So, y’all really think early Christians approved of church leaders being accompanied on sometimes long journeys by women who were not their wives or whose husbands were not present?
Really?
What about ideas like not giving unbelievers material to slander the way by gossip and muckraking?
Since when has the Church been a democracy? That's how we got the protestant churches.
Thus...
“...Nevertheless, we have not used this power: but we bear all things, lest we should give any hindrance to the gospel of Christ.” 1 Corrinthians 9:12