all right today I’m going to be

answering some questions that we’ve

gotten from our Facebook and right here

is a question from nighted I believe is

the way you pronounce it and it says can

women become pastors of a church you

know I suspect with this name this might

be somebody from Africa or one of these

countries it sounds kind of like that

and in the African culture you know

women don’t have the ability to do a lot

of things and even in the u.s. and

really among religious people there has

been a rejection of women doing certain

things such as being a pastor I was

raised with that same doctrine and told

that a woman could only teach young

children but as a man begin to grow up

and once he became a man that a woman

couldn’t teach a man and that was from

first Timothy chapter 2 I believe that

that is a total misunderstanding of

these verses look at this in first

Timothy chapter 2 and in verse 11 it

says let the woman learn in silence with

all subjection but I suffer not a woman

to teach nor to usurp authority over the

man to beat but to be in silence for

Adam was first formed then he and people

have taken that and says that right

there it just clearly says that she’s

not supposed to teach a man that’s not

what this says it says I suffer not a

woman to teach nor to usurp the word

usurp means to take violently or to take

by force authority over the man not over

men in me in but the man ma en talking

about one man if you look over in 1st

Corinthians chapter 7 where once again

it talks about the women being in

subjection to their husbands you will

find that it says as also saith the law

when did the law ever give any command

that a woman couldn’t teach or do things

like that matter of fact you find in the

law that Miriam was a prophetess you

find that holdat was a prophetess you

find that Deborah was a prophetess and

even a general and led out in fought a

war when did the Bible when did the Old

Testament say that women couldn’t do

things what

referring to is going back to Adam and

Eve and how that the woman the wife was

supposed to be subject under the man her

husband this is not talking about women

in general being subject and men in

general and see this is the way it’s

been taken and they people just will say

that right here it says a woman can’t

teach a man no it says a woman can’t

usurp authority over the man over her

husband all this is pointing out is that

you don’t want a person pastoring a

church who the woman is this strong

person and her husband is this little

wimpy guy over there and she dominates

him and controls him that’s out of order

whether you’re pastoring the church or

not that’s wrong and really the same

thing is said over here in 1st Timothy

chapter 3 when it talks about a husband

how he has to have his family in

subjection and it puts restrictions and

qualifications on him about how a bishop

has to do all of these things there’s a

restrictions on a man if you don’t have

integrity if you can’t discipline your

own family if you can’t control money if

you don’t have a good report and all of

these things you can’t be the bishop of

a church well all this is doing is just

saying that a woman if she is usurping

authority over her husband can’t be the

bishop of a church so again I don’t

think this precludes a woman ministering

in 1st Timothy chapter 3 it says a

bishop then must be blameless the

husband of one wife vigilant sober etc

and if you take this in its context I

don’t believe this is saying that a

person who’s been divorced couldn’t be a

minister of a church it’s talking about

the culture they lived in there were

people that were living in polygamy and

the New Testament church was turning

this model around and turning against

polygamy based on Jesus teaching that

there was just supposed to be one man

for one woman and so the leader of the

church should be the husband one wife in

other words there needs to be just one

mate not multiple mates and many times

in Scripture the scripture talks about

man has just referring to mankind not

male or female so I

wouldn’t argue with the person that says

that a pastor has to be a male I’m not

going to argue with you over this but I

certainly am NOT going to argue with

anybody if a woman was a pastor as long

as the husband has not had his Youth

Authority usurped it’s not against his

will you know an example of this to me

is Marilyn Hickey Marilyn Hickey

pastored and was the dominant one

because she was a better teacher than

Wally Hickey and so she was on

television and she was the pastor of the

church but actually while he was the

head of the home and he was a hundred

percent behind Maryland he supported her

he was like the administrator of the

church and there was a balance here and

she was not usurping authority and I

don’t think that there was a thing wrong

with them anyway there’s a much much

more that could be said but that in a

nutshell would be my response