Women In Ministry and Leadership

Women in leadership or ministry positions in the church has been a highly controversial subject for many centuries. Looking at this subject in this webinar is not a "put down" on women or their abilities as both sincere Christian men AND women stand on both sides of the question. What we really want to know is: what does the Bible really teach? Once we have established the Biblical teaching, then it is only a matter of obedience or rebellion.

In re-examining the discussion at hand, we have to be careful not to allow the norms of our society to influence our biblical worldview or how we look at the Scripture, specially at women in leadership. It is easy to accept what society says and then go to the Bible to try and justify what we have already decided to believe.

Two passages are typically pitted against each other: Gal 3:28 and 1 Tim 2:11-15. Egalitarians tend to view Gal 3:28 as a very clear passage, and as the pinnacle of Paul’s thought on the new and elevated role of women that the death of Christ has effected. It is a reverse of the curse. Complementarians view 1 Tim 2:11-15 to be clear in its major points and normative for today.