Because it seems like a vestige from a time before the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, some wonder about the churches of Christ, Why are there no women preachers?
It is not because women are untalented, second-class Christians, or because the men have consistently voted them down. It is not because we are simply slow in catching up with societal trends, Juanita Bynum and Marilyn Hickey. I would suggest that you will never see a woman preacher in a church of Christ, and that if you do, the church is no longer Christs. Although the New Testament takes note of female prophets (Acts 21:9) and many honorable women who served the kingdom in various ways (Rom. 16:1, Phi. 4:2-3), it offers no precedent for female preachers. The roster of New Testament preachers is entirely male (e.g., Timothy, Titus, Epaphras, Barnabas, Philip, etc.). Just as importantly, the New Testament explicitly forbids women from taking spiritual authority over men or teaching over them. Let a woman learn in silence with all submission. And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence (1 Tim. 2:11-12). Paul then offers Gods reasoning, but
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- Because it seems like a vestige from a time before the nineteenth amendment to the Constitution, some wonder about the churches of Christ, Why are there no women preachers?
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- What is the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
