Should women preach on this edition of Truth in Love?

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love,

a podcast of the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors,

where we seek to provide biblical solutions to the problems that people face.

I'm joined this week on the podcast by Amy Evenson, the producer of Truth and Love. And Amy is

going to help us think through the issue of women preachers and the role of women in the Christian

ministry. Why do Christians believe the Bible limits the involvement of women

in ministry? Well, because the Bible does limit the involvement of women in ministry. If you think

about a passage like 1 Timothy chapter 2, starting in verse 11, it says, let a woman learn quietly

with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to

exercise authority over a man. Rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first and then Eve,

and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor. And so the Bible here makes it clear that women here are

forbidden the work of teaching men with authority. So the work of pastor would be reserved for

men. Many people would say here that women are forbidden from teaching a Sunday school class

with men in it and things like that. But women are forbidden from teaching a Sunday school class with men in it and things like

that. But women are forbidden certainly the role of the pastoral office. And we know that not just

from this text, but in the very next chapter, as Paul is given the qualifications for elders and

overseers for pastors, he says, the saying is trustworthy. If anyone aspires to the office of

overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore, an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one

wife. And so this is saying that an elder must be the husband of one wife. Women cannot be the

husband of one wife. And so be the husband of one wife.

And so this is another place where the Bible forbids women from being in the pastoral office at least.

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