Most treatments of gender roles in public worship begin by selecting the texts that can be spun to support one side or the other. William Varner's method is the opposite: he assembles every significant passage of Scripture bearing on the question and considers everything the Bible has to say about it.

John MacArthur commends the book as a meticulous, methodical, clear and persuasive study, and notes that its best feature is the succinct way all the biblical data is brought together in a simple and accessible format. The value of such a volume lies in its completeness: a reader can check the argument against the whole of the evidence rather than a selection.