Women in Ministry

Introduction

• Why this section on women in ministry?
• Where can the teaching of women ordination lead?
• This isn't an essential, so why worry about it?

Issues and Answers

• The Elements of Liberalism
• Should you leave a church if it adopts a woman pastor?
• Egalitarianism and Complementarianism, what's the difference?
• Verses Examined in these articles
• Dictionary of terms
• Various verses egalitarians miss use
• Denominations, women ordination, and other errors
• Bibliography

Foundations

• Genesis 2 and Adam and Even and Authority
• Genesis 3, the Fall, and Adam and Eve's Sin. Eve was not ignorant
• The Ontological and Economic Trinity
• Is Adam our Federal Head?
• Primogeniture

Women Pastors and Elders - previously written articles

• The elder in the church
• 1 Tim. 2:12-13 and women pastors and elders.
• Should Women Be Pastors and Elders?
• A response to a paper arguing for women being pastors
• Another response to a paper arguing for women being pastors

1 Tim. 2:9-15

• Is "a woman" a specific individual Paul had in mind?
• Is "a woman" referring to wives as "a man" refers to husbands?
• Does "a woman" refer to all women as "a man" refers to all men?
• 1 Tim. 2:15, she, they, and salvation through child bearing
• The use of the phrase "a woman" in the entire New Testament

Objections Answered

• The complementarian position splits the church into two camps
• Eve was deceived, Adam was not
• Genesis statement of Adam ruling over Eve is not God's perfect will
• Women subjection is part of the curse that is removed in salvation
• 1 Cor. 11:3, the word 'head' does not mean authority
• Only one verse prohibits women to teach men
• The term 'husband of one wife' applies to both men and women
• There were deaconesses, so there can be female pastors
• Why would God gift a woman to teach then forbid her to pastor?
• Is this a power play to suppress women?
• Was Junia in Romans 16:7 a female apostle in authority?
• Gal. 3:28 shows that women can be in ministry as pastors

Questions answered

• Can a woman assist her husband and teach in a Bible Study?
• If a woman is a pastor, does that mean she is going to hell?
• Is it okay to call a woman “pastor” if she is not ordained?