CNLP 800 | Women in Ministry: Preston Sprinkle on What the Bible Actually Says
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Preston Sprinkle studied the full biblical narrative on women in ministry inductively, without an agenda. From Genesis to Paul, we discuss what he found and where it led him.
We also tackle what faithfulness to scripture looks like, and how opening your mind and changing your view can make you more biblically faithful rather than less.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | I was never really impressed with the egalitarian arguments I'd see, |
| 0:08.1 | just the ones that kind of came across in passing to like, |
| 0:10.5 | well, very Magdalene, you know, she preached a resurrection. |
| 0:13.8 | She's the apostle to the apostles. |
| 0:15.4 | And I'm like, well, I don't know a single complementarian who says, |
| 0:19.1 | no, women can't talk about the resurrection in front of men. Like, is that, I don't know a single complementarian who says, no, women can't talk about the resurrection in front of men. |
| 0:23.3 | Like, is that, I don't, I don't think that's what they were saying. |
| 0:27.5 | And, you know, Jesus really valued women. |
| 0:30.0 | And like, of course, non-leaders are valued too. |
| 0:32.7 | You know, that doesn't mean they should be ordained or whatever. |
| 0:36.9 | But when I look deeper into it, |
| 0:43.0 | Welcome to the Keri Newhoff's Leadership Podcast. I'm so glad you joined us today. We're |
| 0:47.3 | going to have a conversation that I think is meaningful on two levels. First of all, we are going |
| 0:51.0 | to talk about women in leadership. This is something you ask for. We identified it as a trend that women are leaving the church. And so, we are going to talk about women in leadership. This is something you asked for. We identified |
| 0:55.1 | it as a trend that women are leaving the church. And so we want to talk about women in leadership. |
| 1:01.0 | And I've got a guest today who actually changed his mind on the subject. He grew up, |
| 1:05.5 | complementarian, but really studied the scripture and said, maybe I was wrong. |
| 1:12.9 | Now, he did the same thing for sexuality and concluded that a historic understanding of sexuality and gender |
| 1:17.4 | is something that the Bible teaches. |
| 1:19.3 | So, you know, this is not somebody who's just going left |
| 1:22.1 | or turning woke or anything like that. |
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