The Role of Women in the Church


Today, many, many women are entering pulpits, ruling churches, and speaking during the church services (giving announcements, etc.)--this is wrong. Women are to keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak (reference I Corinthians 14:34). No woman should be called pastor, reverend, Adult Sunday School teacher, etc. Even if they have a question, they are to ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the church (reference I Corinthians 14:35). And yet we also learn from the scriptures that daughters are to serve the Lord (there are a diversity of gifts, all to be used decently and in order.).

Examples--

*Acts 2:17 "your sons and your daughters shall prophesy."  

*Acts 21:8-9 "Philip the evangelist.... had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy."   

*Philippians 4:3 "...I intreat thee also,  true yokefellow help those women which laboured with me in the gospel..."  

*Acts 18:24-28 "...whom when Aquila [husband] and Priscilla  [his wife] had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly."  

*In Romans 16:1-2 we read the words of the apostle Paul, "I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:  That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you:  for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also."

*In Luke 2:36 we read about Anna, a prophetess. 

*In Judges chapters four and five, we read of Deborah, a prophetess that judged Israel.  

I perceive that daughters are often called to be loving wives, mothers, and keepers at home. In the Lord, his people also receive spiritual gifts.  We can find ourselves naturally operating in that gift which he has given to us--even when we do not specifically know that what we are doing is exercising a spiritual gift.  It is very natural to do. Sometimes others see it in us and identify it for us.

I am a woman. Based on that fact, a few individuals in the past have taken exception to Jesus-is-Lord.com being online. When this website was first published, I had no idea that it would be read.  I did not want the internet, but when it was installed anyway, I thought that I should say something about the Lord (I asked my husband's permission to put the website online and received it. Even after I received his permission, I periodically asked him how he felt about me being online.  Why did I do that?  [1] The head of the woman is the man (reference 1 Corinthians 11:3) [2] Women are the weaker vessel (reference 1 Peter 3:7) and [3]  Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression (reference 1 Timothy 2:14)).  When five people came to the website in one day, my heart beat quickly, I was not expecting that. Through the years, the website became a sort of journal detailing the things that I encountered and learned.   I do not know who is reading this information and I have authority over no man.  

There are rules in the church of God--when they are strictly followed, all goes well.  When they are not followed, Satan stands ready to enter.