created to build, to provide, to protect and to bring about order in creation.  He was created to take responsibility and given the role of leadership within the family unit. - Gen 2:15.

Woman’s role- God created Woman as a Helper (Hebrew word ‘Helper’- ‘ezer’- Meaning, strength, power to rescue, save and be strong. Used 21 times throughout OT, and 16 of these times are talking about Yahweh himself).   ‘Ezer’ is a word describing woman and God- Psalm 121.
 
Equality in salvation

• Both male and female, are saved by Grace through faith.
• Men and woman are co-inheritors of Gods Holy Spirit. - Acts 2:17- “Your sons and daughters prophesying”. The Church-made up of Male & female are a prophetic Community.
• Men and woman are recipients of the gifts of the Holy Spirit-   1 Cor:12- To Each is given (Hekasto- to each-) is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the Common good...

Grace Revealed
God’s grace was clearly & frequently at work in the Old Testament times, God described himself to Moses as “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness” Ex 34. The world was created by a God of grace.

• At the coming of Jesus, there was an outshining of God’s grace.  The grace revealed in the Old Testament carried a certain glory, but at the coming of Jesus there was an epiphany of grace - a shining out, a brilliance, a dawning of God’s grace, being revealed in Jesus Christ.
• Grace is Jesus’ undeserved generosity, his willingness to save us, cleanse us, renew us, perfect us and adopt us as sons, despite the fact that we are utterly unworthy and deserve only condemnation, punishment and abandonment.