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>The subject of women preaching or teaching in certain >context is often confused with whether women shold >hold specific positions ordained by God. While we do >see women preaching, prophesying, teaching and praying >in the old and new testament, we do not see where God >Has ever oradined the ordination of women to the >Eldership, Apostleship or the Bishopric. While the >Spirit of God is poured upon all flesh for ministry in >the body, this does not negate the order that God has >set up in his church. Man is the head both then and >now. We are deliberately going n the face of God's >order and command when we presume to establish an >order that God did not ordain and even the more, he >forbad. There is no justification whatsoever for a >female ordained Elder, Pastor or Bishop. A deaconess >would be the equivalent to a female minister but yet >not ordained. God has always and will always use Women >in ministry and various ways but there are some >offices that He only has ordained for men. And >likewise there are positions that a men cannot hold, >such as, Church Mother, First Lady, etc... That sounds >ridiculous doesn't it? Well so does a woman occupying >the office of Bishop, Pastor or Elder. It ought not be >and there is Bible to back it up. When it came to the >times and ordinances of the day Jesus cared not for >any man, any statutes or any customs: It would have >been very easy for Him to have appointed a women among >the Apostles (after all they were among the 500 >witnesses as well as the 120 in the upper room.) And >so with Paul, Paul had revelation of the third heavens >and understood stewardship of the mystery of God. When >laying out the qualifications for Elders and Bishops, >surely he would have also said "the wife of one >husband" or "if a man or woman desire the office of >Bishop". It is clear that women where not and are not >to hold certain positions in the church, and as for >that, not even most men. To say the contrary is to >refute the rightly divided Word of God, and no man can >change what God has said. We should give the more >earnest heed to what God has said, ordained and >established.

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