Good News For Youth (GNFY) published under the oversight of the Alkire Rd Church of Christ elders and posted by permission of the editor.
| Women preachers have become very popular today.
Turn on the TV and you can watch them on almost every religious program.
However, the question of women preachers, like all others, must be answered from what the Bible says, not how we view things or how the world views things.
Times change, cultures change, but God’s word does not change. It is always the same (Matthew 24:35). What was right and wrong in the first century is right and wrong today.
When one questions the authority of an inspired writer, he will never know the will of God on any matter. But, we want to know God’s will on all matters, especially this one.
The Bible is clear and plain on this subject. |
Heaven’s directive on the matter is this:
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence" (I Timothy 2:10,
11).
A woman is forbidden to teach over a man or in any other way, exercise authority over a man when it comes to the public services of the church.
For example, men are allowed to pray everywhere (I Timothy 2:8), but a woman cannot pray everywhere. For example, she cannot pray in the presence of a man. Another passage reads, "Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience...for it is a shame for women to speak in the church" (I Corinthians 14:34,35)
What more would God have to say to convince us? |
Where then is the Bible authority for the women preachers of today? There is
none! They are condemned by God.
Jesus was a male, so were the twelve apostles and the seventy. An elder or deacon cannot be a woman (I Timothy 3:2,11). A wife must be in subjection to her husband (Ephesians 5:22-24).
Every principle of scripture shows that women are not allowed to have authority over men in spiritual matters. Like it or not, this is what God says.
I can’t help that I’m a man anymore than a woman can help that she’s a woman.
We each must simply accept the roles God has given.
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The wise man Solomon said,
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-– Garland M. Robinson, May 2000 –-
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