Posted by C. Stewart on December 09, 1998 at 19:07:32:
In Reply to: Where does it say in the New Testament that women cannot be a minster of the church posted by Missie on July 27, 1998 at 16:44:25:
: Can any one help me I'm having a family controversary on where does it say in the King Jame Bible that women cannot be the head of the church and minster or be a pastor.
From Pentecost 33CE Christian women who were favored with gifts of tongues which meant they were gifted to speak in foreign languages could speak Bible truths throughout the unbelieving or Gentile world. see Joe2:28,29, Acts 1:13-15 and 2:1-4, 13, 18. What you are evidently referring to is the scripture at 1 Co 11:3-16 when women were instructed to use a head covering. However, at what were evidently public meetings when "the whole congregation" as well as "unbelievers" embled in one place (1Co. 14:23-25) women were instructed to "keep silent". If they wnated to learn something, they could question their own husbands at home, for it was disgraceful for a woman to speak in a congregation. 1Co. 14:31-35. While not being permitted to teach in congregational embly, a woman could teach persons outside the congregation who desired to learn the truth of the Bible and the good news about Jesus (see Ps 68:11), as well as be a "teacher of what is good" to younger women (and children) within the congregation. (Tit 2:3-5) But she was not to exercise authority over a man or dispute with men, as, for example, in the meetings of the congregation. She was to remember what happened to Eve and how GOD expressed the matter of woman's position after Adam and Eve had sinned. 1Ti 2:11-14; Ge 3:16 Furthermore, in the discussion of "gifts in men" given by Christ to the congregation, there is no mention of women. The words "apostles," "prophets", "evangelizers,", "shepherds," and "teachers" are all in the masculine gender Eph 4:8, 11, also Ps 68:18. In full accordance with this, when the apostle Paul wrote to Timothy about the qualifications for the service positions of "overseers", who were also "older men", and of "ministerial servants" in the congregation, he specifically states that they must be men, and if married, 'the husband of one wife.' No discussion by any of the apostles discusses any office of "deaconess" see 1 Ti 3:1-13; Tit 1:5-9; compare Acts 20:17, 28; Php. 1:1. Although Phoebe is mentioned (Ro 16:1) as a "minister" it is evident that she was not an appointed female ministerial servant in the congregation, because the Scriptures make no provision for such, as we have seen. The apostle did not tell the congregation to receive instructions from her but, rather, to receive her well and to 'ist her in any matter where she might need them.' (Ro. 16:2) Paul's reference to her as a minister evidently has something to do with her activity in the spreading of the good news, and he was speaking of Phoebe as a female minister who was ociated with the congregation in Cenchreae, compare Acts 2:17, 18