Back to Index

Back to The Good Fight

Question: Discuss what the Bible teaches regarding women preachers:

1. The Bible has done more to exalt womanhood than any other book
that has ever been written. Wherever the Bible has gone the status
of women has been improved.
     Women are "joint-heirs of the grace of life" along with men (q
Pet. 3:7). Paul wrote: "There can be neither Jew nor Greek, there
can be neither bond nor free, there can be no male and female; for
ye all are one (man) in Christ Jesus. And if ye are Christ's, then
are ye Abraham's seed, heirs according to promise." (Gal.3:28,29).
In the matter of salvation, men and women are equal.
     But the Bible distinguished between the roles of men and
women. The head of woman is man (1 Cor. 11:3). Women are to teach
(Acts 18:26-Priscilla helped her husband teach Apollos privately;
21:9 Philip had 4 virgin daughters who prophesied; cf. 2 Tim.2:2;
Titus 2:3-5-Older women are commanded to teach younger women; there
is no Biblical account of any of these teaching publicly), but not
with authority over men (1 Tim. 2:11,12; 1 Cor. 14:34). Women are
forbidden to preach publicly, serve as elders or take the lead in
the work of the church (J. Thomas,pp.37,75).

2. 1 Tim. 2:11,12: No woman can preach or teach publicly without
usurping authority over the man. This shows disrespect for man, and
for God who forbids it. It is regrettable that so often men set
aside God's will in order to have their own way (2 Jno. 9)
(Frost,I.120).

Back to Index

Back to The Good Fight