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 and Priscilla had heard, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more perfectly."  

*In Romans we read about "Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea." 

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

*In Judges, 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.  God also gives spiritual gifts to his people and we find ourselves naturally operating in that which he has given--even when we do not specifically identify it as a gift, sometimes others see it 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 I should say something about the Lord (I asked my husband's permission and even having received it, I asked it periodically).  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 have 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.