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).