Well, in our local churches, we believe God raises up a few qualified men to lead.

Not all men in a church are called the pastor, just a few men, but only males serve as elders,

according to the blueprints we find in the pastoral pistols in the New Testament.

So then it leads to a question today about the role of women teaching pastors in seminaries.

Scott, a podcast listener, writes and asks it.

Dear Pastor John, I am a seminary student at an orthodox but inter-denominational school

in the United States.

I share your complimentary and understanding of God's design for male and female roles

and relationships in the home and in the church.

On that basis, I have recently doubted whether or not my seminary ought to allow women to

teach pastors in training.

What do you think?

Should women be hired as seminary professors?

What is your best case?

So I am going to answer this question as best I can on the assumption that the Bible

teaches that churches should be led by a team of spiritual, humble, biblically qualified

men, especially first Timothy 212.

In other words, I am going to base my argument about the seminary on the assumption of

complementarianism, which I think is not merely an assumption, but a well-founded, historic

understanding of Scripture, probably the best defense of that position still with regard

to women teaching and preaching in the church would be Tom Schreiner and Andreas Kustenberger's

women in the church.

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