Should women be pastors or preachers? How comes there was no a woman Desciple of Jesus?
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NO! The Bible makes it clear and give specific guidelines for the qualifications of preachers, deacons, etc. as well as the woman's role in the church
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*Gender has no place with students.\n\nThats great that you want to become a youth pastor. To start it matters what you are looking for because different churches require different things. Try interning for a while, maybe even taking some classes online. I have alot of resources to post a resume.... Mainly persistance and passion will land you the job, and prayer ofcourse. Good luck and God bless.... You may email me for more info if needed... xmelsmailx@Yahoo.com
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This is a very difficult question to answer.  The preacher is called to obey the Ten Commandments, but so are each of us as Christians.  I believe that if he is of a larger denomination, each denomination sets standards that pastors must meet and have committees to ensure those quality standards. In that case, powers much larger than I am would make some of those decisions for me.\n\nAs for personally, I think that it depends on how well I know my pastor and how much I look at them as a peer. Is he the pastor that you can relate to as a human or is it sitting on a different level than the rest of the congregation.\n\nI have a female pastor at my church.  We are good friends with their entire family.  I work closely with her husband in several ministries in the church. I know that neither of them would ever do this kind of thing, so if something happened, I would KNOW that it was simply an act of human error.  It would not be pre-meditated or planned and it would tear her heart apart. She would be in her own human hell and would judge herself so harshly that what I thought would not matter. \nI would think that the pastor should voluntarily step down and go to counseling and then decide where to go from there.  That way the one who casts the first stone is the guilty one.
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!!! \n\nThey're not called that in my church - that's really weird! It's probably something to do with your church. In my denomination we have women as leaders, ministers, and treat them as equals. I think the "first lady" title is pretty demeaning to them - or at least has that potential...
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the same way i accept women as preachers in any other church...
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He chose several women as apostles, most likely Mary Magdeline was one, and there are others not specifically mentioned.\n\nThe one thing he didn't do was choose a female desciple - there were only 12 of them, 13 if you count Judas, and all were men.
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Yes I also like Paula White as well. \n\nWhere is the verse about the female preachers old or new testament?.... Just curious\n \nYou know a teacher is kind of like a preacher and alot of Christian schools have female teachers, and churches have female sunday school teachers would that mean only males could run the church and Christian schools?\nWhat if there husbands are preachers as well does that somehow compensate for it... just a thought. \n\nWomen seem to be in touch with their spiritual side can't they use that knoledge to help others?\n\nActs 10:34 tells us that God is no respecter of persons. That means that anyone, (yes, anyone) can be used by God as long as they yield themselves to His will.
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Paul's passages about women in ministry need to be read in context. \n\nAt the time, women rarely got the opportunity to learn to read, let alone study scripture, and they weren't allowed to ask questions in the temple. How much credibility would a woman have leading a congregation if she'd never read the Torah or any of the prophets, or if she'd never been able to discuss theology with a priest? \n\nPaul didn't expressly forbid it - there were females in ministry in his day whom he addresses warmly in his letters, so obviously it can't be taken to mean all women.
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I'll settle for anyone who is genuine and real up in the pulpit and isn't like these professionals who always preach the wrong sermon. There they are talking on some topic while the church is burning down. The sermon should be, "Fire, fire everybody out," if you understand this metaphor. Instead they argue doctrine or joke or repeat sermon number 105. A woman with some sense just might be a welcome change. She just might tell the congregation that the church has lost its saltiness. My, wouldn't that be a revelation!
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No a woman is not supposed to be a Priest, or Pastor as these are positions of authority over men.\n1Ti 2:12  But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. \nThe idea is that the headship is given to the man, and the woman should not take authority over the man.  Just like the husband is the head of the house.  Women filled many other positions, preached, taught, deacons, and others.\nThe only priests are in the Old Testament.  But priests there were men, the Apostles all men.
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There's no such thing as a woman priest.\n\nYou're thinking of a priestess.
