John MacArthur and Beth Moore

[Steven Yeadon]

Reformed Journal

"Women in public Christian ministry is a historic distinctive of evangelicalism....no other large branch of the Christian family has demonstrated as long and deep a commitment to affirming the public ministries of women – not theologically liberal traditions,...not Anglicanism or other mainline Protestant traditions. I am defining 'public ministry' as Christian service to adult believers – including men – that takes one or more of the following forms: preaching, teaching, pastoring, administering the sacraments and giving spiritual oversight."

"the first Calvinist denomination to arise from the evangelical revival was led by a woman, Selina, Countess of Huntingdon (1707-1791)....The denomination still exists today and still has as its official name 'the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion'."

"in conservative evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the late 19th and early 20th century....women were trained for public ministry by the theologically conservative Bible colleges. Moreover, women faculty members at these institutions taught Bible and theology....
Official Moody Bible Institute publications proudly boasted about women graduates who went off to ordained ministry and to full-time, senior pastorates. A similar story can be told about Northwestern Bible School, an institution run by W. B. Riley (1861-1947), a towering fundamentalist leader in Minnesota."

"Edith C. Torrey...taught Bible at Wheaton from 1919 to 1958....Esther Sabel taught Bible at Bethel Seminary 1924-1958....institutions uncompromising in their affirmation of the inerrancy of Scripture and the power of the gospel to convert sinners. By way of contrast, Harvard Divinity School, a bastion of theological liberalism, did not even admit women students until 1955, let alone women faculty members."

Wow, I did not know that. Evangelicalism takes on a darker tone to me if our past includes a large number of female pastors.

 

[Jerome]

"When her husband was away from the parish, and some of the parishioners complained of the dry morsels the curate preached in Samuel's absence, Susannah began to hold services, reading sermons, and preaching (she called it "exhorting" so that no one would complain of a woman preaching). Pretty soon the parsonage was full, and the people spilled onto the grounds to hear her clear and insightful words on Bible-living."

Susannah Wesley, Mother of Methodism

 

[Squire Robertsson]

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