Do you think it is right to have a female preacher or ministerin your church?

Question

personall I think it is wrong. Because in 1Timithy 2:11 it says "Womaen should remain silent in the church they should be in full submission.

Answer 1

I don't think its wrong. Gender, orientation, color, height, number of fingers or toes - the only thing that matters is that they feel called to be doing what they are doing.

Answer 2

It also says they should keep their heads covered at all times... you know, many people have different beliefs on this issue -- I might not personally attend a church which only had a female pastor; however, I would not attend a church that had exclusively male leadership. I believe that passage cannot be taken out of the context of the fact that women were excluded from learning and, as outspoken as they may have been, were largely ignorant because they were uneducated. Men and women need each other. Gilbert Bilezekian writes a wonderful book on this issue called "Beyond Sex Roles," in which he comments on some of the misinterpretations on passages regarding women and how they have actually hurt the church because the image and will of God cannot be fully realized without both sexes.

Answer 3

In most of the churches of the world, it doesn't really matter if the preacher/minister/pastor/priest is a man or a woman because they aren't adhering to Bible standards in other ways either. They think homosexuality is OK, sex outside of marriage is OK, they 'bless' warfare. To make it short, They're not really Christian, they don't teach the Bible, so what does it matter if the leader they have 'scratching' their ears is male or female.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.

Answer 4

What do you mean? I think they should do away with the priesthood altogether! Problem solved! I want my church to have an old shaman who lives on the dais and camps out there and sings and just says whatever he (or she!) thinks to say and sometimes has marshmallow roasts and sweat lodges and maybe a dance. OK, I'm just kidding. I don't have a church, and the old shaman is hiding out somewhere in the back forty hunting polecats and occasionally crying like a coyote. My church is the wide and deep universe, and if there were no females to guide the males, what a state we would be in!

Answer 5

My church is quite large, and has two pastors. One is male, the other female. Our female pastor is an excellent shepherd, and a spiritually gifted person. I know for a fact she has led many people to Christ. With all the spiritual good she has done, I just don't see how that is a sin. From what I've seen, she has been nothing put a positive influence on our church. Also, I'll admit I don't understand when people mention women having "authority" over men. To me, a pastor is a teacher and a guide. Ultimately I am responsible for my own actions, but God and God alone has spiritual authority over my soul.

Answer 6

Definatley even though we have a male Minister at church at the present time, it would be completly acceptable to hire a female Minister. (Although this may differ with different faiths or church groups) It is not a persons gender that makes a good leader it is the person; such as their teachings, spirituality and their interpersonal skills.

I know of a wonderful female minister and she leads a large and successful church.

I see that other folk here are quoting the bible - remember the books of the bible were written for the people of those times such as the Corinth's. Where it mentions that Women should be submissive, it also mentions that Men should treat women as they do their own body under God. Please do not take what you want from the bible and forget the rest - or take verse out of context.

Answer 7

Well, let's look at it from another point of view. Slightly more than 50% of the world's population is female. I can't think of any reason that that many people would be barred from the pulpit. Women are articulate, intelligent, caring, and just as capable as men of fulfilling all the functions of preaching or ministering to a congregation. So my answer is, yes, it is right to have female preachers or ministers, and it is right to have male preachers or ministers. It is the message they deliver that is the important thing, not the shape of the messenger.

Answer 8

No Paul makes it clear in a letter to timothy: " do not permit a woman to teach, or to exercise authority over a man"
Women can and do teach teach other women/children but, going by the bible, a woman being a minister/priest is wrong. This DOESNT mean that women are any less important than men to God, the fact that the first people to see Jesus resurrected were women proves this.
God Bless

Answer 9

I will sit down and shut up as soon as I find a man who can answer every biblical question I have to my satisfaction. (won't happen) and as soon as any man shows me he knows how to read more than "women should be silent, women should submit to their husbands"

I read the book, too. Women have every right to preach, teach, and whup your butt if you get out of line.
Who do you think taught you to walk and talk? Your dad? he was at work. Grandpa? nah, he was fishing. Mama taught you and the last time i checked, Mama was a woman.

Grow up and read your book again, little boy. Mary Magdalene was the one Jesus loved the most and he often kissed her on the mouth. THAT IS in the N.T. not the apocrypha.
There is no way a man will trust another man to carry on his legacy. He would only trust his wife, his girlfriend, the woman who knows him better than his "buddies"

Answer 10

Is there any wonder Jesus threw up his hands about us humans and said you who can see, but are blind. Who can hear, but doesn't listen, I know not a direct quote, but the same idea.
Those who put women "in their place" were coming from the times they were living in, not from God's will for us. Jesus had to be a man to be listened to. His favorite confidant was Mary. They found ancient codices from that time which are believed to be from the Bible, but hidden. Mary had her very own book. She was an apostle, and she was the first to see Christ after his Resurrection. She was the apostle who, "Christ loved most" at the bottom of the cross.
Stop limiting God. And stop limiting women. In general stop being a bigot.

Peace

Answer 11

More accurately from the KJV,
1 Timothy 2:11
"Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection."
Remaining silent in church is one thing.
Learning in silence, with a lack of confusion, such as in the Corinthians church, is a whole different matter.
But your point is taken. Women are also not to usurp the authority of men, either, taking traditional male positions, and teaching men.
BUT!
The Bible also says that the older women are to teach the younger women how to love their husbands.
(See Ephesians 5)
In my church? Yes, there are women ministers and teachers. They head up and oversee the Women's Ministries, teaching Women's Bible Studies and taking on women's issues.

Scripturally, women ARE to teach, it's just that they are not to teach the men of the church.