Oddly, the Christian groups who proclaim that “we are true New Testament Christians” rarely are so New Testament that they maintain the enrolled widows and virgins as praying communities as described in the New Testament. It’s just one example of people thinking they are going back to the original “pure” or “primitive” Christianity and avoiding all the “human traditions added later by apostate Christians, i.e., Catholics” but who are very selective in which NT practices they “restore.”
Meanwhile, Orthodox and Catholics have had monks, nuns, communities of professional prayers that grow out of the New Testament enrolled virgins and widows all along.
So they don’t need to restore NT practices. They’ve been doing them all along.
Not to attack or debate, but can you share with me the scriptures you are referencing? I cannot think of them, which is probably my fault since I have not gone through the entire NT for quite awhile.