Do You Believe In Women Preachers?

[TK Burk]

Originally Posted by nahkoe

What do you think then of women who have been called? There comes a point after running and avoiding and ignoring that a person has to answer the call of God. Or do something. What if that woman has no husband to minister with/under/alongside?

Originally Posted by nahkoe

I'm starting to feel like I kill threads. lol None of these questions are asked to be antagonizing. I really am curious what you (anyone) feels about this. If you feel it's unscriptural for a woman to preach at all, what are your thoughts regarding women who are called to preach? Especially if you're a man who has felt that calling, you have to know what it would be to deny that.

Like I said, there are examples describing women serving in the Church, but nowhere do we find an example of a woman functioning in the five-fold ministry.

Where does it say that one's calling is JUST to pastor or evangelize? Such restriction is due mostly to those ‘callings’ being all that's recognized in the average church. But Paul said otherwise; he said that the five-fold's job is to mature the SAINTS so THEY can work in the MINISTRY.... What is "ministry"? Most would say, "Pulpit time," but that is NOT the case at all. 'Ministry' is simply ministering to another's need in Jesus' name. All Born Again men and women are called to this. Paul showed that a preachers calling is to focus on maturing the saints and then to help facilitate their callings. This is how Jesus and His early church defined ministry, and is also how they performed it. Later generations are the ones who altered the definition down to it only occurring behind a pulpit. Too bad, since most of those needing to hear the gospel will never be on the hearing side of a pulpit. This is exactly why apostolic 'ministry' was never to be so narrowly defined.