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The testimonies of manhood and womenhood are often neglected by todays so called "church". Rarely do men know that males are supposed to be a living testimony of Christ. Just as rarely do women know that females are to be a living testimony of the redeemed Church of Christ. Such truth is portrayed in the indisputable writings of the Apostle Paul in Ephesians:\n\nEphesians 5:\n21 Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.\n22 Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.\n23 For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.\n24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.\n25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;\n26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,\n27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.\n28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.\n29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:\n30 For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.\n\nVerse 21 bluntly clearifies that we are to care for each other, and submit to the needs of one another. Paul further explains that the relationship of husband and wife is the same as that of Christ and His Church. Therefore, let the man love and take care of his wife as Christ does the Church, and let the wife honour and obey her husband as the Church does Christ.\n\nThis is an often neglected topic in today's modern teaching, because it isn't politically correct. However, Christ nor His Apostles were politically correct.  As Peter states:\n\nACTS 5:29 Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.\n\nPolitics, including feminism and political correctness have no place in the Church of Christ. No Apostle or early heads of the Church ever tried to update Christ's doctrine to the standards of Society. Think about it, you fools, if sinners are to define holiness, then who isn't holy? If sinners are to define sin, then who needs the sacrifice of Christ?\n\nAnd for those who think that Christians cannot correct, judge, or rebuke, why does the Spirit of Christ through Paul say otherwise?\n\n2TIMOTHY 3:16 All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and [is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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Women can be. That is just a Certain religious belief. Women makes great preachers, teacher and ministers. Gor for it. Check out other Churches...Assemblies of God for example.
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To really be objective, you have to look at the reason that women have been mostly excluded from the clergy for so long. \n\nThe Episcopalian church has had female priests for a long time - and has never had an actual rule against female bishops. This is just the first time one has been promoted, and so it's the first time people have had to deal with it. \n\nSo why hasn't it happened sooner? Because the Episcopal church is closely related to the Catholic church, and the Catholic church does not allow female priests. Why is that?\n\nBecause when it was founded, and for a long (long) time after that, only men could be land owners. The church needed land. So, when a man joined the priesthood he brought with him whatever land he owned. He wasn't allowed to marry because that would give him an heir to the land. Since he had no heirs, he would leave the land to the church on his death, and the church's land holdings grew. It made a lot of sense.\n\nNone of that happens anymore, and so there is no practical reason for the prohibition of female priests or married priests. However, the dogma is still there that says only unmarried males can be priests. \n\nPersonally, I'm Roman Catholic - and I'd love the see my church do away with that antiquated law. The Episcopalians already have. And for that, I say, "Good for them!"  Hopefully the Catholic church will eventually follow. \n\nWayne
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No. Jesus was a man. Should everyone be a man? Wait, don't answer that.\n\n(btw, Jews r KEWL! and so r Christians. Messianic Jews are the best.)
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Man, what bible are you reading, mine says that the woman is supposed to perform that function :)\n\nSeriously, this is some "trick" hey, you sly person, I will patiently wait for someone to answer............\n\n..........
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Wow.  Some of the comments.  Women are more passionate than men at everything???  No broad generalization there...  (chuckling)\n\nI think the answer has to do with subjection.  Even in today's modern American society, and especially in Christian society, women hold a role of "being in subjection" to husbands.  Many grow up and are taught this way.  It probably comes natural for some as well.  \n\nSo, then, many women are already used to the concept of being in subjection to something.  Men, for the most part, are not.  We're fiercely independent, aren't we?  And when it comes to Christianity...to calling Christ Lord and being in subjection to His will...that presents a larger problem for men.\n\nThat, I think, is why we see more females at Church.  Not because they're more spiritual, not because they're more passionate, but because they are blessed in having an easier time at being able to humble themselves to a higher authority.  For this, kudos to women.  \n\nSomebody once wrote that Hell's motto will be "I am mine."  Perhaps this applies.  The Bible tells wives to be subject to their husbands...but it also tells husbands to love their wives to the point of giving up their lives for them, as Christ did for the Church.  The unique thing is, when you love something that much...*you are in subjection to it*.