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You would be surprised how many Baptist churches have a female pastor!Not in a Baptist Church
Still waiting though upon biblical support for women as Pastors or elders in the local churchYou would be surprised how many Baptist churches have a female pastor!
Look for one and ask her.Still waiting though upon biblical support for women as Pastors or elders in the local church
There is no support for women pastors or elders (as an office). But there is support for women as deacons (my objection would be that our view of deacons is often different from the Biblical use).Still waiting though upon biblical support for women as Pastors or elders in the local church
yes, as was not Phoebe stated to be a Deaconess?There is no support for women pastors or elders (as an office). But there is support for women as deacons (my objection would be that our view of deacons is often different from the Biblical use).
Had one tell me that she thought that God had called a Man to be the Pastor, but since he refused she had to step up, but since her Ftarher had founded the church, think more like passing on the pulpit to her oncxe he stepped downLook for one and ask her.
Though I do remember asking a male pastor about that once - and he said something about not taking that verse literarily.
Was that a cultural mandate?Are all your women silent in church?
[Just testing consistency of hermeneutics.]![]()
No. She was stated to be a deacon!was not Phoebe stated to be a Deaconess?
Romans 16:1, I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:No. She was stated to be a deacon!
How is it set up in your church the offices, as we have Pastors and Elders, and deacons are those involved in the "business" side of the church functioning and operatingRomans 16:1, I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:
. . . διακονον . . . . Deconess.
Personally, I look at the context ...Was that a cultural mandate?
And they would be heretical and as John MacArthur would say they do not have a pastor.You would be surprised how many Baptist churches have a female pastor!
Not sure you can 100% prove it was only to women who make a disturbance though that may have prompted the need to say to be silent as so says the Law.Personally, I look at the context ...
Corinth was the church that had "jumped the shark". So Paul was adressing a church where women were exercising their freedom in Christ to stand up in the middle of a service where someone that KNEW something was talking, and not allow their ignorance on the subject to stop them from disrupting the assembly with questions and talking that devolved into chaos. [remember, this is the same group where "prophets" had to be told to speak "one at a time"].
Paul's advice was for loud, disruptive women to "sit down and shut up and stop interrupting the gathering".
However, I never made any claims about what women were allowed to do in any and every church.
Priscilia helped train Apollos.
There were "deaconess" and prophetess".
There were "older women teaching the younger women".
And somewhere, into all that, fits "For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body." - Ephesians 5:23 [NKJV]![]()
Woudl not say heretical, but would say they are against the clear teaching of Scripture regarding Male headship and leadershipAnd they would be heretical and as John MacArthur would say they do not have a pastor.